Where to begin... First and foremost, even when it comes to gender, there is no such thing as "normal." That's just a statistical average of all the different ways we are. Second, careful observation makes it clear that gender identity programming on the part of the parents and family members begins from the moment of birth (probably before birth). Even among feminist men and women, it is nearly impossible to treat a male infant the same as a female infant. The unconscious effort to provide emotional support to girls and regard boys as needing to be toughened up is difficult if not impossible to escape (this is shown in how long the infant is allowed to cry before being attended to and even in the way the parents and family members hold and speak to the infant). Third, since we're biological creatures, sexual identity and attraction, even in the human species, has a great deal to do with which pheremones we shed into the environment and to which pheremones in the environment our bodies react. Biological differentiation is a fact of life but it's far more complex than just boy meets girl. Last, those who are finding themselves hysterically angry at the possibility that gender-based behavior and attraction may, in the natural order of God's world go far beyond big strong male attracted to little weak female, are simply demonstrating the dysfunction brought on by families and communities that rigidly enforce gender stereotypes. Males who have had the gentle, nurturing side of the personalities knocked out of them are thereafter dysfunctional and imcomplete personalities. Females who have had the strong assertive, side of their personalities knocked out of them are thereafter also dysfunctional and incomplete. Such couples ache for their own missing pieces but find comfort in relating in co-dependent ways with each other. "You complete me," is not a description of a healthy relationship. It's two half persons trying to become whole by using each other in place of what's missing in themselves. Healthier relationships are made up of two whole people who, together, are able to be far more than the sum of their psychological and physiological parts.

Why do we even bother with these people?! Let's stop giving them our eyes and ears! The news is not about careful research and the most objective facts available, it's about using the cheapest possible stories to grab and hold viewers eyes and ears in order to enhance profit. In years past, if we can remember back that far, the news organizations of major networks and newspapers each had their own independent bureaus scattered around the world. They drew on the substantial profits of their entertainment programming to underwrite their very expensive news departments and took pride in having experienced reporters who worked on the ground to bravely provide the best, most accurate, most comprehensive perspective on what was happening in their corner of the world. Now, all those bureaus are long gone and news programming of every type is expected to produce profit for the owners/stockholders. Profit is the media's number one consideration. Every thing else has fallen by the wayside. It's much cheaper to uncritically repeat the feeds from API, UPI, Reuters and government sources than to investigate anything for yourself. In fact, refusing to repeat the talking points of this government would only get you cut out of the loop and force you to get off your chair, leave your nice safe office and do some research yourself (if there was even money to support such an endeavor). Furthermore, stories like Ms. Hilton's recent problems are cheap to produce and don't make people angry the way factual stories about what's going on in the world would anger those who find the "liberal bias" of truth offensive to their reactionary/fascist ideology. Added to all that is the fact that over the past twenty years, it's become clear the press (including API, UPI and Reuters) is now "owned" both literally and figuratively (as in mafia-eze). If it were possible to track communications, verbal, non verbal and electronic within news organizations, it would be clear exactly how the "keepers" of the major new organizations are giving directions both regarding how the Bush regime and its Iraq "Fiasco" are to be portrayed, how our "enemies" are to be depicted, and how the "free market" must always be proclaimed to be the savior of us all (despite massively mounting evidence to the contrary and the fact that the majority of us claim to worship a "savior" whose message was precisely the opposite of what the "free market" is producing in our nation and the world). Another factor is that virtually all news sources originating in New York City and Washington D.C. lost their objectivity on September 11th, 2001 and have not yet begun to regain it. In the hearts of their hearts, they still feel like targets and their fear causes them to overeact to any and all perceived threats. The only good source of actual news at this point (although it must be evaluated carefully and intelligently) is the internet. Thanks, Glenn for being an imporanat and reliable source of truth and objectivity for all of us (and don't stop plugging your book)!

OK, folks, maybe it's time to take back the public airwaves (including sattelite relays). In the old movie "Johnny Mnemonic" a group of hackers called the "lotecks" regularly hacked into relay sattelites, blanked out the major media's B.S. broadcasts and inserted independant statements of truth. It'd be challenging, but hey, the airwaves belong to us! Maybe those who know how to do such things can take them back, hack into and interrupt the Sunday morning parade of artificial arguments, the worthless evening news and Faux news at any hour of the day or night, not to mention cut in on Rush Limbaugh's broadcasts to tell people what's really going on in language they can understand (because let's face it, these people the "true believers" worship are screwing them over seven ways from Sunday).