I didn't bother to watch the video. Fool me once, etc. I just wanted to reply to one of the letters. The dictionary definition of feminism is that it's about equality. You're getting feminism mixed up with abortion rights (which is about choice).

School and work IDs too. Really really good. Not sure why. It's mostly a useless talent.

Anyway, I've been expecting some designer to start sending fat women down the catwalk eventually. Not the average soccer mom, only beautiful* young fat women. Fashion is supposed to be shocking and what could be more shocking than a stunningly-gorgeous tall long-legged fat eighteen-year-old model?

*Beautiful proportions are the same for women of any weight. Look up the Marquardt proportions for facial beauty. Physical beauty is a .7 waist-to-hip ratio. Since these are proportions, a beautiful woman can be uniformly "inflated" and be just as beautiful. Of course, nobody gains weight uniformly.

Oddly enough, I happened to read about this recently: there were fat people in Auschwitz. There was testimony at Nuremberg about how bodies were burned for fuel. The testimony included how the Nazis had tried out various combinations of fat and thin corpses. Apparently, they'd discovered combinations that would burn with the least tending and the least need for adding other fuel sources. As I recall, the favored combination was: one fat person, one thin person, and one child.

Don't mention Auschwitz unless you have the guts to hear what actually happened there.

This seems like something that would have appeared in the good old days of Salon. Run more articles like this one.

A daughter doesn't produce granchildren for your family, she produces them for someone else's family. We forget that in America because here children grow up to work for themselves, not for their family of birth (though even here a daughter of the Jones family is probably going to end up producing children for the Smith family).

If you're an Indian woman, you can:

1) Have a son, who will work on the farm, take care of you when you're older, and who may bring home a daughter-in-law to take care of you and have grandchildren for you,

OR

2) Have a daughter, who will not be able to do as much farm work, will require a dowry, will take care of her husband's parents instead of you, and who will produce grandchildren for someone else's family some day.

Which would you choose?

Greeneyedkzin, that's why I said "may". Even if he doesn't marry or produce any children, a boy will still be able to do more work for the family and take care of his parents when they're old. A girl not be able to do as much farm work, she'll require a dowry, she'll be taking care of her husband's parents instead of you, and she'll produce children to work for that family instead of yours.

A boy is a certain plus very quickly and for the rest of his life, with the possiblity of becoming a great plus if he can find a wife. A girl is a small plus, then a drain (dowry), then she's gone.

My point is that the Indian government has to do something to provide incentives to have a daughter. Trying to prevent women from aborting female fetuses will work about as well as our war on drugs has worked in reducing the availability of drugs. Getting rid of the demand will dry up the supply, making the supply more difficulty to get will never eliminate the demand.

What's a crotch headstand?

At $10 a ticket, it's not worthwhile to see anything other than superhero films in theaters. Comedies and romances work just as well at home and are available from Netflix for a flat $18 a month. A movie theater is only necessary if most of the movie is going to be special effects. That doesn't mean films with women as main characters won't do well, it just means they should be about Storm, Vixen, or Death (AKA Didi).

There are a lot of other fillies and mares you could tell her about: Rags to Riches, Susan’s Girl, and Touch of Class. Or Silk Stockinigs, Shady Daisy, and Moni Maker. Also, tell her about how fillies and mares used to win most races, because races used to be much longer (up to 100 miles). The history of racing and breeding is fascinating; there are several museums you could take her to (Saratoga Springs and Goshen are good).

I kept my name, my husband hyphenated, our children will have my name. We consider my name to be our family name. I was simply more attached to my name than he is to his, plus my name is easier to spell and pronounce.

No problems with Social Security (always start there) or the RMV, banks only required talking to a manager, credit cards wanted a marriage license but didn't get one after he spoke to a supervisor.

It weeds out the assholes in the family. Two of his aunts (on his mother's side!) made a game of always getting the name wrong, so we dropped them socially. They were always horrible to him when he was a kid anyway, so no loss.

Ceolaf, with a new Social Security card you should be able to get a new driver's license. The license has to match the Social Security card ever since 9/11.

Shazzer4400, if you hate your last name so much, why not change it now? It's not that expensive, especially for something you use every day.

The question of what hyphenated children will do when they grow up has been asked, so I'll answer: in Spain and Latin American countries, everyone has two surnames, usually the father's followed by the mother's, but it can be reversed. When they have their own children the baby gets each parent's first surname.

So, the only women Mark Dice has ever seen with their legs spread were prostitutes. Odd that he would admit that so openly, but then again, you can never tell with those crazy xtians.