I Am Sad @thereissometimesalot - Tumblr Blog

i think one thing that isn’t really talked about regarding recovery is the guilt you feel for getting better. sometimes you start questioning the validity of your trauma or mental illnesses just because you aren’t stuck in that hole anymore. but it’s so important to remember that it’s okay to recover. it’s okay to not feel depressed all the time; it doesn’t mean that bad depressive episode you just went through isn’t valid anymore. you are so deserving of healing - never forget that.

cinemaspam

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) dir. Joel and Ethan Coen

unspokengrief

Why can’t I be anything’s else but this super sad girl??? I want to be so much more but I CANT the sadness never leaves me and I am soooo tired

selectingnaturalselection

he makes me extremely happy

queerscully

me, experiencing the sudden anguish that comes with living: alright

alisonzai

southernsideofme

valtsv

im like a religious art piece. grotesque, haunting, full of melodrama and guilt and unsettlingly horny.

fenkko

stars-bean

The Virgin Suicides (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola

adeles

#when someone asks me how life’s going

drowning4youu

sometimes it just hurts and there is nothing you can do about it

betterthanabortion

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

fandomsandfeminism

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon.

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy.

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died.

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies.

albinwonderland

reblogging for commentary

generalmaluga

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too.

fandomsandfeminism

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation.

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other.

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.”

And that is gross.