"It's just that the selection against females cheating is stronger because the cost is greater for the male partners (raising another male's offspring)."

I've always found this to be an illogical assumption, born from malecentricity. Why is raising another male's offspring worse than a female losing her mate's support, or not having it in the first place, biologically speaking?

Catcallers are bullies. They are not flirting, or complimenting, or expressing interest to a woman. They have every intention of embarrassing or frightening women. A man who doesn't catcall may be skeptical about what it's really like and how bad it is. Unsurprising- they don't usually do it when a man is nearby.

This is a list of books written up by people who hardly ever read.

I have heard more or less valid arguments that having sex with a prostitute should perhaps be legal (to protect the protitutes). But I will never be convinced that it is ethical to purchase sex from another human being.

A john may be buying easy, no consequences sex, but really the ease and lack of consequences are all for him- he has no way of verifying that the prostitute has become a member of arguably the lowest status profession easily or pleasurably,let alone free of abuse, coercion and addiction. To pretend that sex for money is on par with a back rub and we just have to get a healthier sexual outlook is disingenous. Those women live in the same world that we all do and at the very LEAST they suffer a huge social stigma that thankfully is now being shared more equally by their customers.

Most of those who think that the taboo surrounding prostitution is just all about sexual hangups is really being dishonest, in my opinion. They know damn well that the purchase of sex is different than getting physical therapy, and they know damn well that protitution, legal or not, is rife with misery and exploitation for the sex workers.

Buying sex is sleazy, ugly, exploitive and wrong.

I haven't thought about Xuxa in years. And the first thing I thought of when I read the post was that Latin American culture is VERY into women being sexy, everywhere and at all ages.

...what's unusual is that so many people now are doing it for the first time.

...for hitting the nail on the head. "Aliens in America" bugged me since I heard a clip on the NPR in which hilariously backward midwesterners are rude and ignorant to the Pakistani exchange student. I guess the series creators are not aware that the densest population of middle Eastern immigrants is in the midwest, and Wisconsin and Minneasots themselves have large immmigrant populations from all over Asia.

But my sister likes the show so I gave it a try- and saw the episode where the trite, stupid mean beautiful girl becomes smarter and less objectified because the Pakistani student teaches her his wisdom about being valued for her brain and not her hotness. Because it takes a cultural ambassador from a country where honor killings are practiced to teach an American girl how to use her brain. I mean, who the hell writing this stuff? Plus, shouldn't a smart show retire that horrible, one dimensional misogynist stereotype of the powerful-yet-dimwitted sexy high school girl?

As another poster said, ick. It's wrong on so many levels...it's TACKY.

I used to roll my eyes at nursing moms until I had a baby and I realized what a fool I was. First of all, when I had my daughter, I felt like I deserved a Nobel prize. Anyone who doesn't get it is probably suffering a little from that 'entitlement' people accuse moms of having. Mothers of young children, babies, kids, our elders, and soldiers going off to war, to name a few, deserve our kindness and respect. To say otherwise seems so meanspirited and small that it makes me cringe.

When I had my daughter, I found myself breastfeeding in public when a few weeks before I would have scoffed at women who did this. If anyone had ever dared say anything I would have told him to f-off. Because when you are the mother of a hungry baby NOTHING is more important than feeding the baby. Your heart starts pounding and you begin to sweat. You HAVE to feed the baby-NOW. And caring for a baby is so hard, so logistically challenging that you simply can't imagine it if you haven't done it yourself. Cut the moms some slack. I promise- having to witness breastfeeding is easier than being the parent of a baby.

Are some lactivists annoying? Yes. But I'd take an annoying lactivist with her heart in the right place over some adult who whines about having to share the earth with kids and parents any day.

Wildly popular television shows dominated by female characters dispell the myth that 'older' females can't bring in an audience. The real question is why old male actors past their prime get cast as romantic roles with actresses 20 years younger? Actresses MY age (late 30's) are cast with old farts my dad's age! Robert Redford had to be over 60 playing a character in his 40's in "The Horse Whisperer". I don't need actresses my age to be paired with young bucks, but Jesus! I can't get into a romance when the female is my age and the male is my dad's. Ewwww. And what's up with men in their 50' routinely playing fathers of tots? Demi may be a little unrealistic to want the same roles as 2-25 year olds, but when will Hollywood stop indulging old men's delusions of youth?