cat domination when?

Roman Catholic

[clawedandcute]

So I have something I want to say, and I think it's something both pro-life and pro-choice people can and should agree on.

It's this: Women deserve better than abortion.

Now stay with me, please. There is this charity that I love, called Let Them Live, and they open their doors and fundraisers to moms in need, raising enough money and giving them all the support they require to confidently choose life. And that's beautiful -- I think people on both sides can agree on that.

The thing is, the stories these moms in need tell strike stunningly similar notes, over and over again.

"I don't want to abort my baby, but I'm so scared of being homeless."

"I would never choose abortion, but my life is too unstable/dangerous because of an abusive partner to choose life."

"I want to keep my baby, but no one in my family is supporting me."

"It breaks my heart to abort, but my partner/family is pressuring me into it."

"I'm scared."

"I'm alone."

"I'm unsafe."

"I'm jobless."

"I'm about to be evicted."

Doesn't it break your heart? What happened to the world that we now look at these women in dire straits, who often have children already and say, "The answer is abortion." Over and over, these women are told by society, by family members, by partners, and by friends that the answer to their problems is to deny every maternal instinct and subject themselves to a dangerous medical procedure that snuffs out the small life growing inside them.

Is this really what the pro-choice side is fighting for? I have spoken to many pro choice people in my time... They hold their beliefs because they see abortion as crucial to women's rights, to feminism, and to female safety. But is it really? Does it empower women at all when we tell them that to be free and on an equal level with men they have to get an abortion -- an invasive and potentially life threatening procedure? Does it keep them safe when abortions are continually used to destroy the evidence of rape, of incest, and of forced prostitution? When abortion itself can be and has been lethal? When the battle for abortion rights contributes to the misconception that abortion is ever necessary to save a pregnant woman's life, to the point where doctors become negligent? Does it further feminism to elevate the rights of one group of people (women) over the rights of another (unborn girls and boys) and create another kind of oppression? I don't think it does. When I look at the stories of the women who come to Let Them Live, desperate and alone, I become more convinced than ever that abortion hurts. It does not help.

The pro-life side often focuses on the unborn's right to life -- as they should! They fight their battles with biological facts about conception and gestation. They bring truth to the table by describing the reality of abortion procedures and laying out statistics regarding abortion that put a lie to many of the common arguments for it. And that is good.

But I think we need to emphasize another facet of the argument.

Abortion is stupid.

Abortion is a stupid, violent solution to a systemic problem. Ask yourselves this: when did we get so lazy and so disconnected from our communities that the main solution to a desperate or frightened mother's unplanned pregnancy was to abandon her to an abortion clinic? To a cold room, to forceps that rip her baby apart, to saline injections that poison her baby, to pills that starve her baby.

Abortion doesn't solve poverty.

Abortion doesn't stop abuse.

Abortion doesn't heal trauma.

Abortion doesn't make society and careers more hospitable to mothers.

Abortion doesn't stop misogyny.

Abortion doesn't prevent rape.

Abortion doesn't spread love.

For many of this things, abortion actually perpetuates them.

We spend so much time as a culture fighting over abortion! One side (rightly) hates it, and the other upholds it as the salvation of women.

And while this disagreement spins on, moms are hurt. Abuse is covered up. Poverty is rampant. Little girls have their innocence stolen. Instead of a culture of life, there is a culture of death.

Abortion is stupid. It is lazy. It is a symptom of the problem; not the solution to it. It gives people an excuse to blame women for their struggles, rather than helping them. Rather than gathering these women into the arms of a community and promising that, yes, of course we will help, abortion lets us believe that the best help we can give is making them an appointment and driving them to an abortion clinic. Don't tell me that doesn't happen. We all know it does.

Do all people refuse to help? Of course not! Pro life and pro choice individuals alike reach out to these women, and that is wonderful. We need more of that.

But society as a whole? It still calls for death. It empowers the strong, not the vulnerable. Imagine a world without abortion gumming up the works, where communities surrounded mothers who needed help. Where workplaces gave adequate maternity leave and better maternal health insurance. Where abortion could no longer serve as an excuse for the people who will abuse their power or make lazy policy decisions.

Companies like Disney will pay for an abortion, but will they shell out the considerably larger amount of money necessary for proper maternity leave and for adequate health insurance? Of course not! Not when they have an easier, cheaper option. Abortion gives them that option. Abortion gives fathers a way to avoid paying child support and taking responsibility. Abortion gives abusers a way to hide. Abortion gives pimps a way to maximize their profits. Abortion gives society yet another way to shuffle mothers aside and disrespect all that they do.

So. Is abortion helpful? Is it feministic? No. We can do better. We have to do better, for the sake of the thousands upon thousands of moms who need our help.

Abortion is stupid. It's a bad solution. Come on, everyone. We're smarter than this.

[glitch1920]

[evil-tboys]

[pisshandkerchief]

this is an example of a symbiotic relationship

[madeofjules]

Suzanne Collins: *breathes*

A certain segment of the fandom: "She's shaming all of you for missing the point!! You are Capitol!!!"

[thesweetnessofspring]

Actual Suzanne Collins:

The thing is, whether you came for the war, dystopia, action adventure, propaganda, coming of age, or romance, I’m happy you’re reading it. Everyone brings their own experiences to the book that will color how they interpret it. I imagine the number of people who immediately identify it as a just war theory story are in the minority, but most stories are more than one thing.

[traditional-latin-math]

Whoever invented the phrase "like taking candy from a baby" has clearly never tried taking anything from a baby

[no-mere-mortals]

[traditional-latin-math]

So jokes aside, I think the real answer is not that they're So Strong™. They are definitely stronger than you think, but they still aren't all that strong. It's obviously incredibly easy to Simply Overpower a baby. But doing so would hurt the baby as they are incredibly fragile, and you instinctively know this, so you pretty much only use Full Force on a baby if you're trying to protect them from serious danger, which removing hair, candy, toys, etc never is.

So the real trick isn't so much taking the candy from a baby. The real trick is taking candy from a baby without applying enough force to hurt their precious little hands.

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[queer-crows-nightmare]

[ojibwa]

every time i remember that photo of the little inuk girl with her puppy i engage in inconsolable hysterics

[ojibwa]

this is it. this is the photo of all time

[supreme-leader-stoat]

SNUG

[wrenchinator-central]

Comfy even

[the-supernatural-atheist]

if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills

[the-supernatural-atheist]

where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*

[makaeru]

I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".

[decomposedmaw]

night at the bus stop

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

stop deactivating

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

[kirishima-hates-terfs]

[nanzyn]

your world is dying. your husband presumably dies in space so now you're a widow and your world is still dying. then 50-ish years later your husband everyone assumed was dead pulls up in a random spaceship full of a highly volatile atmosphere with the solution to your impending apocalypse and none of the original crew from his mission and instead with a wet, blobby alien that he pack bonded with and almost died for and is now emotionally codependent on that now wont stop complaining about the temperature of the water in its enclosure. your name is adrian and you dont know how you got here

[queenofattolia]

#and you don't know how you got the name adrian either - (vía @ladytharen)

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

@cursedchildofchaos @schrodingers-blursed-kitty @frogressive-rock

[thepleasuregoblin]

Because Catholicism and by extension Christianity are so big and normal I don't think a lot of people consider how strange the Vatican is just conceptually. Like yeah in the capital of a long-dead empire there's an opulent temple district that acts as it's own sovereign nation, still speaking the dead language of that empire for their rituals, ruled by a prophet-king chosen by a secret conclave of the high priesthood. Yeah his followers eat a lot of fish in the spring.

[margindoodles2407]

preserving tags from @/why-bless-your-heart but yeah. as a Catholic I can confirm

[rainbowgaez]

evil great lakes

lake inferior

lake normal

lake offtario

lake hurton

lake michigan

[apricops]

I think I’ve been reading too much about early modern Europe because I just heard someone go “of course Christians don’t think the communion wafer is actually the body of Christ, it’s a metaphor” and I said out loud “girl no they started wars about this.”

Which is kind of a pedantic thing to say! because absolutely that’s a benign and perfectly reasonable statement in the year 2026 but for a second I felt like there was an absolutely gobsmacked 17th century Austrian priest watching over my shoulder

[unofficial-vatican]

idk, I feel like "pedantic" might not be the right word here, it's a perfectly reasonable response

[margindoodles2407]

Anyway Happy Glorious and Blessed Solemnity of Corpus Christi

[carlosmarcosapproved]

[generallemarc]

No, I was told it was bad by the numerous historical accounts of mass murder and totalitarian autocracy. It failed, it lost the Cold War, and now Europe is free. Democracy and the will of the people triumphed over one-party dictatorships from Prague to Warsaw. Get over it.

[soundlessdragon]

Mansplain: men assuming they know more than a woman about everything with less than the bare minimum effort of research, trying to look smarter than you

Hot nerd husband infodump: he actually has put years of free time research into his interests and lights up like a firefly of joy to share his knowledge when someone has a question

[thoughtportal]

Happy Labor Day. Today I learned about probably the first strike to happen IN SPACE.

[belligerentbagel]

“We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space.“ 

The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space (Hiltzik, LA Times)

[themythicalcodfish]

SOLIDARITY IN SPACE!!!!!

[drendarmorevo]

The opening poster is missing a *lot* of nuance in favor of a message, and makes a totally bullshit supposition of the “punishment.” Because NASA doesn’t work that way.

Now, before I begin, I am in no way undercutting the efforts of these astronauts or their work and what they helped accomplish as far as how they contributed to how astronauts are treated in space. I simply wish to clarify a few things.

Firstly, the three astronauts were, in fact being overworked, they were being given so many tasks that during morning check-ins only one was attending so that the other two could continue working, they were badly behind schedule and this resulted in what we currently call crunch. This had also resulted in a shortening of their sleep schedules which led to increased stress, this is compounded by the fact that sleep in space fucking sucks. Microgravity, machine noises, disrupted circadian rhythm, and the literal inability to “lay down” makes achieving sleep frustrating at best.

So, the overworked, under-rested, weary astronauts… forgot to check in for a single orbital period. They worked the whole time.

This fatigue was noted afterwards and the day after NASA had what Carr referred to as “the first sensitivity session in space” where their schedules were re-evaluated.

Suggestions of a “strike in space” are unsourced and exaggerated. And near as we can tell NASA took the whole matter reasonably and DID change how astronauts were scheduled.

Now, l let’s talk about the hardcore bullshit of the consequences. Mister “makes shit up” in the opening tweet is misrepresenting facts. First, the youngest astronaut on the mission, Gibson, was already 37 when he flew, the others were 41 and 43, why is this important? Because Skylab 4 happened in 1973-74, the next planned manned spaceflight? Apollo-Soyuz in 1975, the crew for which had been chosen before Skylab 4’s crew had even gotten back to Earth, and the next manned mission wasn’t until 1981. In the intervening period the only one that would’ve been even up for consideration would’ve probably been Gibson and that’s if he had kept up with his physical fitness in those seven years. Pogue retired from NASA a few months after returning home, Carr retired in 77, and Gibson retired in 1982 after serving as CAPCOM for STS-1 in 1981 (meaning he WAS CONSIDERED FOR THE CREW), he stated he was “uninterested” in flying on shuttle missions.

Rant over. Short version, astronauts were overworked, forgot to check in, had their schedules re-evaluated, resulting in general reassessment for future missions, all had good careers after the fact.