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I think you are maybe missing his point, or I am :\ At a mechanical level men are better than women at certain things. We have more potential for muscle. So we should be able not only to state this, but also to use it to our (as in species) benefit. There's a trend of political correctness resulting in potential scientific censorship that rustles my jimmies. Stating the above however does not mean "women can't do X" nor does it mean women are an inferior gender. Not sure how we got onto wonder woman beating Mr. 6'4" 250 pounds though :P

I'd never even heard of a trans vaginal probe. It seems like these measures try to target emotions (forcing women to watch movies or see their own ultrasound) so I guess the opposition are projecting their own feeling on the issue into legislation. Here in Australia they have to be much stealthier. One of the last things Julia Gillard did as prime minister was lowering the cost of an abortion pill called RU486 to $12. Now people are worried though since our new prime minister Tony Abbot is a conservative with the usual Christian values. However, he can't openly discuss abortion like your politicians seem to do, so if anything happens it will probably low-key, like price changes or rejection.

I know, it's a pity though. I really enjoy them :\

I guess it's hard not to mention religion when discussing politics, the two coalesce on many issues.

Maybe a bit off-topic but one of our political parties tried to address that with gender quotas. They introduced it in 1996 and you can see a pretty steady increase of women since then: http://www.aph.gov.au/~/media/05%20About%20Parliament/54%20Parliamentary%20Depts/544%20Parliamentary%20Library/BackgroundNotes/2011-12/WomenInParliament-1.ashx Granted, the quota could have been inconsequential and the rise already on its way. The graph only goes to 2011 however, since then we have dropped pretty significantly compared to the rest of the world for women in parliament http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm we used to be rank 20, now rank 44. Still, it is interesting that between our two parties, the one without the gender quotas only has one woman in cabinet now.

Yeah it's still worth having private health insurance, and there's still private hospitals here so it doesn't destroy competition. Our healthcare system saved my friend's life from cancer, so while it's not perfect (long waiting periods depending on what the issue is) I definitely consider it worth it.

I'm really surprised by some of those, especially that a solution could have been introduced. I wonder if we have something like this here: "A federal effort, known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, that would have required employers to disclose salary data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, was shot down in Congress this year. If it had passed, the government could have used the compensation survey to crunch numbers, look for patterns of discrimination, and bring lawsuits of its own." The sciences area is the one that I really would not have expected. I guess education isn't the solution to everything. It looks like these studies looked at specific groups too: "While historically women have tended to choose primary care fields such as family medicine or pediatrics, the percentage of women entering those fields dropped from about 50 percent in 1999 to just over 30 percent in 2008, roughly on par with male doctors. But even though women doctors are choosing higher-paying medical specialties, they still made considerably less than men in 2008. The team found the gap widened even after adjusting for choice of specialty, practice type or number of hours worked." Only problem is that they don't actually show the figures they are talking about, some of the comments on those articles are frustrated by it.

That sounds severe, where do you get evidence for something like that though? If you could just show it then the debate would be pretty much over. The only sort of inequality I've seen in my jobs are gender role related. At the cannery women work almost exclusively on the sorting lines, though some do get the cushy machine jobs it's mostly men that get them and no male works on the sorting lines (because it sucks donkeys working on the sorting lines).

It is just a positive expression. We know where it comes from, but technically speaking to the individual it is free.

Yeah I've heard that before, took me a while to find the guy. I think the guy is a bit of an agitator though. What he says makes sense and seems tame enough but there's probably more to the issue.

Yeah same. America is really behind the rest of the world in that regard. What surprises me is how many people defend it, they are convinced Obama-care is the road to communism.

aww yeah

Well, our existence is a limited freedom. I would love to be able to double jump, but you know... physics. On the other hand, our freedom is defined by those limits, like silence between notes and all that good jazz.

The Stormcloak guy was a bit too intense for me. "Oh Ulfric! You're so cool! Do me up the butt before we die! I love you mwah mwah!" If me and the horse thief had not been between them... he would have spooned the poor Jarl to death.

Hmm I wonder. Do you guys know how the PS2 games available on PSstore work for PS3? Is that done through emulation? The only PS2 game I bought from PSstore is Godhand. Runs just as good as it did on my old PS2, and you should all go and buy it too.