Blogaround

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1. The Strange Political Silence On Elder Care (July/August issue) "But the fact is that, one way or another, society is already bearing these costs—mostly in the form of care provided by stressed-out, uncompensated women who have the misfortune of having a family member who needs care and can’t afford to pay for it. What we need is a way to distribute that burden more equitably."

2. Women Speak About Natural Family Planning (posted 2011) "If, as John Paul II insists, mutual delight in intercourse is proper only when conception is not impeded and when the possibility of its occurence is met with relaxed, joyful expectation; and if, as he also insists, intercourse is the only proper expression of marital sexuality; then for the typical couple enmeshed in ordinary responsibilities, opportunities for generous, appropriate marital sexuality are few in a lifetime. This is not, in my experience, the path to a happy marriage."

3. Woman Wins 50K Ultra Outright, Trophy Snafu for Male Winner Follows (posted August 15) "I felt bad that the first place man didn’t have one, so I tried to convince them to blot out the ‘fe’ on ‘female,’ but they said to just keep both trophies."

4. Why are queer people so mean to each other? (posted August 16) "Everybody was gaslighting everybody. Everybody was problematic. Nobody felt safe with anybody else."

5. Which MCU Planets Could Really Exist? (posted August 9) "So, as it is shown, not even getting into the seemingly infinite supply of water on the planet, Asgard definitely could not exist without a strong foundation of magic."