I mostly just want to watch you reenact that scene from the bodyguard and carry him through the crowd.

Great. Spat brisket onto my screen.

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Well, it wouldn't count as heavy lifting, would it?

How many homeless people could that monetary amount have fed?

...housed, medicated, and educated? My Inner Socialist Hippie is in the corner with Steph's.

Also, if the kid gets any money from his OBC, I vote it's put into an account to fund the massive therapy s/he's gonna need when s/he learns the method of conception. Freaky shit, man.

I mostly just want to watch you reenact that scene from the bodyguard and carry him through the crowd.

One set of footprints in the sand....

That's when ita was carrying YOU, J.J.

I don't think the rape analogy really works here. There are plenty of things, reproductively, that don't give men and women the same rights, just because biology doesn't work that way. For one thing, a woman who's been raped has the choice to have an abortion. This man does not. (And yes, I know that there are way more issues in there, and that the woman would probably have to pay for the abortion, and that not everyone would make that choice, and a million other things, but what I'm trying to say is that the cases are not comparable.)

Also, if a woman gets pregnant, and she doesn't want to have a baby but the father does, his opinion matters not at all, legally, in whether she gets an abortion. (This isn't directly relevant, just in the "reproductive rights are not equivalent for men and women" vein.)

And I completely disagree with the judges "gifted" ruling. Unless the man said, "Here, have some sperm," that was not a gift.

Whoah. Donald Sutherland's in an Avengers episode.

It's Friday. It's past 5pm board time. I recommend everyone on the west coast go home, unless you're travelling my route, in which case stay at the office for an hour longer.

Because I'm outie.

You can control where, and with whom you ejaculate, and how you dispose of the semen, after the fact.

I'll remember to bring a portable incinerator with me should I ever have sex again.

I'm sorry, I still find the argument that the child is his responsibility because he should have used due diligence to prevent her from harvesting his sperm and artificially inseminating herself to be bordering on asinine. Suppose she'd tied him to the bed, raped him, and then gotten pregnant? Is he still responsible?

eta: Also, what Hil said.

Cindy, I don't buy the rape scenario you put forth. A pregnant woman isn't forced to be responsible--she can abort or give the child up for adoption. If she wants no financial reponsibility, she doesn't have to have any, rights of the child be damned.

That being said, I find this whole thing deeply, deeply sad.

All this talk is reminding me of the scene in Legally Blonde, where she argues about abandonment, or whatever.

In less confusing news, I have my ID card back! Yay!

Also, one of those links had an advertisement for conservativematch.com: For sweethearts, not bleeding hearts. It was so incredibly romantic.