I have long thought that hormones get way too much credit for behavior.

Pregnancy, adoption and a new baby are possibly the most stressful and emotional

events in a persons life, and in physically taxing, even with adoption. Not

to mention financially difficult. Maybe this will finally get people to stop

ascribing behavior to hormones. Next myth to bust: sugar highs.

An analogous situation for males wouldn't be whether they are "fuckable" for girls, but whether they are gay. Despite our enlightened attitudes toward homosexuality and women's sexuality, being gay and being a slut are historically and still the two worst insults for a teenage boy and girl, respectively.

If anyone wrote such a list with my daughter's name on it, or a list calling my son a "fag", I would be on the warpath. And as far as I'm concerned, this is indeed a discipline issue for school. There is no ilegal activity here, and if a similar thing happenend to adults in the workplace it would certainly be the responsibility of management to dicipline the perpetrators.

Gangs are a product of adolesence. Male adolesence.

Some people can feel empathy for teenage girls. For others, it takes having a daughter. For some, not even that is enough.

should go update his sex registry information and leave Broadsheet alone. And I'm sure any poor woman who voluntarily had sex with him had buyer's remorse. Or seller's remorse, if that's what a guy has to resort to.

Whenever there is any kind of a rape or homosexuality debate, people reveal their ignorance more than they know. For example, any sexually active man who seriously thinks that a woman is a "tease" for not wanting penile penetration or that they can be easily confused into raping someone by "miscommunication" reveals that he either is the world's most clueless and selfish sex partner, a rapist, or a virgin. I just don't buy it, and I never will, that rape happens by accident, or that a reasonable man could misread, or ignore what a woman has expressed ( to answer the drunk couple question- hell yes it's rape if the woman says no and the man "persists".). Women aren't asking men for more than a smidgen of empathy when they ask that, as a ground rule, we should be able to absolutely trust the people we fool around with when they are stronger than we are. What is so freaking hard about that? A woman can have many very good reasons for turning down sex even if she's horny. Here's one: sex with many men isn't as much fun as foreplay anyway. And think about that African statesman: he must really, really, really know nothing if he seriously thinks rape laws will affect marriage and courtship. Think of his poor wife.

The FBI should profile trolls on feminist sites and investigate them for sex crimes.

It was well written. I fail to see why the misogynists are so up in arms- people have always worried about whether their daughters will get pregnant or wear "racy" clothes at age 10 (???)so why is it not reasonable for a mother to look at her sons and wonder if they will get swept up in that dark "manhood" practiced by some in this world? People have always worried about their daughters similarly.

And Tyler- procuring underage girls for your 21 year old friends is not cool. Who bought the alcohol? If your friend sticks to women his age, they'll have a higher tolerance for booze.

is a virgin.

Cruise is too short, and he's getting too old for it to be boyishly cute.

I remember a South American friend calling the pain you feel when you hit your funny bone the "widow's pain" because it's intense and then it stops.

Marriages used to be different. If you aren't a farmer, then most of the work around the house is cooking and cleaning and gardening. For older women, most of those tasks fall to them. Snaking out drains and taking out the garbage aren't hours long daily duties. In addition, these are housewives who never got to retire. To the contrary, for many housewives their husbands retirement is very difficult. His workload decreases because he's not going to the office and he performs the same tasks he always has. Hers may increase, or at least she has to get used to going about her business with her husband ALWAYS there. It may sound amusing, but her whole life and routine have been disturbed. Add to that the fact that many husbands are older, or in any case more feeble than their wives, then you have a no rest for the weary situation.

I think old age will look very different as the baby boomers retire followed by Gen Xers. I'm curious to see how old women's hair changes, personally. The curly hairdos of my garndmother's generation have been replaced by the pixie cuts of my mother's. How will old women wear their hair in 30 years? I'm voting for long braids and buns.

Taking Ms. Walsh's comparison with chickenhawks a little further: Flanagan is a Ravenhen.