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Disclosure! I will begin by stating that, at the age 31, I currently have no children. Which, in and of itself, will be a driver for many parents to click the “BACK” button on their browsers while muttering that I have nothing resembling a fucking clue about this [...]

I’ve made no secret of my feelings for Lori Gottlieb. Ever since my response to her “Settle for Him Girls” piece two years ago, I’ve strapped on the view that her Atlantic article-cum-book-cum-potential-chick flick is nothing more than the fallout of a woman unhappy with her life choices, who felt compelled to mold those crappy [...]

What does it mean when one of the most famous three-year-olds in the world is toddling around in high heels and designer coats? Nothing good, my friends. Nothing good. Check out my piece in today’s New York Post to read the full rant.

Which is the perfect segue into this week’s Horror Chick, a discussion of the terribleness of Antichrist. I’d like to give a proper hat tip to Garrett, who is responsible for alerting me to the alternative wonderfulness that is The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror (see clip).

This week’s Horror Chick is about Paranormal Activity, that new “Blair Witch”-type thing that’s being hailed the “scariest movie ever made” (if by “scariest” you mean “most packed with set pieces from Bed Bath & Beyond,” then I concur). One of the points that sort of found its way in there is about porn — [...]

I can’t tell you how many men have told me that men are idiots. It doesn’t come in response to any prompting (”Hey Reid/Neil/Dave/Tom, do you think men are idiots?” “Why yes, I do”). No, it’s made as a declaration of fact that’s accepted as universal truth. In any normal conversation that turns to male [...]

In this week’s Horror Chick column, I rant about Diablo Cody’s blood-soaked Juno followup, starring the absurdly attractive (and intelligent dammit) Megan Fox.
To be honest (which I’m pathetically incapable of not being) I liked and respected parts of this movie more than I let on here. There was some great toxic friendship dialogue in [...]

Yup, you read that right. Check out the full story here. Since when does being a hot actress preclude you from having a single working brain cell?

Some men have a tendency to call women “crazy.” They toss it around like a Frisbee on Labor Day. But the worst part is, they’re sometimes under the severe delusion that it’s actually true.
See, the thing is, very few people are actually crazy, by the formal definition. According to psychiatric stats, only around 4% of [...]

Oodles of words have been written about the differences between men and women. Trying to conceptualize just how many is like those graphics showing how many pennies are in a $10.5 trillion government bailout. For a long time, I wrote off most gender-based rants as a bunch of unenlightened crap–at the end of the day, [...]