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"I'm very afraid that my child won't like me. I'm afraid he'll reject me. I'm afraid he'll grow up and look at me with indifference.

That he'll be born with some kind of disability and my life will become this, taking care of him in a world totally unprepared.

I'm afraid of losing myself, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep anymore, I'm afraid of taking a shower and always hearing a child screaming on the other side.

I'm terrified of the changes in my body too, of people no longer desiring me, of losing my libido.

I'm afraid he'll be a jerk. Everyone thinks they're going to raise the next Angela Davis, the next Paul Preciado, but…

Okay, what if he's a bore that nobody wants around?

I'm very afraid he won't like animals, I'm afraid he'll be cruel, I'm afraid that he'll be incapable of love, that he'll become a murderer, I don't know, a psychopath.

I'm very afraid of murderers getting close to him, of him suffering some kind of harassment, of him suffering humiliation, of him feeling bad about the world and being rejected.

I'm afraid he'll become a statistic. That I'll separate from Arthur and Arthur will date someone, and I'll start dating someone. Who will that person be?

I'm also afraid of trusting the wrong person, of not being there to help him.

I'm afraid of making a decision and regretting it. I'm afraid that one day I'll have a baby in my arms and I'll think: 'What have I done with my life?'

And I'll feel angry at my child for it. I'm very afraid of looking in the mirror and not recognizing myself."

but we get to watch supporters from both France and Senegal dance to this song in the stadium:

"In one sociological study conducted in the early 1970s, researchers surveyed the sexual attitudes of 250 young students and workers between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four.

Young Hungarians read eight stories about sexual practices that were considered common in their country and then ranked them based on whether they liked or disliked the protagonists. (…)

Particularly fascinating, in relation to sexual economics theory, are the reasons given for the resounding disapproval of the prostitute character.

The respondents believed that the prostitute had no legitimate reasons to sell her affections since the socialist state met her basic needs.

They also worried that “emotionless sex” would be bad for her personal development.

Interestingly, the male and female students were more sympathetic to the gay man, and the female students actually ranked the “womanizer” below the gay man, suggesting that their distaste for promiscuity (for both men and women) was greater than their early-1970s homophobia. (…)

In the same survey, researchers asked respondents in Hungary and the United States: “If a woman wants to have a child as a single parent but she doesn’t want to have a stable relationship with a man, do you approve or disapprove?”

Only 8 percent of the Hungarians said they “disapproved,” compared to 56 percent of Americans, demonstrating a much more liberal attitude toward single mothers and women’s independence in the state socialist country.

Furthermore, whereas 63 percent of Americans reported that prostitution is “never justifiable,” a full 80 percent of the Hungarians surveyed said the same.

An even bigger gap appears when the data for this question are disaggregated by gender: only 55 percent of American men claimed that prostitution was “never justifiable,” compared to 76 percent of Hungarian men.

I do love it when high emotions lead to iconic commenting

Romelu Lukaku came in as a sub when Belgium was losing 1-0 and he scored literally 23 seconds later, when he first touched the ball

the Belgian commentators went: "Saint Romelu! Saint Romelu, priez pour nous!" (Saint Romelu, pray for us!)

and I thought yep, he was known as Big Rom until now, but today he is reborn as Saint Romelu, this will enter Belgian lore

don't!

happy for him but my god the team is so mid

"If West German girlfriends and wives were unhappy with the sexual performance of their male partners, they had few options open to them.

Because women relied on men to support them financially, at best they could gently try to nudge their partners into being more attentive to their needs.

In the East, men who desired sexual relations with women could not rely on money to buy them access, and had incentives to improve their behavior.

Sharp explains: “Divorce in the GDR was relatively simple and had few financial or social consequences for either partner. Both marriage and divorce rates were far higher than in the West.

The SED argued that these figures reflected a beneficial desire for marriages based on love; stale, unsatisfying relationships could be readily dissolved and productive ones easily begun.

The fact that women instigated the majority of divorce proceedings was heralded as a sign of their emancipation.