Also, "she gave birth to his child"? No genetic involvement on her part, huh? What an obnoxious phrase.

It normally goes without saying that a woman gives birth to her own child, and seems redundant to point it out.

And Linney, nobody thinks collagen should be illegal or that women can't make any choices unless it's for abortion. It's like you drew a cartoon of what a feminist is and you want everyone to watch while you have a slap-fight with it.

And comparing the decision to end a pregnancy with the decision to get a collagen injection demonstrates either a complete lack of understanding for pregnant women who don't want to give birth, or it is an intentional attempt to trivialize their peril and equate them with vain, wealthy women. You're comparing someone who might lose her job, have to drop out of school, have to go on welfare, have an abusive partner, be a victim or rape or incest, have medical problems, or who is for any other reason scared to go through childbirth to someone who decided she wants to drop some of her disposable cash on making her lips look a little bigger. You ain't right.

It's out of spite.

Here is some good global news for women:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,532307,00.html

:D

I mean, it's not all peaches and cream but it seems great relative to many other Islamic nations.

Page Gardner told me that for her single-women constituents, it’s “all about economic opportunity — health, education for their children, wages, energy costs.”

So, women are more selfish than men? Less capable of thinking beyond their immediate lives? Less capable of abstract thought, or being engaged by abstract ideas?

I think women are just more likely to be in the situation of trying to keep their heads above the water. This is single moms she is talking about; you don't care about foreign policy if you can barely afford your kid's school supplies.

Here's a link that aptly demonstrates the falseness of that statement. If you follow it, you'll come across ample proof that many women want to express their opinion, no matter how informed or ignorant it is....

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html

Followed your link. *waves at you*

Giving it to Clinton.

I just realized when you write his initialls and 08, it says BO08

I had forgotten what a bastion of feminist thought Britney was. I had forgotten that feminists are teaching young girls to wear short skirts without panties, suck lollipops, and appear sexually available all the time. Oh wait a minute, my bad. That's femininity, the OPPOSITE way to gain power in the patriarchy. Doesn't seem to be working too well for them, does it? If anything, this is evidence that feminism is necessary.

The rhythm method can be used with the same failure rate as the birth control pill, but you'd have to fork over $600 for a LadyComp. It's completely worth it, to me, as I always had problems with my sex drive when I was on the pill. Sorry for the plug, but this little computer/alarm clock/thermometer has really improved my sex life! Anyway, encouraging people to use natural methods, educating them about how to do it properly and assisting them with the expense of at least a basal thermometer and a chart or calendar (if not one of the sophisticated new analysis/database computers) are all prerequisites for moving a society towards less reliance on chemicals and barriers. Simply cutting off access to birth control, instead, is asking for disaster.

Do these videos have to have music, or can it be at a significantly lower volume than the speaker? Maybe I just can't hear too well because these shoulder pads are muffling the sound.

In response to above comment:

It wasn't NASA that made this determination but a man in charge of screening candidates for the space program in 1959.

He said that women would make better astronauts because the women he tested could pass all of the same physical tests as men, and in addition they had lower centers of gravity, required less food, water and space (due to smaller size) and, emotionally, were better at enduring extended periods of isolation.

This pdf describes the inclusion (or exclusion) of women in NASA from 1958-2004: http://web.mit.edu/murj/www/v11/v11-Features/v11-f2.pdf

My favorite quote:

"How will a girl keep her hair curled in outer space?"

It is not true to state that the women scored "not better but same as" the men. In some cases they did score "better" than the men who took the same tests:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1301400

I love to read the letters of people who have something meaningful to say or legitimate points to argue, and they're not always all in the editor's choices, but it's hard to do that when 90% of the letters are all responses to and from trolls. :(

It is not hard to realize that the letter you're reading is inflammatory tripe and just skip it. Half the time you can just look at who wrote it and skip it without reading one word of it! These people are either mentally disturbed and/or intentionally trying to bait you; you are not going to change their minds with your responses. If everyone could stop having a compulsive need to respond to these imbecils, imagine the possibilities! The letters page would be full of your insightful commentary with occasional little troll poops, instead of being a huge pile of troll poop with occasional insightful commentary! :D