The last two posts (well, really the last post) cracked me up.
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
Wash ,'Serenity'
Natter 57 Varieties
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.
lori - Mar 03, 2008 8:45:26 am PST #2661 of 10001
Allyson - Mar 03, 2008 8:47:01 am PST #2662 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Um, it isn't really altogether that hard to commit suicide. I call bullshit.
Nutty - Mar 03, 2008 8:47:32 am PST #2663 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
the deeply held but incorrect belief that the suicidal are determined to die
This is widely known in suicide research, just on basis of method-choice. Females attempt suicide much more often than males, but because they tend to choose less-lethal methods (i.e., rarely firearms), the female suicide rate is considerably lower than the male rate.
The general theory is that female suicide attempts are much more likely to be social acts, "cries for help," where the subject really is suicidal, but not in such a way that they make the attempt again and again till success. Males do that too, obviously, but when your cry for help involves a .45, your chances of coming back from the brink are not as good.
Allyson - Mar 03, 2008 8:49:51 am PST #2664 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?
And what, exactly, the WaPo was thinking when they published this?
Nutty - Mar 03, 2008 8:50:57 am PST #2665 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ohhhh yes, Betsy had that in her LJ. Speaking of needing to be beaten with some statistics.
lisah - Mar 03, 2008 8:56:30 am PST #2666 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?
Wait...that's not a joke?
huh???
megan walker - Mar 03, 2008 8:57:25 am PST #2667 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?
That's almost as bad as one of ita's links!
§ ita § - Mar 03, 2008 8:57:45 am PST #2668 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
the deeply held but incorrect belief that the suicidal are determined to die
This is widely known in suicide research, just on basis of method-choice. Females attempt suicide much more often than males, but because they tend to choose less-lethal methods (i.e., rarely firearms), the female suicide rate is considerably lower than the male rate.
Well, the first thing you have to do is define suicidal. I've know people whose slit wrists were just the same in terms of commitment as screaming to others "I wish I were dead!" They're not actually trying to die. They are trying to get attention (and I don't want to sound dismissive of that goal).
The weapon choice thing is interesting. I've read that it's because women want to leave tidier corpses--does that mean they want to die less? I mean, if they have the same confidence in their pills as a guy has in a guy, does it mean she wants to die less, or is she just uninformed? Maybe she's scared of it hurting...there are a lot of things in play.
I'm not sure from your second paragraph where you stand on that, Nutty. Are men equivalently crying for help? But just picking the dumb method?
tommyrot - Mar 03, 2008 8:58:05 am PST #2669 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?
I was disappointed they failed to mention the cooties....
Dana - Mar 03, 2008 8:59:24 am PST #2670 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Did we cover the WaPo piece on how dumb women are?
No, all of us girls were too busy leaving our jobs to "go fulfill our proper lot in life and make our house a home." t rolls eyes