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Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:06 PM
Original article: A softer line on abortion

But the current state is a pro choice side that defends - out of a sense of political urgency abortions until a minute before birth, even though most deplore them in practice. This has been, so far, successful politically, but comes at a price.

The law has NEVER required that states permit abortion until a minute before birth and no serious effort has ever been made to require them to do so. If you are arguing your case in good faith it is a very disturbing example of how the right wing has been successful in promoting extreme, legal, historical and biological ignorance among the general population and not just their committed partisans.

Thursday, August 14, 2008 03:05 PM
Original article: A softer line on abortion

in a sane society the burden would be on the fundies to prove that such a thing as recreational abortion exists

The fact that their entire program relies on an assertion that could only be taken seriously by a lunatic SHOULD be a source of reassurance. Why am I not reassured.

Friday, August 15, 2008 11:37 AM

ir order to establish his coalition FDR was required to turn over blacks in the south to the mercy of racist whites

lets hope the democrats aren't planning on making a similar concession to the anti-sex/anti-contraception/anti-abortion right

Friday, August 15, 2008 11:42 AM
Original article: Wankipedia

its going to be difficult to sell the idea that women REALLY LIKE MEN AND SEX

when so many of them display a COMPLETE inability to identify with or even understand men liking it. Better get your stories straight.

Friday, August 15, 2008 12:03 PM

you are not professional newscasters and if I wanted to watch someone talk at me I'd watch the news.

We NEED somebody TALKING THE NEWS who isn't a faux robot or someone on the MSM trying to imitate them. Technology has elliminated the possibility of a print only world. It makes sense not to leave the largest arena in the exclusive possession to the other side.

Sunday, August 17, 2008 03:02 PM

why poor white men vote republican

if they believe that democrats and republicans aren't much different when it comes to the economic policies which will affect them AND as long as the idea that straight white men are in some general sense a priviliged class that "owes" women, minorities, gays "something" if only "gratitude" for these groups generously willing to let bygones be bygones, they might think: "If I'm going to be economically fucked anyway, why add insult to injury by asking to be culturally and socially pissed and shit on too" (The democrats answer of course is that is DOES matter economically, although not as much as it should, and that the demographic and technological changes that have reduced mens status are going to happen regardless of who is in power. By voting Republican they are really just adding economic injury to inevitable cultural loss).

Sunday, August 17, 2008 03:32 PM
Original article: Wankipedia

the difference in reaction that you are describing is almost certainly based in the biological differences between males and females

since sex costs men nothing (in the time frames in which biological evolution operates) the male reactions range from indifference to extremely positive, but since the wrong sex can cost women everything they instinctively have a much larger repertoire of much more intensely negative reactions.

Monday, August 18, 2008 05:40 PM
Original article: Wanted: "Ugly ducklings"

even though beauty is not (for the most part) subjective, it is still relative, so unless everybody looks the EXACTLY the same

there are always going to be people who are considered more and less attractive. In fact a lot of things that in the past would have been considered major beauty pluses, straight healthy teeth, undisfigured skin, etc. are now just taken for granted, and the social beauty competition continues. No matter how healthy and good looking people get this probably won't ever change.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:20 AM
Original article: The Big O

we could use a lot more conflicted relationships with weight that involve losing enough of it to successfully run a marathon

if she has a conflicted relationship with weight most people must have an actively psychotic one.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 01:06 PM

Because it just wasn't that fascinating to be around a bunch of drunk women with no money no matter how empowering that first appears to be.

So would you rather have them drunk with money (admittedly that might be interesting), or not drunk without money, or not drunk with money, or just not drunk, or what. Are you one of those "traditional Christian men" we are seeing and hearing so much about lately?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:02 AM
Original article: Like a woman scorned

it's no doubale standard it's just that when men reat to women not doing what they want

it is because they are trying to retain patriarchal dominance (or else they have personal problems) but when women react to men not doing what they want it is justified anger at being abused. How many times am I going to have to explain this to you people?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:27 PM
Original article: Like a woman scorned

That any women see this a justifiable behavior just explains why women still struggel in our society to be taken seriously.

The point is that even though many think this way they STILL ARE taken seriously.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:45 PM
Original article: Wanted: "Ugly ducklings"

Personally, I would rather be alone than with someone who regards me as an undesirable mate that they've settled for out of sheer desperation,

When a man ends up married or in a relationship with a woman who isn't interested in having sex with him he feels the same way, except for the rather being alone part, usually.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 04:27 PM

the two sides of the question is the south hopeless or not are not mutually exclusive

everyone agrees that the commited racist south with it's nostalgia for jim crow and the confederacy and it's modern excuses and justifications: "morals" "guns" "traditional values" etc. are hopeless. The only disagareement is over how in charge this group is and if they are in charge how long they will continue to be.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:52 PM

Now he's getting a taste of growing up in a culture which reveres an entire segment of humanity and their glorification, ... and is expected to tow the party line silently and without objection.

Good to see a feminist admit that this is the position that men are in and the position that feminists want them in, well not exactly good I guesss, but something.

Saturday, August 23, 2008 02:39 AM

tell ya what, I won't tell you what/when/how to cook, clean or do any other household chores and YOU WON"T TELL ME WHAT TO DO EITHER

ka?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:29 PM
Original article: Big fat contradictions

EXCESSIVE fat is the health equivalent of cancer, smoking, drug addiction or alcoholism, NOT

something to be accepted about yourself if you have a choice

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:36 PM

it is true though that you are more likely to catch something from your own species or a closely related one

than something unrelated, since organisms tend to be adapted to particular hosts. Obviously this isn't always true but it tends to be.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:45 PM

Women are often hiding their true selves and their blunt opinions of men

If the seething mass of contempt, resentment and hostility that is the predominantly seem female attitude towards men constitutes women HIDING their negative feelings I'd had to see them revealed.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 09:40 PM
Original article: The joy of abstinence

not many of us would be here if the va-jay-jay wasn't an exit, too

historically this is true but given current c-section rates not to mention labor(ha) saving biotechnology we may be able to dispense with BOTH it's entry and exit role, to the delight of many all along the social spectrum.

Thursday, August 28, 2008 02:23 PM
Original article: "Ugh" of the day

well one thing is for sure: NOT being an asshole will get you absolutely

nothing.

Friday, August 29, 2008 02:40 AM

sexual reassignment surgery (apparently a very good one, as she can have vaginal orgasms)

apparently there are quite a few born female who could use a little reassignment, or at least additional assignment.

Friday, August 29, 2008 02:44 AM

there's an inherent contradtion in the way people deal with this, on the one hand "biology isn't importnat"

but on the other hand the only justification for any of this is that NEURObiology "she's a woman trapped in a man's body" is EVERYTHING.

Friday, August 29, 2008 02:56 AM
Original article: "Ugh" of the day

You do realize, don't you, that when you discount the spin you are both describing EXACTLY the same reality

about immature women, those who haven't figured out what they want yet.......(then later).......

women get mid-thirties, their looks fade and assholes are not interested in them, they want a nice guy to marry

Friday, August 29, 2008 01:55 PM

Of course you can choose to be any gender you like, but to insist that that choice has to be seconded by an expensive operation, is really the wrong direction.

Transsexuals beg to differ that they have "chosen" "any" gender they like. In fact the case of transsexualism is apparently about the ONLY place where it is (somehwat) intellectually respectable in "progressive" circles to discuss the possibility that gender may BE significantly innate. The resulting cognitive dissonance is highly entertaining and at least potentially enlightening.

Friday, August 29, 2008 02:17 PM

it would be kind of funny if the first female president ended up being an anti choice, anti sex, authoritarian fundamentalist

I guess.

Friday, August 29, 2008 02:31 PM

Evangelicals want everyone to be forced to HAVE the babies

You don't understand, they are VERY UPSET that people end up with kids they don't want and can't take care of, sadly and tragically however this is the terrible price that MUST BE PAID in order to deter people from having sex.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 01:54 PM

one of the probable consequences of global warming in the next few decades is that Pakistan will turn into a waterless desert

these people will have to be resettled somewhere else, what will happen then.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:43 AM
Original article: Today in Palin

fundamentalist airhead caribou barbie

this is the person that the party of high standards, personal responsibility and traditional values thinks belongs next in line to the very aged, mentally and physically, McCain. Pathetic.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 01:33 PM
Original article: "WTF" of the day

it sounds like it exactly reflects

the creepy reality.

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