Dear Cat,

The thing that I said I was going to write about has already been written about too much.

Here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/opinion/20dowd.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=dowd&st=cse

And here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-buckingham/whats-happening-to-womens_b_289511.html

The reason I thought this might be something worth writing about is that I keep having the same conversation with all of the smart, self-aware women I know. The topic: why is it so much work to be happy?

It’s whiney, anyway. And I think the explanation is simple. In this day in age, only stupid people are happy. There are fewer stupid women than stupid men, so there are fewer happy women than happy men.