Recent content by Juditha

...abortion pay for an ultrasound? If a woman is a victim of rape, she doesn't need to actually view the image but she still has to pay to have it performed but other women will be required to view the ultrasound. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who has come under fire from the right for being too...

other and maintain pretenses? This isn't something I believe but it's something my step dad (an awful cynic) has maintained. He compares most marriages to a story he tells about his Uncle Irving in NYC. Uncle Irv for a long time went to an Italian butcher shop and would point to a ham and...

Someone who escaped from an insane asylum on another planet.

I was talking to my mother who is entering into semi-retirement as an art appraiser and has finally begun having real success as an artist in her own right, working at it in her off hours. The thing is, she had a lot of complaints about the mentality of many art collectors, people who see art...

If you had to, in the space of two months, stop smoking (say it was a light habit: a cigar once or twice a week), drinking (a drink or two a day), caffeine (tea, coffee, cola, energy drnks), red meat, fried foods, salty foods, would you expect your mood to improve due to the healthier lifestyle...

...analogies and such...? ...what about lesbian and bisexual women? Since women are often much more of a challenge than men (which I am quite willing to admit), would you consider a woman who manages to seduce a lot of other women to be a "slut" or a "stud"? I can assure you, it ain't easy!

...sexuality? As a bisexual woman, I've been called both and quite frankly, I'd much rather be called a s l u t. It occurs to me that while many straight women are called that, very few are called perverts. Whereas men, regardless of sexual orientation, get called perverts all the time. Which...

...your opinion of...? ...self-described feminists who accuse other self-described feminists of not being TRUE feminists because of disagreements over particular issues, e.g. abortion or pornography? is this a legitimate tactic or should it be off-limits if the person fits the dictionary...

Princess Diana? Was it just that people kept going up to here and saying, "Lady, DIE!" (Sorry, MisChief but the joke was too good to resist.)

arguments, not people? I've been pretty open about some of my health concerns but many people aren't aware that at least two regulars here are dealing with far more difficult medical problems. And I imagine there are more I am not aware of. Sometimes a person's replies to questions may be...

I had a wonderful time this afternoon and evening preparing Pasach Seder with my fiancée. Usually it's a big deal and we go to my mother's but we decided to do it at home just us and he's been teaching me the Sephardic traditions and how to cook some things. TNow, I know how to make Syrian...

e.g. the definition of "feminism", the definition of "gay", the definition of "masculine", or the definition of "sex"? If so, on what basis are dictionaries written? How do you account for semantic shifts documented by the iterations of those very dictionaries? How do you account for...

With my mother, I always feel like nothing I do is good enough. Perhaps that's part of a mother's job. I feel this way with my future mother in law as well but I can also understand that this might be to be expected. But I find it generally with the older women in my life. In fact, since my...

OK WELL I STARTED TESTING THE DAY OF MY MISSED PERIOD AND GOT + ON OVER 6 HPT WITH IN 1 WEEK THEN I GO TO GET BLOOD DONE AND THE DOCTOR SAID THAT AM ONLY 3 DAYS THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE BECAUSE HPT SAID + 1 WEEK AGO WHAT COULD BE GOING ON WITH ME