My tax money goes to plenty of things that run counter to my religious and moral views: elective wars, for one thing. Funding prehistoric superhighways. Corporate farm subsidies. But the bottom line is that health care which disproportionally affects women (posted to What We Missed )
I survived a rape. And I really don't understand how this "abortion's okay for rape victims" thing would work. So, in your preference, in the first months after this traumatic crime, I not only have to prove my case to (posted to What We Missed )
Am I the only one who thinks of this as analogous to white people confronting their racial privilege? Speaking just for myself, I had pretty much no close relationships with people of other races when I was growing up. I (posted to The Question of Accountability in Feminism )
I agree with you that having to go in for a yearly pelvic exam just to get a BC refill is a pain in the ass... but the one time I skipped a year (I wasn't on BC at the (posted to What We Missed )
All of these are fair arguments: it's certainly possible that with more analysis, more science and more thinking about this issue, these guidelines will turn out to be flat out wrong (or they may not). There is certainly a debate (posted to What We Missed )
If you have a history of cancer, of course you should go in... I think the issue with self-exams is that they are SO often wrong, and women waste tons of their money and time following up on "lumps" that (posted to What We Missed )
I think people are underestimating the psychological harm of actually having cancer and then realizing that perhaps it could have been diagnosed sooner. I keep hearing the term "unnecessary biopsy" but conceptually that's kind of a ridiculous term because the (posted to What We Missed )
Thank you very much, Cattrack2. It's refreshing to see someone handle the issues politely. Aleks doesn't seem to know how to do anything but rudely attack people personally. I'm aware that calling black people unpatriotic is quite old, though that (posted to What We Missed )
Why on earth should I be polite about whiny, ignorant racism? Your Real Americans attitude gets far too much deference and "polite" regard. You don't even understand what you're saying or why it's unacceptable. You need an intervention to save (posted to What We Missed )
