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Thursday, April 12, 2007 03:28 PM
Original article: Duke players cleared

Bogus strawman

Rather than throwing blame around, it would be much more constructive to acknowledge that this is a HARD topic, because sex is such a hard thing for people to talk about. Mysognists and hard-core feminists end up looking like Israel and Palestine. You're both wrong. Do you want to create a workable solution to this problem, or just sit around calling each other rapists and whores?

I don't see anyone here, or anyone anywhere saying women are whores and dismissing the problem of rape. Please remember, statistics are that 75% of fathers of two kids have at least one daughter, and a wife, and a mother. Please remember, most men of child bearing age were born around the time of Title IX.

So I don't see an awful lot of men hating on whores, or upset that women are having sex.

But, I can point you to three blogs on the Broadsheet blogroll that do call men rapists frequently. Rapists and wife beaters and pedophiles.

I don't think anyone needs to be worried about the laws returning to the 50s and earlier, but I do see increasing alienation and backlash to the extremist feminists. How many young women are calling themselves feminists these days?

At the same time that we won't be returning to the 50s, at the same time that women get angry that men aren't carrying their weight at home, we see men asking to have 50% custody of their children and we see the same feminist groups stating these men abandoned their kids, hit their wives and don't deserve their kids. And their claim is that it's in the best interest of the child to give the child only one parent. And to let the mother move away with the child. And demanding we need the state to take custody payments. And demanding (and getting) the ability to yay/nay/veto any change the husband wants to make in his career (go back to school, start a business, take a more interesting position for less pay), if such a change would reduce the custody payments the mother receives.

So please point out to me all of the progressive bloggers and progressive spokesman saying women need to return to the kitchen.

In the meantime, I point you to Broadsheet's blogroll to find women abusing men left, right, and center.

Thursday, April 12, 2007 05:35 PM

I can't believe how insensitive you are

and how you cooperate in keeping these people down.

Frankly I find your vitacentrism and your morbidiphobic behaviors repellent. You are no better than Kos who today lambasted Kathy Sierra.

The true victims here are of course the mothers(*) whose babies were taken from them by the evil banality of a patriarchal obstetro-morticio industrial complex.

Oh the fetality!

(*) I won't respond to the dead baby haters that would claim these individuals aren't mothers just because they had a stillbirth. Vitacentrist!

Thursday, April 12, 2007 06:12 PM
Original article: Ask the pilot

I love Burbank!

Airport for precisely that reason. It is much fun to get on and off the plane using stairways. It's also a lot faster to since they usually let passengers on from forwards and aft doorways.

However a) the wheelchair bound have a tough time of it there, and b) isn't the whole terminal going to be replaced because it is too close to the runway? Will that ever happen?

Thursday, April 12, 2007 06:28 PM
Original article: Tangled up in Seuss

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