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Thrilled to announce that my McSweeney’s article, I Don’t Hate Women Candidates, I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I’m Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren will be included in the upcoming McSweeney’s anthology Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something. I’m joining a dream list of contributors including Ellie Kemper, Wendy Molyneux, Jesse Eisenberg, Karen Chee, Colin […]

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The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess in Spanish

The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess is now available in Spanish, translated by Silvia Moreno Parrado.   La Guía Feminista para Educar una Princesita ya está disponible en español Devorah Blachor es una feminista estadounidense con un finísimo sentido del humor que, al nacer su hija Mari, imaginó que un poco de militancia […]

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McSweeney’s Most Read List

My McSweeney’s piece Abortion is Immoral, Except When it Comes to My Mistresses, was the 9th most read article on McSweeney’s in 2018.   There’s an interview about how I came to write this piece up on the website’s Patreon page, but for those who can’t access it, the fuel for this piece was rage. […]

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McSweeneys: I Don’t Hate Women Candidates – I Just Hated Hillary and Coincidentally I’m Starting to Hate Elizabeth Warren

I have no problem with women. My wife is a woman and I have daughters who will likely be wives and mothers of daughters one day. I only had a problem with Hillary Clinton, and my problem with her is completely separated from her gender, and is solely based on the fact that she was […]

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NYT: Terms and Conditions for Telling Me About Your Day

These Terms and Conditions regulate when you (“HUSBAND”) may tell me (“WIFE”) about your day. These Terms and Conditions are in effect immediately after you step over the threshold of our shared domicile and are binding in perpetuity. 1. FIRST MINUTE If HUSBAND enters the domicile and sees or hears one or more children yelling, […]

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Washington Post: PTA culture and the working mother

My 6-year-old daughter recently told me how her best friend’s mother is always at school. This mom volunteers for library, for swimming, for the health walk and even made a papier-mâché spaceship for one of their class projects. Meanwhile I, who must cram in my work before my kids get home at 1:30 p.m., had […]