Cats were once worshipped as gods in Ancient Egypt.

Wow, you’re supposedly a professional/academic, yet you can’t handle the English language well enough to come up with an original retort?

Yeah, no shit. I doubt Marie, Consuela, or LaTanya were on the list of “working moms discriminated against.”

So every single conference should cater to every parent in the world? Can I have free cat-sitting, too? And more importantly, will YOU pay for it?

Duplication; see above.

Again, you’re wasting our time with your excuses and general lack of common sense.

Yeah, based on your answer, I still contend that you have none.

Yes, I have, actually.

Why should an entire community be responsible for one individual’s choice? You’re assuming, of course, that every woman wants to have a child. I don’t. Several women I know don’t and they too have difficult lives. They shouldn’t be obliged to some woman’s choice to have kids because they are women. It is a woman’s…

Women don’t have children. Next.

Yeah, I’m willing to bet you’ve never organized a conference. I have — twice. As the organizer (read: secretary/enforcer), I have indeed asked people to turn off cell phones or take them outside if there’s a panel on-going. You better believe I’d have done the same with the author and her child, especially since she di…

Because many are assholes and ignore their children’s behavior because they see their kids as a reflection of themselves.

But she did not. She claims that the child “peeped” twice. I work as an academic and I used to teach high school. You’d be amazed on what some parents say to minimize their child’s behavior.

Exactly. It’s entitlement, plain and simple. If she could get Angela for a day to “watch the baby” while she spoke, she could asked Angela to babysit or only attended the conference part-time.

Oh bullshit. First, we’re roughly eight billion people. I know that progressives and conservatives tend to be afraid that the first-world might disappear, but we’re a long way from extinction.

Good — maybe I should bring my cat to my next conference. She’s quiet, except when I’m talking to someone else, and loves kitty toys. Most of the time, she sleeps, as she’s uninterested by human discourse. But if she’s disruptive, I’ll definitely leave her outside with the cat-sitter; after all, she may be hungry or…

Those things you mention are not sex. They are abhorrent manifestations of unhealthy attitudes and views of sex. Sex is not inherently unhealthy for women.

Social liberalism in both the French and American senses.

You asked for it....

What is your basis for “and frankly sex is more harmful to women than it is healthy”? That’s a pretty strong statement without any foundation or support.