The lifes of Mary and Anne, The Stranger

Love how all the POC look 1000% done with this shit.

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One thing that is bothering me a little bit. I realize that to the Shameless writers, Debbie is now just a “teenage mother” and that as far as they’re concerned, that marks the end of any other hopes or dreams or ambitions that she might have had. But the thing is that it seems from the way some people have been talking about it, that they agree with that. They kind of agree that a teenage girl being pregnant is the absolute end of her as a person with plans besides being stuck with a kid and trying to get a man. But that’s not true. My sister got pregnant when she was 16. She gave birth exactly one month after her 17th birthday. Yeah, it was not ideal. She struggled a lot. But she never gave up on all the other stuff she wanted to do. Some of it was delayed a bit by having to raise a child, but with the support of her family she did it. She’s 24 now, and she’s almost finished with her degree in public health. I get that Shameless will not be portraying Debbie’s story this way, as they’ve already implied that they can’t even conceive of the idea that a teenager could wind up pregnant but still have academic ambitions and plans. I just kind of need people to not agree with them about this.

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