Yeah, the story said they were being abandoned all over the southwest, including in Arizona. I thought I'd read the story on MSNBC, but I can't find it today. I swear I was just reading it in the last day or two.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
Cordelia ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sean K - Jun 15, 2005 11:12:36 am PDT #2209 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Tom Scola - Jun 15, 2005 11:18:11 am PDT #2210 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Here's the polygamy story: [link]
Topic!Cindy - Jun 15, 2005 11:27:20 am PDT #2211 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh my word, how sad and awful.
Emily - Jun 15, 2005 11:29:32 am PDT #2212 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
"If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, wouldn't you want them to leave?"
Um... no? I mean, nice try, mister, I get that you're trying to say all these teenage boys were frightful delinquents who couldn't be helped, but you fail.
ETA: It's not that anything would make his take more convincing, but do they think no one's noticed that it's just the boys? Sad, sad, sad. And I'm creeped out by not just the sexism but the mathematical implications of needing three wives to enter the "highest level" of heaven.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2005 11:31:33 am PDT #2213 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And, dude, if your community is producing that many unsavable kids, maybe you're doing something wrong, somewhere.
-t - Jun 15, 2005 11:36:29 am PDT #2214 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Polygamy's much more workable when many of your young men are getting killed in wars.
Sad story. So much wrongness.
amych - Jun 15, 2005 11:39:19 am PDT #2215 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
So, um, we could make wars to send the young men off to so that the old men can get into heaven, bowm chikka bowm bowm?
Yeah. Wrod on the wrongness.
Trudy Booth - Jun 15, 2005 11:39:45 am PDT #2216 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
"If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, wouldn't you want them to leave?"
Um... no? I mean, nice try, mister, I get that you're trying to say all these teenage boys were frightful delinquents who couldn't be helped, but you fail.
ETA: It's not that anything would make his take more convincing, but do they think no one's noticed that it's just the boys?
Well, they probably thought it would play better in Peoria than "If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, and they'd finally sprouted boobs wouldn't you want them to marry one of your eighty-six uncles?"
Emily - Jun 15, 2005 11:41:54 am PDT #2217 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
"If you have a son or daughter in your home, and their behavior got worse and worse and they defied you, and they'd finally sprouted boobs wouldn't you want them to marry one of your uncles?"
Touch, Miz Trudy, a veritable touch.
DXMachina - Jun 15, 2005 11:42:52 am PDT #2218 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You know, depending on the laws in AZ and UT, they can probably go after the fathers for child support.