Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by bilmore
The women there all grow mustaches early, making it pretty much a non-issue.

Ouch

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A Pope is selected, and bilmore comes out of seclusion. Coincidence?

Sorry. I've been preparing Vatican III. I just came out for more candles.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Aren't you supposed to be a fiscal conservative? The best way to reduce abortions is to quit subsidizing and coddling people who engage in risky behavior. Its way harder to get preggers at an 8-10 hour/day minimum wage job with a mean boss than it is in a 16th floor bordello of a public housing project.

This explains why European countries that border on being socialist have much lower birthrates than African countries with no viable social welfare and massive unemployment.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
how come people can insult the Italians ad nasueum, but if I simply note that certain peoples where cloth head coverings I'm labeled a pariah?

That was kind of my point, honeybuns, you lithe hardworking stud, you.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Spanky
2) If abortion is legal, for someone who kicks a woman in the stomach trying to terminate her pregnancy, can you only prosecute them for assault and battery?

I don't understand why you find this to be such a difficult question. The issue is, who has the right to terminate the life?

I think that the courts were right to let Terry Schiavo's husband terminate her life. But, if someone had broken into the hospital and cut her head off, that person would, and should, be prosecuted for murder. Not for breaking and entering.

The legal, and moral, issue is to whom we give the rights to make such decisions. Scott Peterson had no right to terminate his unborn child's life. (And yes, I recognize the greater difficulty that would be present if, say, she had been on her way to the abortion clinic the morning he murdered her, but these sorts of law school hypos are not that helpful).

And now, I give up on ketching up from yesterday.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
That was kind of my point, honeybuns, you lithe hardworking stud, you.

I thought your point was that guys like bilmore shouldn't make fun of women's looks- glass houses- still someone like Sidd should yell at you and bilmore

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I thought your point was that guys like bilmore shouldn't make fun of women's looks- glass houses- still someone like Sidd should yell at you and bilmore

Why should I be yelled at because you missed my point?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Why should I be yelled at because you missed my point?

When i used that derogatory term I was merely trying to make a point about man's apparent need to dehuminize and through that try and expand everyone's outlook to ask not what is different from other ethnic groups, and instead encourage people to look for what we have in common- they all missed my point and I got yelled at.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Why should I be yelled at because you missed my point?

Over here on the PB, Hank pretty much yells at everyone indiscriminately.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
When i used that derogatory term I was merely trying to make a point about man's apparent need to dehuminize and through that try and expand everyone's outlook to ask not what is different from other ethnic groups, and instead encourage people to look for what we have in common . . .

Hold me. Please.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Over here on the PB, Hank pretty much yells at everyone indiscriminately.

Bazooka Joe- I was right!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bilmore
Hold me. Please.

I ain't no fudge packer, sheesh

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Why should I be yelled at because you missed my point?

Could you jump up and down again, please? It's just so cute when you do it!

I got your point. And so I know that Hank's comment should have been directed to bilmore. Who incidentally responded to Hank's comment by saying that it's ok to make fun of stereotypes if they aren't stereotypes of oppressed minorities. Which I sorta agree with. However, his comment seems kinda misogynistic to me, rather than being merely anti-Italian.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Bazooka Joe- I was right!

I don't even like Vonnegut.

(aside to everyone else: there is no reason for you to understand this exchange)

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Not Bob
However, his comment seems kinda misogynistic to me, rather than being merely anti-Italian.

Dissent. An expression of lustful preference for women who do NOT have manly facial characteristics can hardly be termed misogyny. While I admire Margaret Thatcher, it would not be misogynistic to lack the desire to sleep with her.