The age of consent in the relevant places is 16. Thus, it makes it perfectly legal for any 2 (or more, i guess) people 16 or older to have consensual sex, including Foley and his pages. To me, predator is synonymous with illegality. So, if it's legal, he's not a "predator" or a "pervert" or any of those things.

If you don't like what Foley did, change the law to make it illegal. Otherwise, what he did was legal, and we should treat him just like we treated Gerry Stubbs - he doesn't have to resign, maybe censured, but not thrown out of the party or Congress (it's too bad he's already resigned of his own will).

The Dems are in the process of Bill-Clinton-ing Foley and other page-related people, with this high and mighty sexually hypocritical and puritan language of shame, sin and condemnation. And it's wrong. Just like it was wrong of the Republicans to Bill-Clinton Bill Clinton. We're the party of sexual openness, not sexual repression. And this includes legal consensual sex between men.

Right? C'mon, guys, right? I think god is a misogynist and anti-gay, i want to ban churches. Right?

Because reproductive freedom is a right just like your right to free speech. And if some judge todl you that you couldn't express your right to free speech (without breaking any other laws) , eh would be completely out of line, just like this judge.

This criticism of Halloween is wrong for so many reasons.

1) Dressing up as others has been part of human culture for thousands of years. It's not really a kids' holiday -- it's a holiday from adults, when you get to be someone else for a day.

2) Celebrating it, especially for adults in this country, is not obligatory.

3) I'm so tired of listening to the puritan branch of feminism talk about skimpy clothes for women and girls of increasinly younger age. People, clothes for women have been getting skimpier and less restrictive for hundreds of years. You sound like the outraged and shocked proper victorian ladies at the first sight of a Bloomer.

4) Costumes may be gendered, but you and your kid don't have to be. If your little girl wants to be a computer or spiderman, and that costume is hanging in the boys section, so what? Go over there and get it.

5) So your little girl wants to be a fiary princess for Halloween, and suddenly your inner feminist is horrified. Well, what did you think was going to happen after you bought her all those barbies, cabbage patch kids, easy bake oven and stroller? That she would want to be Stephen Hawking? The girls who want to be pretty pretty princesses for Halloween are the same ones who need Halloween later in life to have one day in a year when they don't have to be the "good girl."

Sorry to be so harsh, but (1) the letter-writer the never addresses why she went to business school. I suspect it was because of a lack of imagination. Well, lady, maybe you're right, maybe you have no head for business if you decided to commit 2 years and already $70k of your life and money to something you didn't really want, didn't research enough, and aren't committed. Do you have goals? DO you have a plan? What did you plan on doing with your MBA?

It's business school, not finishing school. Business is competitive, there's politics, there's backstabbing. And there is certainly no tolerance for getting yourself into debt mutiple times over your net worth with absolutely no plan as to what to do with your investment. And, no one gets promoted as a reward for crying in the bathroom.

BUT, and this is a big but.

I think you should stick it out because

(1) there is no market for MBA dropouts

(2) the debt

(3) the opportunity to learn a lot of very usefull academic skills

(4) the opportunity to learn a lot of very useful people-interpersonal-political skills.

(5) you can do a lot with an MBA, you don't have to be an investment banker, you can work in non-profit if you wanted to. It would give a real leg up in almost any profession, and you can start on a much higher level of your chosen field (instead of analyst, you're an associate, instead of Marketing I, you're Marketing II or III).

Don't waste all that money, and just suck it up.

Right next to each other

A. An article decrying women actually dressing up really sexy in public for Halloween, derisively deemed "Slut-o-ween" (i can't believe someone who calls herself a feminist actually uses the word "slut)

B. An article celebrating, in more muted tones than before, the freshman 15, or the freshman 8, as if it's no big deal, even though there are plently of studies that show taht weight gain after the age of 18 correlates with breast cancer, and the article itself says that many people don't bounce back and the eating habits they form at school with stay with them for a long time.

Amazing! Why so hostile to thinness and sexiness? at least sexiness doesn't correlate with breast cancer. :/

thektiti

no need to dare me, I am a fledgling nudist and look pretty good nekkid.

but anyway, I am set on dressing as a sexy monster woman this year, meaning quite a bit of skin at least on the legs showing.

-- brightstar65

Wait, i thought you were overweight.

And you only want women like camille paglia, who are lesbian and wouldn't tolerate your whining.

and you admire gay men.

And now you're going to dress as a sexy woman for Halloween.

Sigh. Just admit your orientation to yourself, and stop hating on women.