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Friday, March 27, 2009 02:02 PM

if you really want to solve the problem require that all phones have "blurring" software installed

then anyone who wanted to send something could blur their face, (the people who they want to know who they are would still know) but nobody would be in a position to do any damage because there would be no way to prove who the person was.

Friday, March 27, 2009 01:44 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

Anyway, that's why old/ugly/fat/goofy looking men get to work in the movies, but old/ugly/fat/goofy looking women generally do not.

there are comparable numbers of old/ugly woman as there are old/ugly men i.e relatively few of either, you just have higher standards for men than for women.

Friday, March 27, 2009 01:42 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

a beautiful young woman benefits more than an equally young and handsome man does, but an old or unattractive woman is judged more harshly than an old or unattractive man

are they really worse off or are they just falling farther because they were higher up to begin with. I think old/ugly men (unless they have some rarely high status) are as unvalued as old/ugly women. The difference is that lots of men aren't valued much when they are young either so it isn't such a big change.

Friday, March 27, 2009 01:39 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

but that the fact she isn't defeats the purpose of the very concept of the show. The show is claiming that physically ugly people aren't really, well, physically ugly.

I don't agree except to the extent that the premise is perhaps being oversold. She IS unstylish in a way that would really cost her in an environment that values it. Plenty of people in high school are considered "ugly" who really aren't and I think the show does a good job with this. If they tried to do a show about a woman in this situation who was truly painful to look at and they showed any kind of realistic response to her the show would not be pleasant to watch. So if they used a "realistically ugly" girl they would have to have a response to here that was wildly UNREALISTIC or they would have to make a show that no one could stand to watch.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:51 PM

perhaps he is mentally/emotionally challenged in a different way but his refusal to come to terms with the need for real govt

is as insane as the others.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:32 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

you just don't get it Rameses, all the disadvantages that men are under are natural or are their own fault

all the disadvantages that women suffer from are a patriarchal conspiracy. You must be from somewhere REALLY REALLY far away.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:24 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

The real question should be, will there ever be a female Steve Buscemi?

the "gorgeous" (sorry not beautiful) Glen Close more than qualifies

Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:21 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

glen close is "beautiful" and the guys you mentioned are not up to hollywood standards?

if ALL women are beautiful by definition (as your example seems to clearly imply) then your argument is impossible to lose and totally meaningless. The reason they don't use a real ugly girl to play ugly betty is that the show would be a real downer if they did. It would be torture to watch and no one would.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:16 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

sure there are lots of fat men the difference is that people are willing to have sex with fat women

but not fat men. BTW there are as many ugly male actors as ugly female ones, i.e small numbers of both. The difference, as always, is that women EXPECT to be well regarded as a natural result of being alive whereas men know they are nothing unless by their actions they force the world to see them as something.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 07:45 PM
Original article: The monster inside my son

who wouldn't be desperate and grasping at straws

in this situation.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 07:34 PM

there isn't anything more interesting if you are in the right state of "mind"

(and if there is it wouldn't be a pleasing substitution to the people who think "sexting" is too much)

Thursday, March 26, 2009 07:19 PM

it is anything but upper class entitlement to resist the creation of a system where a district attorney can label as a pervert for life anyone who talks about sex on the phone in a way he disapproves of

everyone should be entirely supportive of resistance to this.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 04:52 PM
Original article: The monster inside my son

if only we listened more, these young people wouldn't be as enraged. Geeze.

who wouldn't be less enraged if people would listen to them more, and people who can NEVER get anyone to listen are bound to be extremely frustrated. Obviously there is something wrong with people with autism but there are reasons why they do what they do.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 04:38 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

. In real life, the vast, vast majority of couples are the same age or within a few years of each other. Audiences don’t buy these ridiculous pairings and they don’t like them.

Two questions:

Do people want to see real life in the movie

Why do they keep doing it if the audience doesn't like it

Thursday, March 26, 2009 01:07 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

the reason "men get better with age" is that nearly all young (and under 300 lbs) women start out by getting used to having their asses kissed constantlty by men and

nearly all young men start out as social/sexual non entities and eventually some of them acquire enough social skills, status, etc. to be of some interest to someone.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:47 PM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

women used to be victims of the patriarchy because men could control women

now women are victims of the patriarchy because women can't (always, totally, and with complete lack of tensions) control men

Thursday, March 26, 2009 12:42 PM
Original article: Oedipus mess

because neither men, nor contrary to their politically motivated protestations most women, are interested in men who are such losers

that they can't get a hot i.e relatively young woman.

Thursday, March 26, 2009 11:31 AM
Original article: The monster inside my son

I doubt there will ever be the political will to devote the resources that would be requied to maintain tens of millions of mentally ill people in the best possible conditions

drugs, crude as they are, are probably the best that is likely to happen, that and more genetic understanding so that fewer of them are born in the first place.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 07:50 PM
Original article: The monster inside my son

There is no evidence that autistic people are any more prone to violence than the general population. If her son is violent, it might be more constructive for Ms Bauer to attempt to understand *why

Maybe they are no different than other people in this regard but what can control them? threats of jail or execution? Do you simply want to create a parallel justice and prison system for them Doctor? (since they obviously can't be dealt with in the regular one) or do you want to figure out some other way to deal with the violence of autistic people.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 01:06 PM

'inherited budget deficit' is so wrong, why don't we cut it down or eliminate it? What are we waiting for?

for the Republicans to agree to allow taxes on the wealthy to return to the levels of the communistic nightmare of the Reagan administration.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:54 PM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

I'm still having a little trouble visualizing

how vagina shaped skyscrapers or missiles would work.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:15 AM
Original article: Embryo nation

lets face facts: "people" without brains are their natural

constituency.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:10 AM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

which is a glorification of vaginas from a non-erotic perspective.

huh? I'm not sure what it means to glorify a sexual/reproductive organ through a non sexual/reproductive (i.e. erotic) perspective. Are there supposedly male examples of this.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:54 AM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

I did see a porno from the 70s where a woman was having sex and her period at the same time but nothing in a long time

Actually though I don't think the inconsistency is as great as you might think since it seems that when they do anal in porn everything is completely cleaned out ahead of time.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:49 AM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

an obelisk I can buy as a phallic symbol, at least to a degree, but the reason things like missles and skyscrapers

are shaped the way they are is purely functional. In a world of women who do and always had reproduced asexually they would look exactly the same.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:46 AM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

blood doesn't really make a very good lubricant, you can do it

but it really isn't the best, at least you can be pretty sure you won't get pregnant though.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:39 AM
Original article: Outsmart Mother Nature!

I think making something of that, as though a person has hangups becasue they feel a little uncomfortable seeing y

Like I said I actually like certain female bodily fluids and am indifferent to others, so I trust that women like Betzee have the same combination of enthusiasm for some and indifference to other male bodily fluids. Otherwise they are the feminist version of the white house press corps.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 01:42 AM

I saw Obama getting overly defensive at Ed Henry's legitimate questions...I saw no scores achieved at all...

obviously some people will never get it, or will pretend not to, the point though, if you are reachable but haven't been reached yet (although this seems unlikely), is that the question was idiotic. It was designed to generate some sense of emotional conflict and drama that supposedly would appeal to the audience (and do it in a SLIGHTLY less obviously idiotic/insane manner than faux news or flush) while being totally devoid of real informative value on any meaningful subject. The fact that, in contrast to the last eight years, we now have a president (but apparently not a press corps for the most part) that is interested in a real discussion rather than in the injection of toxic propaganda into the body politic is what so many people find so refreshing (and what wing nuts find either threatening or incomprehensible).

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