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Rexicon1 posted:The "when your older argument" is a way old people try to end a conversation and try to keep their self respect when they have nothing to retort with. I often just let my mother "win" with that one and try not to strangle each other over holidays. It's the only way not to implode into a black hole of infinite frustration. Not to mention the "daughter protecting" thing is really creepy. Sure it's normal to want to protect your kids, but men singling out daughters as requiring special protection from sexual knowledge/experience is just weird.
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Beowulfs_Ghost posted:Eventually you get old enough that it doesn't work. But you have to get into your 30's, have a kid and a mortgage, cut checks to pay taxes, the usual trapping of full on adulthood. Have pretty much all those things save the kid part. Unless something magical happens next year when I turn thirty, I still suspect my mom will ask me to wait til I'm older.
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Boywhiz88 posted:Possible biohazard liability maybe. That's why they wouldn't give my little brother his gallbladder.
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Ocean Book posted:Gross and Weird are usually good criteria for making things illegal.
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I really don't have any strong opinion on keeping the placenta, but I would like to remind everyone that Rick Santorum & family took home an entire dead baby with them, and that's most definitely far worse.
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Don't forget the Bush-in-a-jar.
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joeburz posted:I fully expect that any "defects" in his mind will somehow be OK if his grandchild ends up that way, much like how GOP congresspeople end up supporting gay rights once their child comes out(provided they aren't an archlich incapable of compassion on any level like Cheney). I remember hearing something along the lines of "Republicans are more likely to come around on gay marriage because they'll never wake up one day and find out their children are black and poor."
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ReindeerF posted:Don't forget the Bush-in-a-jar. I had totally forgotten about that one.
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Isn't the placenta a rich source of stem cells, if kept in the right conditions? The mothers who are taking them home are probably doing so if their child needs a transplant any time in their life.
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meristem posted:Isn't the placenta a rich source of stem cells, if kept in the right conditions? The mothers who are taking them home are probably doing so if their child needs a transplant any time in their life. Some people (have others) harvest/store cord blood for what you're talking about, though that falls somewhere between playing things super-safe and I'm-rich-so-might-as-well and a scam. edit: less commonly, people CAN have others store placenta for those cells etc. But if anyone is taking their placenta home to store themselves for future use I haven't heard of it. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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OOPS Fox News The host is in Palm Beach and asks a group of two women "say something about tonight?" the girls response was not bleeped "We are going to gently caress poo poo up" Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Unfortunately, they can afford the fine.
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Media Matters has been doing an amazing job in making compilation videos of right wing media in 2013. "How Conservatives treated women in 2013" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhKFx4A9FuM quote:Rush calls for all Female Barracks so that all the women are synchronized in their periods so they can release the "banshees" on the enemy Islamaphobia on Fox News in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVl3QrVVc0o and Top Ten Things Fox Called "Wussification" In 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME609bT6HFQ Mr Ice Cream Glove fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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pangstrom posted:No, they're not doing it for that reason. It's not common and it's harmless so I don't want to act like it's a big deal but some people eat it and some people do some new-agey ceremony with it. Still, my guess is that it's down to litigiousness, not bigotry, because hospitals back home have a habit of erring on the side of caution after decades of regulation and lawsuits.
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Pyroxene Stigma posted:Unfortunately, they can afford the fine. What fine? It's cable, the FCC literally cannot do anything about sex, language, or violence to them. TBS could start airing Game of Thrones tomorrow and the FCC couldn't do jack poo poo.
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LP97S posted:What fine? It's cable, the FCC literally cannot do anything about sex, language, or violence to them. TBS could start airing Game of Thrones tomorrow and the FCC couldn't do jack poo poo. I like that they're in Miami around midnight, and it's a "family" show. IT'S loving MIAMI AT MIDNIGHT ON NYE.
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Placentas are central to religious practices of the Hmong, so much so that they often pick doctors to supervise child births based on based on which doctors let them take them home. Maybe legally requiring hospitals to provide the placenta when asked will let more Hmong feel comfortable using modern medical care. It seems like such a small thing.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Media Matters has been doing an amazing job in making compilation videos of right wing media in 2013. How can women watch Fox News and other sources listening to this and agree with it? This is mind blowing, this whole video is insane.
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Boywhiz88 posted:I like that they're in Miami around midnight, and it's a "family" show. IT'S loving MIAMI AT MIDNIGHT ON NYE. And he called her a "tall drink of water," class act guy.
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ReindeerF posted:Some people are just loving weird. As long as their being weird doesn't affect me, who cares, right? I can imagine in America's litigious society there being some rule about placentas, but at the end of the day if someone wants to take it home for any reason and the thing isn't instant death in a jar, then great. Then they can call me a bigot for calling them weird and I can roll my eyes at them for being weird and we can all still happily be American and grab a beer or whatever. I hate pseudoscience but I just celebrated Christmas and sold my kid on the magic gift-bringing moral-accounting man and flying reindeer etc. so yeah it's a shades-of-gray thing with me, too. pangstrom fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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LP97S posted:What fine? It's cable, the FCC literally cannot do anything about sex, language, or violence to them. TBS could start airing Game of Thrones tomorrow and the FCC couldn't do jack poo poo. Basic cable mainly self-censors for advertising. We can't have Comedy Central let loose an obvious gently caress rather than a bleep now can we, little Timmy could hear that next to a Huggies commercial!
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It was announced Bob Grant just died. He was a mainstay of New York City radio for decades and was considered the father of conservative talk as we know it. That reminds me of a few years ago when he thought the Ohio state flag was the pending Obama flag: http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/10/16/radio-host-bob-grant-asserted-that-obama-create/145712
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I know what you mean but I feel like I have to point out that South Park had Kyle dropping an F-bomb in the middle of that episode where they say poo poo like 500 times.
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^^GoddamnitRadio Nowhere posted:Basic cable mainly self-censors for advertising. We can't have Comedy Central let loose an obvious gently caress rather than a bleep now can we, little Timmy could hear that next to a Huggies commercial! Though a few years back they did have that one southpark episode with a bunch of "fucks" in it. So they don't even really care themselves (it was aired at like 11pm, which was almost certainly a factor).
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The traditional distinction has always been before and after 22:00 Central or 23:00 Eastern.
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Vertical Lime posted:It was announced Bob Grant just died. He was a mainstay of New York City radio for decades and was considered the father of conservative talk as we know it. So how did Obama kill him like he did with Andrew Breitbart? Can not wait until Conservative media blames it on Obamacare.
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The Angry Bum posted:So how did Obama kill him like he did with Andrew Breitbart? Can not wait until Conservative media blames it on Obamacare. If Obama's death panels were real certainly the father of conservative talk would be rounded up first.
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beatlegs posted:Not to mention the "daughter protecting" thing is really creepy. Sure it's normal to want to protect your kids, but men singling out daughters as requiring special protection from sexual knowledge/experience is just weird. Not really. I get it. I have a son and am glad I do, for several reasons. My brother in law has two daughters and I don't think it's creepy, weird or much of a stretch to think that he has the harder job, if for no other reason than the acknowledgement that women are not treated equally under the law and in society in general, so maybe they might require "extra" or "special" protection by their parents. I get what you mean as well but, as a parent, I think it'd harder and scarier overall to raise a daughter than a son.
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BiggerBoat posted:Not really. I get it. I have a son and am glad I do, for several reasons. My brother in law has two daughters and I don't think it's creepy, weird or much of a stretch to think that he has the harder job, if for no other reason than the acknowledgement that women are not treated equally under the law and in society in general, so maybe they might require "extra" or "special" protection by their parents.
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I just have to drop the knowledge that was dropped on my when we had my daughter: If you have a boy you have to worry about one penis. If you have a girl you have to worry about all the penises.
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Yeah, I think he was more going for the Purity Ring/Ball/Ceremony stuff versus like enrolling your daughter in an aikido class.
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If you have a girl, you only have to worry about one vagina. If you have a boy you have to worry about all the vaginas. Oh wait, no one says that because we don't associate having sex with moral tarnishment for boys the way we do with girls.
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"Feminsim is radical and based" Yes it is, Limbaugh. Yes it is.
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Besides, I plan on having a gay son so yes I will have to worry about all the penises with him 
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I think it was just a reference to keeping daughters unpregant for practical purposes as opposed to a moral judgement based on gender or that's how I took it at least.
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President Kucinich posted:"Feminsim is radical and based" Based Greer 
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Feminism hosed my bitch
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:I think it was just a reference to keeping daughters unpregant for practical purposes as opposed to a moral judgement based on gender or that's how I took it at least. I don't understand the practical purpose. Not only can a girl take a pill every morning that stops pregnancy even in case of a broken/forgotten condom, but Plan B or abortions are available to her after the fact. A boy has none of those guaranteed ways to avoid being liable for child support should he have an 'oops'. I see no reason to take sex ed for boys less seriously than for girls.
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There is the fact that a daughter is more likely to be raped/molested/sexually harassed than a son. That reality is influenced by our hosed up views of gender and sexuality, but you should probably account for it. Being more protective of a daughter is not just sexual purity bullshit.
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VitalSigns posted:I don't understand the practical purpose. Not only can a girl take a pill every morning that stops pregnancy even in case of a broken/forgotten condom, but Plan B or abortions are available to her after the fact. Good parenting for daughters means making sure that she knows about and has access to all of those, which is not as common as it ought to be.
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