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Re: Why vaccinate girls but not boys against HPV?
Let me get this right, the U.K. has limited health care resources, so they decide to spend them protecting women instead of men, figuring that most men (at least the straight ones) will get some benefit. And Saletan argues that this decision to optimally protect the population by first and foremost protecting women's health somehow demonstrates ...
Posted to Human Nature by egh on October 21, 2009
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: Please Mr. Saletan, Stay away from Women issues
I would support anyone's right to discuss women's or men's issues. If we only discuss that which is not going to offend anyone, it won't be particularly helpful. Having said that, I do seriously question the motives of a 50 or 60 year old PERSON, whether male or female, in deciding to bring a new life into the world at that point in their life. ...
Posted to Human Nature by SentientFemale on July 31, 2009
What size man do women want?
I have been dieting for about the last 3 or more months (I lost count). Because I haven't had a problem making friends with women but have had a challenge dating them, I presume women, and especially white middle class women possibly as late as middle age, are about as sensitive to extreme obesity (100-120 lbs. overweight) as men would be if the ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by GuessWho on July 29, 2009
Akbar Ganji on Gender Apartheid in Iran
Great piece. Leading Iranian dissident Akbar Ganji wrote an article for Boston Review in 2007 looking at exactly these issues. ''Half a Man: Notes on Gender Apartheid in Iran'' -- http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/ganji.php
Posted to Foreigners by BReview on June 23, 2009
Don't regulate abortion, regulate gender-testing.
Perhaps doctors, knowing the potential for sex-selection, could abide by a simple rule: you don't get to know the sex until you've decided to have the child.
Posted to Human Nature by tomrigid on June 16, 2009
The 20% Rule
As an academic scientist, I have noticed (totally anecdotally, no formal study, but one should be done) that science departments with no women - most often departments such as physics, geology, computer science - are desperate to hire women. The few women coming up for positions in those fields have to beat back offers, because universities know ...
Posted to The Dismal Science by Biotunes on June 7, 2009
more than feelings
Women make up slightly more than half of the US population. They should make up at last half of the Supreme Court.
Posted to Jurisprudence by david wayne osedach on May 21, 2009
An Analysis of Sotomayor's and Scalia's Lawyer Comments
Rosen cites the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary to support his sexist diatribe against Sotomayor. But, he neglects to do a couple of things. First, the Almanac is NOT an official publication of the federal judiciary or the American Bar Association. Instead, it is a listing of unscientific, often racist and sexist, commentary about judges. The ...
Posted to XX Factor by darrren12000 on May 9, 2009
Re: Sex reversal
Let us suppose we grant that men get the death penalty more often because they commit more murders. I will buy that, although I will be skeptical of the claim that men commit 99 times as many murders (which would account for the 99-1 ratio on death row). Indeed the website http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/wo.pdf shows that 14% of ...
Posted to Human Nature by rohitcuny on April 15, 2009

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