And, yes, a bit of a troll-y sort of day. Wasn't really meaning to do that there, but it appears I basically rolled a 1 on my write coherent post check.

'Giving into' is a bad predicate for what I meant, yes. The meaning I was trying to convey was that if by following someone else's 'you gotta be a mother first' ideology by not doing botany and thus not taking the best action against her depression that would be good neither for botany nor for mothering.

'Giving into' is a bad predicate for what I meant, yes. The meaning I was trying to convey was that if by following someone else's 'you gotta be a mother first' ideology by not doing botany and thus not taking the best action against her depression that would be good neither for botany nor for mothering.

Well, you can't be all that good at following your mothering vocation if you are giving into depression. No offense to all the sons and daughters of wonderful depressed women who are spending their time on the comment sites of the internet today.

Well, you can't be all that good at following your mothering vocation if you are giving into depression. No offense to all the sons and daughters of wonderful depressed women who are spending their time on the comment sites of the internet today.

I find that to be a pretty weak sauce counterargument. 40 isn't even a significant demographic time-frame except for excluding Johnson.

I find that to be a pretty weak sauce counterargument. 40 isn't even a significant demographic time-frame except for excluding Johnson.

With the Spartans slavery is probably a term that leads to some confusing. They did have some institutions that would be recognizably slavery-like to us just as we have many that would be slavery-like to them, but brutally abused client states would probably be the more accurate answer.

With the Spartans slavery is probably a term that leads to some confusing. They did have some institutions that would be recognizably slavery-like to us just as we have many that would be slavery-like to them, but brutally abused client states would probably be the more accurate answer.

I did because of cultural relativism and anti-imperialism, or did I not get the joke?

I did because of cultural relativism and anti-imperialism, or did I not get the joke?

Wait, I'm confused were the Spartans somehow morally unambiguous?

Wait, I'm confused were the Spartans somehow morally unambiguous?

No, um, see here's the thing…

No, um, see here's the thing…

No Pixar?

No Pixar?

You'd think that wouldn't you? And yet I find that if the people running the reunion know how to use FB it's actually a pretty helpful tool for pressuring people to go. That woman who's comments you've been following for two years now? You wanna actually see her face and hear her voice and see how her kids are doing.

You'd think that wouldn't you? And yet I find that if the people running the reunion know how to use FB it's actually a pretty helpful tool for pressuring people to go. That woman who's comments you've been following for two years now? You wanna actually see her face and hear her voice and see how her kids are doing.

Oh God, I want to believe you will be wrong about this, but I can't not believe.