Comes right down to it, I have to agree with you - the opt-out can only work if it doesn't leave the mothers high and dry. But I'm also concerned with the other ways - not necessarily directly related to cash flow - that single moms often get hung out to dry. And that leads into other injustices, that affect more than just single moms. Complex stuff.
You could be right about context failure; he did seem to have a lot of "regurgitate the party line" going on.
Actually, I was thinking of your ability to call me on things, if I need it. But, yeah, I don't call everybody on everything - life's too short. Which is why I stuck mostly to calling buddy on the underlying sexism in how he was participating - refutation of his arguments just didn't seem to have enough of a constructive return, either for the debate as it was shaping before he came along, or for me.
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Re: Nobody likes a paladin.
Date: 2008-04-17 11:46 am (UTC)You could be right about context failure; he did seem to have a lot of "regurgitate the party line" going on.
Actually, I was thinking of your ability to call me on things, if I need it. But, yeah, I don't call everybody on everything - life's too short. Which is why I stuck mostly to calling buddy on the underlying sexism in how he was participating - refutation of his arguments just didn't seem to have enough of a constructive return, either for the debate as it was shaping before he came along, or for me.