This is so true. We've fostered litters for a local rescue group and things can go south very quickly.

If you'll read carefully, you might note that I refrained from using words like "always" and "never". Obviously gender norms have big-picture impacts on the lives of both men and women. In my - again, non-scientific observational anecdotal - experience, men do not report these types of impacts as readily.

I know that. It's an online class and I do not find that same gender disparity to generally be the case.

That does make sense and I see where you're coming from. That's actually something I've been thinking about a lot lately in regard to this subject. If I thought someone was literally committing murder I would want to do everything in my power to stop them.

I teach a course on Cultural Diversity and we spend some time talking about gender. I like to ask students about times when gender expectations have limited them. At first I was surprised to see that men were far more likely to respond with examples than women. Then I started thinking about their answers. Men were…

I don't have a problem with a charity organization which provides help for needy mothers. I have a problem with an organization that lies to and otherwise tricks women in an attempt to keep them from aborting at all costs. I'm sure these places can and do provide good things for people. And as long as they stuck to…

Agree.

Would you like that person to be your mother? Ideally she'd be more responsible than that, but because she's not, she has one child instead of five.

There's a pin I keep seeing on Pinterest, an image of a church sign (real or photoshopped, who knows) that says "God prefers kind atheists over hateful Christians". I've seen it three or four times now and it is always accompanied by annoyed responses about how wrong the statement is.

Hmm, interesting. I've only heard it in reference to social justice issues.

I happen to think the article has some good advice too, but allow me to borrow from a source I cannot remember to make the following analogy. A certain percentage of this advice is good and a certain amount is shit. Even if only 10% is shit (and in my opinion, it is much much higher,) how much shit is acceptable in a…

Thanks for this! So much more rational and less deliberately inflammatory than the original article.

Because people don't think about it from the standpoint of abortions in the case of something being very wrong with the fetus. They only think about things from the standpoint of a "perfect" "baby" that is being aborted solely due to the mother's whim. Saving babies pain! What could be wrong with that?

I'd be interested in engaging in a sincere exploration of the merit in this article if you would give a few examples. I'm not being sarcastic.

Yay for you! I volunteer at a shelter and people usually are either totally turned off by the special needs pets or they want them even more.

I agree. For the most part the discussion on this site is great, but when someone posts something that goes against the dominant cultural paradigm of this particular tribe (a paradigm I happen to gleefully and wholeheartedly support, by the way), there are many nice replies, a few annoyed replies, and one or two…

My family never did that, but my inlaws do. I worked in retail one year and THAT was a mess. Working in retail kind of gets you in the retail mindset - I ended up shopping the sales that year because I heard people talking all day about the sales. You can get some pretty good bargains... but definitely not worth the…

I want to copy this so I can show it to everyone when they ask why I don't like Twilight. The relationship in the book is seriously flawed to the point of abuse. Does that mean that every girl who reads it will automatically fall into a pattern of abusive relationships? No, because critical thinking skills, self…

I came in here to say this but you had already said it, and probably much better than I would have.

He's a published author because he's an award-winning actor and singer. I've read his first book and it was fine, but I doubt it would have been published without his fame behind it. So... you really only need to feel bad about the acting and singing part.