But I would take it even further and say that freaking out over naked kids is the definition of inappropriately sexualizing children, not the other way around.

I don't think that's a very empathic way to treat people who might be suffering from untreated chronic PTSD over having been sexually abused themselves as children.

Maybe you women ought to think harder before you take positions on issues like these.

Reach down below that big political platform from which you judge the world, and find that little hiding hole where you store your ability to empathize.

I'm all against abuses of women but I don't like the way the fact of tribalism is being swept under the rug and everything is being lumped into "religion."

Pushtuns may point to the Qu'ran to justify their treatment of women, but the sociological fact is that these are tribal practices that are normal and typical for a tribal economy.

The Qu'ran was written for an audience that was half urban and half tribal. Obviously with a tribal audience the religion is not going to make everything tribal into a sin.

The tribal system is a whole socioeconomic system that performs many roles that are performed by governments in wealthy modern developed nations.

Pushtuns may point to the Qu'ran to justify these practices, but really what they are defending is a socioeconomic system that has existed since pagan times, long before the Books of Moses even existed, let alone the Qu'ran.

Until there is a mature and balanced discussion of tribalism and the issues it presents to the modern world, there is no possibility of any effective dialog with the abusers of women in these tribal cultures.

If you can't handle washing your hands in front of members of the "opposite" sex - actual, apparent, or whatever - you've got much bigger problems to deal with than can be solved through legislation.

It must be a heavy burden to be given the job of deciding who has problems and who doesn't and how big they are compared with anyone else's.

But what if somebody does have problems?

Piss on them and their problems, right?

Well, I do have problems. I don't trust having men in the restroom with me, especially after everything I read about upskirting.

I can wash my hands next to a man, but I refuse to pull down my pants if there's a man in the stall next to me, because that's not a situation I am willing to trust.

If you need someone to complain to about my problems, then complain to the men who made me lose my trust.

The Republican Party -- they're still hung up on Julius Caesar.

By the way, what was Caesar doing when he was assassinated by the Roman Republicans?

One thing he was doing was trying to put Gauls and plebs in the Senate so it would represent the people ruled by Rome rather than just the snobbish little center of the ruling elite.

I think that offended and threatened the original Republicans even more than the part where Caesar made himself a god.

Eventually Roman power was destroyed by this desire to rule over other people without allowing them into the process of government.

Their army was foreign and their government was domestic. The center could not hold, not even shored up by all the wealth and power of the Empire.

Today's Republicans still haven't learned from the mistakes of their ideological ancestors.

I wouldn't oppose her confirmation because of her weight.

I hope Obama will get her to work out regularly and that way she'll become a role model for making better choices, like, maybe, sacrificing some time building up her resume for some time building up her lean muscle mass.

He always fits in a workout. He is a living breathing role model for not being such a workaholic martyr that you neglect your health.

I happened to watch Obama's intro of Dr. Benjamin. I never noticed her weight because I was too busy being absolutely wowed by her resume and accomplishments. Very, very impressive.

What I especially do not like are workaholic martyrs who achieve more than others by setting the standards of competition so that nobody ever has time to exercise or eat right.

If her impressive resume was put together by spending all her time on work, to the exclusion of healthy lifestyle habits, then I am anti-impressed by her resume.

I regard workaholic martyrs as a bad thing. They are bad examples for work-life balance.

And their tendency to define themselves solely through their success at work hurts everyone who is trying to stay healthy while competing with them for those same achievements.

This is just a political battleground, that's all. And this article is also a political piece of poo.

It's easy to attack popular culture. It's not easy to build a national science education infrastructure for adults.

So let's all do the easy thing.

Bad popular culture! (Shaking fist really hard.) Bad popular culture! You silly writers had better bow down to our science gods or else!

That was so easy. I didn't have to teach an adult basic chemistry or calculus or anything.

How do we know she's really healthy? Let's see a few test results: her blood sugar, and some x-rays of her hips and knees.

My obese relative looked fine and healthy until she wore her hips and knees out and had to have them replaced because she carried WAY too much weight on them and the cartilage just eroded.

Doctors are saying now that obesity is the number one cause of joint replacement surgeries in America.

Those are expensive operations. Think about what that does to health care costs for everyone else.

She's going to be giving advice to people regarding healthy lifestyle habits.

I hope she's not just another workaholic martyr to overachievement who doesn't take the time to follow any of that advice herself.