Has anyone noticed that MM is sitting on the sidelines measuring my buddy for his coffin?

Pass the Popcorm Elie.

"Your premise is flawed, yes, and you've admitted that. But there's still the pesky little matter of you actually buying into this and believing that pregnant women are hormonal idiots, incapable of the most simple tasks and especially incapable of any sort of decision-making."

If you want to think that's what I said, go ahead. But it's not. And if you want to make it out to be all this you go right ahead.

All I said was that women should not be making decisions about aborting their children while they are pregnant, or before they are pregnant. That's it. That's the end of it. If you want to make me out as if I was talking about every little decision, then that's your problem. Makes me sad that you would think I thought like that. But, there you go. But I know what women are capable of. And I respect it. I just don't want them messing up their lives because they made a decision while they weren't 100% that they cannot undo.

Please, please re-read what you posted.



Yes, good thing we have men around to keep us from making bad decisions in our fragile conditions.

I am just really surprised to see this from you. Like I said, read it again. It is NUTS.

i'll take some as long as it isn't theater popcorn

hahahaha poor Jythier. We'll all teasing him in good fun right guys....right?   



uh-oh Gid...this is almost just as bad...trying to buy us off now? You think a few Dove bars is going to erase the memory regarding ....lack of brain power? Huh? I think it's going to take a bit more than Dove bars, however good they are. I'm thinking like a full 4 course dinner.

and throw in a movie for good measure....we're talking chick flick.

go see bratz

ok Jythier...it's like this..

if you had said that tramatic changes in one's life could bring about a bad decision as a result of emotions running amok I would have agreed with you. Things like divorce, death, unplanned pregnancy etc can bring about a flux of emotions crowding out sensible logic in making a good decision.

How many times have you heard that when a spouse dies, no big changes should be done for about a while? Don't invest, don't buy, don't sell, don't remarry etc. until you've given some time to the big change that has occurred in your life? We make many mistakes when we let our emotions take control especially during these trying times. We can't always trust our emotions during such times. This is a time to think, ask advice especially from those closest to us that we trust and know us best.

So while I understand (somewhat) what you're trying to say, I think the loss of brain power thing was like...way over the top.

Well, it's up to y'all to negotiate. I was just trying to point him in the right direction.

you said wayyyyyyyyyyyy more. but even if you'd said nothing more or less, you still would be saying women are incapable of making such a decision no matter the circumstance--leaving it to whom? the prospective father?

ya, I think he owes his wife....dinner and a movie.



good point Kingbee. Although I'm all for signing up for no one to make this decison.

I know...let's ask the unborn child. Let him/her decide. Of course that may take 8-10 years or more for them to understand language and logic.

Whatever it is, it is not going to be cheap or easy!

Kingbee:

"leaving it to whom? the prospective father?"

From the post I thought we were talking about: "Alas, there is nobody that can choose for her, including herself."

I said NOBODY is qualified. Leaving it up to the father... what do you think I am, a chauvinist?

And who said anything about having MEN around to help you? I certainly didn't.

"Oh, what, so now you're abandoning them?" No!

But, LW, this had some merit.

"She shouldn't make that decision because it's WRONG. Period. No further justification required.

~reaches through screen and smacks him a good one upside da head."

I included the smack upside da head as having merit.

"Obviously, you DON'T know what women are capable of, even after being told."

What do you think I think a woman can't do? Astronauts, mail-women, accountants, fire fighters, writers, dancers, athletes, everything. Go do it, you can. You can even go serve in Iraq. Never mind the stuff women can do that men can't. TW had a pretty good list of stuff she did. Including buying a car - that's entering into a CONTRACT. A woman! Wow. All kinds of stuff. *eye roll*

I know what I wrote, and it did NOT put men on a pedestal over women. It simply discussed the condition of being pregnant, ie, pregnancy brain, which I thought was something worse than it seems to be, and how that was not the time you'd want her to be making a decision regarding her baby's life. I certainly didn't say that a MAN should make the decision, in fact I said nobody should.

As for KFC, don't worry about me, I'll be fine. See, my wife HAD pregnancy brain. Which is how I got the whole idea in the first place.

you're not presenting an argument but rather your opinion stated as a command.

no matter how convinced you may be yours is perfectly right and righteous, please remember opinions are like assholes. everyone has his or her own.

you may also wanna check out the currently circulating litany of liberal character flaws. who knows? may turn out you resemble (one or more of) those remarks.

Just for being a guy like Jythier I fear even replying here at all. Were you watching Deathwish when you wrote this while seeing yourself as the guys that Charles Bronson was killing? Man, this makes my uneducated replies look like a genius wrote them. You got big cojones my friend.

I love women, I couldn't live without them. As mad as any of them might make me, I would never write an article like this one. It alone proves the contrary, you must have been at a lose of blood in your brain when you wrote this. Be thankful this is the internet and not a face to face debate or you would be dead by now.

JYTHIER WRITES:

Jythier, all I can say is your article was terrific up to here.

So what you made a mistake and put both feet in your mouth giving you no legs to stand on when you wrote, "lacking in brain power.."?

The one who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Keep counting your blessings and thank God for them. Your heart was in the right place. Have an awesome day, everybody.