I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.
dr robby on a rampage attempting to externalize his self loathing onto every person he sees struggling with something he can map to his own Problems™️ but then baby jane doe parries his attack perfectly by being zero years old
dr robby with colleagues: i see you have this problem that somewhat mirrors one of my own, unfortunately as far as my subconscious is concerned you are now Me and i need you to subject yourself to the exact unhealthy coping mechanism i use to deal with this issue myself. whitaker start isolating. samira start repressing. langdon doubt yourself forever. al hashimi Leave.
dr robby with abandoned infant: fuuuuck the only way forward is love and hope and forgiveness
no offense to whitaker i think his character is cool and his friendship with trinity and how that develops can be something really interesting and all but why must the masses always grab onto any white man possible. there’s a lesbian situationship falling apart right in front of our eyes. neurodivergence is finally being portrayed in the correct way. a mother and doctor who deals with child custody and law enforcement issues while being a recovering addict. TRINITY SANTOS. SAMIRA MOHAN. JOY KWON. HEATHER COLLINS. MELISSA KING. VICTORIA JAVADI. CASSIE MCKAY. BARAN AL HASHIMI. PARKER ELLIS. PRINCESS DELA CRUZ. PERLAH ALAWI. EMMA NOLAN. please there are so many more deep complex and interesting female characters with CANON lore. do we need to focus on the religious white farmboy from nebraska?
i love you dr. nazely toomarian. i love you dr. jack abbot. i love you dr. crus henderson. i love you dr. parker ellis. i love you dr. john shen. i love you night shift. night shift i love youuuuuu
where the fuck is everyone’s appreciation for dr crus, our new night shift. winking at abbott when he talks about the ER being on “cruise control”? catching the collapsed lung on the asthma patient and fixing it without the slightest hesitation? using ultrasound to scan patients waiting for an xray so they can go home early and free up beds? all in the first hour of his shift and without breaking a sweat? what a MAN
If doctor who was taking place in poland the tardis would camouflage as a 24/7 monopolowy shop. and then the doctor would travel to xvi/xvii century poland and the tardis would remain a monopolowy, so when the doctor picks up a magnat companion they shock him with the sheer variety of alcohols in cheap prices that can fit in the tardis (it's bigger on the inside so like a goddamn carrefour alcohol section). the magnat companion shows the tardis to his sejmik friends and leads a rokosz against the doctor, capturing the tardis and redistributing cheap and easy to obtain alcohol as a contraband, which encourages bribes, nepotism and overall demoralisation of the upper class. this is one of the causes of the polish partition. the doctor tries to stop it by regenerating into stanisław august poniatowski but 1) he gets sidetracked by various side quests (saving łazienki from evil aliens posing as lubomirscy or something) 2) he falls into the common nuwho cliche of a one episode romance with a historical figure (caryca katarzyna). except that she uhhh idk turns out to be the master or something. and her new evil plan relies on getting the 1/3 of poland. the doctor is called konował in this story btw. follow for more ideas that get 2 notes and make me think i'm funny.
a long rant about the culture on the pitt twitter, the early season 2 discourse, and the state of the pitt fandom in general.
it genuinely saddens me that a show like the pitt, one that's so needed right now in a country that's currently quite literally systematically reversing course on every progressive reform that's been made for decades and decades, is being torn to shreds regularly on social media by people who ignore all of the things it's doing right. it's never woke enough, it never addresses everything perfectly, no one can sit down and watch more than one episode before jumping online to complain about all the ways they feel like the show has already fucked up, or complain about the ways they're so sure it will fuck up in the weeks to come.
part of the reason why twitter has become so unbearable to me lately is because there are a few accounts on there that absolutely hate this show. they hate it, they think everyone involved in making it is evil, they take every possible opportunity to speak critically about it, they only amplify negative press, and for some reason they continue watching the show.
whether that's to feel morally superior to the people that enjoy it, to hate "ethically" by having full knowledge of what's happening, or (most likely) because consuming it weekly it gives them additional fuel for their complaints, they keep watching. they insist they want nothing to do with this show and it's constantly disappointing them, but they remain some of the loudest people in the entire fandom.
i have no issue with media i enjoy being criticized, and i don't feel guilty for enjoying the work of quote-unquote problematic artists. the issue for me is when it crosses into the realm of what feels like a hate campaign. some of the accusations i've seen leveled at noah wyle, at john wells, at the writers of this show in general are deeply, incredibly over-the-top.
using tracy ifeachor's departure from the show (something we know absolutely nothing about the circumstances of) to accuse the people making the show of being racist and anti-black; alleging that this show was made so that the people at the top could continue years of abuse of their power (something that quite literally no one has claimed); claiming a behind-the-scenes conspiracy to use women of color in order to get people interested in the show and then systematically write them off...
i'm barely even scratching the surface.
to get into the amount of absolutely baseless and insane claims that have circulated would take weeks, and i've genuinely given up hope of ever being able to dismantle all of them. i saw a tweet yesterday that called noah wyle "the most racist man alive." i've seen quote-unquote "fans" of this show writing practical dissertations that read like they hope the women of color on this set are being mistreated so they have additional evidence for their twitter threads. i've seen people saying they "can't wait for the documentary about all of this to come out", and i read that and think... all of what?
the way the pitt was cast means so much amazing, young, diverse undiscovered talent got to be put in the spotlight (people who don't work in the industry may not realize, but it is unbelievably rare for a show to invest so much faith and time and material in new talent). the writer's room includes several women of color whose skill allow the show to feel like it's actually representative of the demographics of the people that make up the healthcare industry. the pitt was the first production to finalize a union contract with their production assistants, a historically underpaid and overworked on-set position. because of the show's format, it employs the same background actors across the entire season, giving background talent months of consistent paid work. so many people involved in the production have raved about the set feeling non-hierarchical, feeling like being part of a theatre troupe, feeling like a place where they're supported both personally and in the work.
and outside of any of that, there's the work of the show itself. i don't believe any art should be above critique even (and especially) if it's portraying current events and systemic issues, but the pitt has made a measurable impact outside of its viewership. healthcare workers say this show has made it easier for their families to understand the work that they do and the way that it stays with them. people have attested that it's opened up conversations for them about things like end-of-life planning and organ donation (a study by USC found individuals were 27% more likely to seek out information about becoming an organ donor after watching this show, and that the impact was particularly great among black audiences, who are historically overrepresented on transplant lists and underrepresented in terms of donors). noah wyle and his mother joined nurses to speak to congress this summer about mental health support for healthcare workers. some of the protocols that were portrayed during the mass-casualty event in season 1 are now being implemented in actual hospital emergency rooms.
at its heart, this is a show about imperfect people doing their best, made by imperfect people doing their best. i desperately, desperately wish for all of us to recognize that none of us are perfect either. none of us are without bias, none of us are free of mistakes, none of us have always acted in ways we're proud of. i see that reflected in the doctors and nurses and patients on this show, and i wish i could see it reflected more often in this fandom as well.
i've been dogpiled plenty on twitter in the past few months for expressing the above, and i'm not naive enough to think that that's not going to happen here as well. i've been called every name in the book, insulted in turns of phrase i've quite literally never heard before in my life, and sent actual death threats. i'm sure the people that have been harassing me relentlessly for months will have an absolute field day with this post as well, but i am at my core a lawyer's daughter who was raised to argue at the dinner table and i don't want to let the the loudest, meanest people control the experience of being a fan of this show.
i think the pitt is important. i think it's important for television and it's important for hollywood and it has the potential to be important for the country, and i would like to see it continue to succeed, and hopefully find an audience that's less obsessed with turning the entire fandom into a war zone & more open to understanding.
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