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Actually if they eradicated gayness they would probably eradicate themselves, at least if their public spokesmodels are any indication. Kind of puts their "it's all a choice" argument into context doesn't it.
(which is what will/would happen if parents want the best for their children individually) won't there be something missing.
(at least to have a relationship with someone they are willing to make real compromises with rather than treat as a servant) and, especially in today's high-status-for-women society, for a man to meet that qualification he has to be dominant and accomplished to the point of what often looks like the verge of pathology.
Given modern medicine homosexuality isn't a genetic dead end and even without exotic technology if you look at any fundie community, the men OR the women, it's obvious that they have their own ways of seeing to it that gay people do plenty of reproducing. Actually I think some of them have semi openly discussed this, Santorum said something in reference to this I think.
the mountain of blubber than the human skeleton was not designed to support causes it to collapse.
Because it is the truth and because I have had to deal with the consequences of other peoples uncontrolled addiction to food which was aided and abetted by the fat acceptance movement. Obesisty is a personal disaster for those who have it and those who get stuck taking care of them. Obese people often end up needing long term care that people who stay fit and healthy usually don't require until relatively shortly before they die, unless they have alzheimers.
try doing it when you are bedridden. Really, anybody who is carrying 30 40 50 or more pounds of extra fat around should do something about it NOW before it is too late. It's not easy, but it can be done and it won't ever get any easier than than it will be now.
is grounds for celebration, although slow or no population growth is still better than rapid growth.
if the majority of the population refuses to make an effort to get and stay healthy, i.e. fit and thin, and unfortunately this is currently the situation.
thinking that you can think of obesity and food addiction as the equivalent of an appendix, that you can ignore it until you have a problem and then surgery will fix everything is a serious misunderstanding.
EVERYONE can lose weight and keep it off. They may have to fight their system and they may have to eat a lot less and more restrictively than their friends and they may have to plan carefully to get adequate nutrition but EVERYONES BODY can be made a healthy weight IF someone wants it BAD ENOUGH.
That would be fine if they were equally expressive, but what is going to happen is that all male sexual expression will be "criminalized" and female expression will not be. Even this would be ok if it meant that average/ugly men would get as much attention from "expressive" women as these women now get from men (attention which they can STILL never stop complaining about) but this won't happen either: women will be as picky as they have ever been, if not more so, and men will have to prove themselves to women as they always have, they will just have to do it with fewer social and economic advantages than in the past and under the constraints of a set of rules regarding sexual expression which are pointedly applied only to them.
which PERFECTLY explains the observed difference between working class and corporate behavior.
it would take a lot of work by the right to make it happen but they certainly have the money and if there is a real opening they will take it. Sure there is a racial problem, past and present, but most white people simply will not put someone who looks like they want to screw them because they are white in a position to do so, no matter how "deserved" some might think it would be.
Well lucky for you I have the answer for you: when women start being as attracted to powerless men as men are to powerless women then men will be comfortable with powerful women.
Really, that is your brilliant plan to get the Republicans out of power?
use a sense of humor about themselves.
and men will just have to adapt OR they can become like women or the women will become like men, then everyone will be the same and everyone will be happy (which is what would naturally happen if not for the evil patriarchy).
(yes I know it exists in principle for treason, etc but those crimes have a long established "collective/wartime" rationale which serves as a limit on their use). When you are talking crimes against individuals not involving death everything is a matter of degree.
most men are NOT interested in a long term relationship with a woman who isn't attracted enough to them to want to sleep with them before getting something for it. You just have to pick the right people to have " one night stands" with.
but we do NOT need and should NEVER have a "steady state" economy in regard to the ability of human beings to generally increase the supply of useful/desireable things. The sometime failure of the advocates of sustainability to be clear on this distinction is a tremendous cultural and political gift to the Bushes and Chenys of the world.
should he stand on principle anyway if it means getting Mccain elected. Isn't it more likely that obama respects civil liberties than that bush or mccain does.
so the same instinctive interest and equipment to invest in same sex bonding isn't there. There is interest and bonding but it isn't of the same nature.
none of the looks at all familiar.