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Primum non nocere - First and foremost, do no harm.

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• A reply on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Feb 8 2013: The Chronicles of Narnia...The Golden Compass...The Railway Children...
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  A reply on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 27 2013: Why is so much credence given to this Bechdel test? Lesbian Spank Inferno passes it with flying colours...does that make it suitable role-model material?
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  A reply on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 25 2013: Ashton, children naturally emulate what their parents do...it's how they learn. But why do my children refuse to eat vegetables when I eat them daily? Could it be that they don't like them? Could it be that vegetables taste bitter to children and people are hard-wired to avoid bitter things in nature as most poisons are bitter? Children will, of course, be influenced by their parents but only to a certain degree. As for jumping in muddy puddles, who doesn't like that?

• A reply on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 25 2013: Louise, http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1654371,00.html
  There is a case for people being hard-wired for colour preference.
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  A reply on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 24 2013: I know what the point is meant to be,,,I just think he's wrong. The little boy had never seen anything like Star Wars before and he loved it. When had he been taught to love it? He'd obviously seen The Wizard of Oz but it didn't work for him as a 3 yr old boy. Why do department stores sell basically 2 colours in kids' clothing...pink and blue? Because they want to indictrinate the children and mould them into defined gender roles? Nonsense, They do it because it sells...it sells because because that is what they like and want. Try giving my daughter anything other than pink or purple ...not interested. Been like that since she was able to express a preference. My son's the same...put him in the country for 5 minutes and he's hunting something. My daughter organises things. Nobody taught either of them to behave like that.
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  A reply on Talk: Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us

  Jan 24 2013: Exactly. Why do animals cram themselves with food before winter if they have no idea of what is to come? Why do they migrate?
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  A comment on Talk: Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

  Jan 24 2013: So, little girls like The Wizard of Oz because it appeals to female tastes and boys like Star Wars because it appeals to male tastes. Why try and make boys like what the girls like? What's the point? Why don't you just show both kids both movies and let them decide?
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  A comment on Talk: Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

  Oct 29 2012: She starts her talk by saying how lucky her generation is... I disagree. Women have been persuaded over time that that the place for them is in the workplace, not at home. Modern women now have the pressures of home and work. It's a competitive place so now there is academic inflation. People now need doctorates instead of a degree. Most leave university in great debt and start work the same way. Most are miserable. Prices are sky-high. Mortgages are expensive. Both father and mother are forced to spend more and more time away from their children. This is great for businesses....great for governments...a recipe for disaster as far as families are concerned.
  
  We need to re-think this. I'm not suggesting women return to work. Both should work part-time or one of them should stay at home full-time....male or female.

• A reply on Conversation: What is Art to you?

  Jul 15 2012: Yeah, I get that. But what I mean is how is art different from any other means of communication? How is it different from music or verbal communication? what makes it art?

• A reply on Conversation: What is Art to you?

  Jul 14 2012: Yes, but talking is communication too...how is art different from talking or any other means of communication?