Ann Coulter channels Men’s Rightsers in her latest attack on single women

Bullshit. I lived in a food desert. It was a three mile walk to the nearest grocery. There was some food at the bodegas, but I made that mistake once… It was a dollar each for the tomatoes and the onions.

So it was not cheaper to make the food myself.

If I didn’t have a car, then it was a two-hour walk, plus the shopping time, to get what I could carry on my back. There was a bus.. it ran once an hour, and it took thirty minutes. I couldn’t really carry any more food that way, because it was a 1/4 mile to the stop.

So, with a rucksack, and a strong back, I could carry three/four days worth of food. So I need to shop at least twice a week, that’s eight/nine hours of shopping time.

There were 20,000 people living in that food desert. You trying to say there wasn’t a demand?

Then, of course, there is the prep time to actually cook it. The Taco Bell was 10 minutes, and there was a KFC, and a McD’s, and all sorts of little taquerias. Which was the easier thing? Which was “cheaper”? What’s a person’s time worth? What’s my effort to haul thirty pounds of food three miles, twice a week costing me in wear and tear?

This is confusing; it was a three mile walk to the nearest grocery, but if you didn’t have a car it was a two-hour walk?

But let’s flip the question. If there are 20,000 people there; why didn’t a company see fit to open a store there? They’d make a ton of money, and yet no one decided to make the investment.

And the buggy whips, and the farriers.

What about the dudes who maintained steam engines, and the whistle-stop keepers.

SHIT! there used to be telegraph operators.

What’s the point here?

Let’s see, suppose someone walks at three miles an hour, and you have to go there and back… No don’t tell me…

Tmason, I’m feeling generous so I’ll help you with the word problem. It was a two-round trip walk to the store.

Why are trolls so painfully literal?

Tmason, do you think the conglomerate behind Taco Bell is small?

Chance that Tmason also thinks the wage gap can’t exist because then businesses would all hire women to save money: 100%

So who’s the breadwinner in your scenario? Wait, let me guess… could it be the MEN?

Because I’m immensely generous, I’ll count 2 of the last 3.

17:48.

@hellkell

Trust me, I know that whatever the intention, hurtful/offensive things are still hurtful/offensive.

In some ways I think this is one of the worst things one can do. They know these words are hurtful, they know they’re offensive, they know they’re hateful. And they still spew them everywhere because they find it funny. You can’t even shame them for what they’re doing because they already know and they just don’t care.

Uh, as someone with parents who divorced when I was a child I saw it as my parents not arguing all the time anymore and it was a relief. But keep trying to creepily speak for all people people with divorced parents, that really helps your argument.

<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/252/5011/1386.short"National, longitudinal surveys from Great Britain and the United States were used to investigate the effects of divorce on children. In both studies, a subsample of children who were in two-parent families during the initial interview (at age 7 in the British data and at ages 7 to 11 in the U.S. data) were followed through the next interview (at age 11 and ages 11 to 16, respectively). At both time points in the British data, parents and teachers independently rated the children’s behavior problems, and the children were given reading and mathematics achievement tests. At both time points in the U.S. data, parents rated the children’s behavior problems. Children whose parents divorced or separated between the two time points were compared to children whose families remained intact. For boys, the apparent effect of separation or divorce on behavior problems and achievement at the later time point was sharply reduced by considering behavior problems, achievement levels, and family difficulties that were present at the earlier time point, before any of the families had broken up. For girls, the reduction in the apparent effect of divorce occurred to a lesser but still noticeable extent once preexisting conditions were considered.

Practically all studies that looked into the effects of divorce say something like this.

Wow, Tmason, your (non)understanding of economics was making my head hurt, and then your complete ignorance of the tax system just made it explode. What in the name of the Schedule A is a marriage credit? Why do you have to be married to deduct your mortgage interest? And what about refundable credits like the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit, or Earned Income Tax Credit? Which for millions of people are a “simple payment” to families from the government, and which, by the way, work.

The creation of the refundable component of the Child Tax Credit, which like the EITC is available only to families that work, has complemented the EITC’s pro-work efforts. Moreover, the EITC and CTC lifted 8.9 million people — including 4.7 million children — out of poverty in 2010. These refundable credits lift more children out of poverty than any other program or category of programs at any level of government.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3505

Tmason, I’m not projecting on the poor–learn what the fuck projection means. And I’ve told you several times that time is not an issue–healthy meals are not hard to cook and do not require the time investment you would like them to to justify women not working. Nice try.

Keep fucking that chicken.