you would think, honestly, if you read this that the reason harriet myers was not the appointed to the supreme court was not because she lacked experience, but because she was a fashion faux pas. when reporters talk about a woman's appearance rather than the quality of their work and their experience, when they do this, it is a way of demeaning them and putting them down. now, the next category we also do not well in, and that is health and survival. we're only 37th in the world. and i'll tell you what health and survival is. this is a category that looks at the comparative years that men and women might live taking out years cut short by illness, by malnutrition and violence. violence against women reigns supreme in american culture. whether it's our popular culture in which pornography is increasingly graphic and available, for example, a friend of mine who teaches at the service academies said that the cadets are so comfortable with pornography that when she goes over to them in the library, they don't even bother to switch off the screen, and she's a department chair. they think it