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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action

    An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008

  • hitchens is right

    Great article! Here's another one on a related topic: http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/430 Lack of party recruitment, not voter sexism, limits women’s presence in politics, according to a new study.
    Posted to Fighting Words by juan2689 on June 16, 2008

  • Re: female infidelity

    WOW! So much tension here. Let's see if I can set about answering the original challenge. I think women and men are very similar in their reasons for cheating but I don't think asking why women cheat is the right question. I think asking why women cheat when they have so much more to lose is a better question! So before everyone jumps on my ...
    Posted to XX Factor by santeriasister on May 27, 2008

  • Ask Cindy

    In 1992, before a group from the Arizona media corps, McCain called his wife a trollop and a C-word when she teased him about being a little thin on top. Talk about an explosive temper! Even more worrisome, he has no sense of public decorum. If it's ever okay to scream obscenities at your loving wife, public figures at least should have the ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by shainee on April 29, 2008

  • Men's and Women's Websites/Magazines

    I found Rachael Larimore's comments about Yahoo's new section ''Shine'' to be interesting. She takes offense that the self proclaimed ''women's website'' would concern itself with very derivative and stereotypical women's issues and desires clothing, shopping, celebrities, etc. She indicates that she feels it should it concern itself with more ...
    Posted to XX Factor by AJIntrocaso on April 11, 2008
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