If you don't want to be a doctor, that is completely fine, there are many decent professions out there, but... I am worried that it might just be fear of failure, especially because of the Organic and Physics comments you made.

It took me two tries to get through 3rd semester Physics, I passed easily the second time. The thing is, my professor let me know that if I could pass it the 2nd time, I was just as capable of passing it the 1st time through, that I didn't all of a sudden become capable of learning the subject.

When in school, I noticed many of my female friends and foreign students would quit engineering because they were "failing", not cut out for it. Failing to them meant not getting all A's and B's. Most of my American guy friends weren't freaked out when they eaked out a "C", they were relieved to pass a class that they saw as difficult and continued chugging along.

Do what's in your heart but be honest with yourself.

Just wait til those people who are late in their house payments see what happens to their low interest rate credit cards.

Their 9%-15 credit card rate can all of a sudden go up to 30%.

I've not had any bad experiences with BB online or in my area.

As a previous poster said, you don't have to go the store, it's just an option. And it allows you to have a movie in between the mailings and allows them to send you a movie the minute you get to BB, which in my case is right next door to my grocery store, so no special trip.

The only movies that have been slow/yet to get to me are a couple of Mystery Science Theater shows, but I don't have them at the top of my queu anyway.

I would only feel resentment if this obsolves the groom's female friend from being forced to attend all the painful women's events, like a high tea (Cary, the links don't let you know how painful it really is...) or a shower held by the grandmother and all the aunts.

If she get's to skate by only attending the bachelor party, that would be real injustice.

In truth, I don't think you need to worry, it's the groom's call if he wants her there. Who knows, maybe the wife-to-be thinks the girl friend will act a de facto chaperone.

The LW sounds like a woman who accepts that her husband is going to a bachelor party, a bachelor party that is going to go to a strip club.

She's just weirded out that one woman, one woman only, is getting to go and be one of the guys, a woman that isn't a "one of the guys" kind of gal. I don't think she was slamming lesbians, or tom boys, or non-girly girls as other posters have implied. Nor does this mean that she thinks that strippers should be objectified as another poster implied.

I think she shouldn't worry, it wasn't her husband that set this up this way, he's as stuck as she is. Some of the guys going may like the woman being there, some of them may be weirded out that a woman that knows their wife is with them.

Where I do think the LW is off base is thinking that the LW will be judging the women who are not there. She'll be too busy fending off advances of others at the club (not her fellow partyers), being played to by the strippers if she's attractive (strippers know the guys like to see women be hit on) and getting drunk to be judging the LW's husband's taste in strippers and how that reflects on the LW.

Wow, thanks for the clarification and I hope you have a good evening out and that your husband's experience isn't as painful as it could be.

"Every damn drug dealer in the world should be shot period."

Again the point has to be made...the drugs were found AFTER the dude was shot. They had no idea who they were shooting, he could have been an illegal, a farm hand, an idiot, etc. Nobody knew, but they shot him in the back anyway, for running.

That being said, there are some funny things to this story, it makes me wonder if the drug runner is/was an informant, maybe even an undercover agent, etc. who had connections to others that made him more valuable out of jail, than in jail. For some reason they really do seem to be cutting the guy some slack and this doesn't fit with my idea of Bush or Texas justice.

I have to wonder at the tantrums thrown regularly about the articles here. It's "Broadsheet" and it's related to women's issues.

Catherine Price does not say that all men are doofus's, she made a joke (get it...a little humor?) that intestinal issues are treated fairly (if that's the word for it) here in America and doesn't show all men or women as the only sufferers of poor taste commercials and afflictions, as opposed to England which apparantly only thinks women get gas.

I imagine if I go over to King Kaufman's column there won't be many rants written by women about why women aren't treated fairly in the NFL or some woman's personal pet peeve about her own bad divorce proceeding and how men are treated better than women, it's not fair that Serena Williams isn't given the same attention as Tiger Woods, etc.....

IT WAS A JOKE!

Go to the wedding for your daughter and husband's sake. There are many weddings that we attend that we wouldn't recommend, some make it, some don't.

Explain to your daughter what your concerns are after the wedding and tell her you love her and want the best for her. I doubt she thinks that getting married young is cool.