Recents Comments from pleco

• Counterpoint to homebirth advocacy (warning: it's by an OBGYN and it's not polite): http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2009/07/homebirth-kills-babies.html http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2009/06/homebirth-midwives-are-quacks.html http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-wealthy-white-women-have-turned.html Really the whole blog is a good read, though some of the stories are very upsetting, and obviously if you're an alternative health aficionado
  (posted to What's the connection between midwives and health care reform?)
• Forensic evidence definitely did not unanimously back up the defense's claims. This article is written entirely in the defendant's favor, with special emphasis on how valuable he was to his sports team, how popular he was, and how everybody around
  (posted to Prisoner F95488)
• Rape fantasies and rape roleplays are not all that uncommon (I'm trying to remember the name of the recent NYT article that summed up a lot of the statistics and drawing a blank). It's a world away from asking for
  (posted to Anime Conventions and the Extension of Rape Culture)
• That is not the scene from the game-- it looks like a music video or machinima made by a fan, and utilizes a lot of SH3 imagery. SH2 is not a game that stands up well to being excerpted, but
  (posted to Anime Conventions and the Extension of Rape Culture)
• What an idiotic post. You haven't even seen the movie.
  (posted to Deadgirl: Nothing says movie classic like rape and necrophilia)

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• "Some people do say that. That's quite true. But that's not a reason to stop." And I'm not reading carefully enough, but I don't recall anyone calling for a ban or boycott on this movie, or for some kind of (posted to Deadgirl: Nothing says movie classic like rape and necrophilia)
• 'I think that the real source of misogyny in porn is the meaning that society attaches to female sexuality.' Porn is not about female sexuality. It is made to appeal to a constructed male sexuality, and basd on restrictive notions (posted to Why pornography hurts men)
• When Mom explained "baby-making" to me as a child (around 7 or 8 when I started to ask questions) she told me that sperm comes "through the penis" but somehow also said that through a tube it goes into the (posted to Ignorance Ain't Bliss)
• He has repeatedly used language that casts abortion as a moral gray area, and a decision that is frequently harmful to women--thus playing directly into anti-choice rhetoric. In his insistence that anti and pro-choice camps try to find "common ground," (posted to Obama: Soft On Domestic Terror?)
• As a clinic worker, I very much appreciate the aid we've been offered from law enforcement. Taking this threat seriously, albeit under the radar, is much better than not. marketing degree | online criminal justice degree (posted to Obama: Soft On Domestic Terror?)

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