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Thursday, May 14, 2009 06:10 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

Two things are ugly, nude mice and nude men

Not ALL women agree with this, fortunately, at least not all the time.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:18 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

(have to start training them for their duty as hypersexualized obsessives early!

can this work on adults?

Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:11 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

this actually is a serious issue because it wouldn't be possible to molest kids if they understoood what sex is

they would be able to say when someone was messing with them. Obviously they can't be born with understanding but if sex was a part of life that people learned about in an age appropriate way (whatever that is) it seems like that would help. Death isn't easy either and there are limits to understanding it but we don't attempt to keep people oblivious to it's existence until they are teenagers.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:57 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

Good point. That's probably a BS excuse she told her parents one time when they caught her.

If so she was for sure lying about the 6 months away from the computer.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:05 AM
Original article: Quote of the day

if this really happened this way it is no wonder that people have trouble getting on the same page

and then there are women like this:

http://www.charmandrigor.com/clips/details-raping.html.

I don't think I am capable of sorting it out.

Thursday, May 14, 2009 09:59 AM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

it is tough to find someone, especially for women, that they REALLY like, but engineering society (even though it is admiitedly in respnse to real issues)

so that people are forced, or at least strongly pressured, by circumstances if not legal force, to tie themselves for life to someone they are not in love with is not the answer. I don't know what the answer is but that isn't it.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 07:49 PM
Original article: Not-so-opposite marriage

yes, ANY TWO PEOPLE, because the govt is not licensing you to have sex it is providing a convient way to pool assets and legal authority

it can't be more than two because then there would not be clarity about who could speak for who. It used to be that only certain people were allowed to live together, now the govt doesn't decide. People in relationships tend to live together but the govt is not involved.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 07:09 PM
Original article: A maximum wage for bankers?

Its the same reason movie stars make so much more money than everyone else. In essence, they are both selling their privacy for a substantial sum of money

Movie stars and sports stars are selling a performance that lots of people are willing to pay for, it's the same as microsoft making lots of money by selling a million copies of a piece of software. The ONLY REASON CEOs make what they do is because they are, effectivly, setting their own compensation (everybody sits on everybody elses boards) and since big business owns the govt. the govt doesn't do anything to rein them in.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 06:01 PM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

i think the strike through works

if there is a real point being made.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 05:53 PM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

women don't have babies because they get pregnant they have babies because they CHOOSE NOT to get an abortion

so any woman who doesn't choose to get one if she isn't married is choosing to be a single mother hence single motherhood is normally a choice.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 05:45 PM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

Women want babies, but without the burden of an extra 180-pound kid who thinks he deserves to be boss. Egalitarian marriage is the only kind that's worth it

This attitude is one reason men are reluctant to get married: if she is ever disagreed with about anything then he is an "180 lb kid who thinks he deserves to be boss".

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 05:37 PM
Original article: A maximum wage for bankers?

the reason income taxes are so unpopular is that the people with high incomes can afford however much propaganda it takes to make them that way

the fact is that almost the ONLY taxes that have been lowered during the past 38 years of right wing ascendancy have been taxes on rich peoples incomes.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 01:22 PM
Original article: A maximum wage for bankers?

the suggestion that the economy can't function if competent people don't make salaries of hundred and hundreds of thousands of dollars (or millions or billions) in salary is pure bullshit

banks and a lot of other things in the rest of the world manage to keep their e-mail, and everything else, running just fine without paying this kind of money.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 01:08 PM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

they would probably get data with more practical meaning

if they measured and compared kids in long term cohabitation with both parents with those who are not rather than married and unmarried.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:05 PM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

There used to be something called common-law marriage in this country, which just about all states have abolished. Maybe it should be brought back.

DNA provides the equivalent in establishing responsibility.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:51 AM
Original article: The Angelina effect?

most women want kids sooner or later and with men having less and less of a real role to play

this isn't surprising, and in fact unless you want a population decline it is a good thing.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:04 PM
Original article: Radio rage

talk radio hasn't changed,

they just got used to their enemies being less powerful. Ok it has changed in that they hate the same things, they just hate them even more now.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:22 AM
Original article: Not-so-opposite marriage

givne how many women are attracted to sensitive men and given how much easier men are to talk to when they

are not obssessed/paranoid/paralyzed by concerns over their status and attractiveness these relationships are probably not as rare as the raw demographics would suggest.

Monday, May 11, 2009 07:09 PM

I don't

oppose it

Monday, May 11, 2009 06:46 PM

I'm not against doing those things

but I am against taking the attitude that all of the difference is due to male inferiority/obnoxiousnes/privilidge. There are plenty of women who through their own experiences understand how their sex drive can disappear even when nothing in their external environment changes, or at least nothing that is any mans fault or that any man can do anything about. I hope things things even out somewhat, but the preferred strategy seems to be to even them out by LOWERING EVERYONE'S interest. This of course is not a new approach, it's hundreds of years old, at least, but I'd prefer NOT to see it updated for the modern era any more than the considerable amount it already has been.

Monday, May 11, 2009 06:26 PM

Fix all those underlying issues and things would probably even out quite a bit.

Maybe you are right but this approach is also an excellent tactic becaue as long as it DOESN'T even out men haven't done enough. Of course nothing that is done will ever be enough.

Monday, May 11, 2009 06:00 PM

you don't have to want to try to get them into bed

but it's a little difficult for me to see a meaning of hot which doesn't involve at least wanting to think about getting them into bed if you could. If women are surrounded by men willing to sleep with them and the women don't, or rarely, do it, then the women don't "really" think those men are hot, at least in the way that men mean it when they describe a woman as hot.

Monday, May 11, 2009 05:36 PM

women who appear totally unavialable tend to be responded to less, yes

when you know there is NO chance you tune out a little.

Monday, May 11, 2009 05:34 PM

if every man with a decent face and body

had women begging them for it the world would be a very different place. Actually it would be a lot like the world of gay men (of course "begging" is something of a misnomer when everyone gives it up to everyone, but you get my drift I think).

Monday, May 11, 2009 04:44 PM

Does anyone suggest that we just don't really know if Brad Pitt is hot or not and he should probably pose for more naked pictures just so we can be sure?

That is becaue it takes different things for a man to be hot than for a woman to be. What makes a woman hot is to have a nice body and face and to be willing to make it avialable (obviously other things can add appeal to but that alone is worth quite a bit). It obviously takes a lot more than this for a man to be of interest (except to gay men).

Monday, May 11, 2009 11:33 AM

Do you mean objectified when you say sexualized

they both describe the same situation i.e one where there is a sexual response to what the speaker considers the wrong thing by what the speaker considers the wrong people.

Monday, May 11, 2009 11:00 AM
Original article: Houston pulls a Palin

when a rape kit is collected in the course of a police investigation the bill

should go to the police. Maybe there would be privacy issues but why would this be any different than the privacy issues involved anytime the police collect or hold evidence.

Monday, May 11, 2009 10:44 AM

if people can want to think about having sex with someone then for the person having the desire nature has "sexualized" the desired person in the mind of the person who can desire them

in this area particularly media just reflects what is already there, or not there. Most people understand that when someone is obsessed with the idea that porn "turns people into", say pedophiles for example, that you probably shouldn't let them babysit your kids. Why is feminist posturing on "porn" not subjected to critical scrutiny.

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