No there are not. It is impossible for a rational person to believe that a single fertilized egg cell is a human being for any non religious reason. It may be their own personal mystical revelation but this belief can NEVER be based on science or rationality.

begging to be taught the American system of economic (non)management since this was the only thing that would work in the global economy. Please right wingers, hold your breath until it happens, please.

everyone has an instinctive inclination to try to reproduce successfully and for a man getting a fertile young woman, especially one that other men find attractive (since they will in the future be trying to get on her good side by doing things for her AND her kid) to sleep with him means his work is done. Since sperm is abundant and cheap and therefore men can afford to take a chance anywhere women require more from men in order to feel like they are really getting anything worthwhile.

Regardless of how you explain it it does seem clear that it takes more for men to be attractive to women than it does for women to be attractive to men. For instance you don't see women lining up to pay for sex from any normal looking male who makes himself available.

but denial probably isn't a very good strategy either.

but as long as women treat their low sex drive and easily put off interest in sex and their hypersensitivity to everything else in their environment as a universal truth rather than a specfic point of view there is going to be a problem. For instance if I could fuck anyone I wanted anytime I wanted I wouldn't be obsessed with whether or not they had the utmost respect for every unfounded opinion on any subject that I came up with. Gay men don't seem to worry too much about this, they fuck who they like and respect who they like and nobody has a problem with it. I'm not saying this point of view is right, necessarily, but as long as their is only one right way, the womans way, there is going to be at least a lack of harmony.

Ok, so what is the problem, sounds like a win-win to me if it can be arranged.

she doesn't need to answer any questions now, after all Bush doesn't.

Only the most prudish would be totally "against sex" in principle, but what specifically is and isn't acceptable is the question, and as always, women are just more sensitive. There is an architectural trend towards having a bedroom and bathroom for every individual in a household, and a trend towards making "male" and "female" bathrooms. What ends up happening is that the woman's bathroom ends up being off limits to the man but men don't care. So: does he arbitrarily adopt her attitude in the interest of equality, seems pretty stupid and far from making him look equal it makes him look like a pathetic whiny little bitch. On the other hand if he DOESN'T do this then it establishes the precedent that she has the right to go anywhere she wants and he doesn't. The only possible resolution that makes any sense if for both of them to admit that she is being indulged. Women rarely want to admit this.

HOPEFULLY it will take some time before the situation repeats itself but if American society as a whole were driven by rationality rather than ignorance, resentment, religious idiocy and greed it would never have been possible for us to get into this situation at all.

If this half were capable of responding to reality, or even admitting what it is, they would have done so long ago. What will happen is that the US will be FORCED both for reasons of economic competitiveness and by international politics and institutions to behave sanely in spite of the wishes of half of it's population. The rest of the world has changed a lot more politically in the last hundred years than the US has and that is what will tip the balance in how things turn out.

i just can't imagine.

other than that she is perfect, but she actually makes Palin look better than she really is.

I HOPE this is true, and I think it PROBABLY is for a majority, but if there weren't something seriously wrong with "Kansas" it would be not a majority it would be everyone.

Goldwater WAS a lunatic who ADVOCATED threatening the Soviets with a nuclear attack in order for the US to get it's way in the world. This piece of right wing revisionist slime needs to be cleaned up sometime.

and the fact that so many letter writers here equate Republican-Nazi hate fests against anyone who isn't them and doesn't think like them with an article poking fun at the sexual dynamics underlying some aspects of politics provides another interesting illustration of the problem.

and women don't need to produce anything equivalent to appeal to men, so it isn't surprising that men would try, at least subconsciously, to protect the value of what they are required to produce.

yes men and women are both hard wired for sex but just as obviously men and women are NOT wired the same way, if they were any normal looking teenage boy could make a ton of money selling sex to women.

it takes more for men to be attractive to women than for women to be attractive to men and frankly this is so obvious and so well know to everyone that the fact that it is ever treated as anything else is highly revealing (or should be).

no amount of personal testimonial or political obfuscation will change this historical fact, a fact by the way which is entirely clear to everyone in the world except american right wingers. You denialist wingers appear to the rest of the world just like the japanese who deny nanking.