While people who are filled with self loathing continue to take cheap shots at someone on the net, I will be reading DYB's blog.

While women of real importance such Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Amina Wadud and Wafa Sultan are out there talking about genital mutilation, Islamic oppression and ritual stoning of raped women labeled adulterers, DYB will be blogging about the poor woman who chose to not make her partner wear a condom having to drive an extra 10-miles for an abortion.

DYB has her priorities you know.

But that's what's really important.

I am glad you are concerned about poor women, Scott! Me too. It is precisely for this reason that we need to make sure no one has to bear a child she cannot afford just because some men have an intense need to control us and don't have to deal with the economic realities of poverty. As a student of the world, clearly you know that the majority of those who live in poverty are women and their children, and the cause of this travesty is their lack of power under sexist institutions--including horrific imperialist interventions by our own nation that spread misery. Glad you are concerned about this. We are definitely on the same page.

You are in a sense advocating abortion as retroactive birth control then?

How about safe sex, monogamy or--dare I say it--abstinence.

You talk alot on this train wreck about feeling good about oneself. How do you expect a woman who has an abortion to feel good about herself ever again?

Even the pseudonymous "Roe" says she greatly was effected by having an abortion and now is against it.

I am not against legalized abortion, I am against abortion used as a way to get rid of an unwanted child.

If a woman is living in poverty, perhaps it would be in her best interest to spring for a $2 box of condoms instead of a $500 abortion. It makes fiscal and moral sense.

By the way, if you want to know who any of the women I mentioned above are, go to a conservative site because you won't read much about them on liberal sites.

There once was a time that being liberal meant you cared and had a backbone. Now they are the party of hating Bush and cozying up to whoever is anti-American.

It's a damn shame.

the both of you make me sick. DYB and Dubya are essentially the same person, constantly repeating the same arguments without ever acknowledging any wrong.

Scott, women are going to get abortions whether it is legal or not. there is an important difference between making policy based on preaching about how people should act and observing how they actually behave. i dont know if you support abstinence-only education, but it doesnt work; it's that simple. and most women, like Roe, are not proud of getting abortions; noone says they like abortion. It is an important choice for women who don't feel they have choices.

And as for DYB, noone is going to read through that dumb letter praising you, it's just more of the same rhetoric you are always repeating. And, btw, recognizing that you relate everything in the world to feminist theory even when there is no relationship, as though it were the only thing you ever learned, does not make me full of self-loating. i am not the one who feels bad about my body or thinks people should pay attention to commercials. I had never noticed that chicken commercial before you made a big deal about it; now I actually enjoy watching it because I know how much it bothers you. It's ironic. It's a little offensive and then, wait, it's not about breasts, it's about chicken. People want large chicken breasts! Get it? You are so insecure and so sad.

Quite a dramatic poem. I have the perfect ending.

"I don't actually do anything about the above laundry list, but instead let a blowhard fill my head with illogical nonsense; I'm reading DYB's blog."
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DYB -- Why can't you answer why you still go to football games and why you know of so many unreported assaults? Why are these considered cheap shots instead of fair questions?

geile slet, die wil ik wel een vemen in de poep

I'm a little bit late to board the train, however, I had to say this.

People do pay attention to commercials, a lot more than you think.

It's not living if it don't have a brain.

Condoms are not fool proof for guranteeing no pregnancy. In fact, they're one of the weakest protections.

And of course, my favorite, trying to argue on the internet (and winning ...?) is like placing first in the special olympics. I'm glad these guys feel like inflating their egos, but seriously, we just think you're pricks. Get over yourself.

Too bad the condom broke when your parents were doing it. But then how else could we get a cool professor at USC such as yourself. and a female at that

Hey look...its diane the butt kicker. Girl Power...cool

Do us all a favor at USC...and LEAVE!! Stop speakin for all of the Woman. We like our shows on T.V. We like our hair salons and our nails done. Not every guys is an animal...except maybe your husband because your so fat u must have married another pig to compliment you. O ya this is really a USC cheerleader...we think u should shut up and get a makeover..and RUN..Run... lost those pounds

Wow. A lot of vitrol, but not a lot of substance.

I can't speak to anyone else's situation, but my wife's insurance DOES cover birth control.

A man rapes a woman every 4 minutes? One in eight movies contains a rape scene? Pardon me if I have my doubts. We may need to examine terms again. This sounds a bit suspicious, like the 15-24 year old gangbangers shooting each other being counted as "child firearm deaths". At the very least, you need to be a bit more dicriminating in your movie picks.

Women earn 75% as much as men do for the same job? Where? What employer has two pay scales, based on gender? As often as I've heard this, I've _never_ found it to be true in the US.

Governments everywhere regulate what we can and cannot put in our bodies. It isn't just women. Get over it.

Dr. Phil, Operah, nd Lifetime are made popular _by_ women. Men don't watch these shows in statistically significant numbers. Hardly seems fair to complain about that... Same thing with all the plastic surgery; women do it to themselves. Honestly, guys are't that particular.

Pro-woman? That's fine, as long as you realize that freedom isn't zero-sum game, and that being pro-woman DOESN'T mean anti-male. Let's not use too broad a brush.

Pro-Choice? Great. Can men get some choices, too? Under our current law, a woman can abstain, use birth control, get an abortion, put her child up for adoption, abandon it, raise it on her own, or sue for support. No woman is a mother against her will. A man? Not even the abstinance can protect him if a woman lies about who the father is to the state, and his window to contest it may close before he eenknows he's at risk. So I'm a bit unsympathetic on that point.

I'mot sure I uderstand the art thing. Surely a naked, headless male torso is the equivelent of a naked, headless female one. Or is it your contention that a man is just a phallus?

Certainly racism and class prejudice are as bad as sexism. As for pastic surgery, again, women are much more cruel to their sisters than men are when it comes to appearance. Frankly, most men aren't that discriminating.
Are we thankful there are women who can think around? Absolutely. My doctor and my banker are both women, and probably smarter than I am, to my benefit. But my mechanic and my broker are men, and that doesn't seem to impair their functions, either.

Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe