Such imagery disgusts me and reminds of how movie moguels see women as nothing more than merchandise and their tirade about censorship is in truth limited to their frustration in being limited by the religious right in their ability to exploit women as far as they wish.

As for catholic hospitals. I was a scared pregnant teen who went to give birth at a catholic hospital and was circled by cold, tongue clicking, head wagging nuns all night in a 1950′s style maternity room left vacant save for sinning whores such as they deemed me. The catholic church does little for the advancement of women, damn little and much to keep it in check. In respect to those of the catholic faith I will stop right here with that.

My ex husband gave me HPV and if I HADN”T gone for an abortion to keep out of more desperate poverty with the man who didn’t believe in condoms, I would have had it for who knows how much longer? Poor women of all colors die of diseases the insured middle class and uppers have long forgotten about. Down here its just another day.

The right has no problem with the notion that handing out condoms encourages wanton sex,(and according to a poster here, spread of HPV), but with the same mind they say that making guns easily available doesn’t lead to more mindless killings?

Women can’t have the tools to have safe sex, but men had damn well better have whatever killing tools they so desire.

I like Al Sharpton and I’d love to see him and O’Leilly in a true debate forum. Would be like watching a verbal wrestling match between the Gorilla and Mouse Man. Now that folks, would be entertainment.

It shoudl read “promise” …as in “I promise to use spellchecker in the future…”

Emphasis mine, to point out that you clearly should not be trusted.

Dan Savage efficiently skewers the wingnut reaction to Chad Allen playing straight in End of the Spear. It’s a stupid protest that won’t get much traction, but they won’t get Dan’s point about Allen playing straight either. They’re so invested

Note: condoms will not stop this virus.

Stop, no, at least not entirely (though it may decrease the odds of transmission a bit). Help decrease the odds that it will progress to cancer, yes. See

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15356939&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15997496&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16461870&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=14566832&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Among many others.

The press release came out six months after the article was written

Sorry. This should be five months. The NS article appeared six months prior.

It’s a horrible, offensive image, but it’s also spot on. The image is accusing the MPAA of doing the branding.

True. However, if that’s the case they should’ve featured a naked man being branded, since the MPAA seems to be much harsher on male nudity than it is on female nudity. (Can you imagine Titanic keeping its PG-13 rating if it was Jack lying naked on the couch being drawn by Rose instead of vice versa?) Women, after all, are the sex class, and we have to prevent impressionable young people from seeing men objectified onscreen in the same manner. (But why do I have the feeling that the people who made this movie don’t mind the censorship of male nudity so much as they want female nudity to become more accepted and available?)