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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

  • No, you DON'T talk to you mom too much

    I fail to see this as so much a ''Gen Y'' thing as it is a return to ''pre Gen X'' values. I was born in 1959. Growing up, my entire family - grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, both paternal and maternal - lived in the same town or in nearby towns. My mother talked to her mother every day by phone, and often talked to her sisters as well. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by StellaBlue on May 9, 2009

  • Re: something that is never mentioned

    Well you need to read some more then. Your emotions cloud your reasoning. If in fact you have an education, then you know (particularly as an ethicist) that uncontrolled outbursts are a sure sign of a hidden problem. I'm guessing involvement in an abortion. But maybe not. But surely, if that's the case, you'd have to agree that your ability ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chauffeurkp on November 25, 2008

  • Re: something that is never mentioned

    HA! You've fallen for the hype that ''It's just a blob of tissue.'' of ''A bunch of cells.'' But let's just assume (for a moment) that this is true (as you think) during the first trimester. Are you then in agreement that abortion is wrong in subsequent trimesters? Here's a link about fetal development ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chauffeurkp on November 25, 2008

  • Re: something that is never mentioned

    Check your facts folks. PP does NOT encourage or promote adoption. IF they did ''Planned'' ''Parenthood'' would be a natural segway toward adoption and offer the services themselves. But they're not really planning parenthood for anybody. Interestingly enough, the Crisis Pregnancy Centers who DO promote adoption are on PP's target list. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chauffeurkp on November 25, 2008

  • Re: something that is never mentioned

    Check your facts folks. PP does NOT encourage or promote adoption. IF they did ''Planned'' ''Parenthood'' would be a natural segway toward adoption and offer the services themselves. But they're not really planning parenthood for anybody. Interestingly enough, the Crisis Pregnancy Centers who DO promote adoption are on PP's target list. PP ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chauffeurkp on November 25, 2008

  • 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

  • Re: Yes, just blame sexism

    Although not a complete answer, but a definite dynamic in this election is America’s love-hate relationship to sex and the stereo-types that hide in the back of our brains. This can be seen in the Before Palin (B.P.) and After Palin (A.P.) variations of the poles. Although beautiful and handsome, some more so than others, no contender had ...
    Posted to XX Factor by yard mom on October 13, 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
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