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You feel what you feel, but disagreement with your views really shouldn't be taken as evidence of hostility or hate.

But the assumption always seems to lurk in the second row (not in the distant background) that it is women who suffer, whether women partake in the op...

All spheres... That's too sweeping a term, particularly in the area of cultural creation. Hollywood isn't the world. Women have gained a great deal of...

I don't know what you meant in saying women are not oppressed. In some contexts they are clearly not oppressed; in some contexts they are very much op...

It brainwashed you, apparently. Which is why "patriarchy" is meaningless. If a few women are just as patriarchal as men and oppress most women, if a f...

You can't have it both ways. Either "patriarchy" exists or it doesn't. Indeed, some religions restrict women more than others, but even within Islam, ...

Minds without bodies do not exist. We have bodies that produce mind. The personalized god, the bearded fellow Jehovah, or the voluptuous Aphrodite, or...

Your formulation is spot on Marx. But Capitalism isn't about men exploiting women. It's about capitalists exploiting everybody -- men, women, and chil...

For a god who is all knowing, ever present everywhere, all powerful, gender is irrelevant. The 'personalized' god is likely to be gendered, because we...

Some women might feel unwelcome in certain churches... because most churches have large numbers of women as members.

Hey doc, sounds great. How long does the effect of a dose last? How many years can one stretch out the 100 doses?

Medical doctors seem like pretty good people, for the most part. There are a minority, let's say 10%, who are incompetent, insensitive, irresponsible,...

There are few choice that fit human experience: Either God is male, female, or neuter. Most gods are male or female. You should known that "mankind" a...

I still think "patriarchy" is a noun naming a non-existent phenomenon which is the Number One imaginary Bogeyman of feminists.

I think you are focusing on the wrong part of the sentence The significant point is that birth control pills, were liberating for women, and were inve...

It has been known for several decades that doctors (who are not pharmacists) rely heavily on drug salesmen (who are not pharmacists, either) for their...

At first glance it would seem that hispanic women were grossly underpaid compared to white men. However, there is an intervening factor: On average, h...

What I have gathered from the news NYT for example is that Purdue Pharma (and the Sackler family) did two things: 1) they misrepresented oxycontin as ...

Of course massive political change is possible. "Possible" does not mean "probable". Massive political change seems quite improbable, unlikely, remote...

Clever S. I didn't get his joke right away.

Were you aiming for "proselytizing" or "prophesying"?

I did so wish, and fulfillment of the wish had to wait years for the arrival of a suitable time and a place. Had the opportunity "to lie with other me...

Being gay or lesbian isn't a form of being transgendered. The contents of our costumes (underpants and all) have a lot to do with determining who/what...

For which we can be very grateful. But... maybe later.

Source?

No. Not accommodating an inappropriate behavior isn't punishing the child. Here we are talking about quite young children deciding they are the opposi...

No. Not accommodating an inappropriate behavior isn't punishing the child. Here we are talking about quite young children deciding they are the opposi...

Yes, and these aren't examples of gender confusion either.

One could say that ALL gender minority students have mental health problems, if lacking a firm and biologically consistent gender identity is a disord...

"Does neurophilosophy signal the end of 'philosophy' as we know it ?" One might hope. Philosophy certainly has its uses, but over the millennia variou...

Thanks for the link. Wolfe is always a good read.

Of course, wars tend to end economic downturns -- unless the "hot war" is really, really hot -- but then there wouldn't be anybody left. Something bad...

We cope as well as we can. (Not much option, really.). I spent a number of years being somewhat dysfunctional. Not so dysfunctional that I couldn't wo...

Four more years of Trump? But then, in comparison to having eight years of VP Cheney skulking about, Trump is probably not a serious threat. Trump dis...

You seem to have a lot of familiarity with the details of OCD thinking -- are you OCD? I am quite certain that OCD is real and can be disabling, but a...

All of these conditions exist on a continuum, of course. Over on the left side of the continuum are habits and practices that are helpful. On the oppo...

I think we are farther away now. There are reasons. #1, the post-WWII economic boom ended in the early 1970s. For the working classes (85-90% of the p...

People who have very rigid habits can make it work for them. They get to work on time, they get their work done. They get to the gym on time, they swi...

Neurosis or neuroticism... The difference doesn't matter that much. There is certainly a difference between the major psychoses (like bi-polar disorde...

Probably nothing very helpful. There is a distinction between "neurosis" and "neuroticism", the former affecting one's life more than the latter. Also...

Tragically, I can not congratulate you for being the first person to use "Lilliput" on the Philosophy forum. You did not capitalize this proper noun, ...

Exactly. There are any number of great ideas that will die in the cradle. "Ideally" we would not have the kind of economy where vital goods were under...

The point of severe retributive justice is to insure that a person committing a capital crime doesn't, and can't, re-offend. For a corporation severe ...

The Sackler family (owners of Purdue) were the beneficiaries of the company's (family's) pursuit of profit. They are multi-billionaires. Yes, they sho...

Political obsessions come and go, which is not to say they are meaningless or irrelevant factors. Racism, white supremacy, misogyny, "homophobia", tra...

If we had not taken the measure of ceasing CFC production and use in 1992, the ozone depletion problem, would have continued to get worse. Peak CFC le...

You are obsessed. And kind of a pain to be around, what with forcing people to play tennis with you, sticking your finger up their noses and into othe...

Absolutely not. But there are some problems we can't solve. If there are too many people for the earth's carrying capacity, there is no solution to ov...

One of the problems of 'advance directives on final care' is that they are not legally binding. Another problem is that they are not always available ...

There is a huge difference between being in a coma and being brain dead. "Brain dead" means that the brain does not, can not, and will not function ag...