Whelping by the welp method?

Me tooooo! The obligatory awkward chitchat sucks. I don’t really mind if they wanted to chatter on, but please don’t make me participate. I don’t want to tell them about myself, and I don’t want to feel obligated to ask them about themselves. It’s nothing personal, it just in no way is a positive experience for me to…

Letting women choose is the real evil, remember. That’s why the only good contraceptive is one that a man controls.

Oh, honey no. They don’t want to BAN birth control. They just don’t want to pay for it! And they want it to cost a lot. And they want to call random forms of birth control “abortificients.” And... well I’m sure that’s a good start. They just want to do what’s best for us ladies, since we don’t have the good decent…

I believe one was more likely to die than the other, and the likelihood of both surviving was low. Again, I only know what was posted out to friends on Facebook, and therefore not a truly whole picture.

I don’t honestly see the point of Mr. or Ms. most of the time. In a formal capacity, my marital status isn’t relevant to you, and my gender isn’t relevant to you. In person, it’s relatively obvious and I’m not trying to hide anything. Mail that is addressed to me has my gender first, before my name even. I don’t see…

I don’t relate to that. Most especially because I lack the hubris to assume that lightning only strikes once. I want things better for me if I have another bad experience! I try to be empathetic, but I can often find totally self-interested reasons to support empathetic stances as well, which is win-win.

Yeah. I don’t relate to people who go through such an experience and don’t develop some empathy, though I know they exist in droves. I was quite the bootstraps type until I experienced some hardship. For all the suffering, at least I could be a better person for it.

In my current life circumstances, I can’t really imagine having to have an elective abortion. (I absolutely support this right, as I would have in other parts of my life, but also because it is the right thing to let people own their bodies.)

An acquaintance of mine (mostly through facebook now) had to have a selective abortion because one baby was a parasite to the other. It sounded very emotional and difficult, and I always though how much worse politics would make something like that. When I saw her more, she was quite anti-abortion. I do wonder if her…

In the US at least, that seems to be how they’re attacking abortion... death by a thousand cuts. I would really like my medical procedures not to be political fodder, but that seems unlikely in my lifetime. So I suppose it’s fighting the game of inches with these dbags. I’m damn well not letting them have their way.

I don’t think of it as boring, as much. It’s just BEEN DONE. Which I suppose is functionally the same thing.

Any deviation from the current distribution (or sometimes the 1960s distribution) is pandering to some. I see this in science fiction all the time. They are unwilling to see how skewed the current distribution is.

I tell you, it was a shock on the first day on the job. I guess I simply hadn’t noticed in 10 years of engineering school. =P

Gah, didn’t even know that. Not surprising, but gah!

Preech! I’m a woman amongst male engineers, and I have to explain the female viewpoint ALL. THE. TIME. Then they try to explain the male viewpoint “for fairness” and I point out that we are told the male viewpoint all the time. They don’t like that, but they learn to accept it. At least when I’m involved!

Your tone in this post is *so* different. I wish you’d started this way. I am all about speaking loudly and positively, and that’s what I’ve tried to do. As I’ve mentioned, I’m in engineering, so subtlety isn’t really my practice. The energy in your earlier posts is all about people doing things wrong and what a…

I’m such a scifi fan, and it’s like you farted in their cereal if you point any tiny hint of sexism in books out to them. So, the gamergaters aren’t terribly surprising.

I’m always thinking that the genders could be reversed. Including two ladies seems damned near impossible. Sighhhhhh. I’d watch it!

You told me to get out of the echo chamber (twice)—it’s like the definition of condescending to speak down to me, portraying me as someone completely out of touch and out to lunch. I am not rejecting the accusation of bias; I am biased, duh. I’m arguing a viewpoint!