Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.
My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.
I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.
It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.
What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.
The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.