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Monday, April 7, 2008 06:05 PM

"no fluids exchanged"

I can believe that.

It reminds me of a cartoon I saw of a woman lounging back with a good-looking, scantily clad man ainting her toenails. She's saying, "Believe it or not, this is what we women call 'getting lucky'."

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 04:44 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

the sun never sets on Jessica Hoffman's white self-loathing

NOTHING that white feminists do will please her. EVERY manifestation of racism and privilege is traceable to white feminists, somehow.

White feminists might have an occasional blind spot for women of color, but they are less hostile to women of color than almost anyone else. But of course not even that is good enough.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 04:57 AM
Original article: Through a bong, darkly

the counterculture did NOT end the war, or fight for the rights of women and minorities, etc.

That was done by people the counterculture and the radicals most reviled -- LIBERALS.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 05:08 AM
Original article: Holy sex!

like a dog walking on its hind legs

These folks don't do it very well, but at least they do it. On the whole, the Christian sex advice movement is good news.

And if you really start enjoying different kinds of sex, it becomes difficult to understand why OTHER kinds of sex are no-nos.

Friday, April 11, 2008 03:29 PM
Original article: Can you hide slutty eyes?

Tracy

Before the wisecracks start pouring in, let me say: the only word for your own eyes is "pretty".

Monday, April 14, 2008 10:59 AM

"America's first female news anchor"?

Barbara Walters?

Connie Chung?

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 03:15 AM

funny

I don't know about the product, but I got a good laugh.

And the man is the butt of the joke, which is almost universally the case in advertisements. When the woman is the butt of the joke, well then we see a different reaction around here. . .

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 09:29 AM
Original article: Indians prefer boys

Abortion results in "missing girls"

This is one of the main arguments used by pro-life feminists. (They do exist, you know.)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 05:34 PM

elegant, gorgeous

Large-breasted women are always having to hide their endowments. But this is the type of event, and the type of gown, where a large-breasted woman gets to take over the room. I'm reminded of "half-naked Elena" being the center of attention and the locus of power at the opera in "War and Peace".

Gutsy, secure with herself, powerful. That's how I think of Merkel.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 01:23 PM
Original article: Anti-abortion, pro-Obama

Lynn must only listen to the loudest activists . . .

If she doesn't think that a large percentage of people who think abortion is wrong, ALSo support sex education, contraception, and a stronger social safety net.

Can we please stop making fun of "pro-life feminists" now?

What Lynn points out, though, is welcome news, and I'm glad she welcomes it.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 01:28 PM

Linux is even faster . . . on a PC

Mine boots up in 20 seconds, shuts down in 3.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 03:58 PM

Children aren't curious about it and don't want to hear it

Until they get to puberty, by which time they've quit listening to you.

But we've told our kids the truth anyway. They're in the "latency stage", ages 6 to 11, where any mention of sex is met with "ewwwww!!" But when a question comes up that they don't know is sexual (we got hit with the "what's a blow job?" question a few months ago), my wife and I explain in the simplest (but most direct) terms, and go on to finish the explanation even after they've plugged their ears.

Another question, from my daughter, then age 8: "What is rape?" I said, "It's when you force someone to have sex when they don't want to. It's considered a very serious crime." She plugged her ears at mention of the s-word (she prefers the term, "physical touchment"), but I think she heard us all the way through.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 05:15 PM
Original article: Anti-abortion, pro-Obama

@catnmus: pro-lifers who are pro-contraception

All you have to do is look at the surveys. A large minority of Americans are anti-abortion. But only a *small* minority are anti-sex education and anti-contraception.

For actual persons, a good place to start is turntheclockforward.com. Also check out mindfulmission.com. "Democrats for Life" is a good site too. All these places have lists of links.

As for pro-lifers being anti-woman, this is a strange position to take because most pro-lifers *are* women.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 02:19 AM

yes it was photo-shopped

But even with Merkel's true breasts -- photo #3 in the Spiegel slide show -- my point still stands.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 07:29 AM
Original article: Anti-abortion, pro-Obama

Cartoon caricature of pro-lifers

"If they're not in favor of a law that equates abortion with murder, they're pro-choice."

No.

Pro-lifers believe abortion is wrong and should be eradicated. This is *not* the view of pro-choicers, who see abortion as a woman's right and legitimate option.

Criminalizing something is not always the best way to eradicate it. Most sincere pro-lifers recognize this. Therefore they seek ways to make abortion unnecessary. Here lies the common ground with pro-choicers like Obama.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:58 PM
Original article: My beautiful mommy

"My beautiful Mommy" . . . used to be "Daddy"!!!

Why is plastic surgery bad, but gender reassignment surgery is good?

I'd like to see a book about *that* written for a parent's child.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 02:52 PM
Original article: My beautiful mommy

@ ms. anthrope: well now I'm a bigot

You really should lie down for a while and chill.

Woman with sore back, scoliosis, skin fungus and years of ridicule and body image issues due to overlarge breasts, finally gets a breast reduction operation, after waiting for years.

Wealthy transsexual, despite all the many transsexuals who happily remain "pre-op" the rest of their lives, goes in for gender reassignment surgery.

I'd say the first person was a more worthy candidate for surgery. If I was as touchy as you I'd call you an anti-breast-reduction bigot. But I figured it's just late in the day and you're tired.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 03:08 PM

A fetus, even a couple of weeks old, is not just a mass of cells

Given an atrocity like this, even pro-choice people seem to be agreeing with that.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 06:38 PM

so it's not HER miscarriages and HER menstrual blood . . .

Nowhere are we told what she IS really doing.

Even if it's just red paint, with thick blobs in it representing chunks of fetuses, pretending to be the product of her pretend miscarriages, it's still morally repulsive. And few pro-choicers would disagree with that.

Saturday, April 19, 2008 09:29 AM

Why there is no "men's studies"

"There's no Men's Studies because EVERYTHING ELSE is men's studies."

Hahahahahahah

I'm tired of this brainless comeback.

There is no place in the academy for men to study men's roles *as* men. Women can walk into Women's Studies classes and learn about how their roles have been shaped and how they exist today. There is no place for a man to learn about his roles -- unless he's a masochist and signs up for one of those "Men and Sexism" classes, taught in the Women's Studies curriculum by either a blowtorching feminist or a pussywhipped man.

Monday, April 21, 2008 10:42 AM
Original article: Malthus is in the air

??? Wasn't Malthus wrong?

But Malthus was wrong . . . right?

I mean, he said that scarcity of food would curb population. Experience since the 1800's teaches the opposite. Hungry nations grow faster than well-fed ones. In fact, in the best-fed nations, the birth rate is in danger of dropping below the replacement rate.

Someone please tell me if I'm missing something here.

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