it's just a fact that many men shouldn't be trusted to rear kids
#360 | Posted by eberly at

But society does trust them.
Men commit 90% of violent crimes.
Men are why most women experience sexual harassment in their lives.
Society still trusts them.

The threat model is broken.
So are the men.

Somebody with that much depression probably shouldn't pass it on.
#357 | Posted by sitzkrieg

I like where this is going.

Now do the Rape gene, and why Republicans want to ban abortion.

"Just acknowledge being a father is not what every man can do."

Should do.

Being a father is not a thing I want to do.

Unless we're saying being a father is like eating a healthy diet or quitting booze -- something you should do even if you don't really want to -- then I shouldn't have kids.

"irrational Islamophobia has run its course in America"

If only.
New Yorkers are not a microcosm, unfortunately.
They're far too educated and wealthy and multi-cultural.

You are the only person I've ever seen put forth the statement, I'm not having kids because sexual harassment and rape exists.

Exists, and is on the rise throughout my lifetime, as a punishment against the women's liberation movement.

That's so far out of the norm it sounds like internal trauma.
#352 | Posted by sitzkrieg

It's not the only reason.
It's just the most egregious one.
Our civilization is not worth perpetuating.

Maybe if I were in a different country, one where the culture is less -----, being a father could work.

But that's not the hand I was dealt, or how I played it.

Police, coaches, teachers, priests, wealthy businessmen.

Boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, fathers, uncles, brothers too.

It's usually someone you trust.
And quite often, society won't believe you.
Because it's someone they trust.

Take the millions who don't believe Trump is a rapist. Now that's a political construct, but the reason it works is: Culturally, the President is someone we can trust. That culrutal authority has been built over centuries and millennia and inculcated and reinforced throughout our lives.

The people who can't understand this are of course the people who need to know it the most. Not that I'm accusing you of that.

Police, coaches, teachers, priests, wealthy businessmen.

81% of women in the U.S. reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. Additionally, about 1 in 3 women have experienced attempted or completed rape. --AI summary

With two girls, there's a statistical 44% chance at least one gets attempted or completely raped.

But sure. It's only "partly cloudy." Plenty of sunshine for the more fortunate.

I agree that parents should be optimistic. Just not, unreasonably so.

"Don't tell my father."
--What college girls say after reporting getting raped after getting drunk at a frat party

What makes you think I would bring children into a world run by rapists?
That would be cruel.
#299 | Posted by snoofy

Oh c'mon don't lie.
#328 | Posted by jpw

Where's the lie?
The world isn't run by rapists?
The Federal government sure as hell is.
So are the Evangelical churches.
So are the police departments.

Where's the lie?

So what happened to Stinky's promise to cap credit card interest rates at 10%?
#209 | Posted by Nixon

What happened?
1. President Trump is a person
2. People "normalize" debt.
#340 | Posted by eberly

People "normalize" debt. And by debt, I mean bad debt. Debt that is generated by buying something that was called a "need" but it was really a "want".
#340 | Posted by eberly

"People"

Not all people do that. Muslims don't do that. Christians used to not do that, both historically centuries ago, and more recently, after giving in on charging modest interest, allowing exorbitant interest when usury laws were repealed in every state.

Our current Republican President and Republican Congress and every Chamber Of Commerce normalizes debt.

Republicans have been normalizing the increasing the public debt your entire life.

You should be giving these Republicans credit. They've earned it.

One of the guys that shorted the housing market in 2008 has begun shorting consumer debt.
#342 | Posted by sitzkrieg

How does a retail investor get in on this action?

"women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn't access abortions."

Are they disproportionately black and brown? Good.
This is what I voted for.
--Boaz

"Barack Obama's Presidential Center Opens With A Message"

The message in this thread is racism from White Republicans.