Comments on: Be afraid, be very afraid. Here, let us help.

By: togolosh

togolosh — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:03:35 +0000

Sophist - whenever a woman tells me she’s pregnant my first impulse is to ask “Are you sure it’s yours?” Usually I can restrain myself, but I’ve gotten some fantastic quizzical looks when my restraint fails.

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:17:56 +0000

Typical media, burying the fact that this is not a problem for 97% of men in the middle, and then ending with a passionate “Can you afford not to know?”

This line alone: “The medical establishment is not on your side, the legal establishment may or may not be on your side, and you can be damn sure that the woman who lied to you isn’t on your side, which makes it all the more important that you stick up for yourself.” makes the whole article suspect.

By: Sophist

Sophist — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:46:26 +0000

Typical media, focusing on the results of female infidelity without even mentioning the percentage of poor, unsuspecting women unknowingly raising the fruit of their cheating husbands.

By: afm

afm — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:03:22 +0000

Cause children and wives aren’t people, they are things that you pat on the head and leave to go to work. Better make sure you’re only raising the one that your penis spurted to create!

By: Chris Bradley

Chris Bradley — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:51:36 +0000

good to know that a parent’s unconditional love for their child is so very conditional.

Shit. I knew this without having some paternity test done. All love is conditional, and men are raised to view “their children” as special possessions and all that “carry on the family line” BS (like women can’t carry on family lines, too? is not half the genetics and most of the care put into a child generally theirs?).

I am not surprised that a bunch of up-tight yuppy assholes with trophy wives first had this problem and second that it fucks up their relationship with their children.

Which might be a rant. :p

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:20:14 +0000

All I can say is, poor men, they have it so hard these days.. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!

By: Raincitygirl

Raincitygirl — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:23:29 +0000

P.S. Newsflash: chances are it’s the parents who raised the kid (provided they did a decent job, that is) who’ll get visited by the grown-up kid when they’re old and in a nursing home. It takes about fifteen minutes (and that’s an optimistic estimate) to become a biological father. It takes YEARS of effort to be a parent, and guess what the kid remembers when it’s all grown-up? Hint: not the thing that happened before it was even conceived, let alone born.

By: Raincitygirl

Raincitygirl — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:18:02 +0000

Because heaven knows that if you’ve raised a kid for ten years, and you then find out you’re not its biological father, you magically quit loving that child. Like flipping a switch. That’s why adoption never ever works out, I guess.

By: junk science

junk science — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:47:31 +0000

Thursday is Anxiety Day at MSN!

As opposed to every other day.

By: Kyso Kisaen

Kyso Kisaen — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:15:52 +0000

good to know that a parent’s unconditional love for their child is so very conditional.

Only the father’s, I guess. There’s a bit in there about how men are programmed by evolution to not waste resources on other people’s kids, but women, eh, not so picky. The whole article is three pages long and had kind of a creepy MRA bias going on.