An addition to what I said below about the history of Canadian healthcare and abortion.

@Ukelelele: How about just help paying for them to be born?

@Penny: Wanna move to Canada? I will marry you and you can have all the free babies you want!

Actually ladies, this Canadian living in America has more questions.

I said this in the open thread but I'll say it again to lift up some spirits.

Bah, I hate Stupak and his damn ammendment but I will say this - in Canada when we got universal healthcare, abortion wasn't covered either. Private clinics still thrived, and eventually through demonstrations and some really great, active pro-choicers (mainly Morgentaler, but lots more) we managed to get it included.

@rodmanstreet: In Canada that is very illegal - falls under "incitement of violence" in our charter. Do you guys not have something like that?

@Stray_Chicken: Studiofix from Mac - it is the only makeup I actually spend more than 10$ a pop on, but it lasts for over a year and gives you flawless skin. Plus they are really good at helping you find a colour, even taking into account how much you tan/fade with the seasons.

@toadaleh: I just had this conversation with my sisters - they were shocked that I did my eyeliner from the outside in. Looks like others do as well.

My dad reading to me was part of my bedtime ritual - he would leave work at 6:30 just so he could come home make us dinner, read to us and then return back to work for 9 (he's a lawyer who always worked too much). It was always so amazing - I had a lot of puppets when I was a kid and he would (depending on the story,…

@Seize: I do wholeheartedly agree and really like the way you phrased "agency differential between men and women." I was trying to put that into words earlier and was having some difficulty.

@Seize: I thought the point of the omega was that it was a man who was diverging from the ideal? Maybe I have misunderstood...

I think that a big source of the "omega female" can be seen in terms of the old Aunt archetype - the one that never got married, never had children and remained a "free spirit," so to speak. It is all about how we are defining success, as long as our culture only defines women in terms of being a sexual object, or a…

@MizJenkins: Well unfortunately for us that is entirely culturally dependant - and culture is not stagnant - however success in men is just as ephemeral. What is interesting in terms of female "success" is that by and large, traditionally it has been associated with reproductivity (although in fairness, so have men -…

@MizJenkins: I don't think we can say that women are more insecure than men. See, I would say men being insecure has resulted in a lot of really terrible stuff for humanity - looking at autobiographical work of the "great men," one can see that a lot of risky moves were due to so called "Napoleon complexes." I…

I really want this doll, and I don't know why.

This post should be titled "Why Marx Wrote Das Kapital."

@Cytochromeo: I think she meant "innate." I think, but who knows?

@Vivi21: Yeah, to clean that "golden shower" out of the mind I'd suspect.

@hdgotham: Totally.