I did read the article. It’s a stupid law, meant to make people feel something is being done to fight eating disorders, when nothing is actually being done. (I know there’s a word for that but it’s early where I am.)

Yes. The rule should be that in order to claim affiliation with the college, or university, the club cannot have exclusive membership. No rushes. No rites of passage meant to create an “us”/“them” mentality. Basically... no culty shit.

You conveniently skipped a sentence in my post:

I’m going to go full on ad-hominem here: This man and his family are completely predictably vile, basic, trash. Of course he was in the military. Of course his mother is a retired educator who now runs a “crafts” retreat for other women. Of course it took her years to separate from Mr Oliver, who of course spent eight…

This is what I really worry about with sororities and fraternities. 18 - 21 is a time when, from a developmental standpoint, people should be learning really specific social skills: How to build friendships on the basis of individual compatibility instead of institutional affiliation. How to be friends with people of…

“College in this country needs to be far, far tougher...both academically and admissions-wise.”

You’ve just circled back to where you began, insisting on a premise you don’t actually believe: That embryos, fetuses and infants are people in a way that justifies comparing their interests to that of women. They’re not. You know this.

You want an answer? Log on to pinterest. Search for Ivanka Trump.

Basic empathy towards women looks like mental gymnastics to misogynists. That’s how you know you’re a misogynist: Cause you want to live in a world in which little girls, and women of all ages, are forced to bring to term babies that they can’t raise, and then give them up.

Oh God... whyyyyyyyyyy. Why God. Why.

I know the plot because I read all of Jenny Trout’s breakdown. Which totally justifies the existence of this series: http://jennytrout.com/?p=3208 

He is the most cutest ever. I get so excited every time he is on Portlandia. And he was one of the best things about the one great episode of X-files last season. “Do-on’t sneak up on a guy.” He has the best comedic phrasing. And I love that he loves x-files, and that he had a nostalgia podcast about it.

“We all have dreams, most of them don’t work out, I’m not going to elevate someone’s failure to conceive to a damn tragedy.”

People who suggest adoption as an alternative to abortion are being sociopathic. (And to be fair, I recognize that the desire for a child is fueled by biology, and can compel normally kind people to express sociopathic views.) But we can’t turn poor women, or women who don’t have the emotional resources to mother,…

It’s just crazy. I do not understand these people who ask, “Would you rather have never existed?” I really want to know if they don’t understand that this question is meaningless, or how weird it is to suggest that we should run around doing what ever results in the maximum number of future people.

Your question makes no sense. Suggesting that a woman should have a child because it will be happy it exists doesn’t make sense. Yes, most people who exist find their own existence preferable to the alternative. That’s part of our subjectivity, whether or not we actually enjoy existing. But we don’t base our decisions…

You are being self-indulgently rhetorical. You know that an embryo is not a fetus, that a fetus is not an infant, and that an infant is not a child. Everyone knows this. All fundamentalists know this, just like they know that, in reality, the earth is not 4000 years old, etc. etc. You are just gas lighting those of us…

Yes. But also fuck anyone who says that not wanting a child, despite having resources, isn’t a good enough reason to have an abortion. And fuck anyone who mentions adoption as an alternative to abortion: Just because a person knows they don’t want, or can’t, sublimate their needs to raise a psychologically healthy…

“It’s like as a society we have turned the experience of getting a successful abortion into a Stockholm syndrome experience.”

What? I thought I was FINALLY part of the gang. Or a gang at least. You mean I’m all by myself? :(