I was a college intern at a PAC in DC and rode in on the Orange line for an entire summer and got groped only once(thankfully). I was sitting in the windown seat and on this well dressed middle aged man took the aisle seat next to me. He then proceeded to open his newspaper over his lap and mine and used it to shield his hand grabbing at my crotch. It was the only time I've ever been assaulted, I was too frightened to do anything other than jump up and vacate the train at the very next stop. I wish I had screamed at him or something, it still pisses me off to this day. Can't remember if the paper he used to shield his nasty behaviour was the Post or the Times...

Most couples I know have shared wedding planning pretty equally, my husband was very involved in our planning. Maybe it's because we are generally skewed older (early 30's) when we married and both of us have careers that neither of us had lots of time to sacrifice to planning but we definitely wanted a fun wedding for our friends and for ourselves and one that wasn't high-jacked by our mothers. And also because we were putting up a chunk of change and didn't want it wasted on stupid crap like wedding favors, but wanted top shelf liquor for our friends and family. We also found that it was good practice in negotiating each other's family's and learning how to compromise. My husband might not have cared what my bridesmaids wore (self selected black cocktail dresses), but he certainly cared about the vows that we were going to say to each other, what passages were going to get read at the ceremony, our first dance (j. cash "ring of fire") and what type of tuxedo he'd be wearing. He's a grown man who can watch football while making wedding programs and he can certainly pick out his own damn tie!

This is really funny because the the Sept 25 issue cover story was "Women and Leadership!"

To the person that said "So, a young taxpayer in Japan who's never committed nor supported a crime is expected to shell out for something he had no responsibility over, no benefit from, and no way to possibly have done anything about?"

Many of these victims still alive. These aren't great grandchildren asking for cash, these are the victims themselves asking and some of the perpetrators are still alive. Since Japan has never given the victims a formal apology, it is necessary. Perhaps hitting the gov't in it's pocketbook will force the gov't to own up to what it did. Lots of people pay lots of taxes for these that they may never use, in any case, several other reparation requests in Europe are not against gov'ts but against companies that directly profited off of the war and concentration camp slave labor. There have been several cases of Jewish families trying to regain their possessions that were stolen from them by Germany, it's allies and the so-called neutral states. Recently mentioned in the news was a 80 year old woman in California trying to regain six Klimt paintings that were stolen from her family.

The article we are commenting on listed at least 18 qualified women that are already serving in the UN or other high diplomatic posts, but none of them are on the short list for secretary-general. Do you think that because there's something wrong with these women's biology that makes them unqualified to be on the short list?

You can hardly claim a level playing field when you already have a preconcieved idea about how women are hard wired to act. It those biases that influence hiring decisions, votes, and promotions. If you already believe that women don't want to succeed then you have tilted the field against them. Although yours is a much more subtle form of discrimination compared to the problems women face in access to political and financial power in countries where they are denied the vote or the legal rights to own property, it's still damaging and wrong.

but can that really come about when there are so many men like you that believe that it's "biological differences between the two genders" keeping a woman from being secretary-general?? so what is it again about the female biology that makes them not qualified to be the head diplomat?

From what I've read harvesting eggs isn't as easy as it sounds, you have to take lots of hormones to produce the eggs, and then it takes a lot of $$$ to use them and you run the risk of twins+. I'd rather spend that money towards adoption or fostering. I'm 32 now and married, but we've only been married for 15months, and my husband is getting his MBA, so no, we won't be having kids for another couple of years. Yes, optimistically, I'd like to have our first kid before I'm 35, but that might not happen. But really that had nothing to do with having a career and putting off marriage, it had to do with finding a mature partner that I loved and wanted to start a family with.

Just because I logged 7 hours vs my coworkers 8 hrs, doesn't mean that he worked harder. Perhaps I just worked more efficiently?? Okay, I actually put in about 9 hours today, but it wasn't any human's fault...it was the damn server that wasn't being efficient!