Miley's 'Jweats' and Other Ways to Prove That You CAN Have It All

For decades, we as a society have been asking ourselves, "Can women really have it all?" Under patriarchy, in which women are compelled to inhabit rigid and limiting roles, is it possible to choose both halves of the false dichotomy (breadwinner or homemaker; saint or slut; smart or sexy; etc)? Is the very desire…
Multitasking Is a Cruel Mistress, and It's Almost Impossible to Quit Her
Last Thursday, Katie Couric asked a panel that included Dr. Donna Rockwell, a clinical psychologist, and Dr. Mark Hyman, the chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine, if multitasking is the enemy of mindfulness. They all agreed that yes, multitasking means doing a bunch of things crappily. Well, if that's so…
What Working Moms Really Need Are Wives
Men's lives aren't plagued with—or, hell, defined by—the daunting task of successfully balancing their professional and personal lives. They don't call themselves "working dads" or fret about "having it all." For them, a career and a family is a given. Good, old fashioned sexism aside—why? What do they have that we…
Princeton Mom: Feminists Are Bullies, Women in Their 30s Man Repellent
Susan A. Patton, a.k.a. Princeton Mom, a.k.a. young college-educated women's newest well-intentioned agony aunt (as in, we're in agony whenever she opens her mouth), continues to ride the crest of the wave made by her "find a man before you SHRIVEL UPPPP AHHH I CAN SEE YOU SHRIVELING" manifesto in the Daily…
Princeton Alum Tells Female Students They're Doomed Unless They Find a Princeton Prince and Get Their MRS
The Daily Princetonian published a letter to the editor today from alumna Susan A. Patton, who wants "the daughters [she] never had" to know that they're screwed for life if they don't snag a Princeton prince by first semester freshman year.
No One 'Has It All' — Not Even Men — Because Work Sucks. The End.
There was a crucial moment when I was newly pregnant where I had to make a choice whether to take a (better-paid) job that would have me still in clubs, reviewing rock shows three or four nights a week for an alt-weekly while gestating, or peel off to the more family-friendly track of writing about culture with…
'The Feminist Housewife' Is Such Bullshit
It's not a coincidence that one week after Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In gave feminism a much-needed reboot and sparked a national conversation about the innate gender biases that need to be dismantled so that professional women can achieve their full potential, New York Magazine pooped our party with an incendiary cover…
Hillary Clinton Can't Stand Whining About 'Having It All'
Sorry to disappoint you, incredibly quixotic ignorers of things that Hillary Clinton has been saying for like dozens of months now, but there will be no Hillary Clinton '16 bumper stickers to affix to your Saab in four years. The Secretary of State has reaffirmed in an interview with Marie Claire that she's done with…
The ‘Having It All’ Author Is Trying to Fit It All into a New Book
On Tuesday, Random House announced that it had acquired rights to a book by Anne-Marie Slaughter, who will expand on her essay in July/August issue of The Atlantic, "Why Women Can't Have It All." Even though "having it all" probably isn't a real thing, Slaughter's cover story lured about 1 million online readers into…
Mindy Kaling Has It All in the Cute New Promo for The Mindy Project
Here's a promo for The Mindy Project, the new Kaling-helmed sitcom set to premiere in late September on Fox. Looks like the Artist Formerly Known as Kelly Kapoor will be tackling the biggest women's issue of our time, having it all. Also, being wiped out by a strecher. These are the things we ladies have to go through.
An Invisible Option in the Aftermath of 'Having It All': Don't Have Kids
I've been watching the response to Anne-Marie Slaughter's Why Women Still Can't Have It All roll out across the web. Commentators are making excellent points, but E.J. Graff at The American Prospect sums it up nicely:
It's Your Patriotic Duty to Be Overworked and Miserable
The other day, my mother called and I picked up the phone. This is noteworthy because I don't usually pick up the phone when anyone calls me, not even my mother, because I'm a very busy person whose life is full of many busy things. But I picked up the phone, and she asked me what I was up to, and I said that I was…
'Having it All' Author Vows to Stop Saying 'Having it All'
The discussion (or backlash, depending on your point of view) that resulted from Ann-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic cover story on "having it all" has convinced Slaughter to stop using the term "having it all."
'Having It All' Means Having All the Shitty Stuff Too
I know we've all already weighed in ad nauseum on "having it all" (which, in my original weigh-in, I posited is total bullshit), but let's just talk about it one more time, shall we? Because this part is important: the discussion is super-gendered, and we're never going to get past it without involving the manfolk.
I Can't Have It All, But I Can Have This
Every couple of years (every couple months, every couple weeks, every couple hours), a new article is released asking that same old post-feminist question: Can a woman truly have it all? Probably not (it's unlikely that you'll ever grow eagle wings, though, please, prove me wrong), but that doesn't mean that there's…
No One 'Has It All,' Because 'Having It All' Doesn't Exist
Oh, us modern women. Forever chasing the elusive "all of it," hoping to "have" "it" while still also "having" the rest of "it." Look at me, "eating" my "cake"! And that "other" "cake" too! (Sidenote: I want cake.) The latest exploration of whether of not women can "have it all" (meaning, in case you're not familiar…
