What non political controversial position do you hold?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

What’s under those shorts?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish there were a cure for autism.

Uh, how is that controversial? People with autism struggle to get through life. Wouldn't it be nice if they didn't have to?

It’s very controversial these days actually. I have lots of friends who would shun me if they knew I held that opinion.

https://time.com/6092407/autism-making-life-easier/?amp=true

This makes no sense. It’s a wish, not a controversy. And who would shun someone for wanting a cure for autism? Don’t we all want that?

NP. No, lots of people, particularly autistic people, do not want a "cure" for autism. Like, when you think of ADHD, you probably think about it as a different way of thinking that impares those who have it only because we live in a modern world that favors those who have the ability to sit still and easily decide where to put their attention. So the way to deal with it isn't necessarily to cure it, but to help individuals find ways of dealing with it and to have organizations do reasonable things to accommodate it, like not withhold recess for bad behavior or offering programs to employees that will "read" articles for them so they can' listen to them instead of having to sit still and read.

You can look at autism in a similar way: it is a different way of your brain working that the modern world just doesn't tolerate. A lot of autistic people don't want to be expected to make eye contact, tolerate overly-stimulating environments, modify their facial expressions and mannerisms to make others feel more comfortable, etc. They just want to be able to act naturally. Of course there can be really big impairments, like being nonverbal, that require support, but the way to deal with those isn't necessarily to "cure" the individual but to offer support.

Plus the idea of curing autism has a very terrible history. You know how kids used to get smacked for using their left hand to write? That sort of thing happened (and sometimes still happens) with autistic people. The guy who developed ABA therapy advocated physically harming children who stimmed or didn't make eye contact when speaking. He said that kids with autism weren't actually people, but sort of blank slates that you can use to create a person using these behavioral engineering techniques. Plus there is the issue of parents of kids with autism being anti-vaxxers, which some autistic people have taken to mean that they would rather risk the chance of their kids dying of a preventable disease than be autistic. So there is just a lot of baggage associated with the idea of a "cure" for autism.

But not all autistic people feel this way. They want a cure. So it's for sure controversial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

What’s under those shorts?

I don't know. But would you really feel better about this guy going to the bathroom next to your daughter if he had a vulva?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

So, it should be based on looks? Butch lesbians should use the mens room?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite a few

1. Never wake a sleeping baby to feed.

2. After 6 weeks or so, babies need to be sleep trained. Tending to a baby’s every peep during the night is only something a mom to few children and responsibilities can manage. It’s truly not necessary to stay up all night with your three month old baby. In fact, it’s not good for the baby.

3. A lot of babies don’t sleep well now because of “back to sleep,” which probably isn’t even necessary if you’re not poor, don’t smoke and don’t leave pillows in the crib. If there truly was a strong relationship between back sleeping and SIDS, then people would have figured this out before 1995.

4. A lot of men don’t contribute enough at home because men are lazy and will let women do all of the work. If you SAHM and don’t leave the house for extended periods of time, it’s not surprising you’re the default parent. You did this to yourself.

5. The food in NYC is not that great. NYC is overrated in general.

6. Parental leave is better in European countries because women have fewer options to stay home due to the higher COL and cultural norms like not sharing finances with a partner. Also, it’s cheaper for these governments to hand out a measly $200-300 a week and encourage women to stay home than pay for childcare with high labor costs. I’d be insulted to be expected to stay home for a year with each kid (BORING) for an annual salary of around $20k. I prefer my 12 weeks of unpaid leave and higher salary in the US.

7. Daycare is bad for babies. Babies need a primary caregiver and not to share one with 3-5 other babies.

8. Kids don’t need snacks. Ever. Truly unnecessary.

9. Having kids isn’t fun and it’s not supposed to be. It’s a form of work.

10. The more money a city spends on the homeless, the more homeless the city will have.

PP, you're my DCUM best friend. +1000000 on #8. I was gobsmacked when I saw parents bring junk food snacks to feed their small kids on the Metro after leaving the house and just having had breakfast.

Wow. You guys are odd. No junk food snacks, sure. But are you two actually opposed giving a hungry child some grapes and crackers at 3PM? I guess it's unnecessary in the sense that they won't starve without them but wow.

It’s unnecessary. The child should come to dinner hungry. They need to learn hunger cues and also don’t need to associate every event with eating. There’s no reason a child needs grapes and crackers at 3 PM.

I like eating at three and I still come to dinner plenty hungry. Offering your child grapes and crackers at 3PM isn't going to interfere with hunger cues. But you know what can? Sitting down to dinner when you're ravenous. When that happens people often eat so much so quickly that they don't realize they are getting full.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite a few

1. Never wake a sleeping baby to feed.

2. After 6 weeks or so, babies need to be sleep trained. Tending to a baby’s every peep during the night is only something a mom to few children and responsibilities can manage. It’s truly not necessary to stay up all night with your three month old baby. In fact, it’s not good for the baby.

3. A lot of babies don’t sleep well now because of “back to sleep,” which probably isn’t even necessary if you’re not poor, don’t smoke and don’t leave pillows in the crib. If there truly was a strong relationship between back sleeping and SIDS, then people would have figured this out before 1995.

4. A lot of men don’t contribute enough at home because men are lazy and will let women do all of the work. If you SAHM and don’t leave the house for extended periods of time, it’s not surprising you’re the default parent. You did this to yourself.

5. The food in NYC is not that great. NYC is overrated in general.

6. Parental leave is better in European countries because women have fewer options to stay home due to the higher COL and cultural norms like not sharing finances with a partner. Also, it’s cheaper for these governments to hand out a measly $200-300 a week and encourage women to stay home than pay for childcare with high labor costs. I’d be insulted to be expected to stay home for a year with each kid (BORING) for an annual salary of around $20k. I prefer my 12 weeks of unpaid leave and higher salary in the US.

7. Daycare is bad for babies. Babies need a primary caregiver and not to share one with 3-5 other babies.

8. Kids don’t need snacks. Ever. Truly unnecessary.

9. Having kids isn’t fun and it’s not supposed to be. It’s a form of work.

10. The more money a city spends on the homeless, the more homeless the city will have.

PP, you're my DCUM best friend. +1000000 on #8. I was gobsmacked when I saw parents bring junk food snacks to feed their small kids on the Metro after leaving the house and just having had breakfast.

Wow. You guys are odd. No junk food snacks, sure. But are you two actually opposed giving a hungry child some grapes and crackers at 3PM? I guess it's unnecessary in the sense that they won't starve without them but wow.

It’s unnecessary. The child should come to dinner hungry. They need to learn hunger cues and also don’t need to associate every event with eating. There’s no reason a child needs grapes and crackers at 3 PM.

You do realize that some kids eat lunch at school before noon, right? And that most families with working parents don't have dinner until after 6?

OMG your child not putting food in his or her mouth for six hours. The horror!!!!

Seriously do you realize how ridiculous this has gotten by your comment??

I guess nutritionists are giving bad advice by suggesting that children need to eat frequently, suggesting 4-5 times per day, including healthy snacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

What’s under those shorts?

I don't know. But would you really feel better about this guy going to the bathroom next to your daughter if he had a vulva?

Much more so than if that person has male genitalia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite a few

1. Never wake a sleeping baby to feed.

2. After 6 weeks or so, babies need to be sleep trained. Tending to a baby’s every peep during the night is only something a mom to few children and responsibilities can manage. It’s truly not necessary to stay up all night with your three month old baby. In fact, it’s not good for the baby.

3. A lot of babies don’t sleep well now because of “back to sleep,” which probably isn’t even necessary if you’re not poor, don’t smoke and don’t leave pillows in the crib. If there truly was a strong relationship between back sleeping and SIDS, then people would have figured this out before 1995.

4. A lot of men don’t contribute enough at home because men are lazy and will let women do all of the work. If you SAHM and don’t leave the house for extended periods of time, it’s not surprising you’re the default parent. You did this to yourself.

5. The food in NYC is not that great. NYC is overrated in general.

6. Parental leave is better in European countries because women have fewer options to stay home due to the higher COL and cultural norms like not sharing finances with a partner. Also, it’s cheaper for these governments to hand out a measly $200-300 a week and encourage women to stay home than pay for childcare with high labor costs. I’d be insulted to be expected to stay home for a year with each kid (BORING) for an annual salary of around $20k. I prefer my 12 weeks of unpaid leave and higher salary in the US.

7. Daycare is bad for babies. Babies need a primary caregiver and not to share one with 3-5 other babies.

8. Kids don’t need snacks. Ever. Truly unnecessary.

9. Having kids isn’t fun and it’s not supposed to be. It’s a form of work.

10. The more money a city spends on the homeless, the more homeless the city will have.

PP, you're my DCUM best friend. +1000000 on #8. I was gobsmacked when I saw parents bring junk food snacks to feed their small kids on the Metro after leaving the house and just having had breakfast.

Wow. You guys are odd. No junk food snacks, sure. But are you two actually opposed giving a hungry child some grapes and crackers at 3PM? I guess it's unnecessary in the sense that they won't starve without them but wow.

It’s unnecessary. The child should come to dinner hungry. They need to learn hunger cues and also don’t need to associate every event with eating. There’s no reason a child needs grapes and crackers at 3 PM.

I like eating at three and I still come to dinner plenty hungry. Offering your child grapes and crackers at 3PM isn't going to interfere with hunger cues. But you know what can? Sitting down to dinner when you're ravenous. When that happens people often eat so much so quickly that they don't realize they are getting full.

+1 Trust me, I'm a living example of this. Regularly forgoing eating and ignoring hunger cues actually teaches you to be out of touch with your body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

So, it should be based on looks? Butch lesbians should use the mens room?

I don't think you care at all about girls being safe in the bathroom, you're just extremely transphobic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

Doesn’t your bathroom have stalls? Who cares who is in my bathroom. I’ve been in coed bathrooms what’s the big deal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

What’s under those shorts?

I don't know. But would you really feel better about this guy going to the bathroom next to your daughter if he had a vulva?

Much more so than if that person has male genitalia.

So if that person has gotten sex reassignment surgery, he goes to the men's bathroom. If he hasn't, he goes to the girls bathroom. But of course you aren't going to know because he'll use a stall.

I imagine you don't realize how weird this sounds, but it's really effing weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

What’s under those shorts?

I don't know. But would you really feel better about this guy going to the bathroom next to your daughter if he had a vulva?

Wait is tat not a random picture is that a picture of a mass shooter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite a few

1. Never wake a sleeping baby to feed.

2. After 6 weeks or so, babies need to be sleep trained. Tending to a baby’s every peep during the night is only something a mom to few children and responsibilities can manage. It’s truly not necessary to stay up all night with your three month old baby. In fact, it’s not good for the baby.

3. A lot of babies don’t sleep well now because of “back to sleep,” which probably isn’t even necessary if you’re not poor, don’t smoke and don’t leave pillows in the crib. If there truly was a strong relationship between back sleeping and SIDS, then people would have figured this out before 1995.

4. A lot of men don’t contribute enough at home because men are lazy and will let women do all of the work. If you SAHM and don’t leave the house for extended periods of time, it’s not surprising you’re the default parent. You did this to yourself.

5. The food in NYC is not that great. NYC is overrated in general.

6. Parental leave is better in European countries because women have fewer options to stay home due to the higher COL and cultural norms like not sharing finances with a partner. Also, it’s cheaper for these governments to hand out a measly $200-300 a week and encourage women to stay home than pay for childcare with high labor costs. I’d be insulted to be expected to stay home for a year with each kid (BORING) for an annual salary of around $20k. I prefer my 12 weeks of unpaid leave and higher salary in the US.

7. Daycare is bad for babies. Babies need a primary caregiver and not to share one with 3-5 other babies.

8. Kids don’t need snacks. Ever. Truly unnecessary.

9. Having kids isn’t fun and it’s not supposed to be. It’s a form of work.

10. The more money a city spends on the homeless, the more homeless the city will have.

PP, you're my DCUM best friend. +1000000 on #8. I was gobsmacked when I saw parents bring junk food snacks to feed their small kids on the Metro after leaving the house and just having had breakfast.

Wow. You guys are odd. No junk food snacks, sure. But are you two actually opposed giving a hungry child some grapes and crackers at 3PM? I guess it's unnecessary in the sense that they won't starve without them but wow.

It’s unnecessary. The child should come to dinner hungry. They need to learn hunger cues and also don’t need to associate every event with eating. There’s no reason a child needs grapes and crackers at 3 PM.

You do realize that some kids eat lunch at school before noon, right? And that most families with working parents don't have dinner until after 6?

OMG your child not putting food in his or her mouth for six hours. The horror!!!!

Seriously do you realize how ridiculous this has gotten by your comment??

I guess nutritionists are giving bad advice by suggesting that children need to eat frequently, suggesting 4-5 times per day, including healthy snacks.

The problem is many parents in this country don’t have a healthy snack in the house and wouldn’t know one if it hit them on the head. Not everyone in the country reads and parents the DCUM. At my school kids will literally bring in nutter butters or Doritos or cookies as a “snack.” Lunch isn’t any better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A woman is a human person with a XX chromosome pair.

A man is a human person with a XY chromosome pair.

Apparently, this is a controversial position.

You are confusing sex with gender. Your sex is assigned at birth and is what is located between your legs. Gender is a social construct. It is in your brain. Many cultures throughout history have had 3,4, and even 5 different genders.

Then we need to base bathrooms, sports, etc on sex and not gender. Clears up a lot of confusion.

So you want this guy in the girl's bathroom?

Doesn’t your bathroom have stalls? Who cares who is in my bathroom. I’ve been in coed bathrooms what’s the big deal?

So you do think that people should be able to use the bathroom of their gender and not be forced to go by sex? Because I agree with you. I don't care how other people live their lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Quite a few

1. Never wake a sleeping baby to feed.

2. After 6 weeks or so, babies need to be sleep trained. Tending to a baby’s every peep during the night is only something a mom to few children and responsibilities can manage. It’s truly not necessary to stay up all night with your three month old baby. In fact, it’s not good for the baby.

3. A lot of babies don’t sleep well now because of “back to sleep,” which probably isn’t even necessary if you’re not poor, don’t smoke and don’t leave pillows in the crib. If there truly was a strong relationship between back sleeping and SIDS, then people would have figured this out before 1995.

4. A lot of men don’t contribute enough at home because men are lazy and will let women do all of the work. If you SAHM and don’t leave the house for extended periods of time, it’s not surprising you’re the default parent. You did this to yourself.

5. The food in NYC is not that great. NYC is overrated in general.

6. Parental leave is better in European countries because women have fewer options to stay home due to the higher COL and cultural norms like not sharing finances with a partner. Also, it’s cheaper for these governments to hand out a measly $200-300 a week and encourage women to stay home than pay for childcare with high labor costs. I’d be insulted to be expected to stay home for a year with each kid (BORING) for an annual salary of around $20k. I prefer my 12 weeks of unpaid leave and higher salary in the US.

7. Daycare is bad for babies. Babies need a primary caregiver and not to share one with 3-5 other babies.

8. Kids don’t need snacks. Ever. Truly unnecessary.

9. Having kids isn’t fun and it’s not supposed to be. It’s a form of work.

10. The more money a city spends on the homeless, the more homeless the city will have.

PP, you're my DCUM best friend. +1000000 on #8. I was gobsmacked when I saw parents bring junk food snacks to feed their small kids on the Metro after leaving the house and just having had breakfast.

Wow. You guys are odd. No junk food snacks, sure. But are you two actually opposed giving a hungry child some grapes and crackers at 3PM? I guess it's unnecessary in the sense that they won't starve without them but wow.

It’s unnecessary. The child should come to dinner hungry. They need to learn hunger cues and also don’t need to associate every event with eating. There’s no reason a child needs grapes and crackers at 3 PM.

You do realize that some kids eat lunch at school before noon, right? And that most families with working parents don't have dinner until after 6?

OMG your child not putting food in his or her mouth for six hours. The horror!!!!

Seriously do you realize how ridiculous this has gotten by your comment??

I guess nutritionists are giving bad advice by suggesting that children need to eat frequently, suggesting 4-5 times per day, including healthy snacks.

The problem is many parents in this country don’t have a healthy snack in the house and wouldn’t know one if it hit them on the head. Not everyone in the country reads and parents the DCUM. At my school kids will literally bring in nutter butters or Doritos or cookies as a “snack.” Lunch isn’t any better.

Then your issue isn't snacks, its Doritos as a snack.