I'm down for aborting until... how old are you?

Yes, the timing of the vaccines is roughly around the time when you'd start noticing several sorts of autism in children. Just like how I could blame dementia on heart medication, because my grandparents and parents showed mental decline right after having to start taking the serious stuff.

It's horrible that she's basically saying that her child is a punishment from God.

And I just couldn't resist the opportunity to be a smug English major vocab queen. :)

You mean elude, not allude. Using the wrong homophone kinda takes the bite out of self-righteous snark, eh? :)

The heat makes them irrational....

Attendance fee for high school graduation: $20

I mean, they could just do it in the school gym if they're broke. It doesn't have to be a pageant.

Charging people to attend graduation is bullshit, even if it's 5 cents.

So your solution to a society that teaches men (yes, yes NOT ALL MEN) that women are theirs for the taking so long as they don't call it rape is to leave unchanged a business model that reasserts directly the idea that women *who are not sex workers* are there to satisfy men's sexual desires? That's...one idea.

How about it's possible to appreciate the bodies and sexual attraction/beauty of *people* without that being "objectification."

That's the real difference.

My husband, a man, finds many women attractive (all sizes, colors, and ages). He can see that these women are attractive, he can appreciate their beauty, and he…

That's the tartan from the MacLabia clan of Scotland.

NOPE.

I can smell when one of my friends is on her period (yes I am Wolverine) and it's still waaaaaaaay better than smelling a fart.

So why don't you quit telling people, work 40 hours a week for a couple of years and then retire.

Hey now; if you think about it, with both the above monstrosity and the 'just wear pants" approach to women's bodies and personal space in public, both those slopes have burkas at the bottom. Just sayin'.

"Why does it immediately fall to her to "do what he wants or GTFO"? "

Yes, but that said, if the idea clearly devastates your partner and he/she only agrees to it in a desperate attempt to save the relationship, I don't think it's super-ethical to accept that agreement.

Given that you're disregarding anything unless you've personally experienced it, as one man to another (because clearly you'd never take the word of a woman) I'd say no, you are most certainly not "an ally."