Molyneux does his level headed best and speaks of the Guardian reasonably.
Stef's primary concern is Tom and he clarifies that at the onset. He begins by reading the Guardian article and then his response. He is grateful they posted his quote and clarified his point of view. To my surprise he even acknowledges the pain of the mother, let's not forget what she must be going through!

Stef remains composed even appearing somewhat removed from the subject and leads a fairly chipper podcast.

No doubt this podcast is for Guardian readers and posted for easy access.

Only one caller in the call in speaks up! He wonders why the Guardian would find this important to do such an article. Stef cautions the readership is old people and well we all know how fearful they are of the internet, he continues on fear mongering and journalism.
He talks about working on your relationships for a moment. Then addressing his impression of the guardian readership, compares a time when a woman leaving and divorcing her husband was taboo to one's child defooing his family. After all using that comparison changes ones perspective and it isn't odd at all. After all the husbands take care of them financially, put a roof over their heads and feed and clothe the wives. -

He then councils a caller(Nathan) on dealing with his Cats in the morning as they are annoying. They are interrupting his thinking time. Stef takes the opportunity and humanizes himself with a ditty on his wife and his daily worries. He states something along the lines that they do this because they love you, are hungry and want to be with you. The lesson being if you know what to expect don't set your self up for failure. Feed the cats then think. Rather than thinking about the cat's interrupting your thinking time and then not thinking at all. It's counter productive. How wise!( I guess he really does care about Tom after all).

Perhaps, he is rethinking things somewhat, though he would not admit to any of the absolutes in his defoo regime.
Correction: perhaps his strategy was to humanize himself.
The good news is the severity of his defoo message has changed for now or ever and he may just revise his lesson book.

correction: both Greg's also chimed in, however I don't recall which question was whos.

I kinda wanna do a point by point analysis of Stefan's reply here, as well as his reply to the Travis post, but it will be time-and-thought consuming and I'm not sure what purpose it would serve. Thoughts?

I've just completed one and have found out it's too big to post!

ha! abandon it then. it's God telling you something. Alternatively you could defy Him and post it in two parts.

It's 12 pages in Word.

I need to learn how to be succinct.

5 parts then.

and: wow!

oh, and you might want to make it into a new thread, otherwise it might be overlooked or not get the attention it might deserve.

Can you post it - ie: create a blog and link it?

Hmmm...good idea. I should have done that.

Conrad knows I've been fiddling with the blog idea, I just never got around to it...I just found out it's bigger than a two-parter here, so maybe....

dude, the suspense is killing me.

you want that on your conscience?

Okay, it looks like I have to blog it. In my latest draft, I had all of the codes this site uses in place. Now I gotta get 'em all back out.

I'll post a link here when it's done.

I've decided to call the blog FDR Liberated. :-)

be sure to use 'find and replace', (e.g. [ i ] and [ / i], will save you a lot of time

Sweet. I'm so looking forward to that. If anything, this guy has sparked a lot of creative and analytical energy, even if it is a reaction against him.

Are we there yet?

Make sure you include all the parts about the cats. I like cats.