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its sooooo fun to me that all of gojo's little 'leave it to me!' solutions also suck. yuji won't die immediately, but he'll just die later, after being exploited to the utmost by gojo. yuta won't be killed, he'll just be beholden to the 'higher ups' for the rest of his, presumably short, life, caught between what they can make him do and what gojo will stand in the way of. megumi won't be taken in by the zenin, he just has to work as a sorcerer as collateral to support himself and his comatose sister (under gojo's watchful eye of course). isn't gojo such a good teacher?
#jujutsu kaisen is a show about exploitation-#anyway this like. little trend#this little tendency of gojo's is why i think people who imagine him playing happy family with the fushiguros are uhh misreading him#like i do think he cares for the kids he takes in. to an extent. but it doesn't stop him from exploiting them yk#i think this also ties to my read on gojo as like. hyperaware of the societal constraints placed on him as the strongest#and the way that makes him....unimaginative maybe is the word i'm looking for? he continues with the exploitation/abuse of jujutsu society#he just pairs it with a recognition of the people he's exploiting as children#maybe#idk i am still thinking through this#w.me
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Rant - Exploiting Children

People have completely lost the plot when it comes to children and social media. Somewhere along the way, kids stopped being human beings in their own right and became a content farm for engagement-hungry adults. Parents, relatives, babysitters—everyone is guilty of it. Whether it’s exploiting their own child’s most vulnerable moments for views or parading around someone else’s baby like a trophy, it all boils down to the same thing: using children for attention.
Not everything needs to be shared. Not every giggle, not every milestone, not every cute moment needs to be broadcast to a sea of strangers. It is entirely possible to create content about parenting, childcare, or family life without making a brand ambassador out of a child who has no say in the matter. But for some reason, people act like a baby is a golden ticket to engagement, as if simply existing near a child makes them more interesting.
And let’s not pretend this is harmless. These kids will grow up and realize their entire childhood was documented for public consumption. They will see themselves as an extension of their parent’s online persona, as a piece of content instead of a person. And for what? A few likes? A temporary ego boost?
The worst part is how normalized it’s become. People will proudly display their children’s most intimate, embarrassing, or private moments without a second thought. They’ll record a tantrum for engagement instead of offering comfort. They’ll shove a camera in their baby’s face before they even know how to speak, setting them up for a lifetime of unwanted digital exposure. And the most insidious part? Society rewards it. The more a child is used as content, the more engagement it generates, and the more incentive there is to keep doing it.
Children deserve privacy. They deserve autonomy. They deserve to be more than props in an adult’s online performance. It is entirely possible to share parenting experiences without exploiting the very people you’re supposed to protect. And if that’s too difficult, maybe the real question is why social media validation matters more to some people than their child’s dignity.
#kids are not content#stop sharenting#childhood is not content#children are not props#respect children#protect children#content farms#exploitation#child exploitation#digital privacy#vent#rant#consent#empathy#discussion#discussion post#personal rant
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watching Arcane without fandom interaction is really interesting actually. I remember watching Jayce's Progress Day speech in s1e04 and being so relieved he did the right thing and listened to Heimerdinger (one of the only times I ever agreed with Heimerdinger lmao). I mean, did he see the inventions he presented? A giant fuck-off punch gauntlet and a death laser? And he didn't think that would harm people? I thought it was the peak of Tech Bro Bullshit.
(as an engineer, I've heard a lot of Tech Bro Bullshit and I'm a bit more sympathetic to it/the motivations behind it. The hextech inventions shown in that episode was a prime example of Tech Bro Bullshit: something created with the genuine intent of helping people, but in a way that addresses the symptoms of a deeper, societal problem. It never gets to the root of the problem and it addresses the problem in a way that helps the capitalists (now our miners can do their work safer and faster! oh, so their boss can make them work longer hours?) The inventors never seem to recognize that their invention can do significant harm and isn't ready to go out without more testing.)
The fandom reaction seemed to be... more negative, though? Or maybe that's because I'm in the jayvik sphere more and there's more Viktor stans? I think that was one of the fandom reactions that surprised me.
I just re-watched the episode knowing the prevailing(?) fandom opinion, and I ... hm. I understand Viktor's POV and the sense of betrayal much better. I'm impressed by how quickly Jayce salvaged that speech. I think the main issue isn't the choice that he made, it's that he should've made it before he got on stage. Impulsiveness has always been a Jayce character flaw, though. I still don't think he chose wrong.
Also, for the record? Every time I insult hextech and call the inventions tech bro bullshit I am also insulting Viktor. He is one of the two founders of hextech, he's an equal partner, and he deserves to be insulted just as much as Jayce. A lot of times I see people acting like the bad hextech decisions that were made was pure Jayce, but nuh-uh. This is an equal partnership, folks
#me.txt#arcane meta#other fandom reactions that surprised me: fandom perception of silco (he's literally a drug lord guys. please stop calling him marxist lmao#fandom perception of mel and jayce (if you hate mel and/or jayce you're wrong and you have terrible taste and that applies to all seasons)#reaction to jayce killing viktor in the commune (if you heal someone and they die when you die it's OBVIOUSLY evil non-healing. cmon)#how much people like jinx (that's on me i didn't know she was big in league)#wait i just realized that the pattern here is i'm surprised that ppl consistently sided with the white ppl and against the black/brown ppl#hm. much to think about#well. maybe not that much#i guess there's also the class argument but. i mean. silco is a drug lord. he's richer than everyone in zaun#he's getting that money by exploiting her people. jinx is his kid. he literally created and headed a council just like piltover#how much of a class argument is there?#i guess if you look at it on a ... overall societal level? eh. i'm gonna be honest i dont have the lived experience to critique that#silco's one of those characters i liked and then i realized how fandom thinks of him and now i'm just annoyed when he's brought up#shame
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there probably are some little kids who are surprisingly good at painting out there but every video I ever see on social media like “look at this kid’s amazing painting skills” reminds me of the many scams perpetrated by parents painting on behalf of their kid and then exploiting them by taking and carefully editing videos that made it look like the kid was doing it
so any video of someone aged like 8 or younger with surprising art skills I’m like “show me a full time lapse from two angles first bud”
#this one scam has happened so many times#so many parents do it#and it keeps working!#like this scam well predates social media#so like did that kid paint that? maybe#but I’m not gonna clap. if they did stop exploiting them and if they didn’t stop exploiting them#sang danced got naked
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i made the mistake of looking up Temu on tumblr
#selling shitty stolen designs for dirt cheap is how amazon got its foothold#and yes amazon is evil and getting worse#therefore it's a good thing it has competition now#and somehow the global slave-wage labour trade is still going strong despite strong condemnation of it#it's one of the only ways some poorer countries get to have a GDP in our current global economic order#richer countries exploit their natural resources#and one such natural resource is cheap human labour#how do we fix that man#idk#but can we stop yelling at temu or the communists or fast fashion#the problem is literally how our entire world works#It's globalization... remember globalization?#Of course the kids don't remember globalization#I'm no expert either but I have fuzzy memory when US politicians (Bush? Clinton?) were trying to convince us#that expanding the global supply chain is good actually#idk about anyone else but i am ready to give up access to avocados in the great canadian winter and go back to a diet of chicken and potato#because access to avocados in the middle of the canadian winter is what the global supply chain gaves us#and cat paw socks for your chair and cute pastel dinosaur onesies and fancy alpaca wool and electric car engines and 5G wifi#we have more access to goods than the kings of yore and yes it is unfair on a gargantuan scale#but unless all of us are willing to give up all of it and I mean ALL of it#it ain't gonna change#and it sure as hell isn't temu's fault#i love naemyeong though i can't bear to have naemyeong taken away from me
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thinking of it, the fact that lightlark advertised itself as "a poc hunger games" makes the entire thing even funnier – given how many characters, entire districts & especially story relevant characters aren't white
#lightlark you'll never stop being a hilarious moneygrab created by a nepobaby#i got thinking of it after having watched a video analyzing why the battle royale trope works so well in the hunger games#but not in other novels#and the reason is that suzanne collins portrays ut as exploitation & the kids as further victims#in other books we shpuld be intended to hate cato and silka and they'd be our main antagonists#but then suzanne collind portrays them as what they are#brainwashed children who just want to survive#and don't realise the reality of their actions until it's too late#she actually shows battle royale as an oppressive tool exploiting marginalized groups#which iirc lightlark doesn't really focus on#what a funny book#not-so-dead-salmon
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I hate family vloggers, and you probably should, too.
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Zero Day Director commentary - With actor Andre Keuck
#movies#film#cinema#Damn I wish Cal was here#Andre and Ben are really interesting to listen to#This movie is one of those movies where it needs like 3 commentaries#It needs one with just Ben Coccio by himself#then one with Cal and Andre by themselves#then another with all 3 of them#Not all movies do that but I love when studios/filmmakers have multiple commentaries to create a sense of thorough intimacy#due to the nature of how commentaries are set up they can be quite restrictive/pressing/limited with no pauses or rewinds.#so I find cast/crew don't have enough time or able to present how they would like to if they could edit/rewind or pause for fluent presenta#So I love when they have director commentaries and actor commentaries or composer commentaries#Platoon's dvd extras are so dope they got multiple commentaries and one with military adviser Dale Dye who was a RL vietnam vet#Or Hostel's commentaries where one is just Eli Roth and another is Tarantino and Eli Roth with Scott Spiegal#idk if Zero Day ever got a blu-ray release but I think it should but the DV technology of the camera is kinda at it's limit of resolution#but an AI upscaling with 20 years later retrospective with Ben Cal and Andre would be sooo dope along with updated commentaries#Every few years I always rewatch Zero Day so that time has come that last few days lol#Ever since Columbine as a lil kid I have always been into spree-murders and active shooter incidents#I remember reading a peer-reviewed paper called Pseudo-Commandos#And Eric and Dylan and Andre and Cal would be dubbed Pseudo-Commandos where they dress up in a semi-military fashion#and have a delusion of superiority mixed with perceived sense of persecution whether it's true or not#it went into the Postal shooter from the 80s as well and what he went through along#plus I read another book called Going Postal which also went into postal shootings along with school shootings#I want to make a film about spree murders or an active shooter/s but I remember just getting so tired of the subject matter#because every 3 weeks there was some new shooter in the headlines and I found myself not wanting to be exploitative#When I write/direct my film I'd like it to address and study the character of such an individual but not try to be too political#or exploitative and focus on the ambiguities that are left behind when someone does this#as a society I noticed we stopped asking the questions on why and stopped having constructive conversations#it feels like as a coping mechanism we've started treating them like tornados or natural disasters
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i think if i could bite parents of autistic kids who call themselves 'autism moms' (who don't have autism themselves) and post their kids meltdowns online in the name of 'education' i would feel so much better
#sorry i saw them talking on someones tiktok criticizing them and god they get so mad when you say#hey posting your kids online especially when they're vulnerable like this is exploitative and they just go nuh uh#also i NEED them to stop using high supports needs autistic ppl as a scapegoat#signed a med-high support needs autistic <3#personal
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Every time I hear politicians and rich folk complain about fertility and the population, all I hear is that the wolves are complaining that the sheep aren't breeding.
#The only reason these people shifted from “stop having kids” from the last decade to “start having kids” is because in their eyes#we're cattle. workhorses and tax cattle.#the world isn't built for families anymore and most global economies are built on exploitation and people are aware of that#and then you got people in power trying to undo hundreds of years of progress#so who the hell would subject a child or a person of their own making through that?#fuck i mean we have kids right now that need homes and families that can no longer afford adoption too on top of it cause the economy#is crippling everyone by the ball sack#sorry guys dont mean to get political on here this is a hot topic in my area and the yewnowoos still don't get it#us politics#politics#fertility#economy#magenta is my vent word
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oksies hi starting a new thread of get to know you
haii I'm moth and also thea you may call me any nickname as well <3
I love musicals so so much (niche and popular!! basic-shaming is lame)
I am superhero obsessed (augh pied piper)
doctor who is my autism (yay river sonf!!!!)
good omens heoughhhhhhhh
super excited to meet you <3333333
Hi moth!! You can call me tetra. Don't worry that's not my real name or anything tho. I took it from the concept of tetrachords in music.
If we're generous about what we call superheroes, then maybe most of the things I like are superhero based. I mean obviously there's marvel and dc, but then there's stuff like dpxdc, sonic the hedgehog (idk if I've ever heard him called a superhero but he kinda is), if we count magical girls then like. Sailor moon and madoka magica
I haven't seen any episodes of good omens, but I read a really good fanfic of Crowley going to therapy a while back, and a couple funny ones with like yelp reviews of Aziraphale's bookstore. Plus I love the good omens analysis posts on here. I feel like maybe I half know some of what's happened in the show but also probably haven't scratched the surface. I'm kinda bad at watching TV shows, so there's a lot of stuff that I know from fandom but haven't seen. For another example of that, I've only watched one or two episodes of Sonic Prime. I reblog posts for it and it sounds good but idk. Just bad at it.
I'm a much more casual fan of musicals, I think for the same thing as above where I just struggle to sit and watch something on purpose. But I listen to the music from them sometimes, I've read transcripts online of a couple, and i swoon whenever I see a post analyzing the meaning of a musical song, especially when they go beyond lyrics and start going into the music theory in the tune. I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that myself but I love it so much
(when the singer changes their technique to enhance the meaning,, when this or that chord is a step outside the key to symbolize change or isolation or anything,,, using instruments as symbols for this or that character,,, tbh it doesn't have to be a musical even shout out to that youtube video by Scruffy on how fnaf's audio and sound effects make it scarier)
Lately I've been bouncing back and forth between Sonic and DPxDC. With hints of Slay The Princess in there bc I saw part of a playthrough of that awhile ago and loved the concept. I reblog madoka magica stuff whenever I see it (except magia record bc I know next to nothing about it) because that stuff makes me lose my mind. The love the pain the hope the despair!! Homura is probably like my ultimate blorbo but I love all the five girls they're so cool. I actually read the manga instead of watching the show though so I'm not as familiar with all the music. Plus I think the show had some extra scenes. Although it's a little confusing bc I think some of the extra scenes I see are magia record so idk.
Also I'm a fan of arts and crafts and will reblog that kind of thing once in a while, along with cute cat stuff.
Super excited to meet you too!
#sorry about the late response. got nervous and then put it off for awhile#hopefully it's a good one though?#it's unedited bc if i think stop and think harder/worry more now i'll never escape the think stage and i will post nothing#and i don't wanna do that#if there's anything you wanna know just ask#actually maybe i should think of some questions for you#oh like who's pied piper? i haven't heard of a superhero with that name just the child-stealing legend#unless you consider that guy a hero which like. i guess you could interpret it like that? teaching the value of not exploiting your workers#and i've read at least one story based on the legend where he takes the children somewhere nice#i feel like stealing children is not the ideal solution to that issue but it is a bit iconic if you think about it right#maybe he couldve taken some crops instead tho like thats the village income. it'd be more similar to money than kids.#i mean i guess in those days kids were also workers. and somewhat exploited generally.#so i guess i could see it as the guy getting exploited and then grabbing all the other exploited workers in town#i'm not really a history buff am i off base with this theory completely#i know kids used to have to work to help their families and that there are child labor laws for a reason#but also. not like there was a ton of free entertainment in the olden times.#i mean the parents almost definitely didnt pay kids money but chores aren't exploitation#maybe i should leave this up to interpretation#or just say it depends on situation and some kids probably were exploited while others weren't#hmm. this whole thing is probably just bs. i don't know what i'm talking about#oh well i hope you didn't mind it
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"Like many people who go through surrogacy, Cathy said it was not a choice; it was their only option." While I feel bad for what Cathy went through surrogacy was NOT her only option. Adoption is also possible.
By Kate McDonald
As a bill that seeks to regulate aspects of surrogacy goes before cabinet, Prime Time spoke to families who have used international surrogates.
"My house was silent. When you have a stillborn baby, your house is silent." Cathy Wheatley was seven months pregnant when she had a spontaneous uterine rupture. Her daughter, who she named Helen, died at birth and Cathy found out she could not carry any more pregnancies. "I lost my little girl," Cathy said. Despite their devastating loss, Cathy and her husband Keith Wheatley, from Co Wicklow, were determined to have their family.
Like many people who go through surrogacy, Cathy said it was not a choice; it was their only option."When a doctor mentions surrogacy, your first reaction is, people like me don't do that. You know what I mean? Like, we're just ordinary, everyday people on a farm in Wicklow. "But when they looked into it, they found that there were Irish couples doing it.
"You have to be very careful to make sure that you do all your research so that you know that you're doing the best that you possibly can for your babies, but also for your surrogate, because without your surrogate, you wouldn't have your babies," Cathy said.
The Wheatleys decided to go to a clinic in Ukraine, where they met Ivanna, who would eventually carry and give birth to their twins Ted and Elsie.
"It's the biggest thing in the world to give your babies to somebody to carry and to mind until they can give them back to you," Cathy said.
"I love those kids but I don't love them as my own; those are different feelings. Like it’s my nephew or cousins, not like my son or my daughter," Ivanna said.
Ivanna told Prime Time she became a surrogate mother after the birth of her second son.
"That is something I wanted to do because I love helping people, I love the feeling of being pregnant and I thought why, why don’t I help?" Ivanna said.
Cathy and Keith Wheatley remortgaged their house to front the cost. They paid just under €40,000 to their clinic in Ukraine, of which €14,000 was compensation for their surrogate Ivanna.
"I’m pregnant for nine months. I don’t work. But I have two kids. And my kids have basic needs" Ivanna said.
"They needed food, they needed education, they need dresses – everything that a normal kid needs. If I am surrogate, I am pregnant, I can’t work. It’s not like you are getting a lot of money with that - not like you decide 'I need money’ so I’ll go and get a baby for somebody. [It’s] not like many people think it is."
With legal fees, flights and accommodation, their total spend was €70,000.
"They don’t pay you for being pregnant in Ukraine, they compensate for your time," Ivanna said.
The Wheatleys and Ivanna developed a deep relationship and kept in touch after the twins’ birth.
When Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, the Wheatleys brought Ivanna and her children to live with them in Ireland.
"If we talk about what happened in my country now, they came and they saved my life and they saved the life of my kids because four years ago I gave life to their kids," Ivanna said.
Brian and Kathy Egan had always planned to have four children. But after having her first son, Harry, Kathy had six miscarriages and she said she knew a larger family wasn't to be.
"It obviously gets harder every time to pick yourself up after it and try again. But we still felt very strongly that we'd be able to do this."
Kathy had no issue getting pregnant but couldn’t sustain the pregnancies. After another two miscarriages, the Egans began to consider surrogacy.
"Because it's new to you, you're second-guessing everything, you really want to make sure you have the right information. It's going to be the right clinic, the right surrogate, and everything is right in every way," Brian said.
Kathy and Brian Egan
The cost of surrogacy in the US and Canada ruled that region out for them, so they began looking elsewhere. They decided to go with a clinic in Lviv, Ukraine.
"Within a month, we were matched with a surrogate who matched my blood type, and we went ahead. But unfortunately, at the 20-week scan, we discovered there was a fatal fetal abnormality within the heart."
That first surrogate pregnancy ended in miscarriage, but the Egans then found a second surrogate.
"We did Zoom or Skype calls with Mariana, our surrogate. Her first response after every checkup was, 'now, can we tell Kathy & Brian?'"
"She's a very strong lady and quite business-like too. She was in no doubt that this was helping us both," Brian said.
Baby Luke arrived in May 2019 while Brian, Kathy and big brother Harry were at home in Kilkenny. They travelled through the night to get to Lviv.
"You cannot get there quick enough. You'd swim there," Kathy said.
"He was tiny. He was four weeks early, but he looked like Harry looked when he was born. So, I knew straight away which one to walk over to."
"You feel like, you know, you've been talking to him for months and praying and hoping to meet him, but it's like no other feeling," Kathy said.
The entire process cost the Egans about €100,000, they said.
Two years later, in June 2021, the family were stunned when Brian was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
"I didn't know what to say, really. That ‘cancer’ word anyway, you're all over the place," Brian said.
Eleven days after he was diagnosed, Brian’s prostate was removed. The surgery was a success, but his next blood test indicated the cancer had spread.
"At that stage I genuinely felt I didn't have long left. I was looking at Luke, he was two, didn't know if he was going, I was going to see him being three."
Brian received radiotherapy treatment and is still getting hormone treatment, which he says is going well.
However, due to the lack of regulation around the legal status for parents of children born through surrogacy, the Egans were left in a precarious situation.
Current Irish legislation does not cover legal issues that arise in surrogacy. The legal status and rights of all people involved are covered by the laws dealing with non-surrogate births.
This means the surrogate mother, who gives birth to the child, is the child's legal mother under Irish law. In the Egan’s case, Kathy is not Luke’s legal parent, although genetically he is her son as he was born using Kathy’s egg and Brian’s sperm.
"We just realised, if I pass away prematurely, Luke is effectively an orphan of the state." said Brian. "Kathy is just his legal guardian. He would not have a parent, he has different rights to Harry."
Brian and Kathy decided to take a case to the High Court, saying the State had failed to recognise Kathy as Luke’s mother.
The Egans were in court in April but have recently paused their action after hearing assurances that long-promised surrogacy legislation will be brought before the Oireachtas soon.
Under proposed terms of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022, parents of children born through surrogacy will be recognised as legal parents, if they meet certain criteria in the jurisdiction in which the surrogacy is intended to take place, and also the criteria to be specified in the Irish legislation.
Senator Mary Seery Kearney and her husband Dave tried to have a baby via IVF.
"We did 13 rounds.... I was pregnant on five occasions...unfortunately, they all resulted in a miscarriage," she said.
"We're a very close couple, but it's a very, very stressful experience. All my life... I wanted to be a mother. I wanted my own child," she said.
Mary initially thought that surrogacy was for well-off people: "My view was Elton John did surrogacy, really rich people did surrogacy. We were ordinary people, already indebted from all of the IVFs we had done."
When she began researching, she initially relied on Google. She said the most impressive website she found was for a clinic in Kyiv.
"We flew over, we gave them €12,000 upfront, and nothing came of that," she said.
Senator Mary Seery Kearney
After that experience in Ukraine, Senator Seery Kearney and her husband found a clinic in India and a surrogate who would carry their child.
"We were so grateful to this woman, and I also felt a huge responsibility for her," Mary said.
They said they sent gifts every couple of weeks and engaged with the surrogate mother all the way through. When the pregnancy reached the 20-week mark, they allowed themselves to hope it would be a success.
"I have to say, right up until the moment we stood outside the theatre, I didn't really believe. I believed that something was going to go wrong. Because you, you carry that trauma into the experience," she said.
But when they were called inside they knew it was real.
"I literally ran, I screamed and ran, 'this is my little girl,' handed into my arms," she said.
Now advocating in the Oireachtas for changes to made to Irish surrogacy legislation, Mary thinks 'goodwill' payments should be made to the surrogate to cover their costs during the pregnancy, but does not agree with commercial surrogacy: in which an agency takes a fee and passes on a portion of it to the surrogate.
"Throughout the process you have doctors paid, clinicians paid, you have the travel agent's paid, you have the lawyers paid.
"The only person that isn't entitled to any goodwill gesture at all is the person who's giving birth, who's carrying the pregnancy and giving birth. And that there is no reason why a goodwill payment could not be made to that surrogate," she says.
#Ireland#Surrogacy is not an only option#Adopt#Don't rent out a women and buy a kid#Irish couples had no trouble finding kids to adopt when the government and catholic church ran the Magdalen laundries#Irish couples exploiting Ukrainian women#At least the Wheatleys looked after the surrogate mother and her kids after the war broke out#Many other purchasing parents just grad the kid and don't look back at the woman#And how she's recovering from pregnancy and childbirth in a warzone#Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022#Why are Irish parents using surrogates if the laws don't recognize both parents?#Don't they stop and think about what will happen to the kid in the event if a tragedy?#13 rounds of IVF? When there are so many kids to adopt?
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jame eagan being like when my children grow up i stop seeing kier in them. helena grew out of it, so i made more children, and children don't last. but i see it in you, less than one year old helly r. my daughter, a little kid again, a girl i can create again and again and again. in the "it's all because of child exploitation" show
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((I have a feeling that Medic would skew towards the more permissive end of the parenting spectrum, especially with more self-sufficient children like Comet.
But he'd also totally be the parent who wouldn't even try to hide his laughter if his kid got into trouble doing something he thought was funny. He's hardly perfect, but if a situation seems serious or is becoming too much of a pattern, he'd step in. Usually, he's more lax.
#medic hcs#supcrsxnic cxmct#ooc#((he's very much a 'treat my kids like friends I feed and have more of a duty to stop if they try something dumb' kind of guy#((can be exploited but not to the extent of being neglectful whenever he actually has to do the unfun parts of parenting
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weird how quick fascists went from “the world is overpopulated. close your legs. stop having kids.” to “pop out 3 babies right now. you have no choice. you have to. it’s your duty and your only purpose.” when they realized they might not have enough vulnerable individuals to exploit in the labor force if the birth rate continues declining
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someone being or claiming to be multigender does not mean they’re automatically NOT a TERF. I’ve met a tiny few people IRL confused enough to be TERFy while actually being multigender, until they met other TERFs and realized OH they want me dead. NOT GOOD - and then did the work to understand and change their unkind behavior toward others like themself.
TERFs like most supremacist groups like to infiltrate the groups they hate as well, and do their best to destabilize and break up communities. They use the behavior you just noted. The goal is to get you to think and feel that the community is much more fragmented than it is.
Which you have seen. Hugs, you’re not alone in that. Their bullshit confuses even people with mega degrees and expertise in stopping cult formation - so emotional manipulation to convince you something is true when it’s not is effective no matter how smart you are or experienced.
You only really evade it when you ask your self EVERY SINGLE TIME you encounter something off (like the things you noted above)
‘WHO BENEFITS IF I BELIEVE THIS?
WHO IS HURT IF I BELIEVE THIS?
WHO BENEFITS IF I ACT ON THIS BELIEF?
WHO IS HURT IF I ACT ON THIS?’
Remember when doing this, don’t think of big groups. WOMEN or MEN are huge swaths of people not one of whom is a perfect representative of the whole group.
Think of the people you love. If I believe this, will mom be helped/hurt? will cousin Jeff be helped/hurt? will I be helped/hurt? will the infant in their pram i saw yesterday be able to get a job when they’re grown if i act on this?
Try to think through how the world would actually look if these ideas became mainstream. Good example - ‘conservatives’ voted for anybody who was against abortion for decades. now the US has one of the more dismal survival rates of pregnancy for any industrialized country. some of our states are as unliveable for women as a war zone in terms of safe pregnancies, safe births, and healthy babies. [THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH IS OVERSIMPLIFIED DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS AND THE ASSUMED BUSY_NESS OF OP WHO MAY HAVE NEITHER THE TIME NOR THE ENERGY TO READ ALL THE CORRECT SPECIFIC REFERENCES, IF YOU HAVE SAID LINKS TO FACTS NOT CONSPIRACY NONSENSE, PLEASE REBLOG WITH THEM! EDUCATION IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING] If you think about these things, it may help you to spot the difference between Friend and Enemy. Sorry you’re dealing with this.
why have us queer people as a community normalized terms like "boygirl" or "girlboy" or other things like that but not like. the actual experience of being multigender. i swear some people will be like "ahaha its so cool and swag to be a #girlboy #boygirl" then turn around and be like "MEN DNI THIS POST IS ABOUT WOMEN" "MEN CANT BE LESBIANS (because no man is ever a woman too)" etc etc like come on guys
#Random capitalization makes this post more accessible to some neurodivergent readers#Tips on how to identify propaganda & manipulation done for religious or political exploitation purposes#by someone whose dad taught them how to ID it because his job made it so he was trained how to do it and how to stop it's effects working#& he didn't want his kid to succumb to this shit#Mind your step loves#Proud of you all for keeping your eyes open and asking the real questions#Community works together
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