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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

  • Vindication? Nope, pontification

    Passion is not in the least bit inconsonant with genuine feminism. Studies and, better yet, women themselves, will say in fact that power and accomplishment and bumped-up self-esteem combine to create a very flammable fuel for eros. I posit that the writer, Cristina Nehring, is confusing the agitated symptoms of low self-regard (drug use, ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by BetsyST on June 20, 2009

  • 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

  • Hitch On Helms like White on Rice

    Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 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

  • Re: Chelsa Clinton

    ''Do you even understand the ISSUE?'' Your simplistic dismissal of the query reveals exactly what is wrong with so-called ''news'' nowadays. Whatever his intent, using ''pimped'', ''pimped-out'', or any variation in reference to ANY public figure, not just Hilary and Bill's daughter, is at least graceless and vulgar, an should be considered far ...
    Posted to XX Factor by commortis on February 9, 2008