Human action is never 100% nature. We are parts nature and parts nurture. There are many, many men who prefer staying at home and raising the kids, or who love to be an equal partner in raising the children. There are also many mothers out there who would far prefer to be persuing other endeavors and leave their husbands to do the child rearing or who welcome the equal parenting.

Next you'll be telling me that poster divamom is doing all the housework because of this same biological conditioning. Biology says she desires to stay at home to raise the kids. She may as well do the housework while there therefore housework is woman's work. In reality, she just has a husband who is stubborn and sees it as woman's work. Most men I know, married or not, do quite a bit of housework. 50% would be a fair average.

O'Beirne is socially conditioned and yes, women are part of the conditioning, but they were conditioned in their turn. This type of cycle is a hard thing to break as is all tradition and custom. That is why feminism is so needed and so surprising; it is a rebellion against all the custom and conditioning.

O'Beirne has the additional luxury of deciding to forgo the higher income and become a stay at home mom. And when her kids were grown, she had the luxury and connections to write a book. She could lie back and succumb to the conditioning. She could take the easy way out. And now we see her here arguing that women should all just give up the fight, give in to tradition and inertia. That somehow everything will work out fine in the end if they just trust men and wait for them to feel comfortable with treating them as equals.

It isn't ALL bad. The crossover between the military and music did give us the St. Louis Blues March when Glen Miller was in the service.

And I find it amusing that you complain about the lack of coverage of basketball games at this point in the season. Aren't you one of the people that says all these games are meaningless at this point?

"suddenly the big concern has become "Who will all those educated women marry?" "

Me, please.

There's nothing in the world sexier than smarts.

"I go to sleep at night sometimes solving equations in my head. My wife, who has the slightly autistic abilities of a composer, finds this astonishing"

I dount anyone actually finds it astonishing that you manage 2+2=4 as you go to sleep.

Then again, judging by the rest of your post. Perhaps it is astonishing you manage that much after all. If you are actually married, please send your wife my deepest symapthies.

Chris, that sounds like elementary school from when I was a kid. Or my mom's stories about it, or my grandfathers. And besides, my neices and friends daughters of that age want to jump about and play and be active just as much as boys that age.

Remember, two fallicies do not make a fact.

It doesn't really work. For most jobs, especially skilled jobs, the costs of degraded communication, slowed product development and inferior products eventually cause businesses to move the jobs back to the US. The fad is nearing its end. Evidence? IBM is starting to do it. They can be trusted to make the wrong decision at the wrong time every time.

Maybe that's how they're creating US jobs, they're counting the ones coming back as "new".

King Kaufman: I have now lived long enough to have heard in four different decades that defense in the NBA is a lost art.

Wow, that's REALLY lost!

Wow, $250,000 a year. I expect there are going to be LOTS of dissapointed people in a few years. The pollsters didn't bother to provide them with realistic numbers, huh?

The first two things I look for in a woman are intelligence and a sense of humor. If those aren't there, it doesn't have a chance of working.

So, where's the movement to make this a constitutional amendment? It may be out there, I just don't know where it is. What would the proper wording be? Why haven't we been working on this since the 1970s?

The reason she's including the insurer in the lawsuit is likely to get a policy ruling from them. In all liklihood, if it goes well for her, they'll agree to ban this practice for doctors that file with them and that'll be considered their part of the settlement.

More than patients or the government, doctors today are far more controlled by insurers. She's essentially just bringing his employer into the fight to make sure they won't let their employees do this.