BF advocates, like many zealots, don't trust the intelligence and decision making skills of their subjects, so they want to remove any bad influences. They love to say that non- breastfeeders or people who stop before a year are just misinformed, instead of competent decision makers. And I'm positive that many hard core breast feeders had back up formula when they had their first babies. No new mother can be calm about the possibility that the baby isn't eating, and breastfeeding is so difficult at first.

It's like these so-called Christians want to push the envelope, and nothing pushes the religious envelope more than oppressing women. Yet it seems even more shallow than the counterpart movements in the Middle East and elsewhere. MAybe because at the end of the day, these abnegated Christian girls are part of this open society, where independent thought still seeps in. These women won't be able to keep the Nice Christain Girls are Uneducated Servants thing going for long in a country with a long proud history of teenage rebellion and independent thought.

If a woman sits around complaining (or writes books complaining) about how highly educated she is and how all the men want younger and dumber women, then I already don't like her, and and I'm not even a man. It sounds like those women who say people don't like them because they are jealous, or men who have a seething hatred of women and wonder why the ladies don't like "nice guys" like them. I mean, MoDo actually posits that she;d be better off getting these manhattan millionaires if she was a maid. Yeah, right. Anecdotal stories aside, does anyone really believe that a woman's marriage prospects go down with higher education? Does the fact that most men marry women around their own age and education level not sink in?

If you have a difficult personality, if you are spoiled, or have a deep contempt of the opposite sex, perhaps people will shy away from you. You'll tell yourself it's them, or the culture, but the truth is, it's you.

At least such a thing might shed some reality on the mystique of mail order romance. I have met two women in my town- on Russian and one Chinese, who both married the same violent man, and who both later divorced him.

Why are downloading and on-line auctions activities, while e-mailing and chatting are not? They are all done while sitting on your ass.

It is something of a comsolation that the issue is being debated and legislated in S Africa. The march for women's rights continues on its slow and painful path...

If you have two kids two years apart at about age 30, they will both be in school full time in 7 years. Nobody tells the mothers of young children how fast it goes, and how little there is to do after they get big enough to have school and friendships. We don't make our own clothes anymore, or raise and slaughter our own meat. That leaves us with scrapbooking and eating bonbons to fill our empty hours.

Traditionalists invent all kinds of devices to deny the fact that women nowadays have both the time and the wherewithal to participate in public life- they homeschool, or have too many kids. But the truth is, women have the lifespan and the ability today to raise very small children, have remunerative work, and participate in community life. We really can have it all, and conservatives throw it away with both hands.

Michigan's president is a a woman, and they just hired a woman for provost.

Abstinence only education is really just about witholding information. It's a system only an ignoramus could love. Even the most conservative thinker can't really object to the dissemination of information that prepares young adults for the decisions they are to make, even if obstensibly those decisions will only come after marriage.

"it's legal for women to sell sex, but not legal for a man to buy it. So in every trick the man becomes a criminal subject to blackmail by the legally pure woman. I hope at least some partisan feminists can see how creepy that is. Where do you suppose the Swedes got the idea?"

This is actually a gender neutral concept: sexually exploiting someone is illegal, being sexually exploited is not. There is no logical argument that this makes a woman legally pure, unless you are positing that women's sexuality = whoredom, men's sexuality = pays for sex".

The blame for the plight of these poor women lies squarely with their country, or countries of origin. The immigration problem is a source country problem that gets passed off to wealthier nations that are straining to support them.

My daughter was born in Latin America, and her birth certificate lists her two last names, his and mine. Admittedly, in many LA countries the mother's last name has a sort of for official purposes only status, and only the father's last name gets passed on, but at least the system recognizes the importance of a person's background. You can know a lot about a person if you know their mother's family name. My ID from abroad states my mother's maiden name. This is actually a very good system for identifying people.

If my daughter changes her last name, I would be as devastated as if she had changed her first name.