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Comment on Time to Rally: Pro-Choice slogan brainstorm! by Bud Wieser

Bud Wieser — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:22:30 +0000

No one is pro-abortion. – President Barack Obama

Comment on The MBTA should not allow advertising from crisis pregnancy centers by Katie

Katie — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:03:45 +0000

I don’t think that at any point Leah suggested that pro-life was not “a valid way to think.” There’s a substantial difference between accepting that someone is pro-life, and being okay with them providing misleading and/or flat-out false information to someone who is trying to make an extremely difficult decision. They may think that they’re right, but that doesn’t make them any less of a danger to women’s health.

I may have less of the ‘militant’ attitude towards it, but I agree that allowing this kind of advertising on the T is a huge misstep, especially from a company that just banned any and all alcohol advertisements and is therefore clearly okay with making that kind of sweeping limit on the kinds of ads they will display.

Comment on The MBTA should not allow advertising from crisis pregnancy centers by Charles

Charles — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:37:28 +0000

Who says that the services they offer “should be unbiased and informative”? (You, obviously. But beyond that.) The First Amendment protects the free speech rights of this group, and those who believe as they do. They have every right to advertise however and wherever they wish. They have the right to spread whatever misinformation they want – I guarantee you that they believe it, and that they have their own statisticians and citations to back it up. (Deliberate misleading is another thing, but though these people have an agenda, they thoroughly believe in the correctness of what they espouse.)

I am pro-choice, but I am appalled at the lack of tolerance that I see so many pro-choicers display. Pro-life is a valid way to think. You don’t have to like it, but they have a right to exist. I think you would change more minds with compassion than with militant outcries.

Nowhere in McDonald’s ads do they tell you that their beef is not made primarily from real beef and that the high amounts of saturated fat and sodium in all their food (even their salads!) will increase your risk of heart disease, obesity, and stroke. Does that mean they shouldn’t be allowed to advertise? Of course not; that’s not the point of advertising. What you seem to be advocating is the suppression of a viewpoint that you don’t like. I find that deplorable.

Comment on An earnest letter to guys about the problem with rape jokes; It’s not about being PC by John

John — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:17:53 +0000

I wonder, does that definition include some technicality like “girl has had some alcohol”? I think in college I heard that it’s considered rape if you have sex with a girl who has drank any alcohol. This is pretty ridiculous… In combination with the thought that fewer guys would admit to raping someone even in an anonymous survey, I call bullshit on this 8-15% number.

Do we have a link to the survey / definition?

Comment on Women Seeking Solitude by Shuchi

Shuchi — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:21:34 +0000

Hey! Glad to have chanced upon this. Great post!

Comment on Can women really get laid whenever they want? by Strelnikov

Strelnikov — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:39:42 +0000

The original article is depressing, and adds to a troll-like worldview.
I still like women, but I am not a masochist, so I’m getting out of here.

Comment on Can women really get laid whenever they want? by Troy Dean Carpenter

Troy Dean Carpenter — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:11:20 +0000

I have something else that I think needs to be said. A woman is not considered a slut just because she’ll have sex with anybody! A slut can be just as picky as any other female. A slut is simply a woman who sleeps around. This is from Wikipedia :”Slut or slattern is a pejorative term applied to an individual who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous.” A slut being someone who will sleep with anyone is more of an urban definition. To take it one step further, in at least some cases, the main difference between a slut and a regular female, is that a slut is just open about it. If anything, being open and honest is a pretty good quality if you ask me. For some reason sluts aren’t viewed as desirable though. I think it has to do with men wanting to be viewed as special. Most people want that. A man doesn’t want to be seen as routine sex (that’s boring) and definitely doesn’t like the thought of how many men have been there in the last week. It gets even worse if he can’t even brag to his friends because they’ll just tell him that they’ve been there and done that. Why slutty men are admired so highly in this society, I have no idea. Maybe we need to ask the women that question.

Comment on Can women really get laid whenever they want? by Troy Dean Carpenter

Troy Dean Carpenter — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:35:31 +0000

Whenever women remind me that if I don’t accept women for they way they are, I’m the one that’s going to be alone. I always reply that if she can only get men who have no standards, I understand why she would see it that way. I’d sooner be alone than have a headache. My ex always brags about how loving her husband is to her and I always say, “Yes you’re right, even though you’re crappy in every unloving sense of the word, he puts up with you. Now that’s love!”

Comment on Can women really get laid whenever they want? by Troy Dean Carpenter

Troy Dean Carpenter — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:27:16 +0000

Woman’s definition of creepy is SOMETIMES just a matter of how attractive she finds than man who says something.

In my observation it seems like women don’t want straight forward honesty like that. They like things to be indirect. In the years I’ve lived the best guess I’ve been able to come up with is that women worry about being seen as easy and don’t want to be taken for granted, so indirect courting acts as a buffer. Why men rarely worry about this is probably just as big a question actually.

Comment on Can women really get laid whenever they want? by Troy Dean Carpenter

Troy Dean Carpenter — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:21:43 +0000

The vast majority of men will never rape a woman in their lifetime. “Normal” men can’t even hold an erection if they’re knowingly hurting a woman. That doesn’t mean women don’t fear rapists because it only takes one bad apple to destroy the bunch. BUT, I wouldn’t say that men have being mistreating their women for centuries. The opposite is true in most cases. Men have been caring for their wives for centuries and protecting them.