I extra-love this argument, because it has this bewildering assumption that marriage is so important to people that they won't actually have relationships or sex outside of it. Which is... demonstrably false. Like, uh, governor guy, if gay people wouldn't be gay because they couldn't get married, THERE WOULD NOT BE…

Ha, yes!!

That person also used the word 'misandry' in a non-joking fashion, so there is that.

Removing any 'forecasts' in that, it's still incredibly damning data (most of these are recorded FACTS, not things that can be spun - the deficit is a hard number!) and does not at all fit with the Harper The Economic Saviour image that you seem to be plugging.

I'm just going to leave this here:

Thank you!! I'm so glad you and your hubby worked out. :) Those rules sound REALLY smart.

Oh, thank you. This is good to hear. I still feel awful for the whole situation, like I should have delayed seeing him, but we thought we were in love and really, a week later he probably would have still been struggling. :( I left out a lot of details, like he couldn't stand the TV being off or not on specifically…

Thank you!! I actually found romantic satisfaction semi-online - my current boyfriend and I knew each other in high school, but got to know each other on Steam playing Left 4 Dead 2 for 6 months before we went on a date (lol). I'm sorry your connections did that shitty online-to-reality transition too!

Me too!! I still feel bad for him! I don't think I should have (or could have) stayed or made it better, but I regret not giving him time to acclimate to Canada again before we hung out, and handling it better all around. Poor guy. To be fair, the hotel room on his first night was his idea, but that sure was a good…

Addition: I mentioned we talked pretty frequently, but what that really was was 3 months of talking every day somehow, and Skyped/phoned at least 4 times a week. And he sent me flowers for every major holiday, including Halloween, and once just 'cause. It felt pretty awesome at the time!

Ha, thank you!! It could have gone much worse, and I did feel like a total idiot for being so trusting that our LUuuRRvv meant we would totally want to have sex, and that I trusted him enough to sleep in the same room. I still think he's not a bad guy, but also not the guy I thought he was (ONLINE DATING YO), and we…

I fell for a medic in Afghanistan that I met on eHarmony. I never wanted to date a soldier, but he was a medic - SAVING PEOPLE, right? - and he was super sweet. He called me on a satellite phone pretty frequently, we Skyped, etc etc. I refused to 'officially' date him until we met in person, until one day he was…

Maybe that's what you meant to say, but the result was defending his mention of Kunis' pregnancy as a cause for her attitude, which is what I'm responding to. I do think that when the only data he has is 1) Kunis is pregnant, and 2) Kunis is being rude to him, jumping to "it's because she's pregnant" is a…

I'm not with Lainey, but not with you either. We aren't okay (well, most feminists, I don't know about you) if someone says "oh, that politician was kind of sarcastic today, maybe she was on her period". Because taking women's behaviours and boiling it down to biology without knowing anything specific is minimizing.…

THANK YOU. That's what's bugging me about the whole thing - it doesn't fit with any excuse for the prison, except incapacitation, which is extreme. You don't need to physically remove this woman from society to stop her from doing this again.

Yeah! Fuck Canada! That part of Canada represented by ... swans!!!

Sorry, you're right, it isn't an accident - but it also isn't murder. Causing something without intention is still not an accident, I should have been more clear, but what is a better word for it? Negligence generally means that it wasn't intended, but is still harmful anyways. That's an appropriate word here.

Yes! It is totally dumb and unsafe! They should do an awareness campaign! Do you know how many cities they could cover in billboards and commercials they could make with what it costs to imprison a woman for five years? Hmm? Quite a lot.

That's it, exactly. People are using words like "justice" and "fair" because they think they're something morally good, rather than vengeance, which is bad. Newsflash, awful commenters - in this case, there is no difference. There is no supernatural measure of what someone "deserves" for accidentally causing death.

*I* know that she hasn't been sentenced yet. People in the comments don't seem to know that or care, and the constant discussion of what is 'fair' and 'justice' is exactly what is making me sick. There is no cosmic balance that will be righted by this woman going to prison at all. There is no need for rehabilitation…