Quote From: dbachelor -- we used to say, thirty or forty years ago, when an unmarried woman got pregnant that "she should have kept her legs together." We shamed her and held her fully responsible for the consequences. We hid her away somewhere until after the baby was born and could be adopted out.
I don't see how what you're saying is any different, except that now you're applying this backward attitude to the man rather than the woman.
It's arguable that 18 *years* of payments is a much tougher road to hoe than several months of pregnancy, which when done with can be gone past and largely forgotten. $108,000 is a lot to pay for sex by anyone's standard. How about she give him the baby and the $500 a month?
On a related note, one of the great myths is that men don't like and won't use condoms. The untold story is all the women out there who are trying to get men to *not* use a condom. This pressure usually comes at a crucial point in the proceedings where the man is especially vulnerable. Presumably these hookers (in the literal sense of the word) are quite aware that once a guy's dick gets wet he's on the hook for 18 years of child support payments. Kinda puts a new spin on the phrase "getting lucky", no?
I hope the coverage on the show causes men to withdraw even more from women until women figure out many of us guys won't put up with being second class citizens in the area of reproduction any longer.
Perhaps some bright woman out there will even flash on the insight that men won't fight to maintain reproductive rights for women when we don't have any such rights ourselves -- other than not to participate.
That's what happens every time the abortion debate comes up. Yea, in principle I may be firmly in favor of legal abortion, but then I realize I really don't have any stake in it one way or the other. So don't ask me to march, right my congressperson, or vote for your candidate. Until I have reproductive rights also.
When you choose to have unprotected sex, you know every risk that is involved! Like you said "back 40 years ago", yah lets just go back to when women had no rights and we were just supposed to stay home and have babies. Lets not progress at all like normal human beings.... You must have no idea how much money it takes to raise a child. Do you really think $500 a month even close to covers the costs, let alone the time and energy?? Get real...And you know what, there are guys out there that step up and take the kid when the mother is unfit, but when a guy has an attitude like yours do you think they want you to raise that child?? And what you say about condoms and a man being "vulnerable"...come on...guys will say or do anything in the heat of the moment just to get some. Everyone knows it...And did you ever think of being in the women's shoes?? you're not the one that would have to live with the choice of giving up your baby by having an abortion. You would just be happy that you wouldn't have to pay...be a man and take responsibility for what you do when you know the consequences....sorry the vagina doesn't come with a warning label!!!
