I haven’t been keeping up with The Spearhead of late, but a commenter here drew my attention to the sort of timeless wisdom I’ve been missing from the Spearhead gang.
In this comment, DW3 offered his thoughts on how to combat the evils of single motherhood. The solution involves putting single moms in workhouses. To be more specific, in sex-workhouses — that is, whorehouses.
I think there should be whorehouses for single mothers to work at, to pay their debts to society. Such a system would kill several birds with one stone.
There would be safe and legal access to prostitution, presumably reducing the drugs and violence associated with the way the trade is currently practiced.
It would allow single mothers to learn the value of getting up and getting to work on time, so that they might aspire to a different career.
It would assist traditional families in steering their daughters and nieces and sisters in a different direction, with a very visible and well-known consequence to ignoring the families’ advice.
It would allow single mothers to give back for all the resources they consume, and ideally it could replace child support on some sort of sliding scale of pay for the workers. Perhaps starting at $50 paid per client, less $20 per child more than 1. That way, a single mother with 3 kids could still get $10, and more than that would be inclined to try to hide off the grid the way divorced and separated fathers now have to.
I have my own opinions about whether choice single mothers cause more harm than divorcees, but for this proposal I suppose that they should be treated differently. Divorced women would surrender their children to the father and have to pay half their whorehouse earnings to support the family, however they would get the full $50 regardless of the number of kids.
Perhaps the whorehouses could charge $80 for providing their services, with a modest 20% discount for married men who proved they had a family to support.
DW3 prefaced this comment with a line in which he notes that this idea might be a bit much even for the regular denizens of The Spearhead. But no one actually took issue with his proposals. Indeed, Lyn87 (a Spearhead regular I’ve written about before) noted that he’d had similar thoughts on the matter himself.
Since men are responsible to pay for the children that women they have sex with choose to bear (that is the stark legal reality – every child that is born is born due to the SOLE choice of the mother), then it stands to reason that:
Money paid to support a child = the obligation a man incurs by having sex with the mother.
Since having sex is enough to legally entitle a woman to a man’s money if a pregnancy ensues and she elects to give birth, shouldn’t taking a man’s money legally entitle him to have sex with the mother if he has not already done so?
Fair is fair, right?
My Modest Proposal: a single-mother-by-choice who takes public assistance should be required by law (as men’s financial obligations are), to have sex with any man who can produce a 1040 showing that he paid taxes in the past 12 months (at least once for each child).
The Spearhead: As reliably awful as stomach flu.
(BTW, that wasn’t my cathulhu, just found it on the interwebs)
@katz well, that’s what they should expect for leaving a cathulhu just lying around. 🙂
Next thing you know your cathulhu will be bringing back a mousethulhu.
LOL so long as mousethulhu eats cornthulhu
Welcome, doomkitt3n, n’thing what everyone else said (and love your gravatar).
But whataboutthepikachucthulhuz?
That was surprisingly hard to type, and I’m still not sure I spelled things correctly.
Of course, because the cornthulhu is there to feed cowthulhu.
This conversation is going to give Demarcq an aneurism.
Hehehheh
If he googled “thulhu” he’d have conniptions. Ferinstance:
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/i/2012/166/7/a/scoot__thulhu_standing__atg_day_1__standing__by_shaderyuinari-d53n08f.png
Or even better – the Seuss version!
“For beginning readers.” I love it!
And to be found in the children’s section of the Miskatonic Library!
Rat-thulhu is on Facebook.
Pikachulu..! I choose you! Lol!
My not-an-ex has a Cthulhu related tattoo, forgive me for not remembering wtf the reference is! This thread is so getting emailed to zir, with a note to save it for shits and giggles after zir 8am Monday morning class (as if Mondays didn’t suck enough already!)
In other words, thanks for all the fish…I mean laughs.
Can’t leave the <a href="http://io9.com/5343155/my-little-cthulhupony/gallery/1"Bronies out of this. 🙂
Before you click that link, just remember that what has been seen, cannot be unseen.
And I was doing so well with the links.. dammit missed greater-than bracket
I feel like this squirrel’s reaction to the leopard really gets at the kind of visceral “get the fuck away from me!” reaction that most people, especially women, have to reading about the make single mothers into comfort women plan.
http://io9.com/5978647/watch-this-squirrel-deliver-the-greatest-oh-sht-face-in-the-history-of-nature-documentaries?popular=true
I have a firm grasp of metaphors, but you don’t seem to be capable of making coherent arguments, and think that throwing around mindless “zingers” is a reasonable substitute thereof. You haven’t even remotely addressed anything substantial of what I have said.
Dude, you said that there was no point in having sex if it wasn’t perfect. What are you expecting?
“You haven’t even remotely addressed anything substantial of what I have said.”
“…addressed anything substantial of what I have said.”
“…anything substantial of what I have said”
“…anything substantial…I said”
Well there’s your problem, trying saying something substantial and maybe someone will bother actually addressing it; until such time as that occurs, we’ll continue to “throw around mindless ‘zingers'”.
*throws a zinger at katz* Pretty sure that’s an alcoholic drink at some restaurant or another, so enjoy your zinger!
Oh and Kiwi Girl’s link isn’t nearly as “what is seen cannot be unseen” as some things around here, I think the Cthulhu pony is kind of cute actually. I think fish are cute though, so I’m not inclined to have a “tentacles mean not cute” type reaction.
Sgt Gormless, you’ve never said anything substantial to address.
Cassandra – I don’t feel like the squirrel, I feel more like this.