Upthread someone wrote: what's with the endless, frequent, longing looks between woman and ape? Creepy! That relationship is at the heart of the film, and it makes zero sense.

What's creepy about it? Unlike in the previous Kong films, the relationship portrayed in this film was not a sexual one, but rather a classic human/animal pet relationship.

Haven't you ever had a pet dog or cat who was capable of sitting at the opposite side of a room staring at you for minutes on end? I have certainly spent a long time looking deep into the eyes of my pet cats. I think that's the context you are meant to understand Kong.

I'm glad some people read the study enough to call these reports that "men want facts" for the BS that they are.

Men visiting www.russian-lesbians-do-japanese-schoolgirls.com are not exactly on a research assignment. And what about how discussion forums like those at imdb.com are so often dominated by male users -- are they not participating in a community? And what about the growing popularity of online video games? This idea that men are just some sort of fact finder robot while using the web is just ludicrous.

Likewise, aren't all these women who supposedly visit health info sites actually looking for facts? And my girlfriend can't be the only woman whose primary source of recipes is now the internet. Or is downloading a recipe actually some sort of "community" activity and not classifiable as research?

God damned these lazy journalists!!!

We think the Big Apple is better off with scrappy boys and girls, men and women, in their baggy olive drabs, trucking around downtown with messy hair and giant bags. We'll leave the California Girls where they belong: in California.

Yeah, because as we all know New York women are all about being scrappy and dressing in olive drab all the time. They NEVER dress in skimpy, trashy clothing -- especially in the summer, when skimpy clothing is virtually unheard of in the Big Apple. In fact, New York women are so down to earth that the fashion industry has a hard time making inroads into the city's market. Good luck finding any aspiring actress/model types in New York City. Just granola types there.

Anyways, thanks for leaving me with all the California girls. The ones I know -- here in the SF Bay Area -- are generally the smartest most interesting women I've ever met. I'll happily keep them if you are giving them to me.

Thom, I think you are kind of exagerrating how much choice women have.

Sure, the swimsuit model industry is mostly open only to women. However, for every man who wishes he could grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, there are a dozen girls wishing they could grow up and make a living playing a professional sport other than tennis or golf.

I have never understood where this idea came from that there was something wrong with pregnant women. I remember the Demi Moore cover, and at the time I just couldn't figure out why there was such a hullabaloo about it. I always accepted it as an undisputed fact that pregnant women are almost universally beautiful. Vanity Fair's stance on the issue felt no more controversial to me than if they had written an article declaring that ice cream was delicious.

Are there really people who think pregnant women are ugly?

Yes, beer guts are not generally attractive. But with pregnant women, we know the origin of the bulge, and that has always allowed me to not find it unattractive.

Not that I find the look particularly "sexy", and by the 8th month it mostly looks like it hurts. But there is a certain radiance that surrounds pregnant women, so that even women who are normally kind of average have a certain glow about them when they are pregnant.

I have found that it is women who are most likely to find pregnancy unattractive. There is this bizarre thing where a lot of women just look at it as being "fat". I just chalk that up to another example of how totally screwed up some women can be when it comes to body image issues.

I think this highlights that one of the true last bastions of sexism is the medical research world.

We have half a dozen prescription erection pills, but nobody has worked real hard to figure out the connection between the pill and a loss of sex drive?

What if it was discovered that one of Viagra's side effects was that, while allowing sex to happen, it also reduced the desire to have sex in the first place. It would have taken researchers about 5 seconds to get the funding to try and solve that problem.

I think all the breast cancer stuff tends to make people think that the medical community really cares about women's issues. Stories like this one, however, should remind us all that breast cancer is about the only woman's issue the research community passionately cares about.

And who are we kidding here, the only reason there is passionate interest in breast cancer is because it is "breast" cancer. If it was "cellulite" cancer that women were dying of, something tells me there would be slightly less interest in the subject.

Yes, grad school can lend incredible networking opportunities. However, with three kids and a husband, how does she think she is going to have time to take advantage of those socializing and networking opportunities?

She should wait until her children are old enough that they aren't going to compete with her attention as much, and she will therefore be able to more fully take advantage of the unique socializing opportunity grad school offers.

I think this "powerful pull" is really a strong desire that her life was not ruled by her 3 children.

Anyways, if she is already showing her art and it is well recieved, she is in far better shape than most MFA graduates I know of.