I Pit(y) Orson Scott Card

Yeh. It’s weird to read Lost Boys, where the protagonist was an unapologetic liberal Mormon democrat and try and reconcile that guy with Card’s recent works.

Of course, child molestation, and it’s effects on people’s psyche is a theme.

I’ve been told that peeing standing up isn’t impossible – isn’t even actually very difficult – for most women. There was a SDMB thread on the subject some time ago.

Also, there are straws with sort of funnel-like heads that women can use.

I know, I know: way way way TMI. But maybe someone here will find it useful. Going off the trail and peeing behind a tree should not be a male perquisite. This is an “equal justice” era!

There was a scene early on in The Full Monty, in which several women went into a public men’s room and used the urinals standing and facing them, just like men would. They had to arch a bit to get a good arc going though.

That sounds like too much trouble to express my disapproval. I can think of other methods to get my point across.

Well, you could knock him down first. :smiley:

As my 72 year old mother proves every time she golfs (frequently more than once), it isn’t.

A short list of his various whackadoodlios- and not just towards the Gayites- on today’s CRACKED.

The first one’s quite amusing as Card in the afterword of one of his novels in the late '90s criticized the missile strikes by Clinton against Al Qaeda targets.

I can’t believe nobody has slapped him.

I’ve wondered, sometimes, if he isn’t hoping to get on the Koch brothers’ payroll, or something. Maybe a good bit of the uber-conservative schtick is a pose…but I really doubt it.

I’ll quote my response to the Cracked article.