Tuesday morning roundup

Would anyone else love to see Disney Co. sue North Korea?

Are these signs of a nascent civil society in Russia?

Some lessons in consumer math.

I'm increasingly convinced that Lori Gottleib hates women. I started out agreeing with her, but she could have stopped after a paragraph--before descending into mean-spirited rant, full of its own double-standards. This, coming from someone who has a book chapter on how feminism destroyed her life. Take this analogy, which should offend men as much as women:

Would a man be taken seriously if he wrote a 15,000-word article stating that he's entitled to both marriage and the freedom to have sex with any woman he wants? Or would he be told to grow up and get real? In today's society, he can choose marriage and the compromises that come with it -- sexual commitment, financial commitment, emotional commitment, along with a bevy of childcare and Mr. Fix-It commitments -- or he can choose to remain single and maintain his freedom but give up the joy that marriage and raising kids might bring him. He might dearly desire both situations, but he can only have one.

 Is she really equating a woman's desire to have a thriving family as well as a thriving career with men's (alleged) desire to have a family and sleep with as many women as they'd like? Really? Even if she is, here's an article in the same publication about a man who did just that (but left other people to write about it).

I can agree with her--it's a common theme in many gender-based articles and responses to them--that some of these issues apply across genders. And I also agree that AMS's original article was annoying and entitled (I'd also call it rambling), but I acknowledge that in all that rambling, she makes valid points. LG's response says more about her than it does about the subject she so viciously maligns.