Ya know, it makes it "feminist" kinda by definition.

Jeez.

Look, these are not people offering "opposing points of view." They are trying to stifle conversation by denying that these problems affecting women even exist. "Men have it worse" and "women have it made" pretty much sums it up. And for the most part the comments aren't responding to the articles they are supposed to be commenting about , which is the real pisser of it. It's just, "boo-hoo, women don't like me," over and over and over again.

Which, okay, since this is supposed to be about allowing "anonymous" posters, I suppose I should get back on track myself. I can't see why the option is necessary. Aren't we all pretty anonymous here? Can't you register and use a different screen name if you are really worried about cumulative identification?

Having multiple "Anonymous"es on a thread makes conversation unnecessarily unwieldy and confusing, IMO.

So how can we be attacking you personally?

I didn't refer to any commenters by name.

And again, you are Anonymous. So how could I be talking about you? Whoever you are?

Emily put it very well.

But at least we know where to find you...

- is hard to put in context. It's an entire generation of baseball with an asterix.

The point that Babe Ruth and his era did not compete against the stars of the Negro League is a legitimate one.

There will always be arguments about comparing one era to another, the stars of yesterday with today.

But it's that damn posing Bonds does every time he hits a homer that decides it for me. What an ass.

For me, the antidote for Bonds was watching the Hall of Fame inductions of Tony Gwynn (Mr. Padre!) and Cal Ripken.

who saw that Viagra ad and wondered if I'd dropped acid and forgot.

If men can dehumanize a woman thru rape, then is it fair to say a nutcracking woman is dehumanizing men? In effect raping them?

Um, no.

I'm a large C (natural) and swear by these.

Of course one of the happier days of my life was when bras met spandex.

Anyone who thinks a dinky circuit board with LEDs that light up and make a STAR shape for chrissakes is some kind of bomb has watched way too many Hollywood movies and TV shows, where the bomb has a convenient clock ticking the seconds down to impact.

Seriously. This is idiotic.

I can even see the cops at the airport overreacting, given the present surreal times in which we find ourselves. But then defending themselves after, with major media outlets parroting the line that it's a "fake bomb" - that is way beyond excusable and a few miles past Orwellian.

WWII is still not over for a lot of people

A lot of Americans were raised by severely post-traumatic veterans in an era when PTSD didn't yet have a name or any treatment aside from a night at the bar drinking with old friends.

I think that had a lot to do with the sixties. A significant fraction of baby boomers were raised by traumatized veterans who treated their PTSD with booze and rage.

If you grew up in a home like that, then marijuana would have felt like it was sent to you by God. You would have wanted to run away to San Francisco and put flowers in your hair dream up some better way to live.

A war is never really over when they say it is.

-- Silenced

I've often made this argument. War is like a virus. The soldiers carry it home. So many of us have been infected, to greater or lesser degrees.

You people are pathetic.

Okay, here's some clarification for you.

1. There is no freakin' reason for "anonymous" handles in a forum like this, other than cowardice. What are you afraid of?

2. If any of you EVER presented a cogent argument, I might feel differently. But it's just nasty personal attacks, without logic, without thought, without reason. You guys do this in every single Broadsheet forum, regardless of the topic of the article. It's impossible to discuss the issues raised in the articles without them being derailed by your puerile wanking.

You don't like Broadsheet? Fine. It certainly isn't the first section of SALON I go to in the morning. But instead of engaging in ad hominem attacks, how about discussing the topics? For once? Or are women's issues simply too threatening to you to even discuss in a rational way?

Here's a little ad hominem back atcha - I have no way of knowing how many of you there are, but I'm guessing not many. And I'm wondering what kind of lives you have when you devote so much time to sabotaging the comment section of an online magazine.

But from all accounts he fit in well with the Padres and was really trying to turn things around.

Maybe not every player would have responded the way Bradley did to Winters, but it looks like that was the response Winters wanted to provoke.

Fire him.

A state that disenfranchises women, does not allow them to freely practice many professions, does not allow them to DRIVE, does not allow them to leave the country without permission from a male relative...

Doesn't fit my definition of a "wonderful place" on any level.

That far too many Americans are appallingly ignorant about the rest of the world. But the wonderful experiences that you describe are almost exclusively separate from Saudi society at large.

I don't make it a habit of saying that I won't go to a certain country because I don't approve of X, Y and Z policies - that would exclude most of the world pretty quick (not to mention the US in recent years), but I draw the line at a country that would exclude me from basic human rights because of my gender.