Yes, oooooh, bad ally. Bad. Or, sorry, weird ally. I always kvetch, project, and split hairs when people make simple and good natured endorsements of groups to which I don't belong. And then I deign to call others out for being patronizing. It's really the productive, pertinent thing to do.
I'm not passionately defending Snooki (I don't know much about her record) or slamming Lindy; I set that up as an outrageous and impossible inference to show that hers was, too. The point I'm making is that you could keep a sorority house occupied for days jockeying for the upper hand in defending/treating/being the…
"Because nothing says "super committed to equality" like treating a human baby like a fashion accessory."
Oh, what's this? A thin, beautiful woman modeling lingerie? Welp, better retouch her until she no longer looks real! Mannequin is the new human, dontchaknow.
It's really creepy how magazines always photoshop women's arms and legs to be so stick-like. Apparently, attractive women are also weak. Why am I not surprised?
Really? As a woman, I've had that drilled into me since adolescence. If I get pregnant, it's all on me. If I don't want to get pregnant, it's all on me.
Child support is about the child, not about the mother. Child support determinations are made (much like custody and visitation determinations) using the "best interests of the child" standard. Once a woman decides to bring a pregnancy to term, has the baby, and begins raising that child, a man's rights to be free…
You keep talking about unplanned pregnancies when everything was done right, and while those do happen, and they suck if they do, the chance of a pregnancy occurring when the couple is properly using birth control drops so drastically that those types of unplanned pregnancies are extremely rare. Proper condom usage,…
"a woman's future should not be beholden to a fetus"
"In a world where that woman has easy access to abortion, she can then make the informed decision whether to terminate, or to have the child and raise it herself."
No. Telling a man to not put his penis in a woman is NOT the same as telling a woman to not "let" a man put his penis in her, for the following very simple reasons:
How about this, then?
It's NOT the same because that's not how the real world works. Most of the time a woman does not know (even if maybe she should know better) she will not have her partners support. Additionally, it's never going to be equal because a man can walk away much more easily than a woman can. Abortions cost A LOT. Birth…
You guys keep saying this, and it's funny because you really don't get the difference. I'm sorry, it's not funny. It's sad.
No. A woman has a right to do what she wishes with her own pregnancy because that pregnancy is happening in her body and is putting her own health and life at risk. The woman and man who contribute to the pregnancy both have a legal duty to support any resulting child. As soon as men take on the health risk that is…
I've got a couple of dudes arguing with me over how we can "always get an abortion, gawd, women!". It's pretty horrific.
Correction: SOME women have the ability to duck out physically with abortion or emergency contraception. It honestly depends on where you live and your financial situation. I think this conversation could be better had if women's reproductive rights in much of the country weren't being systematically stripped from…
Well, if a woman doesn't want a kid...her only options are to use contraception or not have sex. Ditto for a dude. I don't understand how stating those facts is somehow wrong or anti-women...? I'm not siding with the dudes in this article; all I'm saying is that we need to remind men that pregnancy is a consequence to…
Exactly. I have nothing to add to your commentary, I'm just horrified at all the positive attention illecebra85 is getting. Derailing at its finest.
