@Big Cheese

Most of these conflicts are manufactured because controversy sells.

Breastfeeding/bottle, home/working mother, reproducing/childree, cougar/kitten. On Salon - controversy gets hits. That sells.

Are some pregnant women smug? Yeah, sure, I've run into them. Most are just trying to keep their job and stay ahead of the moving target life presents. Same goes for single, which I assume means women with out a child. I fail to see either reproductive choice as more meaningful or moral than the other since in many cases, those choices were not made clear of life and circumstance and luck or unluck as may have it.

Personally, I think the replace gender with skin colour idea demonstrates just why giving in "culturally" is so wrong.

I am all for respecting other cultures but there is a point where other cultures do disrespect human rights and Big Biz can and should draw the line. The airline chose to disrepect its female crew to kowtow to the Saudi fear of women who think ther are fully human.

Why is it "cultural" when segregation is done to women and "human rights" when it comes to religious groups or race or ethnic group?

To those who say the steward should have found another job or just done it and shut up about it - what if the cultural norm was bribary? We companies and countries are taking a stand against that - should employees be required to bribe to do their job? We can pick and choose which ideals we uphold - why not uphold the idea that women and men are equally valued?

The thing of this case is - there were other flights that this woman could have been put on with out a reduction in pay. It does seem like a set up to me.

That would be a nice feature.

What I meant to say:

The airline chose to disrepect its female crew when they asked they kowtow to the Saudi fear of women who behave as fully equal humans.

I believe this is the same country that will not allow anyone in who has an Isreali stamp in their passport? Perhaps the stewardess should have take a short vacation to Isreal then she would be exempt from the Saudi flight - and avoid the whole gender discrimination thing. Religious persecution is less tolerated by the west.

The GOP is waking up to what it has done to itself. By courting the proudly ignorant racist sexist isolationist anti-intellectuals, they did indeed increase their party's numbers, culminating in a Bush presidency and a NeoCon deconstruction of America.

Now the intelligent conservatives are feeling they are shunted to the side. In order to have any relavency - they have to leave what the GOP has become.

Not that Specter is particularly "conservative" but he is a centrist and the GOP has moved so far to the right of center, he looks a flaming liberal if he stays in their company.

The only thing worse than a 2 party system is a 1 party sytem. But if the 2nd party is the sector of society that is xenophonic gun loving religionists - then that is what we are going to get.

One more thing that Cheney/Bush left for our inheritance.

I thought Feminism was so young women could go to college without being asked if they were going for their MRS degree.

(Yeah - that was asked years ago)

And now we have people telling women they need to get married and have babies young or else their value will diminish and they will die old, alone but for the cats.

So I guess there is still a need for Feminism.

Don't buy it girls. You're worth is more than the output of your uterus or your Maxim Hottie rating.

There are a whole lot of women out there who don't look and evaluate men according to a Beast of Burden rating - sheesh.

Feminism is a form of humanism.

Judging by the number of times you jump on one of my posts (agile cyborg)

There are a number of posters who come here to Broadsheet and post some of the hostile things they can never saw to their wives. AG is just the latest to show up.

Reminds me of when Ted Haggart got outed and Dr Laura among others started talking how it is women's fault that their hubbies cheat (and lie).

@postnoodz

And the blame to Spitzer's wife who didn't give him what he "needed". And Ted Haggart's wife - though what she was supposed to supply there, I just don't know.

And of course, the ugliest of them all - Hillary.

All women who "forced" their man to lie and cheat and change the relationship without informing their wife first.

Yes of course! Lizzie should have told her hubbie to go fuck other women and try not to let the thought of her dying get in his way - what a selfish bitch!

Funny thing is though, statistically, women tend to "forgive and work on the relationship when the husband cheats. The wife internalizes his act by finding fault in herself. Women who cheat, however, their husbands tend to divorce - the husband does not internalize the blame and instead puts it squarely on the one who did the deed.

I truely wish women would stop "standin' by their man" - I wish in this instance, women should look at how men handle infidelity and emulate it.