You also got called a troll.

(more than once I might add.)

This is fun.

I did say "accused of trolling". Or can't you read, you troll?


By the way, I've been meaning to ask you, have you heard of Paris syndrome? And how's things going?

Could I just take this opportunity to say that you're a class act.

Hmm. Do you percieve in these comments a hint -- the faintest intimation, perhaps -- of hostility towards our host at Pandagon? Or is it just me? You know how us right-wingers are blinded by our bigoted ideas about women ...

No, you're none of those things, Sq2.
Interesting post ("Nuttery") by the way. I have something to say, but I admit I'm struggling to get my thoughts into a composed order. Funny how blogging is like that sometimes. I momentarily know what I want to say, the thoughts flash into my mind in all fullness, but as soon as I put fingers to keyboard, nope, it's gone, and meandering gibberish is all that comes out. I'll comment on the thread when it feels right. Hope all three of you are well.

Oo! Oo! And now I'm a "bullshitter" too. Fantastic.

Yep,

You've just met some American feminists.

Prolonged exposure will encourage you to believe women never reach the age of reason.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Shhh! They'll hear you.


I told Vic I was a mysogynist. But she just laughed at me.

So I slapped her around a bit.

You know, if you signed up for one of those ad networks that pays for page impressions and then found a way to combine abortion, Israel, Apple, Microsoft, the PlayStation 3, neo-cons, multiculturalism, 9/11 conspiracy theories, fundamentalist religion and Britney Spears in a single post, you'd be rich. Rich!

I'd help you out with that mega post but I took an oath.

I missed the trolling bit because you didn't have a nice blue shiny hyperlink. I have poor eyesight, you know.

I have indeed heard of Paris syndrome, and whilst I didn't get it, I did indeed come to the rather outdated conclusion that the existence of Parisians is some cosmic joke where there is no punchline.

And I love your 'fallacious rhetoric' so far.

This is heaps of fun.

There's another one here, if you're enjoying it so much. I suggested that people have greater responsibilities in their lives than merely satisfying their own happiness. They're furious about that.

I actually followed a link off Pandagon to one of your critic's (the long haired weirdo guy, I forgot his name) blogs, where I learned that :
"abortion is not a problem. A woman with an unwanted pregnancy is a problem. An abortion is one way to solve that problem. The entire debate over abortion needs to be viewed from this perspective."

which ties in with the above fight about being allowed to run out on your marriage at the drop of a hat.

I've rarely seen such wanton selfishness.

> The entire debate over abortion needs to be viewed from this perspective.

That's brilliant: "Anyone who doesn't have the same perspective as me shouldn't be in the debate." Does he know what a debate is, do you think?

"I suggested that people have greater responsibilities in their lives than merely satisfying their own happiness. "

On an American feminist blog like Pandagon..?

Well, now I know the true definition of 'asking for trouble'... ;)

"That's brilliant: "Anyone who doesn't have the same perspective as me shouldn't be in the debate." Does he know what a debate is, do you think?"

Oh, yeah. He hopes you don't... And let's face it, given Pandagon's usual audience, he'd normally be right.

Legalise post-natal abortion now!

Oh I think I read that site a few months ago when they were angrily denouncing anyone who suggested flaws in the Duke Lacrosse 'rape' case as 'Rape Apologists'.

They appear still to be going on about that.


> Legalise post-natal abortion now!

This is part of a much broader topic that I'll blog about sometime soon. The short version is: it's very depressing that the people who warned that other people would one day start seriously making that case have turned out not to have been nutters.

It gets better. Now I'm "trying to paint the US as morally bankrupt". How great is this? British lefties think I'm a pro-American bastard and American lefties think I'm an America-hating bastard.

S2:

I have referenced you, loosely, here.

And I bet you leave the loo seat up as well - bastard.

Cleanthes

"It gets better. Now I'm "trying to paint the US as morally bankrupt". "

How do they figure that?

Check out today's 'Vent': Michelle Malikin reads from Pandagon

She's all over the dextrosphere now that she's Edwards's blogger, so for her very "best," see here, and for a complilation, see here.

> dextrosphere

Oo, nice word, sir. I'd not heard that one.

Is there a sinistrosphere? Doesn't sound as good.

Even the Daily Kos thinks Marcotte is a lunatic, but John Edwards is happy to have her on his team!.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...2/2/15344/ 36869

"abortion should be legal for any reason in the first trimester but only for medical reasons in the third (I'm a bit hazy about the second)"

And who'd have thought that the one person who *did* agree with you would be me? Truly the world has been turned upside down.

McGazz

That's my point. I don't think you'll protest too strongly when I say that you're, by British and European standards, a left-winger, a Socialist of the much-further-left-than-Blair variety, a feminist, a pro-abortionist, and a secularist. Yet, compared to current US law and the standards of American left-wingers, at least on this issue, you're a right-wing reactionary woman-hating misogynist religious nut.

I've only seen sinistrosphere used in the dextrosphere -- but then, I'm not much of a masochist, so I don't lurk much at HuffPo or Daily Kos. But on to the topic.

To be fair, the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) did rule that states may place limits on abortions, and states have done so. Granted, nearly every one is taken to court, but the SCOTUS rarely hears court challenges to state abortion law, and on the few times they have, usually have found in favor of the states. And there are federal restrictions as well, such as the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funds from being spent on abortions (not to mention abortion restrictions on foreign aid).

But an earlier commenter was absolutely spot on (as you would say over there). One of the primary reasons (if not the primary reason) abortion is such an explosive issue here is because it was imposed by judicial fiat. We don't much like that. We like to make our own decisions through the legislature. We're funny that way.

"..She's all over the dextrosphere now that she's Edwards's blogger"

I've been reading that whole debacle on the US blogs (like Protein Wisdom, Pandagon itself, etc) with a mounting sense of unreality. It's truly an eyeopener for anyone familiar with only UK style politics & political missteps.

I mean, Cllr Bob Piper's 'blackface poster' incident doesn't really hold a candle to it!