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#my childhood hero who never disappointed me

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I have a friend who dislikes her children.

That’s probably unfair, I’m sure she loves them very much, but there is real resentment there. Whether or not she wanted to be a mother is unclear, but her unhappiness sure is. Children are difficult, and if you’re not 100% prepared and enthusiastic about that it is going to be a terrible time for you.

I don’t think she is a bad person. She is frequently overwhelmed by both her family and the stream of idealized social media that makes it sound like everyone else is having a ball. So she goes on Facebook to talk about how miserable she is, how she misses her old life that all her friends seem to still have. It’s probably the only thing keeping her sane, along with her husband who actually loves kids.

This isn’t to shame anyone, but seeing her posts really cements in my mind how I would probably be in the same boat, and how glad I am that I made the decision not to put myself in this position. I would never want to bring another human into this world with the knowledge that they might make me miserable, and that I would likely make them miserable in turn, whether or not I meant to. No innocent child deserves that.

So many people still cling to a mythologized Feminine Instinct that states my uterus gives me more empathy, gives me more patience, gives me a duty that I can’t reject. They say that choosing to be childless is more selfish than having a child that you are unable to care for, that you will dislike. If those people saw the pain of those unsuited for motherhood I hope they would change their minds, but they never will.

#feminism #motherhood

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#cats

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#cats

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i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

#personal #journal #studio ghibli #ponyo

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#death note #and that vampire one that was all the rage? with 2 protagonists a black haired one and a white haired one. and a school

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Oppression is obviously more important than children's lives

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going absolutely feral over this collection of items that washed up on Cornish beaches Lego Lost At Sea on twitter

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The ongoing student protests over Israel and Palestine have become the center of a national controversy, with members of Congress calling for National Guard deployments and terrorism financing investigations against the protesters. But a few years ago, the federal government was interested in a very different sort of campus controversy: whether right-wing journalist Ben Shapiro should be allowed to speak. In October 2017, the FBI prepared a "tactical intelligence report" on Shapiro's upcoming speaker event at the University of California, Los Angeles. The bulletin was released last week in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for FBI documents on the Black Lives Matter movement, and posted to the public records platform MuckRock by journalist Jordan Lassiter. It's unclear what FBI agents actually dug up. A cover page says that the memo "is based on FBI, DOJ [Department of Justice] and other law enforcement databases, as well as open source research conducted from 26 October 2017 to 27 September 2017." However, the FBI redacted most of the content before releasing it. [...] The danger of campus protests may have been brought to the feds' attention by local police. On September 6, 2017, a detective from the Berkeley Police Department requested two analysts from the North Carolina Regional Intelligence Center, a "fusion center" set up by the Department of Homeland Security, to help set up a 24/7 command center during the upcoming protests. "We have on-going demonstrations with ANTIFA/Black Bloc people, which have repeatedly shown a propensity of violence. We are expecting large scale, violent demonstrations" against speeches by Shapiro and the right-wing pundit Milo Yiannopoulos, said the memo, which Reason obtained from BlueLeaks, a trove of leaked fusion center documents.

The FBI Was Monitoring Student Protests Against Ben Shapiro

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yesterday, a group of zionist pro-israel protesters in tandem with the proud boys and christian nationalists like sean feucht, brandishing israeli, american, and lehi flags, a zionist terrorist organization that carried out massacres in palestine, as well as swastikas, tried to climb over columbia's campus gates while yelling things like "go back to gaza," "kill all palestinians" at students, unimpeded by police until they were almost over. yet this isn't receiving widespread coverage

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(by peri________neko)

#cats

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Tokyo Flowers by Ola Rindal

#nature #ph

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“my legally protected gender” must be nice. i wish women had like, legally protected humanity

#posts that changed my life #feminism

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If you’re in DC, stop by the GWU University Yard and show them some love. The encamped students are remaining under threat of suspension

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didiseaon swan jewelry trinket box

#art

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This is literally the core of what our fight for liberation means

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