What are the chances that he'll get over it? I mean, people grow up, don't they?

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Math is hard!

Earlier today I swapped some mean spirited words with a character from South Park. After some consideration it dawned on me that I missed the point of the article. It's easy (and sometimes fun) to point out the mistakes of others. It sucks when they point out your mistakes. At the end of the day nothing has changed and you feel like a jerk for pointing out someones errors and you feel like a fraud cause they pointed out yours. Doesn't it make sense to admit to each other that none of us have the answers and we're just guessing? Let's face it, Flanagan is no authority on how to be a mom, or a wife, or anything.....which is acctually the refreshing thing about her, though it would be nice if she acknowledged it.

It's obvious that when someone is unable to decide weather a word is a compound word or not, that public schools are in dire straits. My sarcasm (and I apologize for it) was trying to point to that. But I wrote out of childishness. And by the way I went to both private and public schools, and for what it's worth, private school is where it's at.

Carty, may I call you Carty? Carty, no doubt you could have benefited from an honors class or two. You're obviously very intelligent, and though your arguments are poorly formed, they are articulate. The public school system let you down in terms of finding a stimulating environment for you to thrive in. But let's face it. You're doing great. You obviously have a job the allows you to while away the hours for days at a time (I just counted how many times you posted to Salon--WOW!). After all, you made a near perfect score on your SAT's at the precious age of 16 (even though the SAT is nothing if not a test that rewards those who can regurgitate what the administrators want to hear.) And you are obviously blessed with a special knowledge of semantics because as you pointed out "homeschooling" is pronounced as one word, though every time I try and say it, it comes out as two (point being we were disscussing spelling, not pronunciation). So c'mon Carty, public school was OBVIOUSLY a boon to your development! You should be proud.

When I first read Cartman's post, I was disgusted. But then the more I read the more it made sense. In fact I am completely on his side. There is no doubt in my mind that we should round up all the narrow-minded, prejudiced people on an island and let them "educate" themselves. Not only will this cut down on the bigotry that goes on here in my beloved free America, but it will allow people who flatter themselves by believing they belong in honors classes (even though they've never grasped the fundamentals of critical thinking, and don't know that home schooling is two words and not one) to be in good company....that is, until they start turning on each other.

The only Cosmo-esque thing about the article was that a forum was opened for someone named "Ric" to have an opinon.

It would be nice if like CatherineSF suggests, that all we need is to unite on the mommy wars so that men can stop keeping us down. But this logic doesn't address the issue that men are also divided on many fronts and yet still maintain control of large institutions. It's a nice thought though. How about uniting for the sake of uniting?