Not being an idiot, I'm aware that's the law. When I spare it any thought, I don't think it should be. Is it something I'm especially passionate or vocal about? No - bigger fish to fry. Woman's right to choose is obviously the much more important factor.

The ONLY reason I'm even engaging in this topic at all is because…

Actually this is something I do with my partners! It's not the easiest conversation to have but it's important.

First off, I'm not a man and I'm certainly not an MRA.

If I were to become pregnant at the moment, the primary reason I would terminate that pregnancy would be the financial hardship of the associated costs of pregnancy let alone child-rearing. If I were to carry the pregnancy to term and keep the child, I personally…

Right, I understand that. I understand that for women there's a whole bodily autonomy aspect to it, of course. I am a woman, by the way, and I firmly believe in a woman's right to choose. And I firmly believe that a man should have no control over what a woman does with her body. For me, if I were to become pregnant…

See, the thing is, that's rather similar to saying that a woman who has sex and gets pregnant needs to live with the consequences. I mean, I agree with the heart of your point - men cannot have a say in this. But if a woman has the option of terminating a pregnancy for whatever reason, shouldn't a man have the option…

If I were to get pregnant by someone whose views on the matter I didn't know, I just flat out wouldn't tell him. His opinion would not change my opinion, why pretend it's a discussion when it's not?

I really hope that whichever one of them is republican and probably against expanding coverage feels thoroughly ashamed and called out. Mom's all like YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD, BOY. YOUR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD.

I hate how spot on that is.

People actually tend not to change their minds, even with proof. Look at climate-change deniers, for example. She does not believe the accusations because she does not want to believe them. Even when given proof, the human brain is marvelously capable of stick its head in the sand.

Re: 'don't believe her' when a woman says she isn't ready to go for that promotion... I see how it's a bothersome statement (maybe there's tons of good reasons why she doesn't want to take that step just yet), however it's been shown in studies that women are less likely to apply for a job if they don't have every…

Rape, and stories of people being manipulated/lied to by panhandlers. Everyone has a story of someone they know who gave money to a homeless person and then later that homeless person was doing something morally wrong with said money or caught out in a lie or something. So people will use those anecdotes to…

"There are a lot of men like me who find sexual crimes abhorrent and find false allegations even more abhorrent, especially when supercharged by today's media/social media/reactionary public- because the effects can last for decades."


You specifically said you find false allegations 'even more' abhorrent than sexual…

Thanks for pointing this out. Three big cases in the past decade. That is fewer than the number of times I've been assaulted in the past four years.

Aaron Carter did a show at my alma mater a few years back! It was the year after I graduated, but my boyfriend was still a student. Pretty much no one went to the show, but my boyfriend ran into Carter at a tattoo parlor later that evening where he was getting a super douchey tattoo and hitting on the artist who was…

Um... the Crawford case is ONE OF THE THINGS PEOPLE ARE ANGRY ABOUT. You're looking at Garner and Brown as isolated incidents that people are protesting over. They aren't. Those are *representative* of an overall problem - police using excessive force against black men, generally unarmed, generally without adequately…

And most of the time it seems cops enforce the law without killing anyone. Except for predominantly black men. Funny how that works.

Wait, no, funny's the wrong word. Horrifying. That's what I meant. Horrifying.

Because when black people kill white people, they're fucking punished for it.
When a cop kills anyone at all we should look into it because that is NOT the job of a police officer. When a cop kills a black kid under questionable circumstances, you're damn right people are going to flip out. It took too long for the…

It says that our system still functions on an incredibly classist basis. It does. Anyone who thinks America is a class free society is fooling themselves. It just so happens that the economically disadvantaged class is largely made up of racial minorities. The two go hand in hand.

A poc who is economically well off…

Re: your last paragraph, read Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

Jesus. If that's the most someone has to be upset about in their life, I fucking envy them. Kinda the same way I felt about the whole #gamergate thing... the dudes bitching about "video game ethics".... damn I wish I had their problems.