One thing that I wish came up in these discussions is that while, (of course!) it is fine if you spent money you have to spend on your wedding, the weird reverse snobbery at people who spend less also silenty alienates (at least some of) people whose entire yearly earnings and budgets are less than what you spent on…

Wedding #1

Had no idea they were such a sizable portion of our readership.

Thanks, I just realized that in my previous life as an associate in a big law firm, I would have chosen a billable meeting over sex any day of the week.

"purity of my daughter"

If you conflate your identity with you clothes, then you have a whole other set of issues you should be addressing. Seriously, I thought Sartre put the final nail in this sort of thing with Andre the Waiter

*Uh...what are you doing?

It reminds me of that state senator (one of the Carolina's, maybe?) who proposed an amendment to an abortion law. The law was that any woman seeking an abortion had to get a transvaginal ultrasound. So she added the amendment that any man seeking a Viagra prescription had to get a colonoscopy.

I'd like to be the devil's advocate, but these Satanists know what they're doing.

By this logic, only Native Americans should be allowed to become Miss America.

Her writing is full of imagery but seriously needs some workshopping. On the other hand, making your reader nauseous with hundreds of vague metaphors is definitely a skill so I don't know how to feel about this.

Yes.

Which would be funny, except it's more like "Well, sorry you got human trafficked and raped and got pregnant as a result, but congratulations! We cut funding for early child care and family support for the poor so good luck on finding two or three part time jobs, we'll be doing our best to keep your minimum wage from…

To be fair, the bible is full of that kind of immoral bullshit. At least they're listening to their base.

"Well, sorry you got human trafficked and raped and got pregnant as a result, but congratulations! Here's some money $11.49 for baby supplies!"

So they want to force girls or women who have been trafficked into sexual slavery to give birth to their rapist's babies? Good job GOP immoral fuckwads for never ceasing to amaze me.

I want a bill which bans anyone who is not the person having an abortion from having any say about abortion legislation.

And then force them to carry and give birth to their dirty pointy stick splinter children, because that's what my religion tells me they should do.

I'd like to pass a bill which bans men from having any say over abortion legislation whatsoever.

Fuck these old white men. Fuck them with a dirty, pointy stick.