I loved the Giver.

[conuly]

Well, I did when I read it first. Eventually, I saw some serious logical problems with it - for example, it's implied that only one person can take a certain job every year. If that's the case, there can only be one Birthmother every year - and there's no way, if each Birthmother has three children, that they can have 50 children yearly. But really, I digress.

If you're going to complain about a book, do so logically. It does no good to complain that a book promotes euthanasia when, in fact, the main character decides to leave the safety of the village in order to protect somebody from this fate. And it certainly makes no sense to call it especially anti-male when women are shown in no special positions of authority.

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[azarias.livejournal.com]

Have you looked around the rest of this guy's site? Comedy gold.

Like the section on date rape. (http://www.trosch.org/the/daterape.htm#feminism)

Whether the use of restricted force -- without a threat being made -- would be considered rape, could be considered dependant upon the presence of the following considerations in relation to the female:

# Was she in the stage of her cycle wherein she was giving off pheromone's?

That's right, girls. Ovulation's punishable by rape.

[l33tminion]

"Her ovaries were asking for it?" Oy, vey...

[conuly]

Yeah, and his balls were just begging to be punched.