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Monday, January 5, 2009 08:37 PM

Ms. Harding

One would assume this issue applies to obese men as well, if your conclusion is valid. Therefore, it is not a "women's issue".

Given the cardiotoxicity of many chemotherapeutics and the differential partitioning of drugs in muscle mass vs. adipose tissue, I'm not surprised doctors are being cautious when administering chemotherapeutic drugs to obese patients.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 09:18 AM
Original article: The "new" feminism?

Hahaha

Feminism sucks. Keep telling yourselves fairy tales.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 04:03 PM

@Canuckistan Bobbed

No worries, we have enough craven pseudomales on this site.

Women in control of their own sexuality: used to be condemned by hairy, mustachioed men, now criticized by hairy, mustachioed feminists. Yawn. Get your minds out of their vaginas and let them (and us) enjoy themselves

Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:35 AM

@bradylord

You're a bigoted hardened asshole. Maybe you could get a job writing for Broadsheet!

Saturday, December 6, 2008 08:27 PM

@IBegtoDiffer

You're an exception. NOW and other feminist groups have lobbied time and again against joint custody legislation and Family Court reform. You are not at all representative of feminists.

And despite women working, the vast majority in the US are not the primary source of income in their households. Regardless, the family courts will treat their income differently than that of their husband should they divorce.

Saturday, December 6, 2008 07:37 PM

@Juliebird

Keep opining on men in the Feminist Echo Chamber, Juliebird. It's the only thing you know.

I don't believe for a minute that you know anything else.

Saturday, December 6, 2008 03:52 PM

AKA SMITH ON CAPS!

Talk to your therapist!

@Juliebird: No, we'd be perfectly happy if there were loose women all around.

Saturday, December 6, 2008 02:05 PM

So AKA Smith stays at home with her cats

So what? You don't want to date. N = 1.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 10:18 AM
Original article: Beauty over brains

What's wrong?

Empowered women use their vaginas to get ahead. No worries!

See above article on "prostitution", which we all know is an attempt by the Patriarchy to devalue women's sexuality.

Vagina!

Thursday, December 4, 2008 09:33 AM

@Alpha Female

"If a person thinks that women are selling their very souls when they sell sex, they are really saying that a woman’s sense of self is no deeper than her vaginal canal."

-- Alpha Female

You should visit her blog. It's called.... "Vaginal Discharge".

Enough with the vaginas, ladies.

Thursday, December 4, 2008 09:03 AM

Interesting, Tracy - you're a womanhater

Effectively you are saying "all women are whores".

Journalism is clearly the most whorish profession around.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 04:54 PM
Original article: Beauty over brains

????

Tere are many ugly, grim-faced women in Italy who are, for all intents and purposes, anti-sexual.

In this respect, it is a feminist paradise.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 10:31 AM

@Juliebird - in case you have been living in a cave the past few years

Avoiding Kids: How Men Cope With Being Cast as Predators

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118903209653018615.html

...The Boy Scouts of America now has elaborate rules to prevent both abuse and false accusations. There are 1.2 million Scout leaders, and the organization kicks out about 175 of them a year over abuse allegations or for violating policies.

These policies can be intricate. For instance, four adult leaders are needed for each outing. If a sick child must go home, two adults drive him and two stay with the others, so no adult is ever alone with a Scout. "It's protection for the adults, as well as the children," says a Scouts spokesman.

The result of all this hyper-carefulness, however, is that men often feel like untouchables. In Cochranville, Pa., Ray Simpson, a bus driver, says that he used to have 30 kids stop at his house on Halloween. But after his divorce, with people knowing he was a man living alone, he had zero visitors. "I felt like crying at the end of the evening," he says.

At Houston Intercontinental Airport, businessman Mitch Reifel was having a meal with his 5-year-old daughter when a policeman showed up to question him. A passerby had reported his interactions with the child seemed "suspicious."

In Skokie, Ill., Steve Frederick says the director of his son's day-care center called him in to reprimand him for "inappropriately touching the children." "I was shocked," he says. "Whatever did she mean?" She was referring to him reading stories with his son and other kids on his lap. A parent had panicked when her child mentioned sitting on a man's lap.....

Are We Teaching Our Kids To Be Fearful of Men?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118782905698506010.html

...When children get lost in a mall, they're supposed to find a "low-risk adult" to help them. Guidelines issued by police departments and child-safety groups often encourage them to look for "a pregnant woman," "a mother pushing a stroller" or "a grandmother."

The implied message: Men, even dads pushing strollers, are "high-risk."

Are we teaching children that men are out to hurt them? The answer, on many fronts, is yes. Child advocate John Walsh advises parents to never hire a male babysitter. Airlines are placing unaccompanied minors with female passengers rather than male passengers. Soccer leagues are telling male coaches not to touch players.

Child-welfare groups say these are necessary precautions, given that most predators are male. But fathers' rights activists and educators now argue that an inflated predator panic is damaging men's relationships with kids. Some men are opting not to get involved with children at all, which partly explains why many youth groups can't find male leaders, and why just 9% of elementary-school teachers are male, down from 18% in 1981....

Monday, December 1, 2008 07:37 PM

Abusive females - teenaged aides sexually abusing nursing home residents

I hope they all go to jail/juvie, but judging from the pics of the two "adults", I'm sure they'll get the usual female discount when it comes to sentencing.

http://www.albertleatribune.com/news/2008/dec/01/breaking-charges-filed-good-sam-case/

Monday, December 1, 2008 08:08 AM
Original article: Sympathy for Charles Graner

Wow

and Lynndie England served only about a year and a half in prison.

Both should have been thrown into prison for life.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 10:36 PM

@Asehpe

Please post more long-winded, minutiae-laden content free posts. I'm interested in what you posted given your lack of data and information.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 09:56 AM

@Asehpe

Going with the crowd, again, huh. Surely beats thinking for yourself. Sad.

Thursday, November 27, 2008 07:49 AM

A Feminist Utopia

The highest per capita number of CCD surveillance cameras in the world, rigid laws governing behaviors, actual or perceived to be anti-female, no such punishments for women committing crimes against men. This is a logical next step.

Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:23 PM

Haha

Old bitter woman writes fake article about young bitter men and entitled, bitter young women opine freely, unaware of their future.

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