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what-even-is-thiss

So Boston is straight up running out of beer because of all the Scottish tourists in for the World Cup

what-even-is-thiss

I love cultural exchange

tea-and-hockey

I love that everyone says that the thing they’re looking forward to most is getting to hit people 💀

#oh my god incredible i love the pwhl #hitting people is great

byjove

A part of the anti-abortion and declining birthrate bullshit I find extremely upsetting and distressing is the (frankly, misogynistic) belief that the pregnant individual will love their baby when the baby is born*. The background implication that a woman who does not to be pregnant and/or does not want to have children will instantly connect with the child they’re forced to have because, of course, all women love babies and instantly become a mother upon giving birth and all mothers would kill and die for their children. It is such a fundamental part of anti-abortion rhetoric used by crisis pregnancy centers and the demons that congregate to protest outside of abortion clinics, you’ll love being a mama, we just know you will!

We are seeing the direct consequences of this in misogynistic baby rabies manosphere, men coercing their sexual partner into keeping a pregnancy she does not want and then being baffled and disgusted when she is not a good mother or not interested in being in the child’s life.

There is definitely a double standard between fathers who have a difficult time connecting with/loving their unwanted child and mothers who have a difficult time connecting with/loving their unwanted child. Women on anonymous parenting forums are so terrified to confess that they do not feel for their infant the instantaneous all-consuming love they have been told they’re supposed to feel, that they find their child’s presence fundamentally overwhelming and they do not enjoy childrearing. This can be the result of postpartum mental health issues in wanted pregnancies but it is also a common phenomenon in babies born from unwanted pregnancies and/or conceived under abusive circumstances and in those cases, it is often a trauma both the mother and child cannot overcome.

I often find that if a man chooses not to be in his child’s life, he is often given a level of grace that a woman who made the same choice would not be given. Absent, deadbeat or otherwise uninvolved fathers are so common it ceases to be notable, a silent shame and acceptance. But women are demonized and villainized for abandoning their children, even children they did not consent to conceiving, disregarding the trauma of carrying the unwanted pregnancy to term and having to give birth. Mothers are expected to love their children unconditionally and put them first at the expense of their own wellbeing, no matter the circumstances.

You can force someone to carry a pregnancy but you cannot force them to love their child and be a mother and when the victims of coercion and abortion bans are incapable of doing what society expects of women, they’re punished even further.

There is a great deal of nuance in this topic but fundamentally, stripping away access to abortion makes everyone fucking miserable.

*I am a trans man and I switch back in forth between gender neutral language and non-gender neutral language in this post because trans men can be victims of unwanted pregnancy but much of this rhetoric is based on misogynistic expectations surrounding women and feminine identity.

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Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

communist-hatsunemiku

Central African Republic Miku 🇨🇫

dryad-knifeplay

first of all killing Baby Hitler probably wouldn’t be effective because it wouldn’t change the societal conditions that led to his uprising, and there’d probably be another Hitler figure.

But second of all it’s not like Baby Hitler was born evil, you could totally kidnap Baby Hitler and raise him as your own and instill your own values upon him

speakingtrms

Lily Shannon aims to make a big impact both on and off the ice in the PWHL

#another amazing woman from my alma mater

monster1994

happy june everybody i hope you get fucked and/or sucked this month

kazokuhouou

what if we don't wanna be?

monster1994

then i hope for peace

star-mom-selkie

happy pride month

theoldness

w-r-o-u-g-h-t

this “bon appetit” meme has turned into some sort of bizarre telephone game where each incarnation sounds more and more different than the original. in what way does “bon appetit” sound like “osteoporosis”