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May 10 Margaret L. commented on Why Marital Rape Actually Is a Crime.

I know this is a minor point, but getting a B.A. doesn't make you a linguist, any more than being an undergraduate physics major makes you a physicist. This attempt to round herself up is pathetic. And then insinuating that what linguists care about is fixed definitions of particular words, which just goes to show how little she learned in her linguistics classes in college.

Apr 3 Margaret L. commented on Catholic Priest Who Molested a 12-Year-Old Boy Sentenced to Six Years In Prison.

I'm not surprised. They continue to allow this kind of thing for the same reason they continue to be Catholics at all. They believe that these horrific news reports have nothing to do with THEIR experience of being Catholic, which is all sweetness and truth. THEIR priest is a kindly man of god who they can trust implicitly. How else could they stay in the church?

Mar 21 Margaret L. commented on Young, Conservative, and Opposed to Gay Marriage.

@1: No, just that they haven't thought about it deeply. If you don't agree with me then you must not have thought about it deeply.

Mar 18 Margaret L. commented on For the First Time, A Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage.

Half of me is thinking "Woo-hoo!" and the other half of me is thinking "What's wrong with these dummies who can't think for themselves?" Srsly, they think it's okey-dokey now that everyone else thinks it's okey-dokey, but they couldn't logic themselves to that position 10 years ago? WTF?

Jan 28 Margaret L. commented on Well-Regulated Militia Accidentally Shoots Fiancé at Gun Range.

The choice of cheerleading as a comparison statistic is particularly cynical. It sounds ridiculous, because most of us associate cheerleading with jumping up and down with pom-poms, not to mention the "dumb girl" contempt they get for free by mentioning cheerleading.

Cheerleading has actually become extremely dangerous in the last few decades, rivaling elite gymnastics in the difficulty of the moves, but without the safety regulations and soft landing surfaces. And yes, some of the injuries are fatal.

Jan 27 Margaret L. commented on SL Letter of the Day: So And So.

@38: "I did not know that his family had no idea of who she was."

Let me get this straight. The three of you piled into the car to go to a funeral together as a family, except that: 1) You, the wife, thought you were all going as a proud, out, poly trio, because you just assumed. 2) The LW apparently knew the score, though, because she asked the husband how the heck he was going to handle this. (But, bizarrely, she asked after you were all trapped in the car together, not before.) 3) The husband must have known the extent of this mess, but apparently didn't think it was any big deal.

Do you get why the Slog commentariat thinks your relationship is dysfunctional? Your third is thinking about leaving. I strongly suggest that you get some relationship counseling from a poly-friendly therapist.

Jan 26 Margaret L. commented on SL Letter of the Day: So And So.

The wife is a total lesbo, but she is beyond being a cowardly closet case. She isn't just afraid of coming out, she is actively clinging to the perks of being in a hetero marriage. That's the only reason she hasn't dumped hubby.

The husband is a clueless Guy guy. "Want a poly relationship?" "Sure, babe!" "You get to sleep with whoever you want." "Sure, babe!" He goes to his job, gets as much tail as he wants, has two women making his home homey, and he's fine as long as nobody moves his food dish. Just don't ask him to have a complicated conversation about relationships.

Jan 18 Margaret L. commented on SL Letter of the Day: Schooling Your Instructor.

Sadly, I don't think this opened the instructor's mind. I think the instructor was pissing herself realizing that she had put her remarks in writing, and that if she gave an unfair grade after this exchange she could be in a lot of trouble.

I recognize the type of social justice professor Jason is describing -- we have a bunch of them at my university. They are accustomed to telling students what they are allowed to think, and when they encounter intelligent pushback they are remarkably unprepared.

Jan 14 Margaret L. commented on I'm a Supporter of Physician-Assisted Suicide....

This isn't about "losing both sight and hearing," as if these were somehow two separate but equal blows from fate. It's about access to language, for people who have grown up deaf and find that state to be normal.

Unfortunately Belgium is still very much oralist in its approach to deaf education, so it's likely that these brothers were oral communicators and entirely dependent on the visual modality to be able to use language. If they were sign language users, they would be able to transition without too much trouble to tactile signing, which is fundamentally the same language with a few modifications. They would still be able to communicate with each other and with all their loved ones in the deaf signing community. Not so for an oral deaf person going blind.

Anyone imagining, "Gee, I couldn't live without music, but if I had to live without music and ALSO live without seeing sunsets, then I'd really kill myself!" -- you're missing the point. Deaf people see these issues really really differently.