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• Okay. Rlly? So we should have voted for Palin? You'd buy Ann Coulters books, cause she's a lady? You'd listen to Phyllis Schlafly because she's got the same genitals as you and therefore she MUST have your best interests at
  (posted to Boycott/Mancott)
• I'm sorry, but a pot-smoking videogame-playing lay-a-bout doesn't sound like my idea of a "great" guy.
  (posted to Equality in housework, how does that work?)
• Thank you so much! I'm serving stateside and come from a long history of military members and this has ALWAYS bothered me, esp now that I'm active duty. It seems to me that the armed forces like to talk a
  (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)
• I'm not big on conspiracy theories...but any one find it funny that now that it looks like we might have a government funded national healthcare plan all these "preventative" procedures are getting advice to cut back? HUH? In all seriousness
  (posted to *sigh* First mammograms, now this)
• Does it matter? I'm a feminist. My feminism (in which I acknowledge that I have gender boundaries to overcome and sexism to fight) makes me sensitive to the issues of others who are at odds with the status quo, including
  (posted to What Is a Feminist Issue?)

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• you're not a conspiracy theorist. i thought of the exact same thing when the new study about mammograms came out. i'm definitely concerned about OVER-treatment, and that's a valid concern that comes with screening. i guess if we could still (posted to *sigh* First mammograms, now this)
• I don't necessarily plan on reproducing, and I get paps once a year (or more) due to my concerns for my health. I cannot get the HPV vaccine and I am concerned about having cervical cancer. Too many people close (posted to *sigh* First mammograms, now this)
• I respectfully disagree. Unfortunately, not everyone uses condoms, and not everyone is honest about their sexual history. Paps don't necessarily have to do with fertility or babies or whatever, they're about protecting women's health. What if your abnormality doesn't happen (posted to *sigh* First mammograms, now this)
• *sigh*... annual screening (from what I can gather anecdotally) is an outlier in the medical world. In Aus its every 2 years and some other places (which I fail to recall precisely) its 3yrs. With any medical testing the risk (posted to *sigh* First mammograms, now this)
• I told my (old) GP that I needed to be checked every year (the standard is two years in australia) because my mother, great aunt and cousin have all had cerivical cancer, and the oncologist that my mother had told (posted to *sigh* First mammograms, now this)

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