On the other side, my great-grandfather just up and disappeared one fine day in England in the nineteen-twenties or thereabouts; the family heard once that he was tending bar in Oregon somewhere, but it was my grandfather and his sister who had to leave home as teenagers and emigrate to Canada in order to send money back to support their mother.

The only difference between then and now (apart from child labor laws frowning upon sending fifteen year olds thousands of miles away over the ocean to work in logging camps as schoolmarms) is that the law sometimes attempts to take notice of these abandonments and enforce the abandoners’ obligations upon them. The abandonments themselves are nothing new.

Unless you’ve had a vasectomy, tubal ligation, or hysterectomy, there is always a chance, however vanishingly small. So if you’re this dewd and you don’t want to be tricked into being a cash cow for some slut, either wear the condom ANYWAY or keep your junk in your trunk.

Sheesh.

*I thought of using “fatherhood”, but I wouldn’t call what these dudes do “being a father”. The commonly used term in this situation seems to be “sperm donor”, but as a friend of mine memorably remarked, “Sperm donor implies it was free.”

The message I get from Alkon and MRAs is basically, “Hey babe, your right to do what you want with your uterus ends where my d*** begins.” In case of a draw (as in the case of a surprise pregnancy), said prong trumps uterus. Whatever dude wants goes. It’s like rock-paper-scissors! If he wants the baby and she doesn’t, then she’s a murdering bitch. If the situation is reversed, she tricked him.

It’s not “unrealistic” to insist that men keep their bodily functions under control.

Just spent great part of what was promising to be an uninteresting Easter weekend reading your site and laughing like an eejit. Thanks.