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Meranda. 28. I’ve been on this hell site too long. Started as a MCR blog now we here....

[neruomancer]

[byjove]

I’m disabled and it pisses me off so much when people use termination for medical reasons in the case of fetuses with non-fatal congenital conditions as a reason that abortion is evil and pregnant people shouldn’t be allowed to decide to end a pregnancy. I would not damn a dog to be dependent on the American medical system, much less a human being for the next 75+ years. Do not talk to me about eugenics until the mentally ill and physically disabled stop freezing to death on the street and dying of treatable illnesses because they can’t afford a caretaker OR their medication OR stable housing. If someone wants to terminate a pregnancy before that fetus becomes a living, kicking, screaming, breathing baby, you cannot compare that to the fucking vile things that happen to actual living disabled people in our society every fucking day. There are actual disabled people begging for help and you’re ignoring them to pretend like you give a fuck about unborn disabled “babies”.

[lil-grimlynn]

Also I'd like to add that a person who doesn't want or can't afford a disabled child definitely has a good reason. They are unfit to raise a disabled child, and our adoption and fostercare system is full of pedophiles and human traffickers. I would not trust a child to the hands of our system at all, let alone a disabled one.

[byjove]

Yes, that too. I would much rather have someone abort a pregnancy because the fetus showed signs of a genetic or congenital abnormality than get rid of the choice and force people to become a parent to a disabled child and resent them or feel extreme misplaced guilt for their child’s challenges and pain. There is already so much of that in the world. Again, I’d recommend not having kids if you don’t want a disabled child but deciding to terminate a pregnancy because the fetus would be born requiring numerous invasive surgeries, lifelong medical intervention and high support needs is not necessarily a sign that person loathes the disabled and could not love a disabled child.

[gwenthebard]

Also like. A lot of such disabilities are like "might survive until nine" or "going to be a rocky few years and if they get past thay they can have a long life"

As someone who saw a cousin over years go through regular surgery for birth defects, in and out of the hospital from the time we were kids to when they died of organ failure last year, basically gave up on having a happy life before we were done being teens and kinda just resigned himself to not following doctor orders because like....whats the point of maybe living into your thirties when youll spend most of it in the hospital knowing long term goals are impractical? Like family gave him shit for still drinking a ton after he was told his organs were failing, but I cant even blame him after the almost 3 decades he went through

And like, Ill be the first to admit Ill probably never be lucky enough to have the chance to have a kid. But I cant blame anyone for making a similar choice because like, I saw what my cousin went through. Id be hard pressed to decide to put a kid through years of surgery and painful recovery to *maybe* have a normal life. I cant just say I dont blame people because of healthcare costs, but also like, a lot of disabilities found in the fetus arent just "wont be able to walk" or "will have down syndrome" but stuff where their first years or entire life might be a line of surgeries and symptoms they never recover from, or only gives them a few years

[byjove]

Yes, I think this is important to note as well. A lot of parents are guilted and shamed for aborting pregnancies where the fetus had a severe genetic issue because “There is a child with that same condition that is 14 right now!” and “You should have put it in God’s hands.” and the truth is that if you give this anti-abortion ‘termination for medical reasons is eugenics’ some credit, they will always move the goal post for what condition constitutes a ‘justifiable’ abortion because there is no such thing as a ‘justifiable’ abortion to them. Because they do not care if the baby born of this pregnancy will make it out of the hospital alive, they do not care what that child’s life expectancy will be or if they’ll be in extreme pain their entire short life, they just do not want the pregnant person to have the right to decide things about their body and their pregnancy.

The decision to abort for medical reasons should be solely at the discretion of the pregnant person, with input on the child’s odds of survival and wellbeing from medical professionals, if asked. It should not be up to government officials writing a list of what conditions are ‘bad enough’ to be able to receive a termination, it should not be up to pro-life assholes on the Internet and it should not be up to everyone observing the situation secondhand. It should be a decision for the person who is carrying this pregnancy and deciding if they want to bring a baby into this world or not.

[roaldamundsen]

never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

[roaldamundsen]

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[roaldamundsen]

can people stop saying insane things on this post

[what-even-is-thiss]

So I don’t play the sims super often so I didn’t know that evil sims can do an “evil workout” which seems to just be a normal workout except sometimes they pause to laugh maniacally.

[byjove]

Heterosexual relationship culture is so alien to me and I don’t know if it’s the fact I’m not cishet or the fact I’m autistic but I hear so many things that make me go “Am I insane or are they?”

There’s a lot of hate on widowers and I saw a woman say “You cannot compete with a dead woman.” which is perhaps a reasonable statement to say if he’s constantly comparing you to his dead partner but that wasn’t what the post was about. And I realized “Oh my God, these people genuinely feel like they’re constantly in competition with their spouse’s exes and the ex being dead makes them feel insecure that they cannot best her.”

There’s also been an uptick in the ‘men and women cannot be ‘just’ friends’ rhetoric which I feel like is extremely dangerous and reflects the rise of fascism and sexism. Some of these stories of women feeling threatened by their husband’s female best friend have some merit and others are like “I feel angry that my husband still talks to the girl he grew up next door to and she and her wife are invited to family gatherings and included in family photos sometimes. Am I right to be suspicious?” No. No you’re not. I cannot imagine being you and living with that high level of stress and paranoia and constant torment and jealousy about your husband having a positive relationship with anyone who isn’t you.

[covington-shenanigans]

okay look i know this isn't relevant to this post past the second paragraph but. here's the thing. the facts of the case are as follows:

1) I am widowed. my Beloved Wife of Blessed Memory(tm) died in 2019

2) I got together with my current partner about 18 months later

3) when I am committing acts of Foolishness my current partner loves to gesture at the sky to my dead wife, like "do you see this shit, my liege" and regularly says to me things like "[wife's name] was right about this" when my Foolishness inevitably comes back to bite me in the ass

4) this happens. all the time

more importantly:

5) my current partner is on tumblr

6) they love to incessantly send me posts

WHICH MEANS:

7) they just sent me this post with this commentary:

8) they really, really are ganging up on me with her. god help us if there's an afterlife and those two ever actually meet. "eternal rest" my ass, i will never know peace again

[ferrettooth]

does the guy from mcr know that he is a modern day princess diana to you all

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

[humanpersonface]

Additional update to this

[lizluvscupcakes]

[viralfrog]

[dogpuppy]

[neververy4]

one sup of this will have you demanding the news

[pakchoys]

there’s this wind farm with a tower in it and my dad asks how much money i’d accept in exchange for living in there alone for years. i mean, property is property. and there could be dragons

[theboost]

The great thing about Gus is that he perfectly oscillates from playing the annoyed straight man to Shawn’s general insanity to yes-anding to an insane degree. For every moment where he says no Shawn, you did not hear that both ways there’s a moment where he, with no prompting, claims that his fictitious grandmother with a broken hip was teaching a line dancing class. For every time he says Shawn, stop messing around at work, there is a time where after Shawn says he’s been “looking at the man in the mirror”, Gus, in a move that never ever fails to make me laugh, with a completely straight face and no impact on the conversation, does the Michael Jackson “he-he”. He’s insane. He thinks he’s normal. He does 11 point turns. He’s a sympathetic crier.

[transgenderization]

[sana-kan]

[bruntalism]

[bruntalism]

we kill the bat man

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[sobcat]

THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING!!! ALWAYS SOMETHINGGG

[blackjame]

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