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Polanski
Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009
Re: something that is never mentioned
Sorry, your ten cents, isn't worth a nickel. Honest Pro-life folks see that women who are faced with a crisis pregnancy need the greatest compassion of all. Pro-Choice folks don't realize that she's not offered any choice at all except killing her child. Planned Parenthood doesn't offer (or want to offer) information about adoption options, ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chauffeurkp on November 25, 2008
Palin's Choice
I love the thought of women ascending to high office. While women haven't hit the executive office yet, many fine and talented woman have been in the Senate, Congress, and cabinet positions for decades. As a child of the 70s I myself am abundantly gifted with the benefits of the 70s woman's movement. But the thing that bothers me about Sara ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by kgcobb on September 3, 2008
Disappointed in XX Factor
It's a Girl! Uh, so what? Groundbreaking? Only if you think that something that was done 20 years early by the other party is groundbreaking. This is not Hillary. This is not even Kathleen Sebelius, Olympia Snowe or Christine Todd Whitman. This is one very conservative politician. The only thing I have in common with this woman is a set of ...
Posted to XX Factor by samsmom1127 on August 29, 2008
The Spite Vote
I enjoyed your article and found many points you made to be right on the money. In particular, I find the attitude of disgruntled Clinton supporters who say they won't vote for Obama to be ridiculous and thick with irony. Their displaced anger and willingness to cut off their nose to spite their face in the name of battling sexism is laughable. ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by s_eilers on August 22, 2008
Where is a discussion about Father's Rights?
Up front allow me to say that I am a clear supporter of abortion rights under any and all circumstances. I was raised in a strongly feminist household and support equal rights for women and do not believe they have been achieved yet. And yet I was deeply troubled by the language Linda used in this article in its absolutism about it being only ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by AJIntrocaso on August 13, 2008
Thank you for writing this!
... this story is heartbreaking and infuriating. Of course the elderly are full human beings, have an evolved sexuality, and should have full access to their sexual rights. If our legal and familial institutions are not set up to handle these realities, they need to change. Many cultures have either formal or 'look the other way' valves to ...
Posted to Family by commentator245 on June 14, 2008
Said it, Meant it: bridges among feminists?
In response to Marjorie Valbrun’s thoughtful piece about the eroding relations between black women Obama supporters and white women Clinton supporters, I can’t help wondering whether these difficult conversations about how sexism and racism undermine equal opportunities aren’t a necessary first step in a modern conversation about race relations. ...
Posted to XX Factor by L Newfarmer on May 28, 2008
Ann Hulbert's take on Gender and Experience
I must say that this is really a ironic post found on a blog limited to women writers. Ann is arguing that Hillary has become the candidate of the non-elite because she's postmenopausal? Oh come on! I thought that we (and by 'we' I mean 'all of us women who consider ourselves feminists') were way beyond the 'biology is destiny' crap. There may ...
Posted to XX Factor by smartwoman on May 2, 2008
workplace homicide study
Also this today, from Nicholas Kristof: ''The American Journal of Epidemiology published a meticulous study finding that the 'workplace homicide rate for prostitutes' is 51 times that of the next most dangerous occupation for women, working in a liquor store. The average age of death of the prostitutes in the study was 34.'' Emily smartly ...
Posted to XX Factor by lostboy on March 13, 2008

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