We can't really say that the disappearance of Mothers Who Think is surprising (although it seems very disingenuous to call this a simple name change for that formerly wonderful, unique section of Salon). As readers once dedicated to Mothers -- and contributors to it -- we have been shaking our heads and avoiding the site for months now, disgusted by the frivolous, irritating and downright disappointing writing in the section.

As far as we could tell, the mothers and the thinking were banished from Mothers Who Think quite a while ago. Instead readers were regularly subjected to whiny rants about, among other topics, the burden of large breasts and oppression felt by women who are model-thin. Perhaps you should be commended for finally owning up to kidnapping the section for good. But please don't insist that everything is the same with this new name, when mothers who think have known for a while that it isn't.

-- Natalie Pearson and Jennifer Creer Hatala

I never liked the name Mothers Who Think, the clear implication being that the editors thought most mothers didn't actually think and they would cater to the elite few who did.

But Life? How vague and uninspiring can you be? The nation already has a fluffy publication called Life. Does it really need another one?

I did learn to love reading Mothers Who Think. Maybe I'll learn to love Life, but I'm going to have to work hard to get over a name that clearly implies drivel.

-- Katherine Gould

Yikes.

Now you've gone and done it. Changing Mothers Who Think to Life is a horribly dull move. Sure a rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a magazine section inevitably loses some of its thorny goodness when you reduce its identification to a banal, meaningless moniker.

I understand that Salon is reaching out to other readers in hopes of drawing in an audience that may have felt alienated by the gender-specific, parenting-centric term Mothers Who Think, but the new name is too vague and amorphous.

Life?! That could mean anything or nothing. If I wanted to read about life I'd go grab a cereal box. I'm not a parent, but I've always been drawn to the term Mothers Who Think, comforted by the notion that when and if I finally do give birth, I won't leave my brain in the hospital nursery.

-- Rachel Leibrock

Can anything good be said about a name as pallid and unmemorable as Life? Maybe someone, somewhere can say something good about it, but I won't have that person over for dinner. Mothers Who Think had punch. You are fools to drop it. Who cares if it wasn't entirely accurate? It was entirely good. Go directly to the office of your superiors and ask to be slapped.

-- Charles Roos

Life? That's about as MOR as a Shania Twain tune. I'm disappointed in you, gang. Letting go of the name Mothers Who Think makes me suspect that you're having a knee-jerk fear of marginalizing ("What will the men think?"), or that you're looking to find a way to fold more fashion into what you see as the "women's pages." Mothers Who Think always seemed a pretty clever way of pigeonholing myself, and a lot of the women I know, in a way we actually found flattering.

Hope the content still keeps me coming. The name surely wouldn't.

-- Donna Bartolini

Just a thought: I want Mothers Who Think, not Life. I want to read stuff that fits into that single niche that appeals to me, not wade through lipsticks and indoor pools to get to it.

I really hate you people. You build this awesome online mag that really appeals to me, and then you can't sustain it. You lay people off, consolidate your sections and generally water down the high expectations you set for yourself.

-- Tom Jorgensen

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