[Tax-chick]

I wasn't discussing the ideal life, I was discussing the real life.

And I suppose I was discussing the "ideology," risky as that is. If we accept the status quo - "employment as the center of the universe" - as normative, we begin to lose our ability to envision any other situation

discriminatory towards men

and at risk of being redundant, I think we need to guard against using "discriminatory" to mean "bad bad bad." We "discriminate" among things that are different. There is useful discrimination, and pernicious discrimination, but recognizing and evaluating differences is essential.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Well, you're right, you can shred the lingo to bits.

Let me ask you point-blank: Do you believe that fathers are less important than mothers, when it comes to the development of children?