That's exactly what we're doing: talking about lived experiences, but since they don't fit your preconceived sitcom notion of how relationships work, they're outliers and don't contribute to the conversation.

I trade the entire life of every one of my ova on a monthly basis by not having unprotected sex with my husband. Poor little unfertilized angels. You're right - we should start rawdogging it so I can make fetuses that the millions of loving infertile couples can bid on. Good thing we're both white!

Your CAPS are REALLY CONVINCING ME

Even if we assume that her overall feelings and pregnancy symptoms will be different next time because of the genes of the zygote, there's no way to test the truth of that - it's more likely that pregnancy will feel the same for her so all her experiences of the two fetuses will be indistinguishable from each other.

I heartily disagree. Despite genetics producing different end results, most fetuses just look the same as each other and produce comparable symptoms. What she's feeling now as a pregnant woman will probably be indistinguishable from what she feels next time she's pregnant.

Uh, I mow my lawn because my husband's allergic and I was the one who wanted a house with a lawn.

So, you're saying this is something that applies to some, but not all, men?

Uh, yeah, let's pull a gun on the guy who is probably better at hand-to-hand AND gun fighting. Then he gets a free goddamn gun. That's probably what he was in their house for in the first place.

I was hoping when they said "dude," they meant a confident take-no-shit kind of person.

TUUUUUUDORS

That kinda matters to horny adult me. Can't judge.

Whatever you say, Least Memorable Ghostbuster.

You dodged such a bullet.

Mesmerizing.

I'm torn. Part of me wishes her parents had helped her review and revise (omg paragraph breaks) before sending, but part of me thinks it's very empowering for her that they didn't.

>[...]the young lady in question was the sexual aggressor in that interaction.

What the hell is this show even about

You guys are so funny I am almost believing in plural marriage. Or adult adoption, or something.

You know how we (feminists) always say victim blaming rape victims is bad, because they didn't cause the crime? We say things like, "If you get mugged and go to the police, do they ask you what you were wearing? Do they say you shouldn't have worn those expensive shoes?"

Or we could just try to give people respect for their lifestyles and personalities, even if they grow out of them later. There's no value in defining the "Cool Girl" demographic just to dismiss it as immaturity.