To think that all this Cairlin Moran worship should stop?

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I bought the book. Read the book. Loved the book... Until the abortion chapter. How can a woman who killed a healthy baby for no other reason that conveni

Aitch, is that why the OP is so rude about CM? It's OK to have an abortion as long as you walk around shredding your clothes/end up on antidepressants/become a shell of your former self?

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Whereyouleftit - that is exactly it. There was a long abortion thread recently where it became clear that being miserable about a decision to terminate was acceptable while being comfortable about it laid you open for a barrage of abuse.

Sorry, I should have made clear that my post is in response to the OP's comments.

No disrespect meant to people who have a pro life position but do not seek to force their views on other people.

Anyway, I am curious, OP. You say CM shouldn't call herself a feminist. Can you explain exactly what part of a woman making a decision about what happens to her own body disqualifies her from feminism?

is anyone using quotation marks on this thread yet?

she said at the time that she was more stressed by choosing whether to have granite countertops in her new kitchen than she was by the decision to abort, which was a pretty bald statement but if it was true, and there is no reason to doubt that, then that is good for her.

kungfupanda I see we have read (and maybe both posted on) the same thread!

i cannot stand people who make grand generalisations but then qualify it with a disclaimer.

All benefit claiments are sponging scum. Oh except xyz.

I hate all black men except when they play on my footy team.

I am pro life and abortion is wrong, unless i like you and then i will make allowances for you so long as you spend the rest of your life regretting it and spending every minute feeling guilty

I don't think she said she was more stressed about the countertops, but that she took more time to make the decision.

Abortion is a BIG decision, but sometimes the bigger the decision the easier it is to know what you want to do.

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OP I'm sure you've now realised that calling a woman a selfish cunt for having an abortion, on a female forum where it's safe to assume a significant proportion will have had abortions, isn't going to win you any friends.

You just make pro lifers look like simplistic dullards, which only some of them are.

Impressive work Feminists Wife.

I had never heard of Caitlin Moran or her book until I saw this thread. So well done OP for giving her a bit of free publicity.

OP you know you're being fucking unreasonable. I heart Caitlin Moran I think she's bloody fab. Haven't read the book yet but I will.

OP out of interest does that make my mum a "selfish cunt" for having 2 abortions.

I've missed all the sweary posts AGAIN goddamnit

i think many of them paraphrased the OP.

Weird OP, and fancy OP disappearing, it's almost like lighting the touch paper....

Well I said cunt a few times but I was only copying the op

I think the OP has a whiff of namechange about it.

However, I may be wrong.

Oh yes trill that is a good distinction, thanks

i have her lego image and i dance naked about it of an evening chanting obscenities. it is v. purifying