I'd like to see this as a vapid chick=dumbing down of our girls, but I just can't. The American public seems to identify and love the stupid and ignorant regardless of their gender. Just look at our current President and remember the things said about Gore during the 2000 campaign. I seem to remember that Gore being "smart" was a bad thing to many Americans. Stupid is equal to good for most Americans, period.

I work on the campus of a major Southern California University. Every single day I see girls thin as rails, young, firm, basically all the things that Hollywood says women should be. And you know what? Even they have muffin tops. Why? It's these damned low rise pants. Honestly, unless you have not a single ounce of fat on your hips and belly, you will have muffin top wearing them. There is just no way that a normally proportioned woman with an abdomen (even a very tiny one) can wear those pants.

As far as "hour glass" shapes being what clothing manufacturers base women's clothing on, I call b.s. I have an hour glass shape, and I can't find a pair of low-rise jeans to fit my hips to save my life. As far as non low-rise (yeah, just try to find those at any clothing store), if they fit my hips, the waistband floats around me without touching my waist at all. I can't find a top that will fit my chest and also accentuate my waist unless it's too tight, so I usually end up wearing a top that makes me look bigger than I am. So as far as "hour glass" being the standard, there's just no way that that is true. Unless "hour glass" to a clothing manufacturer is "adolescent boy shape", which I suspect is closer to the truth.

The old Pagan Gods are still worshipped in this country and all around the world. Paganism is alive and well. Using Zeus as an example of a God that isn't worshipped anymore is just plain incorrect.

Other than that, I agree with almost everything he said.

Maybe she talked to a lot of neat freaks? Being one myself, I know that if I were to walk into a man's apt and it looked slovenly and pig sty'ish, I'd be out of there, too. I do hope to see this article, detailing house cleaning by the guys in order to impress women, in FHM next month.

Hooray for this site! I think if more women could see this, they'd feel better about themselves. It really is the luck of the genetic straw as far as stretch marks go. Anybody who says otherwise needs to go speak with a Dermatologist. A Derm can explain it to them really, really slowly so that they understand that *genetics* determines the amount of collagen in the skin that gives it its elasticity. Some of us have more elasticity than others, period. Running is not going to helps stretch marks, and anyone who thinks so is laughably misinformed.

For women who bounced back well after pregnancy, celebrate your luck! For women left with battle scars, be easy on yourself. It's all good. And your children are worth every mark.

It's certain that there aren't any stylistic euphemisms used in today's hip hop. It's straight out explicit. However, that's not to say that the euphemism is somehow any better in my mind. We still knew what it meant when Robert Plant sang "I wanna be your backdoor man..." or Peter Gabriel asserted "I wanna be your sledgehammer!". Anyone remember Sheena Easton's "Come inside my sugar walls"? The 90's got even more explicit with rock and hip hop, so what's out now is just trying to top that.

*yawn* Do we really think kids are asexual, anyway? Or are we shocked that they're interested in the first place? And if we are, why are we shocked? Weren't we every bit as fascinated with sex then as we are now? Isn't music the way we distinguished ourselves from our old fogie parents? It seems the same thing is going on now as has happened since the '50's.

In Los Angeles, I am the only person who gives up seats for old people and pregnant women it seems. I have been disgusted to see healthy young people sit, unconcerned while an old person with a cane or a heavily pregnant woman clutched the bars for dear life to keep from falling (bus drivers here can be notoriously hard brakers). Why should pregnant women get seats? If they fall it could endanger their lives and their child's. Allergies? Are you kidding? I have allergies and am on daily decongestants and antihistimines...if I fall down I'll be fine. A pregnant woman or old person won't be fine if they fall, it's potentially life threatening.

Why is LW making generalizations about how women act towards each other and then asking a man why women do that? Do you really need a man to validate your own personal feelings about female behaviour and explain it all to you because you can't figure it out with your li'l ol' lady brain? Gimme a break!

How about this, LW? Being a woman has nothing to do with bitchy behaviour, men can be just as bitchy as women. People are bitchy, let's go with that. What can you do? Not waste your time being in her company.

End of problem.

He should never be able to sing, play music or anything else ever again. Pete Townshend should be allowed to hit Ryan Star in the face with his guitar, for his desecration of "Baba O'Riley".