#practicing what one preaches

[gameshowtrainwreck]

welp. apparently i decided to hold a monday sermon with a dear friend who turned out to be a pro-life conservative. she wanted to 'resepectfully [...] agree to disagree' when i pointed out there were a lot easier, a lot cheaper, and a lot more effective ways to reduce abortions than to criminalize it. i replied to her that, respectfully, the savior i worship does not allow me to be content with thought-terminating cliches when people are getting hurt because of this.

a teenaged girl in Texas (18, might be around the same age as her daughters but I'm sure her girls are completely different) died painfully and unneccessarily of sepsis because she was forced to carry stillborn. but hey, according to her, innocent lives have to be protected. courts should start finding people innocent or pregnant.

those responsible for her death are hiding behind the pulpit, using God as their scapegoat. whatever argument the american civil religion might have about protecting the sanctity of life has gone straight into the fuckin trash can as far as i am concerned, because this very thing has happened before and people were warned that this specific kind of thing would happen.

even the most ardent, women-must-be-subservient-to-men, conservative, orthodox jews know that if it came down to a zygote or a grown woman, the woman is never to be the villain in these matters. but despite christians believing themselves better because they eat bacon, they somehow are caught severely lacking in this particular comparison.

contrast that with the venn diagram between "those in this country who claim christianity (a system of rules and dictates revolving around a man who famously blessed peacemakers)" and "those thinking the Palestinian genocide isn't going hard enough" being a single circle.

hell, our government executes people who turn out to be innocent all the time and yet the death penalty is still just as popular with the crowd that likes to print Jesus everywhere but on their own hearts. a mean person would interpret the broader consensus as thinking the government should only be used as a tool of God's wrath, not His love, not His benevolence, and certainly not His mercy.

(I try not to be mean, but that doesn't necessarily mean I am good at it.)

so, no. i will argue this because it is on my heart to argue it.

this isn't even something you can write off as hospital negligence, because how many doctors were literally afraid to treat her because of all of the hassle, paperwork, and government intrusion into their lives that would have resulted due to changes in texas' laws? isn't that one thing a lot of christians specificially say they wanna change the government to avoid? surely they did not think this happened solely in a vacuum, do they?

one hospital could be negligence. three refusing to treat her is a pattern. the purpose of a system is in what it does, which means laws designed to be compassionate towards a clump of cells has produced a lot of dead women in order to do it. if one isn't enough to count as 'a lot,' especially in the field of 'unnecessary misery and death,' please tell me where you set your number and I will pray for God to humble you in a deeply meaningful way.

the british jurist lord blackstone, the man who many consider the father of british (and by some extent american) common law said that he would sooner allow ten guilty men to go free than to see one innocent man hang. mind you, this was back in the times when a dude could get drawn and quartered for farting on a picture of the king and somehow he's ended up more-advanced than christians in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty four.

this would not have happened had republicans treated pregnant women as literally anything other than irresponsible and/or slutty and democrats done literally anything about roe v wade getting repealed beyond fundraising off of it.

and yet here the fuck we are. I hope we are all proud of that, because the people got exactly what they wanted with it.

[thirteens-earring]

if a professor has a single digit (or ZERO) number of allowable absences that means they really really want to hear a grotesquely detailed description of every medical problem you have btw. your goal should be as much disgust on the face as possible

[transmechanicus]

Type of boy i need to eat out until he moans i make no apologies

[nadia-el-mansours]

You have to choose, Aleida. You have to decide what you want your life to be.

[boiiiko]

fyi the creator of blue eye samurai is a zionist. definitely shouldn't be supporting that.

I see people are making the rounds to stop the growing enthusiasm for the show. I get it.

Seeing Green's posts (via tumblr, since I don’t have twitter or X or wtv the fuck it’s called today) admittedly made me wince. I don’t agree with or support his views. I also feel their dissonance with the show’s blunt criticism of colonialism.

But.

This will be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t actually agree that condemning a show that has been made by a HUGE team of people, who are most certainly as diverse in their political beliefs as in their cultural backgrounds, because of one person’s few posts on social media is entirely fair or fitting.

Yes, he’s one of the creators, sure, his name is slapped onto the lid, but the show is not him. A show is never one person. AND I’m a Death of The Author believer besides, so. There’s that. 

So I for one will keep on celebrating the show and what it stands for and the themes it explores, because I feel it’s important to have them out there. While also disagreeing with one of its creators’ views. After much thought, I’m comfortable with that complication. You, and many others, may not be. Which is fair. And I urge you to block the tag or unfollow me if the distinction makes you uneasy. 

[pfhwrittes]

oi, less than gentle reminder because i'm fucking knackered:

AN INDICATION OF YOUR AGE NEEDS TO BE VISIBLE AT FIRST GLANCE ON YOUR BLOG AND YOU NEED TO BE OVER 18 TO INTERACT WITH THIS BLOG.

IF I CAN'T SEE THAT YOU'RE OVER 18, I WILL BLOCK YOU.

acceptable indicators are: a specific age e.g 22 an age range e.g in my thirties / 30+ a specific birth year e.g 2005 a birth year range e.g 80s baby a non-specific indicator e.g old enough to remember blockbuster

[sketch-cat]

Your light

[awesome-normal-heroes]

Wander Over Yonder did a better job with the pacifistic forgiving messages then Steven Universe and My Little Pony...

[reanimatedgh0ul]

it's crazy to me that angsty broody danny™ is as popular as it is in fanon when it's like first off have you even MET danny and secondly SAM EBONY DARK'NESS DEMENTIA RAVEN WAY MANSON IS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE OUT OF ANYONE IN THE TRIO SHE'S THE ONE WHO'S GONNA ACT LIKE THAT OK I NEED MORE OF Y'ALL TO REALIZE THIS

THIS RIGHT HERE IS LITERALLY WHAT SAM VS DANNY WOULD LOOK LIKE ACTUALLY

[douglasfeiffel]

i am really enjoying impact winter but yet I find myself wondering the same thing I wonder when consuming most vampire media: if the vampires can control how much they drink from someone, why don't they? It's hard to see the vampires we're supposed to see as good people as good people when they're murdering non-vampires left and right when they could. according to the story itself. just not do that

[thisismycorneroftheinternet]

I find it wild that people are trying to dismiss or minimize this whole dead CEO thing because it was a right wing dude who did it, when regardless of political position, millions of people objectively benefited from his actions. Sure, we can argue legalism and the moralism of killing someone and all, and the ramifications of that given the group he's part of, but it is disconcerting how people have this pernicious political purity to it all. I've seen it on other situations and it's the reason why people dismiss political victories against reactionaries who want to take the world back to fascist conservatorism, it's why every single charity or whatnot gets weirdos questioning intentions despite how transparent they are, heck, it's even the reason why there's so much in-fighting on the left. A bunch of ideologues who would rather the world go to hell if people don't agree fully with them than do any objective good.

[stargirlie25]

Gwynriels when people insult Gwyn:

SOME Gwynriels when people insult Elain

I love Gwynriel and my fellow gwynriels but not these kinds.........anyways every side of the fandom has its bad.

[angrboda007]

I feel like I should go back to Christianity because I think I'm the only one who would do it right

[netherknit]

ugh

idk if im just a crazy cynic but can people stop touting men using misogynist accusations as a #slamdunk on other men as these awesome heroes because they do not care at all. its crazy how much these issues are slung around in these situations. it feels deeply trivializing and i hate seeing this massive dicksuck for men just trying to win the glorious war of most clout.

[discodisorder]

"no one shuts up about x", "everyone won't stop talking about y", "can you guys talk about literally anything else" YOU CONTROL THE PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW IT IS LITERALLY WITHIN YOUR GRASP TO NO LONGER SEE THE THING THAT IT IS IRRITATING YOU

[thelastsaiyanprincess]

y'all be like "minors DNI/DNF" and then...... constantly reblog posts written by minors lmfao