“Totally nonpartisan Bush supporting Constitutional Law Scholar, Ann Altmouse” — Slate

In spite of all the progress we’ve made in the past few decades it is always sobering to be reminded that sexism and misogyny are still very much alive (and right here on Open Source!) This is exactly the scary thing about Alito being confirmed. Feminism is just basic human rights for women. Some men find the concept very threatening.

He’s right – the masses in this country (most likely the world) are indeed inertial, i.e., resistant to change in the status quo. If the liberals (and I’m pretty darned liberal) are worried about Alito’s projected effect on their applecart, (theirs and the media’s projections) shaking up the status quo in what they consider negative ways, it could be the “exterior force� necessary to rouse the populace from their workaday woes and change direction. As much as I would like to see dramatic change, (the kind a Bork might engender) I am also a passenger on the inertial express and wouldn’t want a catastrophic derailment (punctuation in the equilibrium) to occur. My revolutionary (evolutionary?) energy was expended during the 60’s and my current life ain’t so bad, so I leave it to the new generation of idealists to actively right their perceived wrongs. Until a critical mass of people get riled enough to act, nothing significant will change – the web may be just the needed catalyst. See what happens when they start (already started) to restrict that!!! See ALBY’s link, The Google Conundrum�: http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer129.html. Given the cyclical nature of social unrest, (a sociobiological prediction for Potter’s amusement) I’m expecting a mid 60’s golden anniversary in the next decade or so. Iraq should be at just about the same breaking point in the collective mind as Vietnam was 50 years before.

On the feminism topic: If everyone were Absolutely Moral, feminism and the LAW would be obviated.

Meanwhile, what’ll ya have? This bartender makes a fine margarita. And they’re better on the rocks than blended.

My apologies, I assumed, perhaps mistakenly, that you were an American because you used the salutation “dude”. Perhaps I was mistaken, the Internet being global, and you actually live in a matriarchal society somewhere and therefore would quite naturally see no need for feminism

“the whole notion that the conservative movement has been secretly conniving to overturn Roe v. Wade strikes me as conspiratorial and baseless�.

How true, they have not been secretive about it all.

as for you little yellow bird…

Granting you the benefit of doubt by assuming that your commentary on feminism is based on ignorance rather than malice I will point out what should be obvious. When an entire segment of society is treated with prejudice and precluded from positions of power based on biology the result is that biology and ideology become inextricably linked.