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I'm not even sure how an analogy between a dictator and lesbians would work. If you people want to keep harping on this absurdity, fine, but that is not what i meant, it was an analogy about descriptors and whether we need acknowledgement of a descriptor to decribe people with such a descriptor (i.e. I'm sure that Bush doesn't talk often about being male or white, if at all, but we can refer to him as such).

As for "proof," a simple google search would give you ample "proofs"

Obituary for Sontag:

"In 1999 she wrote an essay for “Women,” a compilation of portraits by her longtime companion, photographer Annie Leibovitz."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6762376/

"She earned gossip-column mentions for her relationship with Annie Leibovitz—and then when the New York Post accused of Leibovitz of cuckolding Sontag with the nanny caring for Leibovitz’s daughter. Even though many of Sontag’s close friends don’t know many details about the relationship, bloggers and activists flew into high dudgeon when obituaries omitted any mention of Leibovitz."

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/10898/index4.html

And so on. So Newsweek would not be outing anyone. If anything, even though it didn't use the words "gay" "lesbian" etc., it alludes plently to the relationship. The only question is why it failed to used those words.

You don't require love letters of pictures of someone like Oprah and her beau to know they have a relationship.

Women don't want to take responsiblity for a single thing they are "designed for"? Pray tell, who "designed" women, and what are these things? Because you know, this designer (god or evolution or otherwise), for some reason, gave women brains AND uteruses.

what you need to do is stop looking for your soulmate at $1-dollar-shot-night at Patty O'Malley's, and meet some intelligent people.

I work for attroneys, and they are people who aren't interested in only popping out babies and stealing the money of their husbands and boyfriends. These women earn $145,000 as a starting salary, and believe me, they're very competent. in fact, i work for a female federal judge right now -- she has 3 clerks (2 men, one woman, this year), and a whole bunch of interns of both genders.

You should meet people like that. Because it would change your your ignorant opinions about women.

But i don't think you're interested, or open-minded. What you want to do, instead of acknowledging that people of both genders have different opinions and goals and are very diverse, is bitch and moan on the internet and blame feminism. Which is so pathetic.

About how single women are angry and want to vote. most idiotically, it then proceeded to ask whether single women would carry their "sassy single attitude" when (not if) they get married.

So, even in talking about single women and their opinions, NYT managed to talk down to the women, as in "ain't it cute! she wants to VOTE!"