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From Comcast News: I swear, there are times when you just want to smack people for their sheer stupidity. Beyond moronic sexism, what could possibly be a logical reason for this?

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The Kuwaiti parliament has voted to give women full political rights. The amendment to the Kuwait's electoral law means women can for the first time vote and stand in parliamentary and local elections. It was passed by 35 votes for, 23 against, with one abstention. Council elections are due...

Iraqi female detainees illegally detained, raped and sexually violated by United States military personnel. 15 Apr 2005 Iraqi female detainees have been illegally detained, raped and sexually violated by United States military personnel. Women who stay at home in traditional roles are more...

Boy Scout official charged in child porn case Good thing we have such moral, Godly organizations as the Boy Scouts to show us how to be good people.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/21/jurors.ethnicity.ap/index.html Jury challenges are one of the worst aspect of our judicial system. The goal of a jury of one's peers is to have a representative random sample of people. Biased people should be removed but, otherwise, everyone should get to...

UNITED NATIONS, New York A new report on women in 150 countries concludes that many women all over the world are worse off today than they were 10 years ago. The report accuses governments of failing to keep their pledge to achieve equality of the sexes. Governments worldwide have adopted a...

Why Women Can't Read Maps Nothing really new, but interesting.. I had to chuckle at this last part.. Note that it doesn't say that women can speak 20,000 to 25,000 different words a day ... :D

Women Lack 'Natural Ability' In Some Fields, Harvard President Says CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- The president of Harvard University prompted criticism for suggesting that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers. Lawrence H. Summers...

Two Italian women working for a humanitarian group in Iraq have been kidnapped in Baghdad. Witnesses said armed men stormed the offices of A Bridge for Baghdad, abducting Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, both 29, and two Iraqis. More than 100 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq since the...

Here in the UK Channel 4 have just started a series about the worst jobs in history, fronted by Tony Robinson (Baldrick from Blackadder). Saturday's Guardian had an article describing some of these jobs, and giving their modern-day equivalents. I thought the regular readers of this forum would...

According to NOW officials, the DoJ says that 1 in 4 women are raped. Has the DoJ in fact made such a declaration?

I have noticed a trend here. On skeptical vs "open-minded to woo-woo" debates, as well as on meat-eater vs vegetarian debates, there seems to be a Great Divide. Men tend to line up on the side of skepticism and meating-eating, while many women tend to line up on the vegetarian and "tolerance"...

From American Demographics (subscription only): Here's their chart showing female channel viewership by "Heft Index":

When I was a kid, there was no question that the "women and children first in the lifeboats" attitude was correct. These days I suspect that a significant portion of the population would question the "women" part. On the otherhand I can see that an arguement could also be made that an adult...

Bare chests on men aren't considered obscene. Why should it be different for women? Why shouldn't we be able to go bare-chested on the beach when it hits 95 degrees? How come we can get a ticket and you guys don't? Besides, if it were made legal and socially acceptable, maybe men wouldn't...

I just heard in a news report on KFI radio that there is a study out that says women who gain 20-30 lbs after high school are more likely to get breast cancer. But don't the vast majority of women gain 20-30 lbs or more at some point after their HS years? And wouldn't the number of women who...

For the upcoming elections in Greece we are going once again to suffer this simpleminded measure that allegedly promotes equality. It is more than evident to any healthy observer that women in developed societies choose to involve in politics much less than men and this has nothing to do with...

"If the married women in the suburbs feel safer, I can tell you other women don't." You got that? All you married suburban women don't count for sh!t, in this woman's view. You're supposed to be a single city girl (er, WOMYN), and you should be fearful because of President Bush's war. This...

Women soldiers getting knocked up? The other day on Oreilly a caller said that women soldiers in the mid east were getting pregnant at an "alarming rate". I thinking thats a great way to get out of combat. Plus all the guy soldiers are probably chasing all the lady GI's since the local muslim...

Brazilian Women Vainest in World Source: Reuters Let's petition to have TAM3 in Rio... :)

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Hi everyone! I´ve been around these forums for weeks but only signed up today. Looking forward to some great discussion and getting to know you all! :) I´ve been thinking about this one for a while. Why are women more superstitious than men? As we can see here (and many other better polls)...

Just wondering. . . in light of modern times . . . If you were a supreme male being, how would you redesign women? If you were a supreme female being how would you redesign men? It may be physically, emotionally, spiritually, whatever. Just curious.

I saw this posted in the L&A forum, and I thought this would be a better forum to discuss why the islamic fundamentalists (wahabbi, shia etc.) fear women's sexuality so much. http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19718 Most of the religions Of The Book, have a lot of...

The double life of women Edited to fix dead link.