Militants - are they for real?

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Militants - are they for real?
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Tue, 04-14-2009 - 6:59pm

Someone on another board posted this link.
http://blogs.babycenter.com/celebrities/2009/04/12/dr-laura-says-all-moms-should-stay-at-home/?scid=momstodd_20090414_A:2&pe=2U8vYLf
It's about Dr. Laura saying that all women should be SAHMs until the child is at least 3 years old.

Whether we're talking about working or staying at home, I can't quite wrap my head around what is going on inside the brains of people that apply the phrase "all women should".

Do you think militants are actually serious, or just trying to get a rise out of others?

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Registered: 01-15-2006
Mon, 05-04-2009 - 11:20pm

huh?


please tell me you are NOT comparing an economist to an ECE professional.

 

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Registered: 02-04-2009
Mon, 05-04-2009 - 11:53pm

A surgeon doesn't inflict an injury on someone.

Yeah, really? According to whom? I had knee replacement surgery 2 years ago this coming August. You know how that's done? Well, first the surgeon cuts open the skin over the knee--about a 9 to 12" incision, depending on the surgeon, the surgery, the patient and the amount of damage to be corrected on the knee.

Then the quadriceps is detached from the knee and either folded backwards out of the way, or it, too is cut (which makes recovery a lot longer, which is why the surgeon will generally try not to have to). Then the thigh bone is sawn through, as are the lower shin bones and the knee removed completely. Then the knee replacement is inserted. It's held in place by spikes top and bottom which are hammered INTO the leg bones top and bottom. I think there's a bit of surgical glue used as well, but by the time my OS got into this part of the description he made my lie back on the exam table and brought me a barf bucket (he wasn't sure if I'd faint before I puked), so it's possible I'm misremembering details.

Then they reattach everything that was detached from the original knee and attach it to the new knee and close everything up, using surgical glue and staples on the knee incision (I had 32 staples).

If surgeons 'don't inflict injury" on their patients, I'm curious just how you define the use of a SAW on 3 of my leg bones. Of COURSE they inflict injury. The point is, the injury is a better choice than the condition it's intended to correct. But that doesn't change the definition of surgery to something pretty with rainbows and sparkles and sunshine. It's still an injury, inflicted by a surgeon.

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Registered: 04-20-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 12:05am
No it's not true.
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Registered: 04-20-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 12:08am

When you want to justify what you want, you can always find road blocks.

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Registered: 02-04-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 12:55am

One has to hope that, over dinner, one's family of doctors could find a more appropriate topic for conversation than surgical trauma and childbirth, yes?

And I suppose that if that's an unreasonable hope, one should thank God one didn't marry a proctologist. ;)

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Kitty

The horrifying consequences of underaged
baking cannot be overstated.--me, because there's nothing you can't learn from teh
interwebz

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Kitty

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .

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Registered: 02-04-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 12:57am
Over dinner? Seriously? And....um... I hope you weren't having sloppy joes...

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Kitty

The horrifying consequences of underaged
baking cannot be overstated.--me, because there's nothing you can't learn from teh
interwebz

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Kitty

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .

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Registered: 02-04-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 12:59am

And they say the art of conversation is dead.

;)

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Kitty

The horrifying consequences of underaged
baking cannot be overstated.--me, because there's nothing you can't learn from teh
interwebz

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Kitty

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .

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Registered: 12-31-2008
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 5:30am

>>huh?<<


huh, what?? lol


>>please tell me you are NOT comparing an economist to an ECE professional.<<


Not sure where you got that from, but if it works for you .....


>>my dad taught a course called,statistics.

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 5:35am

it was NOT only about making me happy....it was part of the mood of the house. It was going to bed alone night after night, not having a PARNTER to talk to, being told that things were always MY fault or that "I" was the one who had forgotten something, never hearing "i'm sorry" in all of our years together and never being made to feel important or special.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 6:21am

Really?

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