I dunno what circles you move in, but Uterine fibriods are well known and discussed in mine as well as the various treatment methods - myomectomies etc. All the GP's we've seen have been well informed and aware of them. Seen them brought up in discussion on womens and general health shows heaps of times and this has been the case for years.

Of course my experiences are in Australia/NZ.

I'm curious - if a female teacher is having an affair with a girl is that viewed with the same degree of opprobrium as a male teacher doing the same?

Trouble is that statistics and cases are so hard to find on these things, female perpetrated abuse is often unacknowledged and uncounted.

Yah, I figured it would be rarer, if nothing else less gay teachers then het. Though you could make a case that same sex pedophilia is not driven by sexual attraction/orientation.

I was curious as to whether it would be regarded as worse/less/different to Male on Female molestation. There's a lot of weird attitudes out there that seem to imply what is done to the victim (the molestation) is less important than who did it or who the victim is.

Regards there being less female molesters than male, thats a tricky one. Common wisdom would say so, but common wisdom is full of it on many subjects. Just as for many years there were severe disincentives to report molesters (and still are for that matter) so there are for female molesters with the added problem that people *really* don't want to consider that women - their mothers/Madonnas could be molesters.

Until we have a number of direct peer reviewed studies on female molesters that make efforts to overcome societies distaste for the subject we'll probably never be able to know the full extent one way or another.

Eh? I have no objection to books by feminists, quite the opposite.

I hope your dog is ok. And a pox on owners who can't control their dogs.

The Gary Gygax tribute (http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/04/gary_gygax/index.html?source=search&aim=/tech/htww) go bumped of the front page for this hypocritical pile of self involved tripe?

for millions of people - added a bit of fun and magic to their lives. How many can say that?

That and all the other atrocities that don't see the light of day.

The term "beaver" in Australia (and NZ) is only used in a derogartory and offensive context. Might as well call women "cunts"

But I guess its to much to expect American's (looking at you BS) to have a clue outside their own narrow viewpoints.

You also seem to forget that Bush's erred "surgical precision" of military forces removed a cancer itself, Saddam Hussein, a man who had no regard for human rights, personal freedoms, or the respect and regard for human life."

it also "surgically" removed a few hundred thousand Iraqi's, utterly ruined their country and laid the ground for a new theocracy, but what the hell - you got Hussien! or at least the Kurds did.

I wish a surgical strike would take you and your ilk out.

Hussein was put into power by you neocon numnuts

At least that's how the letter sounds to me. It reads like a letter written by an adult idealising post adolescent angst. Sounds bogus.

I thought civil liberties were for everyone, not just women. BS is only for women issues - you know, pink stuff.

These aren't crooks picked up on the streets of New York. These are people captured by our military in places

As you well know, most of them were "picked up" by local warlords collecting bounties paid by the US government. A handy way for the local tyrant to get rid of dissidents and get paid into the bargain.

Completely unaware of how issues of class, race and gender can be intersect or be more important than their narrow privileged definition of feminism.

I just know it.

Just because you "feel" that someones reasons are sexist doesn't mean they are. I feel very strongly that Joan and Rebbecca are racist - but that doesn't make it so. At least I have the honesty to acknowledge that.

i think more likely they are anti-male, with black men just being a subset of that

I would have thought that until recently to, but the slew of Obama hit pieces, the constant denial that racism is being seriously employed against him, the laughable claim that being black is an advantage for him, the recent Seal Press debacle in BS - it has me wondering. Obama was ok until he got uppity and threatened there golden child. Blacks are fine so long as they don't demand to sit at the dining room table.

Mainstream (white) feminism in the USA has never seriously addressed its own racism - the thought that they could be oppressors is just intolerable.

So called "femminists' recycling the same old arguments that have been used against women in the past - "Its fashionable to vote black", "White guilt" etc

As a earlier poster said, they probably had Nortons Virus checker installed. Its an appalling piece of software that just kills performance.

I only got 2 seconds into that before my brain blue screened.

cab305, at the time of my writing :) there are no editor's choice letters.

Editor's choice is indicated by a red start, however ericami has a yellow star, which indicates he/she is a paid up member - perhaps you're confusing the red/yellow stars?

Its sarcasm, I nearly had a fit when I saw Glenns headline.