What exactly are we punishing here? Is it the fact that she likely had no safe place to obtain an abortion until the fetus was past the point of viability or the fact that she became pregnant when she didn't want to be? Because like someone upthread pointed out, restricting access to birth control and safe, timely…

On the one hand, well said. On the other hand, I've been commenting here for four or five years now (and on Gawker, and on io9 and Kotaku for probably the last two years or so). My comments are usually reasonably well-recommended (the middle-of-the-road ones probably get twenty or thirty recommends, I guess?), but I'm…

I'm not shocked to learn this (nobody who has spent one second studying the social sciences would be), but I still believe it to be wrong based on expert research/consensus in the field.

"I know you mean well, and you think you're being self-aware"

Obviously this person should stay in the relationship as the smug sense of superiority they get over their partner is more than enough to sustain them.

I don't think that's a very apt analogy for what he said, though. This would be more like "being murdered by your friend at a party isn't as bad as being murdered by a stranger." Obviously, the victim is still dead. If a person is raped by a friend or a stranger, it's still rape.

To the people who "don't get" why a guy would want to get circumsized: It's None of your fucking business.

Why would someone tattoo himself if it isn't medical necessary? Why did I have a nose job even though it wasn't medically necessary? Don't we all realize that anything you don't personally want for yourself is mutilation, and our bodies are therefore ruined now? Geez.

Turnabout is fair play, so...

One could argue their views stem from a mental defect that makes them think themselves in the right.