Staying Home (grab the barf bucket, folks!)

www.nytimes.com ^ | December 16, 2007 | By BRIAN GOEDDE

[paltz]

It’s New Year’s Eve a few years back: candles are lighted in Emily’s “cozy one-bedroom” apartment, iTunes shifts seamlessly from the Magnetic Fields to Maria Callas to Nina Simone, and although we love to look out her second-story windows at the packs of people clamoring between bars and parties, and although we half-made plans to go to bars and parties ourselves, there’s no way we’re going out. The abortion is scheduled for two days from now, and we’re holing up.

[paltz]

Ping!

[redfish53]

Evil...

[fieldmarshaldj]

WTF is this garbage ?

[GOP_Raider]

The abortion is no one’s business but ours, we’ve decided.

Until you decided to write about it in the New York Times.

[paltz]

Emily has only a sip. She doesn’t want to drink while pregnant. “It’s just not something you do,” she says. Even though the pregnancy is scheduled to be terminated in two days, there’s still something — someone? — inside of her she doesn’t want to hurt. I’m utterly baffled but mask it with a respectful, if distant, “O.K.” I don’t want to ruin the mood. I just tell myself that we could never see this situation the same way, and that even what we decide together we’ll have to experience separately. That’s that.HUH!!!!!!!!???????...This is just too twisted

[Bahbah]

Even though the pregnancy is scheduled to be terminated in two days, there’s still something — someone? — inside of her she doesn’t want to hurt

Such a good person. Don't do any damage before you kill this person. How horrible.

[GOP_Raider]

...put the bottle in the fridge, brush our teeth, climb into bed and have unprotected sex.

“I’m not going to get more pregnant,” Emily says.

Boy, he married a sharp one, didn't he?

[paltz]

ping

[webheart]

God, am I glad I don’t ever read the NY Times. The sad thing is, this will probably win someone a Pulitzer prize. Imagine a lifeless blob of protoplasm experiencing the deleterious effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. A paradox indeed. The “abortion” seems a little less than desired by the mother, but apparently the father believes very strongly in a woman’s right to choose.

[Eagles6]

"Evil..."

Yeah, it truly is. And the day before the birthday of Jesus. Must be just a coincidence...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Don’t these lovely holiday stories from the NY Slimes just warm your heart ? Makes you want to go out and kill the one you love, like these people did.

[weegee]

It’s just an inanimate blob of tissue. if the fetus is really just a part of her body and she doesn’t want to harm it, then she should also consider her liver, her kidneys...

[hemogoblin]

The friggin’ dumplings are more important than the baby.

[Always Right]

It is truly sad people think this way. Absolutely shallow and sickening.

[TexanToTheCore]

I stopped reading the NYT in the eigthies. Each year the thrill of not reading it intensifies. This is an exceptionally inappropriate story and should have been blasted into the nether world of free electrons by an editor.

The NYT is garbage. That simple.

[fieldmarshaldj]

They’re gonna be enjoying their dumplings in a very hot place in the near future.

[TexanToTheCore]

I have noticed that lately editors have stoped spiking stories that would embarass the writers. This is a good example of what should be spiked.

[freema]

Sick, twister NY Times alert. Don’t want to lose this one. No pun intended. Sorry about the timing.

[kitkat]

I’m saying a prayer right now for all the babies some selfish “parents” don’t find convenient.

[highlander_UW]

The abortion is scheduled for two days from now, and we’re holing up.

Is this the new liberal way to celebrate Christmas? Murder a child for Christmas. How ghoulish...how liberal.

[GATOR NAVY]

I have noticed that lately editors have stopped spiking stories that would embarrass the writers.

You can't embarrass someone who has no shame.

[narses]

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[wintertime]

“I’m not going to get more pregnant,” Emily says.

I’ve never felt pleasure more guiltily
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Emily married a jerk. He is using her to jerk-off. (literally!)

[SnuffaBolshevik]

This thing teaches at the University of Iowa? I think I’ll stay a stupid blue-collar person.

[darkangel82]

That’s exactly what it is, garbage, and a few other words we can’t say on here.

[A message]

But,but,these people are intellectually superior morally enlightened liberals. Dontcha know murdering unborn children is for the advancement of society. /S

This article is disgusting.

[Callahan]

I had the same reaction. I can just picture the Times editors congratulating themselves for running this bizarre window into the “enlightened” progressive mind two days before Christmas.

[jazusamo]

Really sick, Ma! Didn’t surprise me at all when I read he teaches at a university.

[Roscoe Karns]

That was truly nauseating.

[stillonaroll]

That article was not only repulsive, it is also truly sad to read how soulless those two are.

[Mr. Silverback]

As I read the little drama where she's in the kitchen yelling to him about the dumplings and he's teasing her, I thought how amusing that would have been for a child to hear.

But they killed it. Tore it out of her and threw it in the trash.

[Mr. Peabody]

I wonder how much of a part Brian played in the decision.
A lot, I’m thinking.

Quite a self-congratulatory piece don’t you think?

[Responsibility2nd]

....and although we love to look out her second-story windows at the packs of people clamoring between bars and parties, and although we half-made plans to go to bars and parties ourselves, there’s no way we’re going out. The abortion is scheduled for two days from now, and we’re holing up.

Damn shame this pesky abortion interfered with their plans to go to bars and parties.

Yep. Damn shame.

[NinoFan]

Ghoulish

[Callahan]

Whatever part this guy played, he felt guilty enough about it to write an essay for the NYT that portrays him as a selfish, navel gazing yuppie idiot. I think he’s a tad self aware. In liberal land this passes a pro-life piece.

[luvadavi]

So damned...sick. I hoope these two psychopaths never decide they want children. Imagine the twisted sickoids they would raise and spew into the world.

[Responsibility2nd]

No, no.

You all don’t get it.

This is reverse psychology in action.

You take a story so evil, so amazingly shocking so that anyone with half a brain would be revulsed by the very cold-blooded nature of how callous these left-tards are and....

.... voilia!

We now have more pro-lifers on our side.

[paltz]

Are you saying he’s writing his own version of “A Modest Proposal”

[supremedoctrine]

This was not only a pathetic excuse for “journalism”, it was, even worse, a lame way of presenting a recipe. So it strikes out on every count. WHY was this crap even published? Probably to reach out to a new demographic I’ve noticed the NYT is always vigilant to secure.

[BenLurkin]

Ghastly.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’d like to think so.

I’d like to think that someone reading this who might be uncommitted about infanticide might be shocked enough to realize that yes.... there are those who eat innocent children.

Oops. I meant to say ABORT innocent children.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

[peggybac]

It’s amazing that this ass can be so proud as to write about it. I hope they both burn in Hell.

[boop]

"It’s amazing that this ass can be so proud as to write about it."

What is weird is I didn't realize this was written by a guy. It sounded like some liberal feminist lesbian, clucking over the preparation of dumplings.

[Lancey Howard]

Har! What sick scumbags Brian and Emily are!

[Mr. Silverback]

What is weird is I didn't realize this was written by a guy. It sounded like some liberal feminist lesbian, clucking over the preparation of dumplings.

Hey! Real men cook!

Not that the author of this piece is a real man, but I'm a real man and I know my way around a kitchen.

[kimmie7]

wow. that’s a double-bagger.

[ToastedHead]

“Mom, did you see my piece in the Times yet? Did you tell Dad about it? Aren’t you proud of me!?”

The guy who wrote this thing is a sad and pathetic loser on so many levels its stunning.

[Fargo Rock]

It was published on 12/16, not Christmas Eve or the day before, and was part of the NYT Magazine, not the actual newspaper.

That being said, it’s still a piece of crap.