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Re: Adoption Not Abortion!
There's a vast and important difference between "Sarah's mother forced her to have an abortion" and "Sarah weighed up her options and concluded that abortion was the best route". The ...
Oct 16, 2012 -
Re: Adoption Not Abortion!
Wow, we're seriously going in circles here. I know there are a lot of pages in this thread, but we did spend quite a lot of them on things like... ...
Oct 15, 2012 -
Re: Adoption Not Abortion!
I didn't realise "the point of foetal viability" was "an arbitrary point".
Oct 7, 2012 -
Re: Adoption Not Abortion!
Ignorance, I'd like to refer you to pretty much every point I made here . In particular, the bit about not having to "be a slut" to get pregnant, and ...
Oct 2, 2012 -
Re: Adoption Not Abortion!
Largely to Rubric- I'd like to start by saying that my first post largely grew out of frustration at hearing the same anti-abortion arguments over and over, so there are ...
Oct 1, 2012 -
Re: Is our system of mathematics flawed?
The Babylonian system was based around 12s and 60s. These two numbers go well together because, if you count by tapping your thumb on each joint of your four fingers, ...
Sep 30, 2012 -
Re: Is our system of mathematics flawed?
As Snoink says, multiplication is just repeated addition. 4*3 is 4 lots of 3 apples: so line up 3 apples, line up 3 next to that, and another 3, and ...
Sep 29, 2012 -
Re: What's the most beautiful word? Thoughts?
There's a song that includes the line... ...a Lenny lined the rifle up and let the lead fly... I love how it rolls out. And then I realised that's the ...
Sep 28, 2012 -
Re: Cross-dressing.
In my experience, all that does is make it slightly more awkward finding the right size to buy.
Sep 24, 2012 -
Re: Divorce and Remarriage
Uh, in this context, not a lot. "Separation of church and state is a cool thing, man."
Sep 23, 2012 -
Re: Divorce and Remarriage
I'm not entirely keen on the idea of marriage. But between personally significant gestures of commitment and legal/financial benefits, I can kinda understand why people do it. In terms of ...
Sep 22, 2012 -
Re: The "Jabber Passed Superridiculoushard Test" Thread!
Jabberrrrrrrrrrrrrr is the bestest.
Sep 20, 2012 -
Re: Dating Your Best Friend
In relationships, there are no universal "yeses" and "nos". I dated my best friend when I was 16, and when we broke up, my world ended, and it was a ...
Sep 17, 2012 -
Re: Cross-dressing.
If a skirt-like garmet is 'boy clothes' in a culture, is it really cross-dressing to wear it? Surely it would, in that context, be cross-dressing if a woman wore it? ...
Sep 16, 2012 -
Re: Cross-dressing.
Defined "men clothes" and "women clothes" are a symptom of the rigid gender binary. As trans* folk show us, the gender binary is artificial, and unnecessarily restrictive, and policing it ...
Sep 15, 2012
