No, this is tautological: it's presuming abortions /are/ something to be proud of, like amputations — which preserve human life. Then, after you already assume abortions are something to be proud of, you say: of course PP should be proud! They're doing a thing that's pride-producing! But this is, as I've demonstrated,…

It is often used in a totally neutral manner.

If Smith & Wesson said, "we're proud to provide guns to people who use them as they're intended to be used," this would not be construed as Smith & Wesson saying they find gun death regrettable but sometimes necessary — as is admittedly true! It would be construed as Smith & Wesson having some obnoxiously…

Just today, Planned Parenthood said they're proud to provide abortions. That is, they are proud of causing abortions to happen, which is to say, they have generally positive feelings about abortion. They did not phrase it in the register of 'we deeply regret that anyone should ever make this decision, but recognize…

No way. There are definitely people who are legitimately pro-abortion, and they run the loudest left side of the pro-abortion movement. Other people are anti-abortion. Everyone likes choices and life, so those labels don't make sense. The only worthwhile and non weasely way to talk about this is pro or anti abortion.

"Need"

I just don't think that would really appease anyone on either side, you know? The pro-abortion women want it to be 100% guilt-free, as neutral as cutting your toenails. The anti-abortion women will never like the better-to-ask-forgiveness-than-permission approach, because if it's murder there really shouldn't be any…

Is it not the case that you can get a physician's note and take it to the school's accommodation office if you have a legit disability, though? I think it's a bit dangerous to get to the point where we pathologize everything — e.g. normal shyness around the opposite sex becomes a disease we have to accommodate. For…

No, my attitude is this: nobody "deserves" lacy tit cups.

I don't feel like I'm owed anything. I do not care if there are lacy tit cups to slap on my chest. If I felt like I absolutely /had/ to have them, I'd reevaluate my priorities.

Nobody is entitled to nice things.

I think it's pretty normal to have a multiplicity of role models right?

Sylvia Plath is less than a bad role model; she was a shit poet.

Unpopular opinion: I'm a professor, and I wish we had greater flexibility in dealing with students who plagiarise. The standards are quite harsh and rigid at my institution, but the unfortunate thing is that most kids who plagiarise essays do so because they're not native speakers of English and struggle in academic…

Sometimes I see these sloppy drunk twenty-nine-year-olds in sexy bumble bee costumes and I think, dear lord, do you put on conical party hats and go to chuck-e-cheese when it's your birthday?

Act foolish, I'm not trying to make it against the law. I'm just saying, I'm embarrassed for all the adults pulling their genitals out to celebrate a children's candy-getting holiday.

The ones people generally get off work for. I forget in the USA you get no time off work, heh.

Yeah, the ones you don't have to go to work on. Halloween isn't one of them.

You're not gonna stop be from being embarrassed by all the twenty somethings parading around naked and drunk on Halloween. This is a kids' holiday, guys. Dressing up and acting foolish is tantamount to wailing and sniffling for everyone to get up at 6:00 am on Christmas morning so you can open the presents Santa…

Babies are like skittles. They all look the same, just different colors.