The Daily Mail seems to have excelled itself in confusion this week. First was Anna Pasternak's pity-party article about how she thinks responding to life's events quite well has left her single (her argument seems to be because she didn't fall apart over being a single parent no-one wants to date her - of course I might suggest that it has more to do with the patriarchally inspired resistance to looking after other people's kids and wanting female partners to be able to be totally devoted to just you, as the man, and not some other group of more deserving emotional dependents). I'm not going to spend too long on this as our lovely Kate Smurthwaite over at Cruella has already done a fantastic (and way better than I could) disassembling of it. Kate warns readers not to read the original article whilst eating breakfast because...
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