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Hmmm...
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>I know plenty of men who are harmed by the patriarchy and would like to see it die its final death.<
One of the things I've never been able to understand is why men who insist that weak/unequal women are vital to their sense of masculine self invariably are those who bitch that women are nothing but goldiggers--and that marriage is a ball-and-chain trap for men. Why do they keep missing the cause-and-effect here? Bed, made, lie, I guess...
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One question, Linney...
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If women had equal opportunities, why was there a need for mentoring programs, goverment set-asides, etc.? Are you going to get up here and insist that women have always had an equal shot at employment and fair treatment? (Yeah, as blinkered and angry and deluded as you are, you probably would.) Get this and get it straight--programs like that were correctives to _centuries_ of men having total say in the workplace and at home. There's no way you can argue sexism didn't exist and there was a need for change, so your arguement is essentially worthless.
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Make that...
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"there wasn't a need for change." Sorry.
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Ah, that's Anonymous' _real_ problem
[Read the article: Jordin sparks "fat" debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>99 percent of the women using her size to justify their own are all fat.<
Anon. pulls this concern-troll crap every time Broadsheet runs a women and weight article. He doesn't give a damm if women or anyone else are healthy, for all his claims to the contrary. It just pisses him off no end that women won't act like they "should" and adhere to his idea of beautiful. They offend his eye; therefore, they should be viciously lambasted and made to feel like shit until they live up to his beauty standards. And what do you want to bet those standards are anorexic-thin--and that he regards athletes like the Williams sisters or Mia Hamm as "fat?" Anon, you never contribute anything useful to these threads--you never have pointers on good foods to eat instead of junk or how to find the right kind of exercise to maintain a healthy weight. All you do is express your hatred of fat women--which means you are as selfish and self-centered as you swear they are.
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As for MeMe...
[Read the article: Jordin sparks "fat" debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...there's probably not a single female athlete (outside of ice skaters and gymnasts) whom she wouldn't call fat.
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Knowledge...
[Read the article: Jordin sparks "fat" debate]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>The voices around us, like MeMe's, for example, only make it more difficult to listen to our own bodies' needs.<
A major reason why so many people are overweight is because 1) nutritional education is sorely lacking in schools; 2) the food industry takes advantage of that lack. Until I changed my diet and got into walking, I had no idea that fructose/corn syrup was as prevalent in foods as it is--or that foods I thought were healthy (like non-100%-fruit-juice) were not. As well, budget plays a big part in food choices. If you can't afford $3.50 for 100% grapefruit juice, you have to opt for a cheaper choice, one that usually contains sugar/calories. And if you think all juices are the same--you figure grape juice is grape juice and don't read the labels to know that 100% grape juice is healthier than the cheaper 40% grape juice, for example--that's the kind of mistake that can add to weight problems.
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Heh...
[Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>"Who did Adam and Eve's kids marry?" <
I have always wondered about that, and have never gotten a satisfactory answer.
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Huh?
[Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>"We're not sure what kind of fruit it was, but we do know it wasn't an apple," says Looy,<
If they regard the Bible as gospel, how do they know it wasn't?
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@Saintzak
[Read the article: Inside the Creation Museum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>On what day... did He create Elvis?<
You mispelled James Brown...;)
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Agreed...
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>But in contrast to the other diverse and well-drawn characters on "Heroes," my husband and I both find the character of D.L. to be insultingly stereotypical and underdeveloped. Why is he the only character unable to hold down a job? (Clearly the man would be eligible for modeling work at the very least.) And while D.L. has one of the coolest abilities on the show, he rarely gets to use it in any interesting way.<
Ain't it the truth. When I first heard about HEROES, I was curious to see if they would have black characters and give them anything to do. Say what you want about 24, but that show has had a parade of fascinating AAmerican characters who have interesting, contradictory personalities (just like black folks in real life) and who have nearly as much effect on the plot as Jack himself. Compared to David Palmer on 24, or even Curtis, DL is a real letdown--especially when you consider how well HEROES' other characters are fleshed out. It's as if the writers couldn't come up with much more than stereotype--or exhausted themselves creating the other characters. One hopes HEROES: ORIGINS will correct this problem.
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@TinyBubbles
[Read the article: Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]>have heard all the yammering about how 24 is right wing propoganda, but I just don't buy it.<
24 used to have more shades of gray. But over the last couple of seasons or so, it's been relying on torture as a plot device to the point one starts wondering where shoddy writing ends and ideology begins.
>First, the terrorists are not always Middle Eastern (Russians, Germans, Chinese, and Americans have all been proven to be terrorists on this show.) This year we found out that Jack's dad is the biggest baddie of them all. Is someone going to tell me that is right wing?<
Eheheh. One of the show's best villians ever was Laura Warner, the all-American Bridezilla by way of Al-Queda. :) The show set us up to believe her Arabian fiancee was a traitor and she was merely a self-absorbed princess, but it turned out she and her all-American dad were the ones pulling the nuclear strings.
>As for the protrayal of the presidents, well, it couldn't be more different from the current bonehead in cheif. David Palmer flew out to the site of the terrorists attacks. No running away on Air Force One and then selling pictures of him doing that.<
Heh. Last season's president was one ace-nasty portrait of Bush...