Where have I been rude to you? I asked politely for the telltale signs and twice mentioned that it was a genuine request and I was really interested; I still am. I attempted the Google search you suggested but found nothing.

Whereas I wanted boys so I could raise them to be strong, respectful, self-aware good men any woman would be proud to be with.

The article read pretty thoroughly to me that having a preference for a boy for any reason is wrong; reread the last three paragraphs.

Or they have other reasons that are nothing to do with that.

You are NOT. You're not complicit in anything. You have every right to feel the way you do and there is nothing wrong with you or your feelings.

It's not shitty of you. Your friend is a bad mother and what she's doing to her daughter is shameful.

Oh, I know there are irritating navel-gazing men who speak such patronizing nonsense as well. It's just been my experience that women are more likely to do so. And the author certainly did, and worse, her crap was incredibly patronizing.

Yes, that's true, but the article didn't seem to me to be so much about why those specific reasons are wrong as why it's just wrong in general to want boys instead of girls, and she seemed to reduce all women who feel that way into feeling that way because of stereotypes and "wrong" thinking. One of my reasons WAS…

Oh, {{{hug}}}! I'm so sorry that happened to you! (Is it wrong/unfeminist to say that maybe it helps to know there are men who find our shape sexy, since clearly at least one of your male acquaintances does, and I've certainly had my share of men who dug my body?)

I'm not sure what words I inserted into your mouth. You said she was an addict and that one reason you know this is that she exhibits certain physical signs (which you declined to share with me despite my polite request). You told me that a Google search would show the other evidence on which you based your claim, but…

I am so sorry for your losses, and will be thinking of you.

Mine certainly did. I'm one of the least girly women I've ever known, and both of my girls are crazy for pink and Barbie and sparkles and Little Ponies and all that hideous crap.

It's awesome to judge women who dreamed their whole lives of having a son, isn't it? Because something is obviously wrong with those of us who had a hard time growing up as girls, who never really understood or had great relationships with other girls, who were, say, molested as children and so find the idea of…

(ETA: I didn't see your reply to @KeyserSoze when I wrote this, so ditto on the "purpose of women's colleges" thing; I'm leaving my statements about it, but just letting you know I didn't intend the saying-what-you-said-already part.)

How is it a strange word in that context?

I was thinking that too.

FFS = For Fuck's Sake.

No, what you said was that posting pictures of Angelina Jolie without putting them in "context" by saying she was unnaturally thin and that's a wrong way to be is "promoting an unhealthy ideal" that "for most people is only achieved by semi-starvation." This strongly implies that being thin=an unhealthy ideal and that…

Sorry, but what proof is there that Angelina Jolie is a heroin addict? Was she busted for possession and I didn't see that article? Has she publicly spoken of her addiction? Do you have pictures of her grinning as she spikes up with Moroccan Brown? Have there been reports of her nodding off on set?

Plus, I don't think she actually moved to NY at eighteen on the show, did she? I seem to recall her mentioning being older than that.