My name is Max and this is a blog of basically whatever strikes my fancy, mostly fandom related things, things I find funny and general humanism related posts. Interest include Gravity Falls, Homestuck, Firefly, some Marvel stuff, more Gravity falls, more Homestuck and a bunch of other random things.
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you ever thought that maybe the reason girls say they’re fine when they’re not, or they’re not mad when they are, is because the second they show any semblance of emotion they’re written off as hysterical bitches that are probably on their period?
THE FUCKING DA VINCI CODE HAS BEEN CRACKED
Reblogging again, because this will never be irrelevant.
The piece of shit excuse for a human being who attacked the girl in the bottom picture’s name is Robert Quinn and he lives in Orlando, FL. On June 21 at 2am he beat my friend’s sister until she was unconscious. He broke her nose, cut her hair with a knife, cut her arms, and left her on the side of a road in a ditch. After assaulting her, he slashed all four tires on her car and left. He posted this on Facebook BRAGGING ABOUT ASSAULTING A WOMAN. Please do not let this go unpunished. This girl just graduated high school weeks ago, I’ve watched her grow up since she was a kid. She is so, so sweet and I hope she can recover physically and mentally from this.
Shelby, the girl in the picture, has a GoFundMe set up by her loving sister. Please donate for her surgery and therapy if you can, and if you can’t then please reblog to get the word out: http://www.gofundme.com/shelbys_surgery
Anti-choicers oversimplify everything. Like, “Omg just put it up for adoption.”
Wow omg. I never thought of that. Wow that totally excuses me from the danger and pain of pregnancy and childbirth. Whoa omg.
Open ya mouth again and see if I don’t put my boot in it.
There’s lots of shitty figures on adoption.
1. Children put up for adoption actually don’t have fantastic chances of being adopted. There is definitely a hierarchy of preference; white neurotypical male babies are adopted most frequently, followed by white neurotypical female babies. Black babies of both sexes are actually adopted so infrequently that some foster care systems have *lowered the monetary requirement necessary to adopt*–that’s right, they have the best intentions, but they have literally made black children worth less than white children. So if you’re black or half-black or hell, anything other than white and you put up your oops!child for adoption, you are playing roulette with a child’s entire life and future. Because…
2. Adoptees have a higher rate of abuse. There are a lot of sick people out there who are unfortunately vetted by the foster care system and the adoption agencies, and they end up with kids who then later end up tortured and murdered. They don’t do this to their biological children by the way, just the adopted ones.
3. The children who do not get adopted have crap chances at life in general, due to malnutrition, years of emotional and psychological neglect, and no few of them, having grown up in state care, end up committing crimes and then end back up in state care (re: prison). Obviously this doesn’t happen to every child, but it happens often enough that we have reliable figures on it.
4. I mentioned neurotypical earlier. God help the baby put up for adoption if they have autism, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia (which can occur as early as 6), or seizures (enter Dravet’s Syndrome, which strikes in the first year of life and by age 2, one sufferer was having 100 seizures AN HOUR). And let’s also talk about health; any sort of mitochondrial disease (which is harder to treat and diagnose than motherfucking CANCER), cystic fibrosis or cerebral palsy, or hell, even migraines–yes, children get migraines too! There is little-to-no help for children put up for adoption in these circumstances. Even at the best of times in the best of families, these are huge struggles. But a child with no family…? Go ahead, think about that. Really THINK about that suffering.
I once heard it said that the true tragedy is not an aborted child, but an unloved one. Let’s face it, the aborted child never knows the difference. But the unloved one, the neglected one, that child suffers every day.
I’m not saying that children should never ever be put up for adoption because there are legit cases–physical abuse, unfit parents (drug or sexual abuse, poverty is not an excuse to take kids away)–but I hope this post makes it glaringly obvious that “put the baby up for adoption” is not the blanket answer that pro-lifers say it is.
If fetuses could talk they would say “please Mommy don’t kill me!”
but they can’t talk. or think. they have no concept of existence, let alone death. they have no fears, no desires. your statement is irrelevant. if chairs could talk, they’d ask us not to put our sweaty asses on them, but they can’t talk, or even register their situations, so we don’t bother analyzing any other scenarios.
