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My Rapist Apologized

2 points by whack 7y ago

DoreenMichele 7y ago
The title is vacuous click bait. The subtitle is I still needed an abortion. I don't know what would be a good title, but this is super bad for a long list of reasons. At a minimum, adding the subtitle in addition to the actual title would at least indicate what the article is actually addressing, which this title does not do. Really good quote from the piece: What I did say to my daughter, as she sat perched on our kitchen stool, is that I am filled with gratitude for the women who came before us — women who fought for the right to choose, who dared to imagine that we had the right to control our bodies and who said loudly and proudly that we should not be forced to bear children against our will. Roe v. Wade is rooted in a basic understanding that women’s lives matter and that we have rights, needs and interests that don’t vanish when we become pregnant. Pregnancy and childbirth can be extremely difficult — emotionally and physically painful — and bringing a child into the world is an enormous responsibility. Deciding whether or not to give birth may be the most important decision a woman will ever make, potentially changing the course of her life forever — or ending it. Black women, in particular, have high mortality rates during pregnancy. In some areas of Mississippi, black and Latina women are more likely than women in some of the poorest countries in the world to experience a pregnancy-related death. Forcing any woman to see a pregnancy to term may be risking her life as well as her physical and emotional health. It's unfortunate that the title is so very bad. It's actually quite a good piece written by a woman who was in law school when she ended up pregnant due to being raped and chose to end the pregnancy.
- gus_massa 7y ago
  Send an email to the mods, hn@ycombinator.com . They sometimes agree to change the title, specially when the alternative is the subtitle. (I've done this a few times before. It's a manual process, so use this only when the title is very bad.)
  - DoreenMichele 7y ago
    so use this only when the title is very bad. My standard: I only email the mods about such when the title is very bad and the piece has also gotten some traction. Otherwise, it's an excessive and pointless burden on their time. I made my opinion clear. It stands here for the edification of whomever happens to see this post on HN. I made the remark when the article was newly submitted, so the submitter was still able to make edits to the title if they wished. They didn't do so. /my line of thinking as to why I chose to handle this the way I did.
    - gus_massa 7y ago
      OK. I agree. An exception is when the article is interesting, but it has a bad title. Anyway, I have also posted similar complains in the past without emailing the mods. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523326 (warning: read the comment first :) )

2 points by whack 7y ago

The title is vacuous click bait. The subtitle is I still needed an abortion. I don't know what would be a good title, but this is super bad for a long list of reasons. At a minimum, adding the subtitle in addition to the actual title would at least indicate what the article is actually addressing, which this title does not do. Really good quote from the piece: What I did say to my daughter, as she sat perched on our kitchen stool, is that I am filled with gratitude for the women who came before us — women who fought for the right to choose, who dared to imagine that we had the right to control our bodies and who said loudly and proudly that we should not be forced to bear children against our will. Roe v. Wade is rooted in a basic understanding that women’s lives matter and that we have rights, needs and interests that don’t vanish when we become pregnant. Pregnancy and childbirth can be extremely difficult — emotionally and physically painful — and bringing a child into the world is an enormous responsibility. Deciding whether or not to give birth may be the most important decision a woman will ever make, potentially changing the course of her life forever — or ending it. Black women, in particular, have high mortality rates during pregnancy. In some areas of Mississippi, black and Latina women are more likely than women in some of the poorest countries in the world to experience a pregnancy-related death. Forcing any woman to see a pregnancy to term may be risking her life as well as her physical and emotional health. It's unfortunate that the title is so very bad. It's actually quite a good piece written by a woman who was in law school when she ended up pregnant due to being raped and chose to end the pregnancy.

gus_massa 7y ago
Send an email to the mods, hn@ycombinator.com . They sometimes agree to change the title, specially when the alternative is the subtitle. (I've done this a few times before. It's a manual process, so use this only when the title is very bad.)
- DoreenMichele 7y ago
  so use this only when the title is very bad. My standard: I only email the mods about such when the title is very bad and the piece has also gotten some traction. Otherwise, it's an excessive and pointless burden on their time. I made my opinion clear. It stands here for the edification of whomever happens to see this post on HN. I made the remark when the article was newly submitted, so the submitter was still able to make edits to the title if they wished. They didn't do so. /my line of thinking as to why I chose to handle this the way I did.
  - gus_massa 7y ago
    OK. I agree. An exception is when the article is interesting, but it has a bad title. Anyway, I have also posted similar complains in the past without emailing the mods. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523326 (warning: read the comment first :) )