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• Scare quotes are very fashionable these days. It's nauseating.
  (posted to Mammograms Starting at 50. What?)
• Sexism bad =/= Sarah Palin good.
  (posted to sexist cover, accurate headline)
• Or, you could actually pay attention to what the guidelines said, which is absolutely not that women with risk factors should wait till 50. L/y/i/n/g Misrepresenting the task force's recommendations to earn a seat on the demagoguery bandwagon is beyond
  (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• The idea is that the task force is overly concerned about false positives, not because it's a horrifying and traumatic diagnosis, but because of vapors and fainting couches.
  (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• I guess what I don't get with this thread of comments is why so many people are angry that there is a backlash against these guidelines. I can't speak for anyone else but I don't like the reflexive demonizing of
  (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)

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• Yeah. Perils of women interested in feminism winding up in women's studies classes that don't seem to do a very good job of explaining statistics, at a guess. In fact, from what I can tell feminism itself (or at least (posted to New Mammogram Guidelines Could Disproportionately Endanger Black Women)
• Liberal republican = Exist. Bigfoot = Doesn't exist. You might want to do a little more reading before you shoot you mouth off. (posted to sexist cover, accurate headline)
• If this is supposed decrease violence then bigfoot does exist!!! (posted to Not. Okay. )
• Furthermore, men are not encouraged to change their bodies in order to appeal to women. They take for granted that male bodies are not as attractive as female ones, but are only rarely encouraged to lose weight and never encouraged (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)
• I actually know a few het men who crossdress. They do this, primarily, because they think women are so hot, they want to look like one. They're not transgendered, they're not gay, one is overweight and embarrassed to wear a (posted to The Male Gaze and the Beauty of the Female Form)

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