@For Heavens Sake!

The thing is - "family farm"? There is a problem in this with regards to losses of family farms but the scenario of the poor farmer wannabe losing the family farm when daddy dies is nearly a myth.

Family farms are disappeareing due to the near impossibility of earning a living on a "family farm" Industrial farming is hard competition. People sell off all the time and often because the one child cannot buy out the other children - not because they have to pay taxes.

I want the "family farm" sob story removed from the whole estate tax issue.

Shall we discuss how much taxes the Bush children might have to pay when Babs and Poppy kick off? How about how much tax poor Paris will have to pay!

Leave the mythilogical farmer out of the discussion.

Why should people who get free money and assets not pay on taxes on them. I pay when I win the lottery - no one is entitled to an inheritance. And this country does not need dynasties.

Dear Dick,

Thank you for informing just how loathsome and superficial and easily manipulated men are. I never knew that men were nearly subhuman!

I guess you would know, being a man and all.

Must really suck to be you and believe you need money to get quality "pussy" but that any ugly obese one can get you to sit up and beg.

Wow. As low as you seem to believe women are, your opinion of men is even lower.

I am slowly weaning myself from the letters section of salon because reading some of these opinions are so disturbing that it make me believe lifelike is right. There are posters here that read like neonazi screeds with "woman" repacing "jew".

@Agile Cyborg

Figures you'd be a fan of fake boobs. You seem to be a fan of all the other things that are normalized by the saturation of porn images in our culture.

Boob jobs do require surgery.

Yes - lots of women (and men) like their fake boobs - because fake achieves a shape and look that is idealized. All breasts are unique - even the two on one woman, but all fake look the same - perfectly matched, round and defy gravity. Women get the message that their normal breasts are defective and men get the message that breasts are supposed to look the way fake achieves. The result is some women are so disturbed by their natural self that they get surgery to conform.

Every woman I have know who got vanity boobs was very very happy with the new purchase - and had quite an ego boost when male attention increased. Each of these known women (family, friends) are women who derive a lot of their self esteem from male attention. So yeah - they got the esteem boost they paid for. Men may say they want natural but they obviously react (well) to fake.

If I succumbed to the pressure, had fake tatas installed and then felt an increase in male attention? I would dispise the men, I am afraid - it would be clear proof of the superficiality of men. How do you respect that in a person? I keep thinking not all men are really that superficial - I know absolutely that not all women look at men as walking wallets - so shouldn't there be men who are not a stereotype as well?

What is it about the natural female form that it seems to require modification to be accepted and appreciated? Vilefication if the woman does not conform?

Oh - and what they feel like? Taut. The implant forces the breast up and out and the skin has to stretch to accomendate the mass. Like the woman found a way to work out her breasts and now has Boobs Of Steel. Yeah - natural . . . so second class.

Try reading dating forums and the threads dedicated to bare snatches.

Read some of the posts here.

Men are quite opinionated regarding adult women, their pubes or lack of. It isn't women forcing each other to shave.

Men ARE making this a desired feature. And while I don't think men would turn down sex with a women once he sees she has hair, there are MANY men who will complain about it after the orgasm.

As far as women doing it to themselves? Yep. I really wish women would collectively say to the world - grow up and stop implying we are defective.

Being healthy, in shape, and clean. Why in the world should we conform to any fashion that comes out of porn? Women are not shaving to comply with some ancient cultural taboo, or religious requirement, they are doing it because for the last 10 years bare has been the only image in the laddie mags.

Hair is now a sub-category.

Yep.

But I am not making demands that women or men change what they naturally are.

Healthy and clean. If it is good enough for He, it is good enough for She.

You have been very opinionated on the issue. Though you seem to be in favour of the unnatural body changes.

They have be influenced by that cultural niche.

Where do you thing this fad came from? Was not around in the 60's 70's 80's as far as I know. Somewhere in the late 90's early 00's I noticed it showing up in Playboy.

Again - where do you think it came from?

Are you going to trot out that "in ancient times" stuff again? This current fad has no historical basis. It came out of hard then to soft porn, and now it is mainstreamed.

It seems to bother you when some people say it came out of the sex trade? Why?