1) Having worked as a bouncer in my time, including in a gay/lesbian club, I would have to say that the bouncer in question was like seriously and terribly incompetent, and should have been disciplined and probably fired forthwith. That just isn't the way you do things.

2) I was a at a conference a while back where the attendee ratio was about 3:1 female:male. Both genders had equal bathrooms. At lunch the women standing in the endless line organized a rebellion, blocked the men out, and took over the men's room for about the half hour it took to clear their line. Although I had to pee at the time, I thought it was both pretty cool and funny.

We actually did homeschool one of our daughters for a while. It was because she had a medical condition that the school system was unable to cope with. The quality of materials and support provided by the government home schooling office was incredible.

My brother and I were home schooled for a few years too, because we were living in a remote area abroad. Did no harm.

My cousin and his wife home-schooled various of their children off and on. They are evangelical (well, were at the time might be more accurate), but it was mostly because they were in a remote area and it was easier than transporting the kids. The kids all went back to school by high school, and they did just fine. Mind you, their mom was a trained Teacher's Aide.

Do you boys like spend every 5 minutes checking in on Broadstreet to find a way to lay an early misogynistic statement onto every comment thread? Don't you have jobs, or lives?

I'm waiting with bated breath for Anonymouse(TM) to show up and "hyperbolically" explain how this is related to other feminist sites that bash his hero Glen Sacks. Should be within the next 20 minutes or so.

Really, it was a (slightly better than most) pretty standard pompous academic politician type blather. Well, I rather liked the The essence of a university is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future – not simply or even primarily to the present. bit. But rather old hat, which is what such ceremonial speeches are supposed to be.

Not something I'd be wishing someone would lose their job over. And how hateful to wish that they'd lose their job over what they are, not what they do. Over their structure of their genitalia, not the content of their character as it were.

There is a word for that.

You're pretty cranky, even by your usual standards.

Well, back to work for me. (Back to your mom's basement for you?)

And put a mouthful of coffee through my nose onto a Quarterly Report:

"I actually believe in the sanctity of ideas, fairness and reason.

what does the left believe in but fascism?"

I kinda wish I had gone to the bar for lunch, a martini sounds pretty good right about now.

Sigh, back to reality...

Better be careful quoting UKLG, she is quite sensitive about her copyrights.

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-OpenLetter.html

Frankly, I think Cory Doctorow is right and she is wrong on this one, but I am prepared to forgive the author of The Dispossessed and the Earth Sea books quite a bit.

Especially the author of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" which moves me deeply every time I read it, and which almost is, I think, my philosophy.

What if research established that having an abortion was actually good for a woman's mental health? In a substantial, measurable way? The lifers would like to eat that bit of crow, I'm sure.

You mean relationships between people with self-esteem and who value each other work better than others? Wow, I never.

It matches my experience. I even have two friends who are active Radical Feminists, in successful long-term relationships with men. The men certainly are feminists, though neither is particularly radical or active about it. But then there are Republicans who are successfully & happily married to Democrats, so anything is possible I suppose.

And Nick, I rather doubt the, uh, enthusiastic posters, will get too excited by this one. They tend to go for the irrelevant and trivial much harder. Though BS does seem to be in a bad mood lately, more strident than usual (must have had a bad weekend) so perhaps we'll get some action.

"Men" presumably includes males between say 13 and 90, and I would bet a great deal of money that you are seeing a considerable range of behaviour across the spectrum. "Average" means absolutely nothing in this context. As my old stats proff once said to me: "If you're standing with one foot in a bucket of boiling water and the other in a bucket of liquid oxygen, on average you are doing just fine and shouldn't complain."

8 sound plausible for say someone 20 - 30 years old. It sound a bit low for younger 'uns, and a bit high for older chaps.

Incidentally, at some point last year a study came out saying that regular ejaculation had a significant positive impact on your chances of getting prostrate cancer: if you don't use it you lose it, I guess.