The working world, when it was male dominant, was 100x more fun to work in. Guys could "shoot-the-shit" with each other, say whatever they wanted and competitiveness was seen as fun not as "toxic". The work environment when it was male dominant made people better because the men would compete with one another and strive to improve. Work was actually a lot more "fun" and in some ways it was a "safe-space" for men to get away from all the drama and toxicity that existed in their personal lives.
Women have utterly destroyed the workplace. Men's lives are inarguably much worse with women in the workplace. Nothing good has come of this.
All Thomas was doing was trying to clarify the context of the discussion. That's why he asked her, is it about abortion as a right, or is it privacy, or what? What is the actual right being discussed here? If it were a right enumerated in the Constitution, then the context would be obvious, but since it isn't, he wants clarification.
That's why he repeats, "yeah I know we're talking about abortion" after her spiel. She tried her speech as a way to impress him with her vocabulary or argue her case for abortion, but he was asking for a very simple thing from her. Finally she admits it is about abortion as a right, after "helpfully" defining abortion for him as a totally non-sadistic thing.
And he says, thanks, because he's fucking done at this point. He didn't want to hear all that shit. He just wanted a simple answer like any man would, so that he would know how to proceed.
Men are straight forward and simple. Ask a guy if this shirt is okay? Answer would be "nah, man. Look like shit" or "yeah, looks chad".
When asking a girl if this shirt is okay.. she thinks of tone. She thinks of how to not hurt feelings. She thinks of a negative and positive.. its overly complicated.. which is exactly what wokeness is. Woke is over complicated thinking. Anyhting that is overly complicated will fail more easily. Its why most of their arguments are shit or hypocritical or inconsistent. Always some bullshit caveat or exception.
This is why I tend to distrust anyone or anything that is overly verbose. Truth is elegant in its simplicity.
You speak my mind, public education keeps pumping out these useless pseudo-intellectuals that says lot of things to mean very simple statement. It's tiresome.
The most stupid thing in school is minimum word counts or pages; good writing, like good thinking, is concise. Only exceptions are story telling in its various forms.
I've never understood why 5 pages of extraneous bullshit is supposed to be considered a well written and thought out essay when a page or two would suffice.
Do people honestly want to read Moby Dick length paragraphs for pages on end? Hell, I haven't even finished that book because I keep falling asleep trying to finish a chapter that keeps going on and on about whale bones.