I am not sure you want my opinion since I would describe myself as an anti-feminist liberal since I actually believe in equality in not just rights but responsibility and honest numbers and arguments which usually gets my kind labeled troll around here. I will not pretend to know about all of the different subsets but I can tell you from my experiences here that libertarian feminist are regularly tarred by the writers of BS as not real feminist. If someone calls themselves an equality feminist they are mocked worse than the most misogynist male.

You did forget the one subset that most of BS writers and fans belong too which is the po-mo feminist. It is similar to radical feminism but with some post modern bullshit on top taught by all the finest womens studies programs.

I am not a doctor, or anything close to it.

I could not agree with you more about this.

But if you asked me, as a layperson with a modicum of common sense, whether to base a medication dosage on a person's actual weight or her "ideal" weight, I'd have to go with actual. It seems more logical to administer an amount likely to work on the person requiring it, rather than on an imaginary thinner version of her, no?

You do know that to receive a MD it requires a BA which is about 4 years taking required classes known to be the most difficult in undergrad. Then there is 4 years of Medical school this is followed up by about 3-6 years of residency plus a 1 a pop for fellowships. All of this is to say, "common sense" and what is actually required knowledge for this field are possibly the biggest gulf in knowledge.

Oh and nice of you to insert your agenda. I love how you use thinner and "ideal" when healthy would be the better and more correct term.

So, when a fat woman is given a dose of chemo appropriate for a thin woman, it turns out she's less likely to survive as long as a woman given an appropriate dose for her size. When she's given a dose that takes her weight into account, the difference essentially disappears. You don't say!

I know BS and you are allergic to reporting and could not pick up the phone to call Dr Matthew's or any oncologist for that matter to see why they used ideal weight despite writing for a news site that has about 50 times more viewers than the paper you cribbed from. But, I will offer some educated guesses, Chemo is some nasty shit with nasty side effects so the goal was to limit the amount taken especially for a group that was already having higher levels of problems post surgery. I know the evil thin people going damn should we double up a product that depresses the Immune system and causes anemia to a person that already is fighting off post op infections, has diabetes and cardio problems along with having greater blood loss?