Pregnancy is a silver lining? Nah b, pregnancy is continuing the punishment and torture and invasion of your body.

How does she not get that what she's saying IS punishing innocent people? Rape already disrupts someone's life - let's add 18 years of taking care of an unwanted child to that.

First of all there is no golden path for mothers at work. It’s not a rose garden.

Yes to allll this. For years his thesis was that she was an adult fully capable of being in a relationship and making this grown up decisions, he was never part of her life growing up, etc. And now he plucked her from an orphanage in Korea and has given her this great life.

He could be talking about a puppy. I rescued her and cleaned her up and now look at all the cool tricks she does! Yay Me!

God, that whole interview was unsettling. I have done XYZ for her. I have given her XYZ. Me me me. I, I, I. Ok what do you like about her? How has she made you into a better person? Hmmmm...Constant gratification & pleasure. That’s not an answer.

Hard to say. Her adoptive mother says she was 15 or so when Allen starting sleeping with her/leaving nude pictures of her around the house, but Allen and Soon-Yi claimed after the fact her age was misestimated from the time she was in the orphanage and she was actually 21 at the time (that the orphanage could be off…

Also, boasting how you improved the life of a little kid eating out of trash cans is not the achievement he thinks it is, even if it were him who did that, which he is not. I have no money, but even I could literally improve the life of a little kid eating out of a trash can. Fuck... die, Mr. Allen. That way you will…

He basically is acting as a slaver here. This shit is so disgustingly colonial it makes me want to vomit.

For him to think he deserves any credit for ‘saving’ her is just repugnant.

By the way, he was in a documentary called Wild Man Blues almost 20 years ago, and he had exactly the same narrative about himself and his relationship with Soon Yi (describing her eating out of trash cans, pointing out how he allows her to travel the world, etc.). Nice to see that his view of their relationship, and…

Also it kind of steps on all his attempt over the years to insist he played no paternal role in her life whatsoever so that's why their relationship isn't wrong.

You know, feeding and clothing a child, helping them get an education, experience the world - that sounds a lot like parenting. Except the whole creeping-on-you-when-you-were-a-child.

And he seems a little confused about who exactly changed her life by adopting her from Korea.

When your first response to “how has your wife changed you” is “well, she gives me a lot of pleasure” ... that is not a healthy dynamic.

Remember that whole “they hate us for our freedom?” Yeah, that’s what’s actually happening here. If fear of violence dissuades people from doing or speaking about abortion, their violence is working and is curtailing our freedom.

That phrasing has always struck me, too. It makes it sound like abortions are the only thing these doctors do, and that’s not true at all!

extreme affliction and malheur

You can only conclude one thing from the professor’s statement: that he, too, is a rapist.

I hope this guy is skewered. To men like him, 15-year-old girls and their feelings, goals, etc. are expendable. Girls (and women) are just obstacles on the way to greatness, clearly. It worries me that he has a place of authority, but then again, somehow I’m not surprised. :(