Gosh, I hate to get involved in this thread. But I should say, if nobody else has:

"Phio Gistic wrote: "Since the average age of entry into porn watching is between 10 and 12, and violent, hardcore porn is ubiquitous and either ignored or overtly socially condoned, how do you propose we change any of this?""

Then someone said: "Easy. Get American women to start breast feeding their male infants and bonding with them for at least TWO years. Most of the male porno purveyors today were never breast fed as infants, nor did they experience maternal bonding."

Actually it doesn't matter if a boy was breast fed or not, he's still going to look for some porn when he's adolescent and we're pretty sure he'll see some sick things that women don't enjoy. I also worry that he'll see men with huge penises and think that he's abnormally small. And he'll see women with pink hairless buttholes, and with bodies that nobody outside the porn or modeling industry have.

So I think we should do as I did when it was pretty obvious my little bro was looking for porn online (it will be obvious unless the child has his very own computer and email accounts, it will be in the cache and you'll get porno spams). I told him it's normal that he wants to look at naked women and people having sex, because of his age. (Cause at first he was just going to be freaked out to be called on what he was doing). Then I said I just wanted him to know that real men and women don't look like that, and most don't really like sex like that.

See? I think it's simple. All you have to do is talk to your boys about it.

I don't think it's fair to accuse MEW of equating engine size with sexual prowess. That car just looks fucking stupid.

Oh no, save the babies! Save the babies! Nevermind that inconvenient piece of complaining flesh between the tiny children and the light of day! Just tear that thing open, get it out of the way. Who cares what it thinks or feels?

Go back to Afghanistan where you belong, Taliban.

to the yeah!

I wouldn't call it heteronormative, I was aroused and I'm a hetero female. Also I wouldn't call it Vitter's fantasy, as I didn't see a playpen.

Was just a nice way of saying "We're fucking with your sexual response." Like when baroque dancers wear eye pasties on their nipples. I think it's meant to be a bit jarring, to take part of you out of the fantasy for a second and make you say "Now wait a minute, just what exactly is going on here .... oh look, boobies!" It just adds a whole nother level of awesome, in my opinion.

Until fathers can be seen by the courts as caregivers, important in the lives of their child as something other than a paycheck, there is no gender equality. Just as it's wrong for a dad to be forced to pay for his children's upbringing yet only allowed to see them every other weekend (unless mom leaves the state with them, which she can do without his input), it's insulting to assume that mom will naturally take on the full-time burden of being nanny, maid, cook and chauffeur to the children. How would you feel if you knew that in a divorce, you would probably have to pay a significant percentage of your income for the privilege of losing your children? I'd be a bit unhinged, and so would any mom. Some of these MRAs are wrong, they're abusive men who are upset that they had to face justice. They really are angry that women have rights. But there is a real voice, a rational voice, a legitimate complaint that in divorce and custody battles, unless the mom is a convicted felon or a drug addict, normal loving dads are shit out of luck. When men are put into rigid gender-specific boxes, it hurts women, too. Father's rights is a feminist issue.

The problem is that there isn't a market for energy reforms. It's cheaper *not* to upgrade existing facilities. It's cheaper to keep using coal. Cap and trade creates a market, it creates incentive for innovative energy reforms, incentive for research and development of more efficient equipment, development of cleaner energy sources.