Slowman wrote:
Duffy wrote:
Slowman wrote:
Duffy wrote:
I don’t have an answer and I’m not really passing judgement on the answers being put forth.
yeah. you were. your "clumps of cells" jokes were sneering, particular toward someone who did have this procedure. this is your typical schtick. act boorishly toward women, say your wife read what you wrote and agrees with you, so you're absolved from how you treat others.
I’m actually intrigued with the idea that if a pregnancy is wanted then that clump of cells is considered a baby and if it isn’t wanted it’s just a clump of cells. I don’t know if that’s right or wrong, it’s just an interesting thought problem.
As far the jokes go, I was joking with BLeP.
Also, I don’t believe that asking tough questions of someone who happens to be a woman is any more or less “boorish” then asking tough questions to a man.
I live under the assumption that women can handle themselves just fine.
what i might recommend is that if you're going to joke with BLeP at someone else's expense, you do it via PM, and not in front of the person at who's expense the joke is made.
no problem asking tough questions. the problem is when it's not asking, but sneering. also, it's a little different when you aren't the affected cohort. it's theoretical for you. it's academic. if you're an affected party, it's not academic. and no, you're not "affected" in any way close to the way a woman is affected. so your "tough" questions should be asked with the acknowledgement that you're mostly a spectator in this.
Oh, so women are exempt from being asked to clarify things?
And again my joking with BLeP was in response to WHAT BLEP SAID. There’s no woman (I assume you’re talking about ironclm) that was the butt of that.
As for being “affected” o can assure you that I have been profoundly affected by this issue. I’ve been there in the clinic on three occasions, once with my girlfriend and twice with my sister.
Also, my very own son survived an attempted abortion.
Is that different than what women deal with? Of course.
But it’s rather ignorant and callous of you to trivialize it.
Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.
- Chinese proverb