May 25, 2008
Suzanne A., on Sex change for 12-year-old girl:
Question #1 - Who paid this dingbat of a lawyer?
Question #2 - Anyone know any twelve-year-old girls who are not stressed about getting their periods?
Question #3 - Why is a sex swap the solution to a normal reaction to a normal bodily function?
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Kate, on What do you call the fear of tokophobics?:
To be honest, I think the only reason any one has queried this at all is because it’s a woman scared of child-birth. If it was a man scared of childbirth, it would be a different matter, I’m sure. It’s ok for a man to think birth is gross and scary, but if it’s a woman, the reaction is: Oh, get on with it - you’ve got to do it anyway.
I think to compare it to arachnophobia is what we need to do here:
Dangle a spider in the face of someone who is scared of them, and that is cruel.
Force a woman to give birth, who is morbidly scared to, and that’s ‘nature’
It’s not fair on them is it?
I rest my case.
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Emily Kennedy, on Alice Walker’s daughter writes:
Dear daughter of Alice Walker, I offer you my shoulder to cry on. What you say is so true, it’s heart-wrenching. Feminism has tricked many women into unhappy lives. The irony of feminism is that these “strong women” have everything they want - money, power, independence - but fall into depression, ill-health and loneliness sooner or later.
In defense of your mother, it’s hard to be a mom. I struggle with “mommy guilt” everyday. Whether my son eats a balance diet, gets enough sleep, learns to do well in school - it all weighs heavily on my conscience and I’m so thankful that I have a faithful husband to help me guide our child.
My hope for you is that you’ll find some way to reconcile yourself with your mother - have an open conversation about your troubled youth - and not harbour resentment. Doing so will do wonders for you self-esteem and confidence in mothering your child.
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Emily Kennedy, on Facilitating immaturity:
Ladies, please don’t settle for “men” who won’t have sex with you if you’re not on the pill. Ideally, don’t have sex with them at all until both of you are 100% committed to each other (e.g. married). Sterile sex quickly turns into self-serving, just-gotta-satisfy-that-hunger sex. Not unlike masturbation, don’t you think? And, trust me, it quickly leads him to think he can take you for granted.
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Suzanne, on C for “child abandonment” in the self-help section:
I didn’t read the article in the same way.
If a divorced woman is strapped for cash, it seems that sending the child to live with her father could be the best decision, under the circumstances.
I’d be much more outraged if it were a case of a young woman who felt her kid cramped her style.
There could be a host of reasons why parents can’t live with their kids. I know that sometimes parents of autistic children have to send their children to live in special residences because they can no longer handle them.
What if both parents become seriously mentally ill or disabled? What if there is some sort of gross dysfunction they can’t deal with? I’d have to read the book first, but I can’t say that the book is bad, offhand.
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Karen Krisfalusi, on With friends like these…:
All change to society is gradual. You can’t see the small steps that lead to your end goal because you want the kudos for making change happen on your timetable instantly, measurable to your actions and life. It is a subjective view, it’s not productive.
It is politicized in the extreme while you paint the other as politicized. Clinton is the biggest ally of your movement. Yet you vote in the windging smile of Obama. Clinton adjusted her thinking. She is a realist, and can further the cause. You people just harm it.
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Loretta Westin, on Couldn’t care less:
I like the ‘Great Big Sea’ version better….here with the ‘Ninja Turtles’. (I have 6 boys…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GHoPrwDWS4
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Rachel, on Couldn’t care less:
The news from Britain is most depressing. There is the unmistakable sound of the death knell ringing as this legislation is passed. It rings for the death of any notion of the inherent dignity of life and for the idea that life is not meant to be created, used or manipulated for anyone’s gain. How did we (collectively) get to this point? Of science fiction? Of extreme ideology? Of utter disregard for life? On a less collective level, much of what is happening now in Britain is the natural result of the road that was paved by the earlier decisions of Tony Blair. I do hope his views on all these things have changed and perhaps he will speak out about these things a la Bernard Nathanson after his conversion of heart.
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Karen, on Couldn’t care less:
Since you are staking your reputation on your understanding of the abortion issue, can I test it a little?
Answer me this. If you are Parent Council Chair of a public elementary school, what responsibility or obligation do you have to ensure equitable access to community services?
This answer requires at 1,000 words before I will assign it a grade.
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Hanam, on Medieval justice–if even that advanced:
In the times before 3-D images, abortion could have been excused to a degree by ignorance and no “real evidence” about when baby is a BABY. That time is long gone! Some people, however, prefer to not to see and not to hear and stay in medieval times as you put it. When are they planning to wake up?
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Alive!, on Planned Parenthood Ottawa: Their choice or no choice at all:
I’m confused and saddened by this lawsuit - as far as I can tell Planned Parenthood just wanted to protect fans from supporting something without knowing all the details.
When charities start suing charities everyone looses.
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Nicole, on Planned Parenthood Ottawa: Their choice or no choice at all:
“Planned Parenthood Ottawa is rolling in government dough” I’m not sure where you get your information, but that is grossly wrong.
Planned Parenthood, unlike First Place Pregnancy does not have an entire church backing it up financially, and have suffered through many budget cuts in the last few years alone. If you would actually visit it, you would see for yourself that a small 4-room office on the second floor of squashed office building exemplifies the extent of the ‘rolling in the dough’ you are referring to.
There’s nothing wrong with women choosing to go to First Place pregnancy, but the fact is that it, and countless other ‘pregnancy crisis centres’ have advertisements and websites that are outright deceiving, completely alluding vulnerable woman to the fact that they not only offer no abortion referrals (although none are actually required), but the information they claim to have on abortion is based on religious-based fear tactics and lies.
“It is, after all, very difficult to be truly sympathetic to a woman grieving an abortion when you don’t believe there’s anything wrong with it. ”
Its also very difficult, and nearly impossible, I would argue to be truly sympathetic to a woman grieving an abortion when you know nothing about it.
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woman, on Planned Parenthood Ottawa: Their choice or no choice at all:
“They’ll give you all the information you need, but they won’t help you obtain an abortion”
How are they giving “all the information you need” if they aren’t giving you information on ALL options, including abortion? Providing ALL information would necessarily involve helping someone go about obtaining an abortion if that’s the option they chose.
also, as a counselor, I find it very hard to believe that first place pregnancy can offer effective post-abortion counseling if they can’t even legitimate and validate why a woman would choose an abortion in the first place.
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Suzanne A., on Planned Parenthood Ottawa: Their choice or no choice at all:
Let’s hope that this ends up like the story of David and Goliath - with First Place Pregnancy Centre as the little David who whomps the big guy. Why would PPO be so upset with a little ‘ole pregnancy centre that actually supports women? Is it because PPO is jealous of the support that First Place was going to get from the OSF and the Sens Better Halves and the concomitant publicity it would supply? Sounds like playground politics to me.
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MM, on Planned Parenthood Ottawa: Their choice or no choice at all:
Fine, but what’s First Place’s chance of success in the law suit? And why did they withdraw so quickly from the fund raising “opportunity” in the first place? If they rely in donations, how will they fund the legal action? Planned Parenthood’s pockets are much deeper, I suspect.
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Loretta Westin, on A lesson in prevention:
Exactly. He also seems to be ignoring 10+ years of results from ‘relationship and contraception education’. It hasn’t reduced the number of abortions. Even abstinence education alone has not worked. (no motivation?)
Strangely enough, what has worked is having a solid, traditional family and a good education in faith and morality. SURPRISE! Apparently people who know they are loved by God and family find it easier to love others.
Who knew! It all comes down to LOVE!
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John R. Sutherland, on But I don’t want to be an engineer:
I knew a guy who was fabulously successful in business. Yet in high school he would easily have been voted least likely to succeed. I asked him the secret to his success. He said, “All you have to do is find something that you can buy for $1 and sell for $4. Let me tell you, that 3% really adds up.”
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DK, on Saving money on special effects:
Haha, just two days ago I made a t-shirt that says “When I grow up I want to be a centaur!” (Well, it was really funny at 12:30 AM.)
http://www.zazzle.com/ceallaighgirl*/product/235401826258990906
I guess I could say “when I grow up, I want to have baby centaurs!” instead.
Disturbing.
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Emily Kennedy, on Woman, if you want to get pregnant, why are you on birth control?:
You’re onto something with the clueless father-to-be. The missing piece to the puzzle of women’s sexual “liberation” through planned parenthood is the man. The birth control pill was invented by a man (Frank Colton) so that men could have sex without the responsibility of raising children. We often talk about how the pill changed the lives of women, but what about how it’s altered man and masculinity? My belief is that contraception has lead to a decline in key attractive masculine traits in our men. There’s something about accepting the possibility of children with the woman you are having sex with that makes a man more honest, ambitious and committed. I don’t know if there are any studies to support this hypothesis but I sure wish some one would look into it. I fear that the greatest consequence of feminism is a degradation of masculinity leading to fathers that are poor role models for their children.
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Suzanne A., on I don’t know where to begin:
Considering that these children are not old enough to drive, they would need to be driven to the clinic by an adult. Chances are, that adult would be the child’s parent. No responsible or sane parent would go within a country mile of this place, let alone plunk down dollars for hormones with questionable effects. How much longer before Dr. Spack appears on The Dr. Phil Show and the former’s phone is ringing off the hook and his bank account (and that of the pharmaceutical company) is brimming thanks to parents who aren’t thinking straight? (no pun intended…)
Let’s affirm our children with the gender with which they have been blessed -”God created them male and female”.