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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 01:04 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

The more equality women achieve generally, the less porn will flourish--in theory at least. Erotica is something different; even women like erotica

Erotica is what you like, porn is what you don't like. The terms have no other meaning. More female equality will not equal less porn at least on the demand side, it will equal more because fewer men will have what it takes to impress women. There is more INTERNET porn in repressive countries because this is the only way they can get it. Just like there is more pay-per-view porn in Utah than New York. But there is not less interest in porn in new york, there are just more different ways to see it so there isn't the same pent up demand for pay per view in a hotel. By the way the market is not saturated(sorry, well not really) even in liberal areas. In fact lots of men still have to hide it from their wives and girlfriends. Look at the explosion of ipod porn, when another level of privacy became available (since unlike a desktop computer no one else sees your i-pod). Sorry tina MEN LIKE SEX and UNLIKE WOMEN they don't ONLY LIKE IT UNDER VERY SPECIFIC CONDITIONS. The question is whether women can succeed in forcing men to conform to what women want, it's hard to say, some evidence suggests that in certain areas they might be able to, in others maybe not.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 01:46 PM

the issue isn't whether black or white insanity is more insane, the issue is what are the electoral consequences of each

and black craziness WILL be held to a higher standard of scrutiny because blacks are a minority which the majority has a highly "sensitive" reaction to. Deal with it or you won't get elected.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 01:57 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

Police forces have not made it their business to crackdown on any and all exchanges of sex for money. They've focused on containing the illegal trade.

This is absolutely false. They crack down where it makes the biggest splash. If they were really interested in stopping trafficing and abuse they would ENCOURAGE adult women to work independently on craigslist. They don't, they bust it ALL THE TIME BECAUSE IF THEY DIDN"T THERE WOULD BE LOTS OF WOMEN WORKING IT AND IT WOULD BECOME AS MAINSTREAM AS PORN IS. By never allowing an open look Tina and those like hare are able to maintain their fantasies, just like she fantasized in the 80s that every porn set was a rape scene.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 02:15 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

The biggest reason tina wants to keep it illegal is because if the "emperors club" was legal it would cost 1/10th as much

there would be no need for all the overhead caused by it's illegality. Any average or better looking girl who likes sex could get paid for it, just like gay boys do now (although their would be more opportunities for more women because there are more straight men than gay men and because there are many more women than men who are off the unpaid market). This is the scenario that Tina AND the cultural right are of one mind in their desperation to prevent.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 03:40 PM

Perhaps they will listen to the message of Ron Paul: less is more, when you talk government.

Only the stupid ones; the currently developing mess of the financial system will convince everyone informed and rational that the total absence of govt. oversight doesn't work. Even if the US buys the bullshit the rest of the world will have to quarantine the lunatics.

Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:35 AM
Original article: Lessons not learned

in theory maybe endless wars are possible but in practice there will be far more restraint in the future

the US was on it's only remaining superpower high and was more economically, politically and culturally dominant "the indispensable nation", etc. than it will be. It won't really be an internationally politically practical option for the US to go around the world fighting wars, at least not without international support.

Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:04 PM
Original article: Lessons not learned

don't forget that lots of fundies in the military were drooling over the chance to win in Iraq and leverage that success into right wing cultural and political dominance at home

it is probably true though that the number of people in the military who have CHANGED THEIR MINDS is greater than the general population but that may only be because more were wrong to start with and because failure in Iraq has thwarted, at least in the short term, their political goals at home.

Thursday, March 20, 2008 01:03 PM

this reminds me that not ALL of the extra special vitriol heaped on Hilliary Clinton is because she is a woman

although a lot of it is. A LOT of it is because she is a Clinton. and the reason HE got treated extra special is because he was BOTH white trash AND a democrat. Reagan was white trash and a Republican and Kennedy and Roosevelt were rich. Does ANYONE believe that if either of the Bushes, or Reagan had gotten a blow job from an intern that anything which in an way resembled what happened to the Clintons would have happenned to them. If they claim to believe that they would have they are either ignorant, crazy or lying

Thursday, March 20, 2008 05:44 PM

according to fundies reading the bible makes them experts on (non)evolution and apparently being a feminist

does the same thing.

Friday, March 21, 2008 02:37 AM

the rate of evolutionary change varies, but there are not predictable periods of stability

because there are so many things that can cause change. For instance social interactions within a species can produce change even when the environment is stable. There is some evidence that humans have undergone evolutionary change recently. Obviously the changes are somewhat subtle, but they may be real.

Friday, March 21, 2008 02:56 AM

meat sharing is communal it is virtually NEVER communistic in the sense that everyone gets the same

those of high rank and those who played a bigger role in the hunt get more and those most closely related to them get more than those less so.

Friday, March 21, 2008 03:38 AM

it isn't funny anymore, if it ever was. can humor not be elevated just a little be higher than a man (poorly) dressed as a woman?

the thing is they look and act about as much like women as some people who claim in all seriousness to BE women. That's why it's funny.

Friday, March 21, 2008 10:57 AM

it think laurel is on to something, men like to make fun of unnattracitve women because attractive ones have so much power

men can't have a similar power based on attractiveness alone, so the whole concept doesn't work with men. Adding to the humor in the case of women is that so many women DENY this fact and then ALL women expect to have their asses kissed the way hot women do and claim discrimination and abuse when this doesn't happen.

Friday, March 21, 2008 10:59 AM
Original article: Real men eat asparagus

the common thread in all men's food choices is that it requires less time and effort

to prepare them than the ones women make. Even the asparagus. It costs money, but it's simple to prepare.

Friday, March 21, 2008 11:09 AM

if it is really all about women wanting young hot guys why are the YOUNG guys more pissed off

than the old guys.

Friday, March 21, 2008 11:38 AM
Original article: Real men eat asparagus

women may be on "diets" but they aren't really depriving themselves of calories

they eat as much as men do relative to their caloric output, that's why men and women are equally fat, more or less. Women just feel more deprived and complain more. Many more men than women are muscular enough to be BMI "fat" so this has a few percentage point effect. In general of course every fat person, male and female, claims to be "muscular" and of course it is usually a lie, with women it invariably is.

Friday, March 21, 2008 02:20 PM

sure sociobiology can be misapplied but so can anything. there is a political reason why this fact, uniquely, is used as a justification for hysterical denunciation of the entire field

and everyone knows what it is.

Friday, March 21, 2008 04:43 PM

hot young 'tang and even paying for it.

paying for it?! what happened to your theory that all prostitution is about men paying for the right to abuse women?

Friday, March 21, 2008 05:16 PM

it doesn't matter what you think, dumbass, the fact is that you and others have been claiming that there are no motives for paying for sex other than mens desire to abuse women

obviously if women pay for sex than the falsity of that proposition is demonstrated. You might ask yourself why you have such trouble grasping such basic logic.

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