Reply #217: sorry, size doesn't count [View All]

[iverglas]

You can dress the crap up in any font you like. It still isn't an answer to the question.

And the question remains the same no matter what font it's in, and no matter how you ignore it and evade it and dance around it and misrepresent it.

isn't a good idea to at least suggest she see how her other half feels?


Required reading for anybody yammering about this, I'd say:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1664471&mesg_id=1674417

It only takes one exception to shoot down the proposed rule.

I thought it was basic fucking social work that people not trained and skilled in the practice refrain from engaging in it, by the way.

And I'll bet that if a social worker were asked to respond to the statement:

it is a good idea for a social worker to at least suggest she see how her other half feels?

s/he would vehemently disagree with such an unqualified claim. And s/he would certainly disagree with the notion that ignorant and unqualified and obviously heedless and disrespectful people should go butting into other people's affairs in such a way, I think.


There are people who think the father is "entitled" to some kind of a "say" in the decision, and that's false. They're are people who act like the woman can't be responsible to make a decision for herself and that's false. But that's not the issue here.

You're very correct. It is not the issue here. That would be why I have not had one word to say about it, myself. So why would you be saying this to me?


The issue here, is you trying to make a "thing" where there is no thing, and you need to get off it.

Nah. The issue here is that an awful lot of people very obviously think that they know better what is "best" for pregnant women than pregnant women know, and feel entitled to tell pregnant women what is "best" for them, and don't respect or give a shit about pregnant women. If they did, they would neither feel that way nor do what it was proposed in the opening post that anybody and its dog who happens to feel like doing it do.