Grab bag – Sunday Night

Posted on: June 13th, 2010 by ecthompson md No Comments
  • Celtics are playing great basketball. They are on the boards and they are making their shots. Kobe is shooting lights out, but the rest of the team seems to be in wonderland. It is midway through the 3rd quarter.
  • Something smells rotten in the SC elections.
  • Barbara Bush, daughter of the former president, thinks that healthcare is a right. Hey, she has her own thoughts. I'm proud of her. (I wonder if Liz Cheney will put her in a headlock until she says insurance companies are good.)
  • Boehner is changing his tune on whether or not BP should pay for the spill.
  • Rand Paul isn't Board Certified. That's interesting.
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Dr Thompson wrote:"If you don't believe that women see the world differently then men, I can't help you. Women whether they are R's or D's or I's or Black or White or Brown see the world thru a different lens than men do. Even if they have the same conclusions as their male counterparts, they usually get to the answer differently which means that they would right their opinion differently and it means that the laws would interpreted differently. If you can't see this then I can't help you (and you are probably not married)."Your post is full of misperceptions and wrong guesses.All women do not think alike, just as all men do not think alike.Your implicit assumption is that all women process information and make decisions 'one way' , while all men process information and make decisions a 'second way'.As a doctor and as a student of human nature, you should be able to see the obvious error in that POV. Your politics apparently overrule your scientific training as well as your common sense.If your assumption had been correct, then all women would always come to the same POV, and all men to a different shared POV.But they don't. Not even close.I am amazed that you cannot recognize the sexist assumptions implicit in your reply.People make decisions as INDIVIDUALS not just 'as a man' or 'as a woman'.It might make great fodder for a comedy club routine to talk about 'how men think' as compared with 'how women think', but it doesn't reflect reality.There isn't 'one' way of thinking for men and 'one' way of thinking for women. There just isn't.And I am married, quite happily for a long time thank you.

Dr ThompsonYou have the right to travel to Alaska.That doesn't mean that I have to pay your plane ticket, or explain to you how to drive there, or drive you there myself.You need to learn what the difference is between a 'right' and everything else in this world.

Obviously, everyone in America has, and has always had , the right to have health care.The question is : do you have the 'right' to force others to pay for your health care?NO.Everyone has the right to purchase food and clothing. (Food is an even greater necessity than health care, is it not?)But you don't have a 'right' to force others to pay for your necessities.The shallowness of Miss Bush's comments is obvious, just as her mother's comments turn out to be equally vapid. 'I'm glad Kagan was nominated because I would like 3 women on the court'.Who cares what gender a judge is? Isn't the crucial thing whether a judge will make decisions that uphold the Constitution and protect the rights of citizens, not whether they have male or female plumbing and hormones?Liberals applaud that which totally misses the point.

No, you are 100% wrong on this point. Everyone does not have this right. If you have hypertension and diabetes where are you going to go if you don't have health insurance? you are 30 years old and you live in Shreveport, La. Where? There is no place to go. If you can't get care then how is that a right. If you don't believe that women see the world differently then men, I can't help you. Women whether they are R's or D's or I's or Black or White or Brown see the world thru a different lens than men do. Even if they have the same conclusions as their male counterparts, they usually get to the answer differently which means that they would right their opinion differently and it means that the laws would interpreted differently. If you can't see this then I can't help you (and you are probably not married).