It's me. Wicked Wazlib.

Mais enfin, n'importe qui qui va un peu sur internet aujourd'hui se rend bien compte que oui, ça A explosé et c'est complètement décomplexé. Et pourquoi ? Une cause majeure qui devrait sauter aux yeux, c'est le porno en ligne, un fléau qui réveille le potentiel de prédation des hommes depuis à peu près 25 ans justement et qui s'est accéléré depuis le milieu des années 2010. Je ne dis pas qu'il n'y avait pas de pervers avant, mais on s'en créé toujours davantage quand on accepte que des garçons de 10 ou 11 ans à peine soient confrontés à des images de sexualité hyper-violentes, le plus souvent à l'égard des filles et des femmes. Et en plus, c'est volontaire de la part des adultes qui sont déjà pris là dedans et incurables, c'est une stratégie sciemment exécutée, ils RECRUTENT car ils savent très bien que plus ils sont nombreux, plus ils sont difficiles à combattre.

in my opinion its ok to still enjoy harry potter, but just keep in mind that she is not a good person and is actively harming trans women in the uk.

I really don't think that an author choosing to die on the hill of the legal definition of "woman" is really the bad person "gotcha" that you think it is

a political party saying "your proposed reform is too radical for me" is not violence.

to attempt to redefine harm and violence in this way IS doing harm to all public discourse and free speech itself

hey PinkNews let me fix ur title

I got these back to back on my facebook feed. Now, I haven't read the Atlantic article, and also it was written in 2020 and not as a response to this couple, but clearly the Atlantic is reposting it with an incendiary pull line to capitalize on this couple's story.

And the pull line is ridiculous on its own, regardless of what context I'm missing from the article. Down syndrome is not an inherited trait like red hair or brown eyes. It's chromosomal abnormality. Talking about it like there's some kind of movement trying to "wipe out" a group of people is so intellectually dishonest. Down syndrome is not an ethnic group, and one woman aborting is not a call to murder all living people with Down syndrome.

So, in Western countries people with Down syndrome have the best resources available than ever before, but it's the also the "worst time" because many people are simply not being born? Huh? They're just not being born, not experience worse things than before. People are trying to "eliminate" Down syndrome because of the individual choice to abort, but not, uh, the collective choice to give those who are born with it the best possible life they can? Life expectancy going up does not change the face that you might have to bury your child before they're 40 or 30 or 20. School is not necessarily affordable, and school existing does not mean your child will be capable of it. A child in and out of the hospital getting heart stints is not the preferable way to live for a child or a parent. Can both choices not be from a place of love?

This argument makes no sense unless every Down syndrome child must be born. And so then why shouldn't every child be born? There's just no way around it, if you argue this way, you must ultimately think there is no reason "good enough" for abortion.

and who, I suppose, are not the ordinary people, that presumably had the power before? this is a rhetorical trick, you see. ordinary people aren't to be trusted. ordinary people do not deserve power. there are extraordinary people who can be trusted. ordinary people make decisions based on emotion, fear, from a lack of education. You're expected to nod your head like "of course. not me but I know the people you're talking about. the ones we all know who can't be trusted." Perhaps ordinary people do get some say on what life is "worth" bringing into the world. Perhaps the most ordinary person in the world, a woman, is actually precisely the most capable person to know the value of human life, and the cost of pregnancy and birth.

Anyways, my best job was as a CNA in a residential facility for intellectually disabled women. I loved it. I truly cared for them and enjoyed the work. Many of them had Down’s Syndrome and similar or related disorders.

All I can say is that the people making these kinds or arguments know nothing about disability, Down’s Syndrome, caretaking, motherhood, or women’s health. And they actually don’t really care about any of that stuff. They just fundamentally believe that women and mothers deserve to be punished, as well as that women have a duty to be pure moral angels — particularly when their lofty morals lead to decreased personal autonomy. Woman proves herself a worthy human being by giving up her autonomy and sacrificing herself for a greater good. Any action she takes that increases autonomy and “evades punishment” is default morally suspect and impure.

I feel very strongly we should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain, and we should question ourselves most when we receive a rush of adrenaline by doing or saying something. Many people mistake that rush of adrenaline for the voice of conscience ... in my world view, conscience speaks in a small and inconvenient voice and it's normally saying ... "Think again."