[keats5]

Congratulations on your baby, Tax-chick!

About Dr. Laura- she tends towards brash overly siimplistic judgements, but that's just her radio shtik. She sounds so outrageous because her comments aren't P.C., and we're so unused to hearing that viewpoint.

The idea that women should be as polite to men has become foreign to American women. We expect men to sacrifice their lives for their families, but become unglued when they ask us to bring them a cup of coffee. (We'd do that for our girlfriends in a minute.)

[Tax-chick]

I don't have any problem with women being polite to men, or with traditional family roles (obviously :-). However, I do have a problem with the blanket characterization of men being interested only in food and sex. Not to offend any man who's happy to be seen that way, but that is sub-human.

Maybe I'm just fortunate in my husband, but he's a much more interesting person than that! If Dr. Laura wants to encourage respect for men, she's not going to do it by reducing them to the level of toddlers or hound dogs.

[Euro-American Scum]

About Dr. Laura- she tends towards brash overly siimplistic judgements, but that's just her radio shtik. She sounds so outrageous because her comments aren't P.C., and we're so unused to hearing that viewpoint.

I remember her when she started on LA radio back on KFI many years ago. She was on at night back then, and was much more. . . how shall I say it? Mellow? Civil? Whatever.

Anyway, she dialed it up several notches when she went national. Part of the strategy was to be outrageous apparently because it worked so well for Rush (who was the only other national radio talk show host at the time.)

She's got a good point with this new book, although I believe it's too late to have any lasting effect. Radical feminists have done their damage and will not go gently into that good night. They will go kicking, screaming, shrieking, squealing, hair-pulling with fingers pointed in accusation. They will demand support from the government -- the de facto new big daddy -- and they will get it.

Sorry, Laura, you're too late.

[altura]

That's what I'm always saying to my (sort of) feminist niece ... she cuts her girlfriends all kinds of slack but is ready to snap at men for very little.