Ana joins Cenk for SCS. Erin Andrews has been awarded $55 million for her invasion of privacy case. Cenk talks about how he wouldn’t have even sued if this happened to him. Christianity Today newspaper is being criticized for posting a father’s ad for his daughter’s hand in marriage, citing her virginity as a big selling point. Ana talks about having to disappoint her father with her wedding plans that won’t include a priest. Sweden’s Lib party is proposing a new law that would allow an expecting father to have the opportunity to opt out of becoming a parent within 18 weeks of conception. If he chooses to abandon the baby, he will have no financial or parental responsibilities.
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I feel like they needed to add that the Sweden law would also be hopeful because both parties would be more likely to admit that they don’t want to be involved BEFORE the baby is born, instead of afterwards. Too often, one of the parents invlved will say they’re committed because they want to be supportive in the moment but then walk out or leave after the baby is born because their intentions were not true, the law would help people think ahead and feel comfortable laying all the cards out on the table. Furthermore, it could help women consider all of the aspects of having a baby promote decision making that involves both parties. Though progressives like myself like to deny it at times, psychological and sociological studies have proven over and over again that having two parents is important to a persons childhood.
Warning: Heteronormative Arument Ahead. Is fair to equate women who get abortions and men who decide they don’t want to raise a child? Women not only are deciding not to raise the child, but also have a procedure that gets rid of it. I know from family and friends that abortions are not a simple decision to make for women. Are there any men that can tell me who they think both men and women suffer the same amount? I’m seriously curious due to my lack of understanding of the male experience.
Thanks for the discussion on men opting out of parenting.
Great discussion.
I’m pro choice. But I think the father should sign his consent to the abortion as well.
If the father is so determined to be involved ..he should establish that before he makes his deposit.
Cenk and Ana 100% wrong on father looking for daughter’s husband. He is looking for a man who understands he is unworthy of his daughter, but who tries to be more worthy of her every single day.
Cenk and Ana really couldn’t get out of their bubble on this one….
Maybe you are right – and I hope you are – but that certainly isn’t the obvious connotation to me. I don’t know that I’d have ever come up with that and I don’t know that it even makes sense to me. Perhaps the risk of being misunderstood is just another reason why one shouldn’t advertise his or her child’s virginity.
Hi Megz :)
Completely agreed that advertising virginity to the wide world is not a good idea, and is something that can trigger some people in very different ways…
It was the obvious connotation to me, primarily because the context of all positive words proceeding ‘virgin’, such as ‘educated’ etc.
Given the reaction of the daughter…. I think ‘Dad’ is a little old-fashioned, -obviously- not very media savvy, and did not write it with Cenk and Ana in mind for an audience…
The likelihood that he is not a “slave-trading monster”, but rather a “over-enthusiastic wanna-be grandpa” is, I think, fairly high.
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At my cousin’s wedding, the pastor literally used this phrasing: “… until death do you part, or until the second coming of Jesus?” Wow! That’s a pretty good reason not to use a priest/pastor if you’re an atheist.
Men can choose where they deposit their sperm.
Until women have full and private to care to all medical care and this is a truly settled issue… this is too soon to consider this “choice”.
And women can choose where they have sperm deposited.
I don’t think they always can.
Okay well then men can be raped too, do you have a point or are you just arguing semantics?
A god I might consider:
God promised man “You will find pure and obedient wives in all the corners of the earth.
THEN SHE Made the world round….and laughed and laughed and laughed.