It grants them plenty of special privileges—property rights, hospital visitation, inheritance, easy name changes, all sorts of stuff. They’re just mistaking the fact that now other people are also offered those rights as somehow a diminishment of their own, which is not at all the case.

yeah, I was listening to NPR on my way in to work this morning and was a bit flabbergasted. They were being sooo careful to showcase a variety of opinions, but somehow during the time I was driving it just added up to hate and fear and complete misrepresentation of what the ruling entailed. It really brought me down.

I hear that sort of desire is pretty common, judging by my sample derived entirely from pornography.

This is one of the things people didn’t get when my ex of 6+ years and I split. He had a new girlfriend (now his wife) within like 2 weeks, and I didn’t even really begin to figure out how to detach for months after we broke up. I later found out that this was because he had been emotionally uninvested in the…

you must tell me how you did this magical thing!!!!

And even then, he’ll just convince her that his wife oops, *fiancee* is pregnant.

what, no love for Close Encounters of the Third Kind? Far and Away? ET???

I’m just saying, dude’s even defeated by his own argument. It may be a dumb thing to do, but he made it twice as dumb by making the argument without bothering to look it up himself.

I absolutely agree with you that there are more important things in the world.

they were just setting up for a Real Scotsman argument—no matter what the other person responded, they would say “that’s not real harassment—REAL harassment is when...”

also, I’m not sure that the person saying this has actually looked it up. I was going to bold the bits that matched the behavior in question, but then the whole thing would be bold.

THIS. The contrast between “that’s not harassment, all you have to do is unplug your computer!” and “but they’re bullying us!” is just too rich. It’s like they can’t even hear their own words.

well this is obviously the greenest way to masturbate—they’re like, a renewable resource!

I’m one of those people. I underwent surgery without telling my parents a few years ago, and for me at least, what “I didn’t want to worry you” really meant was “your worry is a burden that I cannot handle at the moment, and would only have made things scarier for me, and I’m choosing to look out for myself.”

+1 to this. The great thing about this is that you’d withdraw financial support whether or not she gets an abortion, so you’re not coercing or bribing her to make the reproductive choice you want her to make, but instead just letting her feel the full weight of her own choice.

Oh, making your children responsible for your feelings and actions is absolutely in the handbook. So much so that it’s pretty much the core issue that groups like Adult Children of Alcoholics deals with.

“an alcoholic narcissist who has lived his life spitefully resenting every decision he’s ever made”

Even if a defined end date doesn’t make sense for everyone, a timeline for making progress on the goals would. A patient that doesn’t meet a goal in 10 years time has a bad doctor, or at least a bad fit with her doctor.

Architects definitely have their own language. My auto-correct is constantly telling me that I use words that aren’t words when I write for work!

If he was just some random dude of her acquaintance or even most good friends I would 100% agree with you, assume someone knows their own mind and leave it be. However knowing one’s own mind is what therapy is for, right? If we’re to assume that all her choices are perfect and don’t need discussing, why would she be…