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• That is true - the public option was a "take it or leave it" situation. The alternative was, essentially, no health care for the uninsured. That wasn't the legalese, but that was the bottom line. The public option was what
  (posted to Whose health care victory?)
• I guess I'm really out of the mainstream music scene, too, because my only thought was "what kind of music WAS this?" It's gotten bad out there, hasn't it? Here's my (lame) solution - 80s theme parties. Not only do
  (posted to I can't be the only person feeling this way )
• Sigh. Transitioning has its own built-in narrative arc, and if you're a lazy filmmaker - or, especially, a lazy filmmaker who doesn't know that focusing on transition is problematic - then the appeal is clear...
  (posted to Will two new transgender-themed Hollywood projects focus on transition again?)
• Let me come right out and say that this issue - being accountable to women as a feminist male - has been a difficult one for me. Not because I don't think I should, but because - no false modesty
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• The pace of change in the military is glacial. The top flag officers are in their mid-fifties, on average, which means they were in the Academy approximately at the tail end of Vietnam, in the early to mid 70s. That's
  (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)

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• 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?)
• So, Marc, in your view, "sex starved" heterosexual males who view scantily clad female entertainers are potential sex harassers and rapists? Following that logic, the solution would be to prevent those young straight guys from looking at any images of (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)
• Well, most men (myself included) need a visual image to masturbate to, or we just can't get off - which is why so many men (myself included) use porn. So, if you don't want to let these guys look at (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)
• I don't agree with the premise that this kind of thing only happens in the military. It's famous for happening at college fraternities, and in the context of celebrating college sports events. (Armies and universities both take very young adults (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)
• Well said (@ OP). The issue is that women are seen as objects, as entertainment for men. This is rape culture, isn't it? I don't think having male entertainment would address the issue. It's not the same with the sexes (posted to Military entertainment promoting rape?)

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