"You been hanging out with the wrong chicks, cowboy. What are you, trapped in some kind of homicidal old-school Wicca convent? How come they let you have internet access?"

Funniest damn thing I've seen in a long time - as for the ads - if this is really what appeals to American Men -- how sad - no wonder we are slipping into a 2nd world country.

Teen pregnancy, murder,abuse and divorce rates do correspond to the level of religion in states. The less religious - ie NE the lower the pregnancy, murder and divorce rates..

While a foster parent, I took the mandatory training, and one of the things they mentioned was that child abuse was usually 1) households with drug issue,followed by religious households.

A fun one on why the more conservative Christians have the highest divorce rate see the Barna Survey

Taking off your shoes is a very big deal, takes a long time, and causes humiliation if you have braces, or a cane, or a wheel chair. And yes they still put you through this.

Then traveling with babies, take them out of their seat - hold them so they can scan it, and try to take off your shoes , and handle random luggage - its a bit of a nightmare -- so as someone who has had deal with all of the above,,oo and plus my underwire sets off the alarm, so I am publicly felt up with the back of some TSA agents hand too right there in front of everyone - or pulled aside to go into a room - there is fascism fantasy at work... no it is not harmless, nor is it a little inconvenient, and no it doesn't make a great impression on my kids, and I fly as little as possible.

And I've been flying for 40 years, security was nothing like this - I was never groped by security until 9/11 -- and harassed in private rooms and asked in a way you can't say no to for laugage searches while my teenagers stand outside the door waiting, wondering -- for some fucking random search with no purpose.

I don't mind abortions, but in some cases....

She is 34 and had two abortions, and someone is accusing her of using abortion as birth control -- what a moron. Assuming she was sexually active since 18 - that is 16 years -- only two pregnancies -- so the other 14 years do you think she was doing without, just got lucky and didn't need her abortion birth control? Or was her real birth control working the rest of the time, birth control fails, that is why 1 in 3 women have had an abortion, not because it is fun, not because it is birth control, but because there is NO reliable birth control over a long period of time. Twice in 18 years is good odds - that's a long time for a sexually active woman, when nature has put in a million years of evolution to make her into the perfect breeding machine -

History is full of mankind searching for effective birth control - and not finding it.

Men tend to generalize (yes, I know the irony this is a generalization) -- but if he thinks women do this sort of thing, then some day you will do something - and become one of those women to him. The respect you say you are getting now, is just his I want sex behavior, if you marry him - and he is sure of his supply -- he will treat you like all the other women in his life, with suspicion and distrust.

Never judge a guy by what he says -- if he says he likes kids, but is always raving about how terrible peoples kids are -- and they avoid him. Then he really doesn't

If his distrust of women in general is this high -- then its to high, and he will always distrust you a little bit, and the first misunderstanding it will blow up... don't do it.

He is not ok in the head, he sounds like the trolls that live in the Broadsheet letters.

Like the states asking teachers to go unpaid for a couple of days to save money because the state is broke. Or state workers? Now they are not asking the computer programmers or the high paid skilled folks to take non-paid days - just the clerical and teachers, and social workers -- the majority of which are low paid women.

Now a governor or two will go with out pay for those days as well, or not.... but the state budgets out west are balancing themselves for not paying folks, mind you not taking days off, but asking them to WORK without pay ..folks who probably need every penny. I just can't help noticing that most the jobs they ask to do this to are overwhelmingly held by women -- except maybe California which is in such a deep hole it just might stop paying everybody. And honestly, I think they do this because take for example they feel women teachers are less likely to say hell no, and not show up for work, leaving the kids in a adult free building. Or a social worker looking after foster kids...guilt will keep a woman at a job without pay, but hey if its the road crews, its not days without pay -- might be additional unwanted unpaid vacation days, but not days of actual work without pay. And I think this shows is insync with the unpaid house work.