Because GAWD...trying to assess the needs of the population is just, like, SO SOCIALIST. /eyeroll

My husband has had perps tell him they had to steal/sell drugs to support their wives and children (which they turned out not to have), that they had to beat their wives/girlfriends because the women were crazy or cheating whores (the police records usually show a long history of DV calls), that they didn't rape that girl and it was consensual and she changed her mind later (yeah, consensual with all those bruises on her and that busted lip, right?). Moral of this story is that only a fool would listen to a perp's justifications for his crimes.

I'm not really back. Patchfire links me to posts every once in a while and I may or may not comment. I can't stand the woman-hating, gay-bashing, non-Xtian bashing that certain members of this board dish out on a regular basis. I will, however, pipe up to say that my husband has put in an extensive study on this topic, because getting on to the Crimes Against Persons (ie. sexual assault) or Crimes Against Children unit is one of his professional goals. We have shelves full of books on rape psychology, each with different ideas as to the underlying problem with rapists and what can be done, culturally, to minimize rape, but all with the same loud theme -- rape has nothing to do with how you dress, how "modest" or "humble" you appear, whether or not you've had sex before, whether or not you're a "good" girl.

And women wearing burquas are still sexually assaulted at a high rate, because they're in a culture where women are less-than full humans. NOT ABOUT THE CLOTHES, ABOUT THE CRIMINAL. Stop telling your daughters to dress modestly to avoid rape. Start teaching your sons not to rape.

What you're saying completely goes against all the available statistics and psychological profiling. Read any of the data out there. Read any of the hundreds of books on the psychology of rapists. It's not even remotely accurate. It's also insulting. Women don't get raped because they're wearing short skirts. Women get raped because someone rapes them. Rapists aren't triggered by what a woman wears. Rapists don't single you out by what you wear. Rapists look for opportunity, which can happen with any one. Your husband is putting stock in "she asked for it" claims by criminals and you are sharing it because it provides confirmation bias for what you already believe: that women dressing in revealing clothing are somehow "asking" for it, while "modestly" dressed women are safe.

There's something disgusting here, all right. It's the homophobia, bigotry, and paranoia I see in this thread.

I love you. :001_wub:

If I'm teaching my children the scientific definition of "theory," it's really not a problem.

Some people just don't wake up well. She's obviously one of those people. You know she has a window of grumpiness, so just give her a snack and a little snuggle, followed by a wide berth.

I'd recommend adding vocabulary, a writing program, a more extensive literature study, and a foreign language.

Still wearing my almost 2 year old. Wore my previous kids to 3+.

Looks like an insulated lunch bag to me.

My rule is that if a name doesn't look good with "Senator" or "Doctor" in front of it, I won't use it. ;)

We get a half-cow, too. We put it in our large chest freezer, but it doesn't come close to filling it up. It's assigned by wait; we don't look at the live cows and say "I want that one!" It's butchered into all the cuts, wrapped, labeled, and hard frozen before we pick it up. The price we pay per pounds comes out to roughly $2.45 -- and that's everything from ground beef to steaks!

:iagree: Italian Ren loves a voluptuous woman. So does Elizabethan, btw. I did 14th century Bohemian when I had the complete lack of boobs for it. ;)

My in-laws are not related to me in the same way my actual family is. They aren't my parents or my siblings. I don't love them in the same way, nor do I think it's realistic to expect me to. If you feel that way about your in-laws, great, but not me.

I love Culver's and I love the idea of your mohawk. Take your fun and your empowerment wherever you find it and ROCK THAT HAWK!

I just told my boys that the uterus grows a special lining for a baby to grow in and if there isn't a baby growing, the body doesn't need it and the lining comes out.

I'm an adult and I'll eat what I want, when and where I want.

I know how you feel. I love my sons more than anything, but I had such a longing for a daughter. I know a big part of that is because my own relationship with my mother has always been so close and I have so many memories of the wonderful things we shared. Now that I have a daughter, I will say that I don't love her more than my sons, but it really is different to have a daughter. WOW! I now see this thread was from two years ago and your daughter has joined your family. What a wonderful manifestation of your hopes and dreams! And how precious to be able to have this record to remember the time before she joined you and how much you wanted her.

Try KidCoder and the follow up GameCoder. They're available at the Homeschool Buyer's Co-op and are a nice way to get into the very basics of how games are made.

Worldwide outage, it appears.

Stomach pain from anxiety is pretty common. I get it! However, it might be worth looking into abdominal migraines, too: http://www.healthcentral.com/migraine/types-of-headaches-38002-5.html

When it's said with love (expressed during a stressful time in my life, during a crisis or time of uncertainty, etc.) I appreciate it. When it's said with the obvious tinge of "because that's the only way you're going to get any mercy, sinner," I just roll my eyes.

It would annoy the bejeezus out of me and I would say something.