Pro-Choice, Pro-Voice, Pro-Human

Hey friends! So as you may have noticed, we’ve gone on a bit of an answering spree - I think we’ve found that with our schedules the amount of asks we get is too much for the amount of mods we have right now. 

This means we want to open up mod applications again! 

Mod Application Form

*Please fill this form out and submit it to me. None of these forms will be posted and are for my eyes only.

Requirements:

Must be a feminist

Must have time to get on at least a few times a week

Must be able to admit when you’re wrong.

Must be ace inclusive

Must be abortion positive

Must be LGBTQIAAPN+ inclusive

Must be inclusive of PoC

No TERFs or REGs allowed

Must be able to not only answer asks but also reblog/create posts.

Some notes: this is a hard job and you’re going to be put under a magnifying glass. Something I love about FAM is that I’ve been able to be wrong, but also to own up to my mistakes. This is something you HAVE to be willing to do. To be gracious and understanding, and to listen to people.

Even if you don’t fill out the application, reblogs would be appreciated!

- Mod Bethany

Form under the cut.

I am thankful that she made the choice to become a parent later on after she met my father and her life was more stable, and chose to have me and my younger sisters. 

Or maybe you could throw some shade at the Russians for interfering with the elections so blatantly that over a dozen intelligence agencies raised the red flag on the 2016 election cycle.

Alternatively, you could throw some shade at the electoral college for not carrying out their Constitutional mandate of keeping madmen and demagogues out of the White House.

Still need more options?  Throw some shade at the media networks who used Trump’s insanity to boost their own ratings, and who suppressed coverage of the DNC’s corruption For Some Reason™.

Hell, let’s keep the train rolling: let’s throw some shade at the GOP who has consistently turned a blind eye to every form of villainy possible, from Trump and the Russians to a rogue’s gallery of pedophiles and sex offenders.  Turning a blind eye wasn’t enough?  Then how about the fact that they’ve actively obstructed every single investigation into the election?  Dwight Eisenhower is probably spinning so hard in his grave that he’s achieved some kind of quantum superstate.

As a teenager, you are growing and learning at a phenomenal pace. Month by month you are becoming savvier, wiser, more socially equipped. That rapid development continues into your 20s. So as a teenager, a big age gap is a REALLY big age gap, because you are learning and changing so much so quickly during that time. It’s not totally about “maturity” though - it’s about power. As you get older, younger people start to look up to you. They might trust you to know things you really don’t, because you’re older and you know how to say stuff convincingly. Getting older also means learning all the different ways people  pressure or manipulate each other. Most of us are still learning about this stuff into our 20s - even if we’re really smart and mature. Someone having a lot more of this knowledge than the person they’re dating means the power in the relationship is uneven, because the older person can pressure you in ways you can’t recognise or defend against.

And I’m sure teenagers have noticed that if you get into a conflict with an adult, other people take the adult’s word over yours. Even if you’re right. Even if you need help. So if you date an adult, that person has power over you that, even if they don’t try to use it, really does effect how the relationship works. There’s no way to have a healthy relationship with that big a power difference, because you can’t make choices the adult doesn’t like without worrying about what they’ll think or do. You’ll end up in situations you’re uncomfortable with and not have the tools or social power you need to get out of them.

The other piece is - adults who date teenagers are looking for something they can’t get in their usual dating pool. For most adults, dating a teenager wouldn’t even occur to them, because they understand how wrong it would be. Adults have our own groups of friends, our own ways to meet people our own age, and if an adult is flirting with kids they’re looking for something they can’t get from someone who’s old enough to catch on.

The adults who seek out teenagers want someone they can pressure and manipulate. They’re looking for an abusive relationship, and like all abusers they’re really sneaky about it at first - but they have the added advantage of knowing tricks you haven’t had time to learn yet, as well as the advantage of being listened to when you won’t be.

These are giving babies chemical burns!!!

don’t hatewatch the heathers remake

don’t hatewatch the heathers remake 

don’t hatewatch the heathers remake

let it die in complete quietness

I don’t want some anecdotal “I knew a girl in college who had nine abortions in two months and told my friend she had to abort” bullshit, I don’t wanna see some clearly not pro choice edge lord making crass abortion “jokes”, I want solid evidence that this rhetoric is even half as common in the pro choice community as you insist it is.