John McCain says no: Today in Tweets

Congrats Jesalin! Glad to hear you succeeding at bending the health system to your will. I’ll scritch a kitty on the head now to speed your recovery!

The Southern Baptist convention, which meets once a year, is largely pale and male, but they’ve made the right call. Woo-hoo!

Exclusive: Evangelicals urge more action from Trump against ‘alt-right’

We love the United States of America. We have overcome much racial injustice, but we fear that without moral clarity and courageous leadership that consistently denounces all forms of racism, we may lose the ground that we have gained toward the racial unity for which so many of us have fought. Our nation remains divided racially and ideologically. We struggle to stand together to denounce racial inequality and injustice in our country. . . .

. . . We must set aside our political, ideological and racial differences, particularly on the issue of the alt-right. We cannot be divided and still defeat this new demonic racist force. . . .

We are praying, and call upon God’s people to humble themselves and pray that you would take the bold and moral step to denounce the alt-right. And we pray that we may see the beauty of people from all racial backgrounds dwelling together in unity, from which the blessings flow; and then we may see—God Bless America (Psalm 133:1).

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/politics/trump-alt-right-evangelicals/index.html

If the Southern Baptists were serious about dealing with racism, they’d rejoin the Baptist World Conference and repudiate the racist bullshit that lead to the formation of the SBC in the first place. Until then, their mealy mouthed maundering cuts no ice with me.

David, I hope you’re OK. Let us know if there’s anything we can do, besides keep the home fires burning.

Best wishes to you, Jesalin!

So this got posted yesterday in r/legaladvice:
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/72vpq2/very_pregnant_and_terrified_of_possibly_grossly/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=comment_list

Tl;dr Redpill woman gets pregnant by douchebag MRA fiance, is shocked when he presents her with a draconian prenup leaving her with zero in the event of a breakup. The house and children are 100% her responsibility, in exchange for which he will generously allow her to have “room and board”. He gets a free nanny, housekeeper, and cook; she gets nothing.

Yet another Cool Girl who can’t believe the leopard is eating HER face. That’s for other people!

Yeah, kind of having a hard time feeling sorry for her. I do feel sorry for that kid though. It’s not the naivete of thinking that if she’s not a straw man hating feminist that men will surely be good to her in return that bugs me. It’s that as a feMRA, she’s presumably okay with other women being hurt by men, just not her.

PeeVee – ha! Feminist hivemind 🙂

Weird how conservatives can support the most awful social policies, until it affects them directly. They can’t see how their beliefs hurt other people…or worse, they do see but don’t care, because it reinforces their sense of superiority.

I definitely feel like she’s a little sheltered and putting too much stock in the protective effects of being in the 1%, and that may have led to some of her bad decisions. She says something to the effect of “I have a one in a quarter million IQ and went to an Ivy League college, how did I end up here?” (the subtext being that abuse is something that happens only to the uneducated, and that Ivy League graduates are entitled to have their lives unfold exactly as planned, because they’re smart, and smart = in control). She had a $100K/year job, no kids, and yet she has no assets. And then her fiance insists on living in the most expensive area of the country, with an income of 50K/year. That seems a little weird, like maybe neither or them were raised to be careful with money, because they didn’t have to be.

Also troubling is her rigid belief that her child must be tutored 24/7 by a parent or expensive nanny for the best “intellectual outcome”. I get wanting to stay home and bond with your child, but geez, let the kid have some downtime. Babies don’t need constant academic stimulation. All that’s going to do is produce a stressed out, resentful child. I think she’s probably swallowed the RP dogma that fatherless children drop out of school and turn into criminals. That, combined with her anxieties over the child’s future academic achievements (which she’s tied to her own socioeconomic status) is what’s fueling her terror at this situation. (Heaven forbid her child be average)

The reality is that, as a parent, whether or not she has a partner, she’s going to be too busy and exhausted changing diapers, feeding, burping, putting to sleep, washing bottles, picking up toys, and folding laundry to be busting out the Mandarin flash cards very often. Also, smart kids gonna smart. Parental micromanagement doesn’t do a whole lot to raise IQ. But hey, it might make the kid anxious and terrified of failure.

I wish her all the best. She’s got some soul-searching ahead to figure out what’s truly best for her and the child. If nothing else, she’s lucky her fiance showed his true colors before she got trapped in a dependent situation with no way out. Many other women aren’t as fortunate.

Congrats Jesalin!

All the best to Jesalin, and hoping everything’s ok with David.

David’s been active on Twitter.

Yes, prenuptial contracts can be ruled unenforceable.

Interestingly, this has been one of the arguments used against specific ‘Sharia Law’ courts on the ‘family court’ side of things, that the religious leaders would be likely to support estate divisions that no secular court would consider acceptable and which may in fact skirt or violate other existing laws. And that while no religious court could technically overrule the secular courts, social pressures would likely coerce women to follow the religious courts to their disadvantage.

Ontario used to have religious family courts for Jewish families, and several years ago there was a push to give Muslim families similar specialized courts. The outcry (much of which was from local Muslim women who knew what the end result would likely be) resulted in no Sharia courts, and the Jewish family law courts also getting disbanded because there was no real legal way to justify one but not the other.

Congrats Jesalin!
Good luck, Imaginary Petal!

Side note: The one legitimate boost I had seen on Hefner was that he was supportive of LGBT rights long, long before it was remotely fashionable, including having a trans woman model in his magazine in the 80s. This doesn’t “make up for” his many other failings and problematic philosophies, but I don’t think you can really add them all up on a “good person/bad person” scale, anyway. People are complicated.