Nothing is better than motherhood

Let me explain. You know worms right? Like, actual earth worms that live in the ground. 

These little fellas.

I have no strong feelings about them one way or another. They’re kind of weird looking and some of the things they do are objectively pretty gross, but seeing one doesn’t like, ruin my day. If i was still in school and walked into my biology class to find this

hanging on the wall, I would be 100% capable of looking at the diagram and taking in the information without having any type of averse reaction. Nor any type of positive reaction. I feel extremely neutral about earth worms is what I’m trying to say. 

Now imagine if other people didn’t feel so neutral about earth worms. In fact, just under half the population really likes them. And they’re not just especially interested in educational diagrams about worms; they fucking eat them. They think eating a raw worm just pulled straight out of the ground is one of the most enjoyable experiences imaginable.

You’d think the other half of the population understands, because they don’t want to eat worms. But they’re even worse because they fucking love feeding people worms. They love it even more than everyone else loves eating them. And they fucking run society and spread their pro worm-eating propaganda everywhere. Whenever you pirate a TV show you end up on a site that has several images like this

sitting right next to whatever you’re watching. Whenever you try to talk to people on the internet people bombard you with pictures of worms they have prepared for you to eat, worms which they fully expect you to find appetising. Maybe one or two people even tried forcing worms into your mouth, because they were convinced you’d love them once you tried them. Do you think you’d still feel the same about seeing worms in a world like that? Even in a neutral environment, do you think you’d ever be able to look at a worm again without thinking about how you’re expected to want to eat them, without recalling people’s unsolicited graphic descriptions about how they love nothing more than to feeling of worms wiggling down their throats as they’re eating them? And do you think you’d feel any more comfortable if people started telling you about different kinds of worms, ones that technically aren’t earth worms, ones that have a much more appetising texture that shouldn’t even be compared to earth worms. Wouldn’t that still disgust you, and wouldn’t it be fucking weird if people responded to that by getting offended that you were still insistent on not wanting to eat any fucking worms? 

I realise this is a weird post but I watched a contrapoints video about “mouthfeel” and I needed to say… something.

2019-09-21