I court controversy by stepping out the front door and just being my bad self. For one thing, people are very perturbed that I am not feminine—yes, even in our so-called "post-feminist" world. An...

Ugh. Again with the writing. People pay much less attention to what I say than to how I say it. They claim they can't understand my writing, and a journal even went so far as to give me a prize for...