what is feminism?

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actually. academic science has very little to do directly with medicine.

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That's why I didn't say it was directly associated with medicine.However, there have been many basic research discoveries in diverse fields which have eventually found themselves being applied in the medical field.Even applied sciences like Engineering are involved, designing things like artificial hearts with the knowledge and skills already existing in the industry, developed for other uses.

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and remember. there is more to science than biology and much more than medical biology. studies of deep sea worms will not make your pace-maker run better.

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No, but it may help us to understand "the bends" better and treat someone with it more effectively.Since these animals have very interesting chemistry, it may be that some compound they produce will be useful to medicine as a drug or drug component.

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but, as i said. an academic founded feminism.

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According to Pink, that's not how it went. How is it that non academic women had a conference on feminism a couple of decades before you say Feminism was founded?

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and who cares if you heard of it. who are you anyways?

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Me? I'm part of that populist feminist movement you have insisted is overrun with academic feminist ideas.So...if I've never heard of most of those ideas, maybe you (gasp) might be wrong about that.This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-30-2005 07:23 AM

OK, I retract "overrun".That populist feminism reflects some academic feminist ideas is not surprising.Gender is different from sex. That makes a lot of sense and is a useful, though limited, idea.That's one.

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leather, assless chaps (I love to say "assless chaps", don't you?)

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Uh, ALL chaps are assless, crashy.Take it from someone who has worn them for the purpose they were originally meant for.

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I did actually know that. (Assless, and inseam-less as well.) And I do know what they're really for.

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oooo, you knew about inseam-less, as well?How about half-chaps?I still own a pair of those.

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But isn't that a great phrase to say? I make a point to use it whenever I can.

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Yeah, it is a great phrase!All of those double 'esses'.I have a manager at work who uses the phrase as often as he can, too.He's a card. Of course, at work I have, on two separate occasions, slapped his behind, as well as made a reference to my having sex with a couple of ponies which were on the propery at the time.I have a really different workplace than most people, I think.

The difference is, of course, that this was a national magazine that had their facts completely wrong, compared to some individuals goofing around playing "can you top this?" in an office.Remember, this equipment doesn't have sexual connotations within the sport. Saying that it does is very inaccurate.I am well aware that people have "exported" the equipment for sexual use, so much so that it has become part of the popular culture. The author of the magazine article "imported" the sexual imagery back into the sport from the popular culture notions, which was silly.This message has been edited by schrafinator, 04-04-2005 08:48 AM