It's not RADICAL feminism...

to wish that a woman would be the new head of the lapsed FDA panel on women's health/reproductive medecine. I'm willing to let it slide, though, and say just about anyone would be better fit for the post than Bush's current favorite - one Dr. Hager, a very babtist Ob/Gyn who refuses to prescribe birth control for unmarried patients. This lovely individual is also the author several christian women's health books. Among other things he likes to tell people than medical difficulties they're experiencing (abnormally bad pms, nasty menopause reactions, etc.) are best dealt with by reading certain passages of scripture.

Lookout, fifties, here we come!

Anyone who's talked to me about it at all knows I'm not exactly a font of neo-feminism. This issue ain't neo, it's freakin' archaic. And yes, normally I'm all for gender equality (not seperate but equal - here's news, we've tried it and it didn't work), and the fact that we should be interchangeable, basically, in the work place. But in this particular FDA position, I want a F*CKIN WOMAN!

Litteraly.

I mean, among other things, I don't want some old celibate spinster making decisions about what birth control I can get. This theoretical chic should KNOW what she's talkin' about. And religion just shouldn't enter into it.