i know that a lot of those critics and publishers probably pride themselves on being "non-racist" and "non-sexist", but can you be either if you support the irrational and oppression-born status quo that portrays white males as superior to and more important than women and people of color?

i object to the notion that chicks, who are half the population of the planet, are "other", just some subset of the human race, and that authors who choose to write about them are not valid observers of the full-blown human experience

YES, "jojo"

critics learn this behavior in school, where the works of female authors are often relegated to women's literature classes ... just as authors of color are often relegated to "african american literature" or "ethnic studies" courses ... as an english major at one of best university's in this country, it was beyond be…

i never said that breastfeeding alone makes a woman an "expert" ... just that there are essential aspects of breastfeeding that are utterly unknowable to someone who has not breastfeed ... indeed, i emphasized the fact that each breastfeeding experience, like each child, is unique ... and i tend to think that no one…

after bush jr's creepy back massage, angela keeps all male, world leaders facing her, even if she has to give them a little snog and cuddle ... notice that she holds hollande firmly in position, while keeping enough distance between them to avoid a reach-around rubdown

i'll admit it ... i am a little ashamed of myself ... but it was so engorged with double entendre that i could not resist

men who breastfeed should definitely feel free to write authoritatively about it

my comment, btw, was not in response to this article about a reality tv show, it was in response to another commentator's comparison of writing about breastfeeding with writing about football

right ... men breastfeed all the time ... my bad

no, you are not qualified to understand what it's like to breastfeed a child

true ... most women writing about football will lack that part of the football experience ... just as men who have played football, but not for the pros, lack understanding of certain aspects of the game we see played on tv ... but the majority of participants in the football experience are actually spectators, so…

i didn't say it was "none of your business" ... i merely objected to the comparison of a spectator sport, in which most "participants" are in fact the spectators, and breastfeeding, an intimate and individual/gender-specific experience

i cannot speak for these women, as i've never understood why any parent would make their child part of a reality show, but as a mother who breastfed beyond the norm, i can tell you that i did it because my child was extremely independent and an early adopter of all developmental milestones, and the only thing she…

i'm a little letdown by this development — are there no sacred cows left?! —, but i support the producers' rights to express themselves

true, but while male and female sports writers can spend their lifetimes watching and studying football to prepare for writing about it, men can never, ever know what it is to breastfeed a child, struggling to balance one's own physical and emotional needs with a child's and finding, with little guidance, the line…

one of my last memories of my mother was of her saying, in reference to my step mother, that "someone ought to put a fence around that cow" ... at 14, it was the ugliest thing that i had ever heard about anyone ... and it grieves me that i must forever associate it with my mother

well, this would explain great-grandma's fondness for the word "canoodling"

snigger and ew at this little guy's quadra-dong all you want, but how many other prehistoric mammals do you see still walking around and getting it on? yeah, there's the platypus, but i hear he has a double-dong

rachel drove the queen b's from their table and scored their 'za? who's the loser now?