I’ve known people to conceal reservations about bad ideas and practices in the workplace because they fear being seen as a Jonah. When you make negative predictions, you run the risk of being associated with the negative outcome.
“No wonder my marriage ended in divorce, you jinxed it!”
“No wonder the project was a failure, you undermined it!”
“No wonder my kid turned out to be a crackhead, you never supported my decisions!”
curlcoat’s pretty stupid. Dunno about enipla.
You snipped out: Not as in the pro choice sense. In the “the Chinese government doesn’t go far enough” sense.
Abortion for abortion’s sake is repugnant, IMO.
I’m pretty sure you’re getting whooshed.
Ah, I see. I snipped out that part because I thought it was redundant, that the germane issue was that curlcoat apparently is pro-abortion, as in she thinks people should not only have the choice to have an abortion, but she actively supports more people having abortions. I don’t see anything wrong with that position - it’s not like she’s going out and stabbing pregnant women in the bellies.
There’s a difference between supporting a person who wants to have an abortion and judgemently thinking a specific person should be having them. One is supporting the choice someone is making, the other is making judgements about the choices they choose to make.
For those wanting some examples of curlcoat’s opinions on children:
Here’s a 45-page thread for you. Curlcoat’s participation starts on page 10. Knock yourself out.
Or maybe this one, only 7 pages for those of you lacking in free time: About abortion and child support.
Or maybe this 46-pager is more to your liking: Anything else you motherfuckers need? (curlcoat arrives on page 9.)
That should probably do you for now.
I see the difference, but I still don’t think it’s a big deal to think more people should get abortions. You can think anything you like; it doesn’t make someone have an abortion if curlcoat thinks they should.
Pretending that having a baby is good thing, when it isn’t is repugnant, IMO
See, yeah, that’s been covered. A bunch of times. It’s something many people do because they’d rather not be seen as raging assholes. Anyway, next time you see a pregnant stranger in public, why not just march right up and tell her about how she should have an abortion. Be insistent, seeing how you know better than she does.
Have you read *ANY *of curly’s anti-child, anti-parent snide remarks?
How 'bout:
Or:
From the same thread:
That attitude went on for pages and pages, until finally someone had enough:
I need some kind of scale to judge this on. Is it more repugnant than shaking your hand or less repugnant than shaking your hand?
Now that’d be interesting. Wonder if curlcoat could stomach an 86% industrial tax rate in order that abortions are mandated.
Cat Whisperer, you seem relatively sane. Are you aware of this?
It’s not just the snide remarks (although those are good examples), it’s that **curlcoat **is just mind-numbingly, astonishingly stupid. Really, hers is stupidity on an unprecedented level. There are other dopers who cling to strange opinions, or have occasional dopey moments, or think they’re a lot smarter than they really are. But there are very few who are genuinely as half-witted as her. This effect is compounded by her constant habit of telling other people that they’re morons, declaring victory for herself, and crowing about how she’s scared off everyone else with her amazing insights.
Her OP in the ‘bad idea pregnancy’ thread was actually not that bad, it was her later comments that got dumb. She refuses to accept the idea that sometimes people might just be being polite about a pregnancy, or that her child-hater stance might make people unwilling to share their misgivings about pregnancy with her, or even that the universal celebration of pregnant ladies doesn’t even exist. Hence the pitting.
I will admit that many of the responses she got were driven by her past posting history. Her feelings about babies (and poor people, and all kinds of other things) are well known, so she’s not going to be able to start a thread about pregnancy without people referencing her past comments.
Once again, just so it’s on the permanent record, you are fucking insane.
:rolleyes: Simple polite behavior is fine. And is what is called for. Overzealous joy in some cases is not.
Noted
Part of the thread was questioning the premise: how much “overzealous joy” is she really seeing? Is it something we’d characterize as polite ethusiasm, but to her, over the top?
I blame the napkin sandwiches.
I’m starting to think that curlcoat is a combination of my mother, who is isolated enough that she doesn’t really understand polite social interaction, and my grandmother, who mused out loud (completely apropos of nothing, I might add) that I should use my hernia surgery to get my tubes tied as long as the surgeon was poking around in there anyway. :eek:
And, to be honest, curly’s postings are so predictable that they don’t even generate a WTF anymore.
Do you see the difference between pro choice and pro some people should be made to get abortions?