Chippendales handing out coupons?

Quickie 59 Minute Divorce Booth?

Strap on video visor headgear to entertain the kidlets?

Extra big parking spaces and aisles for the family barge? (I mean, Ford Excursions)

A personal whipping boy and bag carrier?

to the extent that people should keep their mouths shut and let it be. It was her decision to live her life as she did.

I feel like I'm witnessing a woman being violated and not doing anything if I don't speak up. This is really hard to see (and please refrain from telling me to stop reading, because I enjoy Ms. Clark-Flory's writing and I like to read the letters to see if there's something I might want to add to the comments. And by now, also in hopes that I won't see these attacks. No such luck).

Still, I doubt men would be much more charitable if some guy wrote that he slept with random women regularly.

Besides, it is no achievement for a woman to sleep around, it is as easy as picking up a pencil for a decent looking woman. While at least for a man, most men do admire that some guys have the talent to regularly pick up women.

And to get to the core issue, are men really diminished in the eyes of women if they have had lots of partners?

I suspect many men recoil at women who sleep around too much, precisely because MOST MEN ARE NOT LIKE THAT.

But yeah, the comments are juvenile. I, for one, did appreciate TCF opening her life to the page.

Ain't we all gleeful now!!!

In the World According to Brightstar, I have all those and then some. So, Brightstar…you mean I can sleep with a man whose name I don’t know once, sneak out before he wakes up, and leave him to either scrape up the funds for an abortion, or deal with 18 years of nappies and school supplies and teen rebellion by himself? Lovely, where can I apply?

So the person being the gatekeeper, with 22 forms of birth control at their disposal, is completely irresponsible, and I am supposed to have sympathy...

You mean I can I watch football in the waiting room while my husband painfully disgorges a screaming 9-pound 12-oz. tumour from his bum? Golly gee, thanks!

You can watch football, you can also watch the baby pop out, nobody will care. As for the 'tumor', when you women pop it out, your small feat gives you carte blanche to walk all over the men for LIFE, in the divorce courts, in how you DECIDE what the man's role is in his child's life, etc. GIVE ME THAT POWER, then we'll talk.

You mean I can divorce my balding, pot-bellied husband for a younger model, leave the mouthy teens with him, and have a second set of precious babies at age 47? Why, that’s just ducky!

Women do this already-- 70% of divorces are initiated by women, so what are you talking about? As for extra kids at 47, some granny just had a kid. Blame God if you have to blame someone.

You mean I can dedicate every waking moment to amassing my fortune, then marry a smashing 30-year-old Adonis and have lovely healthy biological children at age 60? Yippy-skippy!

Women do this all the time now. They marry a young stud after amassing their fortunes. Noone even frowns on it anymore.

You mean my confident attitude and six-figure income will cause fit young stud muffins to magically overlook my grey hairs, laugh lines, and saddlebags? Happy, happy, joy, joy!

A confident person, AT ANY AGE, is sexy.

You mean I can go to any largish city, at any time, regardless of my age or looks, and find a fit, handsome, congenial young man to provide me with sexual pleasure for less than two hours’ wages, with no questions asked? HAAAALL-e-lu-jah!

You are a woman, you DO NOT EVEN HAVE TO PAY.

You mean I can sleep with a different fellow every weekend and have all my friends admire me for it? Thank you sir! Can I have another?

Most women in Austin do this. And probably in most places in America, really.

You mean I can pop a simple pill and be sexually functional up till the day I die? Oh happy days!

Women are sexually functional every day of their lives. Only men have to have working hydraulics.

You mean I can have a 100% guaranteed orgasm every time through a simple, repetitive thrusting motion? Thank you, that would be greatly appreciated!

Many women do have orgasms nearly every time. It is largely dependent on how familiar you are with your body, if you are too lazy to learn, why blame anyone else for it?

SO WHAT WAS YOUR POINT? All the things you point out women CAN do and do do every day, without so much as any social approbation.

On the contrary, my points were valid about what men cannot or are not allowed to do.