Letters to the Editor
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Disinfectant?
"Hanlon Field was hand-sprayed Wednesday with “an environmentally safe” disinfectant. It will be retreated today or tomorrow."
Don't they know that urine itself is a mild disinfectant?
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Forced To Register
This isn't about infections, it's about 'marking territory'. The only socially acceptable to 're-mark the territory' is with “an environmentally safe” disinfectant.
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Totally true about being fearful of children
An acquaintance of mine has a young high needs daughter. This little girl for whatever reason has some sort of attachment to me. Whenever she sees me she runs over and wraps her arms around me and gives me a great hug.
And I don't know how to respond. This is a kid that probably needs hugs and from stable men. Her mother has been divorced quite often. But I am very scared to give her much affection back.
And similar for many of the girls and boys that are friends of my kids.
It doesn't help that my kids will ask for playdates at times when I have them, but that 9 times out of ten, the mothers will cancel the playdates at the last minute.
If it is natural to consider all men as predators as was the basic feeling of the women in your last thread, than I guess it is equally natural for all men to consider all women as liars and sexual predators.
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If a male soccer team had exposed itself in video or pics, they would be arrested and forced to register as sex offenders
Why are these women not being forced to register as sex offenders or child pornographers?
As a thought experiment, if young male actors had exposed their genitals as Britney, Paris, and Lindsay did, what would happen to them?
Should Broadsheet Feminists(TM) be up in arms that these young hooligans are being patronized and condescended too by not treating them as sex offenders?
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Should Broadsheet Feminists(TM) be up in arms that these young hooligans are being patronized and condescended too by not treating them as sex offenders?
Vagina = Free Pass
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ideology over reality.
"In order to build a broad coalition that includes her own gender, a female should not be overly attractive ... High status also won't increase her attractiveness as it is a turn-off for most men." Huh, I'd hoped we had evolved beyond that. -- Flory
Oh please. Who is probably the most popular woman in America? Oprah Winfrey. And what's her most frequent audience empathy topic been? Her looks and weight struggles.
Empathy. It's become an often cynical business.
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Not unlike the little leaguer lads from Minnesota a couple of weeks ago who spit into their palms
after their loss to the boys from Arizona and then shook hands with them.
All caught on video.
Nothing to see here, kids will be kids was the reaction from basically everybody.
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Anonymous
You're afraid to hug the kid because you have Asperger's. Men with Asperger's are usually leery of interacting closely with children. That's a typical male Asperger trait.
I believe Asperger's also explains why you don't understand the social nuances of human behavior enough to understand how and why feminism politics exists and operates as a force in society.
That's why you have such an obsessive presence. People with Asperger's frequently obsess over one little area of interest and hang onto it and won't let go even when other people think it's time to move on.
I think this about you because I have Asperger's and that's what keeps me from being a feminist team player even though I do understand why feminism exists.
People with Asperger's are not team players and we tend to cynical and even at times hostile towards people who are team players.
Politics is a team sport and feminism is a team in the political sporting arena.
You might as well go to a Mets web site and complain they're being unfair to the Yankees.
By the way -- people with Asperger's tend to find it hard, even impossible, to ever admit when they've been wrong.
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Madeleine L'Engle tribute anyone?
Is Broadsheet or the book section of Salon going to do anything to honor this great writer? I think she was the first science fiction writer to feature strong girl heroines. I loved her work and I am hoping Salon is planning to honor her passing.
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Ugh
That thing that happened in China was beyond sick.
And as for the "men as predators" article which was brought-up a little while ago, I was amused by some Broadsheeters reactions: it's a "right wing" conspiracy to saddle women with child-care. As if.
I remember the "satanic ritual abuse" hooplah of the 80s and early 90s in which male daycare workers were disporportionately arrested and put on trial for sacrificing toddlers and drinking blood inside pentagram-filled basements which, oddly, could never be proven to have existed.
And, wouldn't you know it, turns out that feminists were front-and-center in the weird coalition of hysterical groups which screamed for these ritual abusers' heads on platters. A 1993 cover-story in Ms Magazine was even devoted to urging escalations of this real-life witch hunt.
And I think it was Adrienne Rich who wrote books in the 70s about how dads would put daughters on their laps to get erections from her. Of course, this kind of thing was critically-acclaimed by feminist reviewers at the time.
So, yeah, feminists have done more than their share in adding to the presumption of perversion for men in child-care roles. And now you complain that men aren't doing "their fair share".
Is it finally dawning on anyone that if you want men to do "their fair share" of child-rearing, it's not a good strategy to have spent decades insinuating that men can't be trusted with children?
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Nebris
I think you hit it on the button. I was going to post on how foolish it was to disinfect urine on grass, but I hadn't thought about the territoriality issue.
To someone else: I don't know if the girls exposed themselves to do this, a squatting woman's genitals are not necessarily exposed; whilst a man's genitals are more likely to be exposed in public urination.
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Speaking of territorial pissings
My dog is really funny. She was rescued from a pet hoarder. Pet overcrowding makes some dogs overly submissive and others overly dominant. My dog is the latter.
She's so dominant she will hump a male dog from behind. Even though she's been spayed and the male dog has been neutered, she will hump him until he lies down on the ground and acts submissive.
She also has figured out how to manuever her behind so that she can pee up the side of a light pole or a tree.
It's a scream to watch.
She's hard to walk, because she has to sniff every single urine spot she passes as carefully and systematically as if she were collecting evidence for CSI: Dog Park.