Blake, you're my hero.

I don't know why I ever wrote a word myself. There are plenty of people out there that are writing that I can just block quote. This is an awesome job.

Megan says she doesn't want to be a prostitute. Commenter Blake suggests that she reconsider.

I'm with Will and Kerry, I think you need to rethink your career opportunities vis a vis prostitution. I know here at The Atlantic you love shilling for Wall Street and the Republican party, and I hope it pays off for you so you end up at Cato one day. But why not go all the way? If you really have no principles, which you don't, why bother going to all the trouble of writing your hare-brained opinions down--usually full of typos and non sequiturs--and start making money with your body rather than your (feeble) mind?

The masses are catching on

Update I:

Ohh, and brooksfoe, a perennial favorite, comes in with a blow:

Your gut is not a good replacement for reasoning from first principles.

"Reasoning from first principles" is not a good way of going about thinking about human sexual relations. I reasoned from first principles about sex when I was 19. It made me an asshole. By the time you're in your thirties, hopefully, you've started to figure out how people work a little better. One of the things you discover is that actually, in this particular arena, men and women are rather different, and being "fair" means trying to accommodate those differences, not treating everyone alike.

Update II

David Ross says:

I invoke Godwin's Law on this: "White people in the south were also genuinely repulsed by the idea of drinking from a water fountain that a black person had touched."

If you have a point to make, Ms McArdle, then make it. Don't insult us by making Jim Crow comparisons.

Oh, and you're Hitler.

Update III

Miande magnanimously decides to educate Megan on why prostitution can't be "reasoned from first principles"

Meagan: if you authentically require instruction on something so elementary, first spit out the chewing gum