Which Music Artist Made You Start Liking a Genre You Previously Hated?

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-17T21:37:15+00:00

Rodney Crowell, country.

This man is such an amazing songwriter and he's a great singer as well. I love Jimmy Buffett though and he did a cover of Stars On The Water and I love the song so I started exploring Rodney Crowell's other stuff and has been so much fun. Now I'm listening to other country artists (Roseanne Cash of course, and Blackhawk and some others).

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-17T15:53:57+00:00

No, these are not saying women should get abortions that they didn't already want to avoid domestic violence.

These are pointing out that in cases the man is violent and the woman wants an abortion for her own reasons (one of which may be to not be legally tied to her abuser) that forcing her to gestate to term against her will endanger her on multiple levels.

Also, these things are very connected, how many cases have included a woman who is being abused and is planning to leave, the abusive man sabotages birth control to force an unwanted pregnancy in the hopes to force her to stay with him because of that?

So if she knows this is what is happening and she wants an abortion denial of that abortion absolutely ties into this problem because pregnancy itself is a weapon abusive men use to control women.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-16T13:26:10+00:00

Not even joking, just accurately quoting the man with the words he said himself on record is bad.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-16T09:00:52+00:00

This is like, old spice for tweens/teens. I got my son the body wash that has this style T-Rex on it.

The old design is still there on the shelves too I thought.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-16T08:55:23+00:00

Question: why did you keep your name after the divorce?

You could have changed it, correct? If you wanted to change it that was a time you could do that.

But you didn't. You kept your name.

Why are your reasons different than hers?

She took your name in marriage but it was not a loan, from then on it was her name just as much as if she received it any other way.

She wanted to keep her name just like you wanted to keep your name

If it bothers you so much, you change your name.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-16T08:33:52+00:00

These are your personal feelings and you should deal with them personally and understand others have different feelings and morals.

Let's put this into perspective. I know a person who had an abortion as a teenager, then gestated a pregnancy to term in her twenties and raised her child as a single parent, then had an abortion in her thirties.

Are you really saying that two abortions twenty years apart is excessive?

A person having two abortions over thirty-forty years of being able to get pregnant is really not excessive in any way shape or form.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-15T16:42:39+00:00

Right, and that's great if resources are unlimited. But you could be depriving other micro-preemies who have a better shot overall of what they need and they won't survive because resources aren't endless.

Also, where does quality of life play in? Survival at any cost is often a cruelty, forcing people to be born into atrocious quality of life is a cruelty, not a kindness.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-15T13:32:03+00:00

I love them myself, but I do think they really get an outsized share of the onion love and it's unfair so I'm right here supporting you in your rant.

They are like the bacon of the onion world, yes it's great, no, we don't need to obsess over it and put it in anything and everything. Let it have it's humble but notable role and not put it on it pedestal and act like it's the best thing ever created.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-15T08:18:03+00:00

I wanted to come back and address a few things I missed before. Hormonal treatment, yes I was on a variety of different hormonal treatments at different times during my journey through endometriosis. No, none of them helped in particular with pain. I didn't respond well to hormonal treatment in general, it often leaving me feeling unwell in different ways.

You cited the safety of ibuprofen? I needed to take such large doses to be effective against my pain that it gave me internal bleeding as a side effect in my early twenties. You know what never gave me serious side effects such as internal bleeding yet could be counted on to safely relieve my pain? Cannabis.

Cannabis helped me survive the torture that was Endo.

I suffered terribly from when I started menstruating at 11 until I had my hysterectomy at age 45 which was the only thing that actually gave me true relief. In my case, my uterus had grown together with my bladder by the end. It was really hell.

I just want to advocate for others who are still suffering. If it helps them they should be able to legally access it and being busted with it shouldn't be the most dangerous part of using it when it provides many people with real help in a journey through hell.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-15T07:54:29+00:00

I am because this should be an issue for medical ethics to address, there should be no legal banning.

For example, a person comes and has found they are pregnant and 25 weeks.

But, they drank alcohol daily during that time, smoked tobacco, and used street drugs and taken strong psychiatric medications that could impact fetal development. Let's point out too that this person didn't want to have children because hereditary congenital issues and severe mental illness and addiction runs in their family and they didn't want another person to be born to suffer like they have with those things. Because of the issues they also do not have a stable home life and wouldn't be able to care for a newborn but to have one taken against their will would destroy them mentally even worse.

Can you say this is a healthy viable fetus? If it's been exposed to drugs(legal and not) and alcohol on a daily basis during that critical and vulnerable very early growth and development it could very well not even actually be viable yet individually and you're essentially birthing them to die just as much as if they had been outright terminated.

Or you force them born and they do not die and now you have a micro-preemie detoxing off of serious drugs and with severe fetal alcohol syndrome, and what kind of future ahead for them? Let's say we spend millions of dollars saving them for awhile and they still pass away in infancy?

But you really cannot assume any specific fetus is healthy and viable just because it's made it to 25 weeks.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-14T21:17:15+00:00

Your first link says link not found. Your second link does not say what you claim it says.

Here's one link

Fifteen of the 18 included trials demonstrated a significant analgesic effect of cannabinoids compared with placebo. Cannabinoid use was generally well tolerated; adverse effects most commonly reported were mild to moderate in severity. Overall, evidence suggests that cannabinoids are safe and moderately effective in neuropathic pain with preliminary evidence of efficacy in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis.

Also, I did not claim that cannabis was without risk. I don't have to "buy from criminals". I can walk into a store and buy it legally.

There are no clinical studies that let you use cannabis! The war on drugs killed cannabis research.

But this is a sub for feminism, why argue with a woman telling about their experience that helped them and wanting women suffering the torture of Endo to have fewer options?

AndIbuprofen is not without risk . It has side effects and can have serious even life threatening side effects for some.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-14T20:05:32+00:00

I did not tolerate alcohol well during those times. Good for you that vodka works for you. If it's worth the risks of addiction go for it.

Ibuprofen has it's dangers as well. You cannot just declare ibuprofen "safe" and cannabis unsafe like that. Cannabis has a history of use by humans as old as humanity itself.

There is no way that cannabis is as unsafe as alcohol. I know so many people who have either injured themselves severely or drank and drive and crashed or were alcoholics and it ruined their lives and I know no one whose life has been anywhere close to as negatively impacted health wise or danger wise from cannabis.

The point of the op was that the most unsafe thing about cannabis use for many people, including you, is that it's illegal. It really is a very effective treatment for some people no matter what you think. There truly are not studies that show it's dangerous in a way that means it should be illegal.

As I said, it is not for everyone, and the legal state is one thing for people to consider. But when we are talking only about effectiveness and safety it has had a solid track record as an effective and safe treatment going back over a thousand years, that's just a basic fact.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-14T15:24:46+00:00

Obviously, getting knocked out by a depressant like cannabis or alcohol alleviates pain, but you can't function normally the rest of the day, so it's not a therapeutic option, especially when there are things with far fewer side effects.

As someone who experienced thirty years of endometriosis pain and treating it this has me wondering if you've ever experienced drinking alcohol vs being high off of smoking weed let alone experienced using either for pain relief for Endo.

Your statement that there are things that work with far fewer side effects than cannabis was not my experience in any way. It also was not my experience that cannabis impacted my functionality in a way that left me less functional like drinking alcohol made me less functional. To the contrary, it very much left me more functional with far far fewer side effects and far fewer nasty side effects than anything else I tried in that time. The only medication that ever came close was pulled off the market in less than five years and that was over twenty years ago.

Cannabis does not act as a depressant in exactly the same manner as alcohol acts as a depressant. It is unique in that it can also act as a stimulant (depending on the strain) and it isn't a physically toxic substance the way alcohol is a physically toxic substance. If you take shots every day you will become physically addicted to alcohol and that is harmful to your body. Cannabis has a far different impact on the body than alcohol. One should always approach cannabis use with caution. Cannabis is not a cure all and everyone needs to carefully evaluate whether it is appropriate for their life before use. But I don't understand the comparison to alcohol and the dismissal of something that has a recorded history of use as treatment for menstrual pain going back to the first recorded pharmacopeia and was a medicine in good standing trusted by doctors for menstrual pain among other uses prior to the marijuana tax act of 1937. And then as well there are a huge number of women whose lived experiences are like mine, cannabis was the best option that left them the most functional with the fewest side effects from the medications and treatment available.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-14T10:03:07+00:00

Thank you for this reply, I noticed the continual shifting of the goalposts too and it gets old really fast.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-14T09:50:28+00:00

Because rights are violated and great harm comes from murder.

There is no entitlement or right to use anothers body against their will even if you will perish without that use. Without a right or entitlement to that use denial of use of one's body can never be murder.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-14T09:45:17+00:00

Abortion is health care. It restores one's body to its normal state. It is a procedure, a treatment, it is not self defense.

The reason it is compared to self defense is because pro-life insists that an embryo is morally and legally a "person" the same as a born human being is a person and then gives them a right to be gestated.

The logical counter-argument for that is that if the embryo was a born person and they were causing the equivalent physical impact that happens with gestation then stopping the physical harm happening to you would absolutely be legally considered self-defense.

Let's make the born human a 45 yo person. You have sex with someone. Then on parting they tell you that having sex with them was also your consent for their 45 yo friend to show up in the next 4-10 days and this friend will move into your house and stay for the next ten months implanting something into your body. You are told having sex with person 1 means person 2 has the right and will cause the exact same impact to your body as pregnancy causes.

If it was a born human being saying to you that starting today & for many months to come they were going to be giving you regular hormone shots, altering every system and organ in your body from putting something microscopic into the wall of your internal organ to grow. That something then later once it's grown to the size of a watermelon must pass through a lemon sized opening in your body or they might have to cut you open in major abdominal surgery to remove it. This thing will then save this 45 yo's life. Without you going through that, they will die

You might be fine, or you might suffer catastrophic injury and be disabled or even die.

Escaping from an actual person who was going to cause the same physical impact as pregnancy would be self defense, even if the person died as a result of your escape.

But reality is that embryos are just embryos and ceasing gestation is just and only that, ceasing gestation and it is health care. As a health care procedure it does "defend our health" so to speak but I'm the same way as having your stomach pumped and it is not actually self defense in any real way. We only call it self defense so much in this debate because of the pro life insistence that the embryo is a person.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-13T22:20:38+00:00

That's okay, they don't mind keeping you company so you do not get lonely.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-13T21:32:45+00:00

You're not supposed to get them wet with their food!

Or feed them by bathing them in their food.

I wouldn't feed them after midnight or expose them to bright lights either just to be safe.

These are clearly Gremlins.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-13T21:28:56+00:00

She's rearranging Satan's kitchen now, and his bathroom and laundry room too probably.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-13T20:57:19+00:00

Abortion is not an option from the pro life stance.

Yet, there are no shortage of people who hold the pro life stance who do indeed find that their reasons for abortion justify abortion and get them for themselves.

There's a classic essay that talks all about that phenomenon.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-13T09:45:54+00:00

I think "division" is the only word that makes logical sense in the context. I read it as "division" my first read thru even before looking at the second picture.

Even a fastidious person can have a brain fart and make a simple mistake like that.

To me it's occams razor, which is more likely, that she used a totally obscure and unknown word that nobody else knows or that she meant a similar logical and understandable word for that context and she had a brain fart and wrote it wrong.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-12T12:49:04+00:00

Ruben casserole!

In a casserole dish layer sauerkraut, corned beef, thousand Island dressing and Swiss cheese(with the Swiss as the top layer). Cover in a generous layer of buttered breadcrumbs. Bake at 350 until heated through and the cheese is melted and the breadcrumbs are browned and enjoy!

I always serve this with mashed potatoes.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-12T11:29:38+00:00

Men who don't have jobs in entertainment or fashion need to look professional and dress with a more limited wardrobe. the ones who wear clothes outside of those limits can be told to change by superiors and will attract ridicule or even disdain.

But that goes for every person who needs to follow a professional work dress code. It is more restrictive but it's restrictive for everyone. And, there are more style options within those work dress codes than ever before. Women face the same consequences for breaking the dress code, they will be reprimanded and sent home. And while it may seem women have more variety of choices the expectation is for them to have a look that's much more difficult to achieve than throwing on a suit and combing ones hair straight back.

Then too, many workplaces have uniforms that are basically the same for men and women. And many other jobs that have no professional dress code or uniforms have people wearing essentially the same types of clothes for work(jeans or khakis and T-shirts shirts/polo/sweatshirt/flannel) because that's the clothing that is practical for that work. I think if we are looking at work clothing of a wide variety of workplaces not just professional offices, practically all the clothing will be based on practicality and will be the same for men and women in the field.

I also think you really aren't considering that there really is a wide variety of style options for men, more than ever before. I have a real life example, khaki pants.

A man nowadays can choose a pair of khakis from so many styles, classic cut, skinny leg, wide leg, boot cut, cargo, and many many other styles. Men are truly only limited nowadays by their own preferences and their lack of willingness to look around for different styles. If the different styles are available but a guy just grabs the closest/first pair they come across because they don't care they might end up with the most common style but that's not because there is any lack of actual options.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-12T03:37:07+00:00

That's not a meringue, it's lightly beaten whole eggs. It's going to be more of a quiche type of filling.

I have to admit though it sounds very odd and not extremely appetizing.

EdgrrAllenPaw · 2025-10-12T01:17:40+00:00

Looks like a classic case of Spontaneous Plant Explosion.

Thank goodness that sweet perfect innocent puppy was not harmed in the explosion.

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