The Australian Senator says it is mostly men who are fighting the right to choose in Australia. I wonder why it is different in the U.S., where women are [slightly] more likely to oppose abortion rights than men. Australia is, in some ways, the birthplace of modern western feminism and a very enlightened country.

Anyway, I salute any and all everywhere who fight for the right of women to control their reproductive choices. It's a thankless and largely joyless battle, as I learned personally during college. An important battle, nonetheless.

Hasn't Vanity Fair been putting nude actresses on the cover of the magazine for...ever? Didn't Demi Moore pose nude for the cover twice -- once while heavily pregnant? Did anyone wake up this morning shocked to discover that two beautiful Hollywood actresses stripped for the cover of Vanity Fair? And does anyone think Scarlett and Kiera had to think long and hard before accepting an offer to be photographed by Tom Ford and Annie Liebovitz for the cover of Vanity Fair? They'd have paid for the privilege if necessary.

Is this a problem? VF's readership is mostly female so I'm sure if this cover is a moral and political outrage, the magazine will soon see a steep decline in subscriptions. My advice, though: Don't hold your breath. My experience is that women will be just as interested in that cover as the men. I'm sure that is precisely what VF is banking on.

As for George Clooney, why would he pose nude for VF or anyone else? He's made a mint as a heartthrob, but is clearly looking beyond that for a career as a movie mogul. [Anyone who has seen "Good Night and Good Luck" and his earlier flick about The Gong Show host can see Clooney is off to a good start.] There's no percentage for Clooney in posing nude. He's moving away from that persona, not toward it -- no matter what his female fans may wish. Besides, maybe he's decided that it would be more dignified for a man of his age to shed his trousers for the ladies in private. Not everyone wants to be Sharon Stone, an aging and desperate star stripping in a pitiful plea for attention.

Women ski jumpers will be competing in the next Olympics and then we can all be entertained by female pothead ski jumpers. Until then, we'll have to rely solely on the male pothead ski jumpers.

They are not consumed by sexual puritanism disguised as a political ideology.

Making fun of other people's names is one of the cheapest and most reliable forms of low comedy. If this new Rudoren monstrosity is any example of what's to come, it should be a target-rich environment for some time to come.

If that spoiled brat of a boy who is suing to get his grades inflated is to blame for his own situation [and he is], then who is to blame for this? Plenty of Academy voters are female and half of all movie-goers are female. If Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz made nuclear bomb movies this past year, whose fault is that? Nobody forced them to make those movies and nobody forced female movie-goers away from the box office.

Now, what are we going to do to help a male win American Idol this year? Surely there is a vast anti-male conspiracy that has kept men skunked at the Idol these past few competitions. I mean, it couldn't be that the viewing public just prefers the females who have shown up to compete over the males who have shown up to compete. There MUST be a conspiracy involved. Right?

Right??

This women/football story is a welcome relief from more phoney statistics about battered women and the Super Bowl.

One of my happiest moments as a football fan was getting my sister, after years of prodding, interested in football. I have season tickets to the Washington Redskins and getting my sister to buy a ticket of her own and come to all the games with me has been loads of fun. It's also been great fun teaching her the nuances of the game, as she's never embarrassed to ask what something means or why something happened. She's become schooled enough to instruct others, including her fiancee, about football. I never thought anything could match the fun I have going to football games with my old man, but going to football games with my baby sister has done the trick.

Now, for my wife...

then I'm sure it'll be very easy for her to produce at least several other cheerleaders to authenticate her story.

-- "Now, there's a real lesson for our boys: If you can't deal with actually studying your way into a good college, sue your way there." --

Gee, I wonder where boys and men could have gotten the idea that running to the judiciary could get them what they want? The fact that a Broadsheet author types that phrase without irony is truly delicious.

Any homework project that involves points for decorating a notebook is idiotic and deserves attention from the school board. The rest of the lawsuit seems pretty silly to me.

Madison Avenue is only interested in males to sell things. Why should females be any different?

Do you have to be a lawyer to know how stupid that sentence is?