Ayelet Waldman

Do All Salon Writers Want Their Kids to Be Gay?

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Today on Salon, Sarah Bird pens a humor piece in which she wishes her son were gay.

With palpable yearning, Ms. Bird writes:

How could I not dream of having a son who cared deeply about all the right things: fashion, musical theater, interior décor? But mostly a son who cared deeply about the most right thing of all: his mother? How could I not yearn for a son who would tell me that the bias cut emphasized my saddlebag thighs, that no one was staining concrete anymore, that the tiniest bit of white on the upper lids would open up my eyes and make me look 10 years younger?

Sadly, she finds herself stuck with a straight kid.  read more »

Family Romance, Tweaked, Degenerates into Histrionics

A hot topic in the blogosphere: The passionate Ayelet Waldman.
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A hot topic in the blogosphere: The passionate Ayelet Waldman.

The name Ayelet, as in Ayelet Waldman, has become something of an epithet on the fabulously acerbic,  read more »