Damn kids get off my lawn

30s-ish, she/they. Internet old person. Absolutely not normal about anything.

[rainformation]

formative years? aren’t they all?

[absolutejamer]

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

[celestial-tadpole]

forget your zodiac tell me what you order at a bar and at a coffee shop

[raptorific]

Look don't test me I'll block and turn off reblogs with a hair trigger if you all can't be normal about this but I do feel like it needs to be said that "do you think abortion should be allowed if the mother's reason for wanting it is—" the only acceptable answer to that question is Yes no matter what the end of that sentence is going to be. I do not care if someone wants an abortion for selfish reasons or bigoted reasons or cruel reasons or any other hypothetical strawman you can think of, there is no circumstance where someone should be denied the right to opt out of a forced pregnancy and birth. First of all, who's in charge of interrogating everyone seeking an abortion to make sure they're doing it for reasons Pure Of Heart? Second, why do you think Forced Birth is an appropriate punishment to inflict on anyone? If your answer to "should abortion be allowed when the motivation is—" is anything but an unequivocal "yes, and I don't care about the motivation" then you are not pro-choice

[demonprincex]

Yep, as a disability justice person I sometimes encounter resistance to this principle from people who are concerned about abortion being used for ableist reasons.

"Do you really think a pregnant person should be able to abort a fetus just for having Down's Syndrome?" people ask. Or just for having some genetic markers for Autism?

And my answer to that, always, is I don't think a child should be forced to be born to a parent that does not want them. And I don't believe a parent should be forced to give birth to a child they are not prepared for and do not want.

Is it ableist for a pregnant person to not want a disabled child? Sure, but I find myself far less interested in the purity or impurity of the pregnant person's morals than I am in the fact that disabled people and their families are provided almost no resources in society and are excluded for nearly every area of public life. There are many reasons why a parent might not want to give birth to a disabled child, or feel unprepared to raise them, that go far beyond that parent's own personal prejudices. And even those prejudices are informed by economic, legal, and social structures that make it very difficult, expensive, and isolating to raise a disabled child.

Furthermore, I don't care if any person gets an abortion for the right or wrong reasons because I do not think there should be some outside body that decides what a legitimate reason for seeking an abortion is. Who is going to determine whether a pregnant person is seeking abortion for the "right" reasons? Will it be the government? Which government, state or local? Will it be a social worker? A doctor? An ethics board? I don't trust any institution to determine whether someone is seeking an abortion for the right reasons or not, and I don't think it would ever be possible to institute laws that would prevent "unjust" or "immoral" abortions alone. Even if it were possible to magically only prevent abortions among people with horrifically bigoted views, I would oppose it, because as OP said, I do not believe in forced birth.

It really is that simple. And the same principles apply to a panoply of political issues that are needlessly concerned with an individual person's mental state or motives. Who cares why one individual person is doing what they do. Look to the economic forces, the demands, the resources, the needs not being met, and you will see the logic behind people's behavior. There's no need to legislate away a person thinking the wrong thoughts.

[kactusnz]

you don't fix eugenics by legislating away bodily autonomy. You fix it by encouraging people to think of everyone who is different to them as valuable human beings.

[doberbutts]

Doctors at my job euthanized a chicken for a client.

Client loved chicken very much and had it sent off for cremation.

We get ashes back and notify client to come pick up.

Client comes to front desk and states they are here for their rotisserie chicken.

I go back to the doctor office and tell the doctor that euthanized the chicken because I think it'll make her laugh. Rotisserie chicken becomes new office meme.

[everythingfox]

Crumch

[underwaterfraulein]

Paging @gothiccharmschool !

[gothiccharmschool]

FUZZY BABY!!!

[bladeweave]

cannot understand why people like youtubers who are yelling the entire time. why do you let that man raise his voice at you.

[blue0909]

Please stop being nonbinary too. God only created one gender. You must conform to that.

THERES ONLY ONE NOW?????

[miketon]

[deaddogbrain]

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

[deaddogbrain]

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

[wretcheddthing]

everybody give it up for this brand of green. round of applause for most under appreciated green

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[couldntrelate]

[psychephrenic]

[virtualgirladvance]

[daggernoballs]

[dovand]

[sighinastorm]

[bvbblebeam]

good morning gay people!!

[ottermatopoeia]

[bvbblebeam]

happy pride everyone

[literalliterature]

The potato battery is a kind of Creature that can only be befriended by kind-hearted children trying to do their fourth-grade science projects

[ID copied from alt: A colored sketch depicting a creature based on a potato battery science experiment. It has a potato for a body, and its ears are a zinc plate and copper plate sticking out of the potato, with black and red wires attached to them with alligator clips. The wires wrap around the back half of its body and twist together to form a tail with a small, lit lightbulb at the end. Its legs are also made of wire. There is a patch of blue behind it against a background that looks like lined notebook paper. End ID.]

[literalliterature]

It occurred to me that I had in fact created a Little Guy so I mapped it on the chart from @littleguysdaily

[ID copied from alt: A stats sheet featuring the potato battery creature. Its skill is listed as "science fair." It has 3 out of 3 stars in the Chuckability category, 3 in Engaging, 1 in Squishiness, 0 in Slorpability, 0 in Bones, and 1 in Media Literacy. End ID.]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

every so often I come across a kink post about like being kidnapped and tortured or held at gunpoint or begging for ones life for sexual purposes and I understand its going for a very haggard frail thing being taken advantage of vibe but in my mental image it really just comes off the same as that picture of wolverine strapped to a nuke

[contemptible-scoundrel]

ideal sexual encounter for people whose username is something like snuffpuppy

[specialmouse-deactivated2025060]

This is the funniest image I’ve seen in years like this is probably the very worst thing that could possibly happen to anyone ever and the artist somehow perfectly conveyed the correct level of emotion he’d be feeling like dude it’s over but what else are you supposed to do

[girlrust]

happy pride to my favorite gif in the world

[kiefbowl]

I saw on insta this morning a reel of a woman who's been hosting a dinner party for friends for the past two years show snap shots of the parties each month for the last year. and I'm interested in that in general, I'd like to start hosting more. so I go into the comments and there are just some rank ass ppl saying things like "oh so you're rich rich" and "some of us don't have money." Is it fun living so miserably?

[kiefbowl]

maybe this is abstract but I think this is fallout from phone addiction fr. it's easy to say "well I'm burnt out at the end of the day" about scrolling on your phone rather than doing hobbies if you're so addicted you'd be doing it anyway. and it will suck up time. you will lose skills. and I'm not saying this on a high horse, we're all struggling with it right now including me. But if you're not deliberately working on distancing yourself from phone addiction, you will spend your life watching other people have lives and think that the only barrier is your own unavoidable situation in life. girl I think it's you actually. you can make some sandwiches and ask some friends over.

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by