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Written by Margaret Wente 6chars Oct 2015 #1
exactly, least that's a more honest headshot. n/t uawchild Oct 2015 #3
How tall is Margaret Wente? Chan790 Oct 2015 #2
Sex is looked at negatively even though it is positive yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #7
I agree. Completely. n/t Chan790 Oct 2015 #15
The relevant question is how high are the ceilings jberryhill Oct 2015 #39
Maybe the lesson to be learned is that Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #4
Pursuant to lesson C 6chars Oct 2015 #5
Bwahahah. Good one :) nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #6
Lol! BeanMusical Oct 2015 #27
thank you... lame54 Oct 2015 #41
+1000 smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #13
^^^What Erich Said^^^^ ProfessorGAC Oct 2015 #47
Does this have anything to do with actual feminism? Cal Carpenter Oct 2015 #8
Yes, all to many women in the 70s were beginning to realize jwirr Oct 2015 #9
The Free Love movement began in the 1700s REP Oct 2015 #10
She was a feminist who thought women should be able to jwirr Oct 2015 #14
She objected to marriage and did not marry herself REP Oct 2015 #18
Mary Wollonstonecraft was married to poet Percy Shelley shrike Oct 2015 #21
You're thinking of her daughter. REP Oct 2015 #36
She married Wm (?) Godwin. catrose Oct 2015 #53
Quite true. As a former working musician and all that (sometimes sleazy) lifestyle.... BlueJazz Oct 2015 #12
Young people experiment so they can decide what's best for them. Avalux Oct 2015 #11
I'm sorry, I consider myself to be pretty open-minded when it comes to smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #16
The problem with women and one-night stands is that we secrete oxytocin sooner than men do shrike Oct 2015 #22
One guy's opinion, your second paragraph is not true. lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #23
No, not at all. And some women do find one night smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #26
What number of exceptions would make... lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #33
I don't know. Maybe if more men spoke up about how meaningless one night stands weren't all smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #35
Agreed on that one point riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #24
Eh Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #48
Well said. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #51
Her bitterness is unmistakeable. closeupready Oct 2015 #17
George Bernard Shaw in Maxims for Revolutionists REP Oct 2015 #19
I find this an odd charge MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy Oct 2015 #46
Well, simple - if she's in her 60's, she's probably not getting it closeupready Oct 2015 #49
I'm in my sixties MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy Oct 2015 #50
Just for future ref, I don't wade into gender controversies closeupready Oct 2015 #52
Wow. phylny Oct 2015 #54
WTF is she going on about? "Told about all this bad sex out there"!? Rex Oct 2015 #20
She keeps yammering "they've ben told" this and that tabasco Oct 2015 #25
it's worth reading the piece that is Wente's subject MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy Oct 2015 #28
+1000, The fourth paragraph is the gist of this message, I would say. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #34
you have confused me slightly :) MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy Oct 2015 #40
Sorry, actually I meant I agreed with your fourth paragraph from the NY Magazine article, so like smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #43
got you, thanks :) nt MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy Oct 2015 #45
sad how nothing really seems to change Skittles Oct 2015 #55
Haha - Total bullcrap! Oneironaut Oct 2015 #29
She goes way wrong in her interpretation of female empowerment riderinthestorm Oct 2015 #30
there's a sort of tension here: she's going after some fictional Dunhamesque "any sexuality is MisterP Oct 2015 #31
This article seems to be hitting a nerve with a lot of people. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #32
Funny. I got rather the opposite. REP Oct 2015 #38
please see my post no. 28 MsJaneFuzzyWuzzy Oct 2015 #44
DU only likes feminism when it makes women more sexually available. n/t gollygee Oct 2015 #56
As a guy, I have to agree with her. FLPanhandle Oct 2015 #37
It is natural to be confused about sex, love and finding a partner in life. Yo_Mama Oct 2015 #42
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