Posts by Deborah
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Oh Danielle, you are forgetting the basic rule of the road. If someone overtakes you, your ah, equipment shrinks. If you have to go slower than you want because someone is travelling at or below the speed limit, your equipment shrinks. If you pull over to let someone past, your equipment shrinks.
For women, if you are overtaken, if you have to go slower, if you pull over, then you look old and unsexy and god forbid, as though you are kowtowing to men. It's a FEMINIST statement to be a road pig. To hell with actually doing anything feminist - just dominate the road instead, and then you need not trouble your pretty head about silly little things like gender equality, because being a road pig proves you really can foot it with the men.
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Craig, briefly, what Danielle said, on both counts. I promise a longer answer, but probably not til tomorrow sometime - the rest of my day is about to get even busier than the first part has been today.
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You're absolutely right, James. The position I take could justify infanticide too, 'though you'll note that I make exactly the same sort of move that you do, pushing the 'line' for abortion back just to be on the safe side. I think also that there even if infanticide might be justifiable on the grounds that I propose for abortion, there are plenty of other reasons to reject infanticide.
You do have to be careful of the 'yuck' reaction. Sure, virtually everyone thinks that infanticide is 'yucky'. That's not an argument, 'tho. It's just a gut reaction, which should invite us to think about why we have the reaction, whether we have good reasons for it, whether our reasons are consistent with the sorts of reasons we have for holding other moral positions. If we simply go by gut reactions, all we are saying is "Hurray for this view" or "Sucks to that view." If that's the way we want to 'do' morality, then we might as well just take votes, rather than trying to think the issues through.
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Here's the NYT article about the days before Roe v. Wade. It's linked a couple of times upthread too,but way, way back.
It's not just Grant's humours that are awry, Danielle. He's like a small child, banging on a drum, shouting the same thing over and over and over, and not at all aware that the adults simply don't think that anything he's saying adds any value to the conversation they're attempting to have.
There's several large holes in his argument, and one huge assumption that he hasn't addressed yet, but it's not worth posting it, because it will only lead to more drum banging.
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What I/S said. Though I do usually scan the books section to see if Jolisa has anything in it.
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Finally got a chance to get back to this after feeding the livestock (a.k.a. my children).
As a sometime, and not always happy participant in PAS, someone who quibbles and gets upset from time to time, it's heartening to see that when it really matters, this is a space that supports women.
Julie has put up a round-up of posts on this issue over at The Hand Mirror. I think that all of us posting there regularly have made contributions, as have some of the other usual suspects; take a bow, Queen of Thorns.
I haven't taken a look at the conservative blogs today; it's not worth the blood pressure spike. The spike got going reading some of the comments here today, but fortunately, the replies from other rather more regular commenters were very calming.
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And I posted that before I saw Russell's comment. Thank you!
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Thanks, Stephen, and Anorak. Of course I support you, as I think do most of the people posting here... It's a shame about the others, 'tho.
And Anon, your story is heartbreaking. I'm so sorry.
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I have been staying right out of this because I'm just not interested in talking to trolls
but I do want to say to Anorak - I'm with you. Not somewhere I have been myself - but something I fully support you in doing.
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Presumably we pay the lowest rate in the world for dairy products, since our milk is priced at the global rate less shipping half-way around the globe.
Except that a 1 kilo block of Mainland Tasty costs $10.38 in my local supermarket in Adelaide (a 'quality' supermarket, so I tend to shop more often at the cheaper Coles 1 suburb over, where it also cost $10.38). There's no GST on food here, so if we add the NZ GST - 12.5%, we get a price of $11.68, and then if we convert the Aussie dollar price to an NZ dollar price, using today's exchange rate 1.2198 (per FinData at 2.18pm NZ time), then we get a price of $14.24.
So it's cheaper to buy a block of NZ made cheese in Australia than it is to buy the same block (i.e. exactly the same product) in New Zealand.