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I don't know if "normal" is the word. It seems more common or socially acceptable for women who have those feelings to admit it, compared to men. There is also the factor that some men enjoy watching women together and some women will act that way for the benefit of a man or men. Yes...

Disbelieving in the Virgin Birth/ miracles of the Bible would put Jefferson, if he considered himself a follower of Jesus (which I haven't researched), within the category of Liberal Christianity (as a descriptive term), though not within Nicene (or "orthodox") Christianity (the old CF...

For what it's worth, forgiving means letting go of grudges for your OWN spiritual health. It doesn't mean you lay yourself out as a doormat to get stomped on repeatedly. You can both forgive and protect yourself from someone who has harmed you. You can also forgive AND get to the point of...

I refuse to accept "feminist" as an insult, although I realize some say it with hostility. Perhaps some men do not realize that our lives do not have to revolve around them, and this makes them sad.

To have my say in a representative democracy. And besides candidates, there are often ballot measures. One vote here, one vote there, soon you're talking about real numbers. In other words: there are plenty of people who vote like me, it makes sense to pump it up so we can win.

I guess the GOP will get the leadership it deserves. You have to put up with our cracks as we've already put up with the cracks about Pelosi.

De Blasio ran on, in part, cleaning up issues within the NYPD. Naturally the NYPD doesn't want him to do that, they seized this opportunity to try and undermine him.

Yes, there is poor coverage in one of 3 different ways I can think of off the top of my head: 1. The insurance plan doesn't cover a lot of medically necessary services/procedures. Much of this is now forbidden by Obamacare, but Obamacare has raised the price of plans, because some of the...

It is true I don't want a Postal/DMV clerk managing my health care... ^_^ But working down the road from the National Naval Medical Center for so long, I gather they have a pretty tight operation there.

I believe the underlying dynamics have more to do with supply and demand, unless the system intentionally uses wait listing as rationing (as Canada does) for some non-urgent elective procedures (and in Canada, as I understand it, the trick is timing your placement on the wait list carefully)...

There is not ever a wait list for Labor & Delivery, thank goodness :D

I love the tacit assumption in these discussions that no one would EVER have to wait months for surgery in the US, although people actually routinely wait months for certain elective surgeries in the US. I waited 6 weeks to have a gall bladder out, even. And I have had to wait up to 3 months...

There is a tax penalty for not buying qualifying insurance plan, as long as you have a certain income and you can find a plan that qualifies as "affordable" (usually up to about 9% of your income in premiums). Note that there is no requirement to buy a plan if you can't find an affordable one...

That is incorrect. Colleges are required by law to investigate accusations of sexual harassment and assault by students. What colleges and police actually appear to do is discourage victims from reporting on the (very true) grounds that pursuing charges in either forum can be traumatic for...

The legal definition of rape is similar in many jurisdictions. Most of the other offenses fall under some kind of sexual assault or sexual battery definition instead. The penalties are substantially similar.

Title IX requires the university to investigate--this is the law--and current Education Department regulatory guidelines say to use the "preponderance of the evidence." This is why the university MUST have a procedure and stick to it for its disciplinary investigations, hearings, etc. It does...

Would you have the authority to fire or discipline an employee for the assault? We had a guy steal laptops from the company. In addition to having him prosecuted, we FIRED his butt.

So the University has no responsibility or authority to discipline (suspend, expel, etc.) a student who assaults or harasses another student? Universities are responsible for keeping their campuses safe, in addition to whatever law enforcement does.

Eh, I wouldn't think the opinions of expats or foreigners are "totally unbiased." They just reflect different biases than you'd see domestically--more or less.

From what I can tell it's a Title 9 (civil rights of students) responsibility of the University. Criminal prosecution is another matter--most sexual assaults are not reported to law enforcement, and many are not reported officially to universities either. But more are to colleges than the...