A short, sad post.

What is wrong with this world? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I truly fear for my daughter's future.

Casper Idol (Taken from RadioWyoming's channel)

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No, they do not need their kids taken away.

I really, really dislike people who throw around the phrase "they should have their kids taken away." The only people who need their kids taken away by authorities are abusers and neglectors. Why bring this up? The holier-than-thou, judgmental twit who in the comments on this article said that these parents should have their little ones taken away because THEY WERE AT A LATE MOVIE. *Gasp!* She also calls them "unwed breeders." Wow. What a nice, caring human being. I'm sure she's PERFECT and has NEVER made a wrong decision that affects HER kids. Yeah, right. I agree with this article. These parents need compassion, not judgment.

Does anyone else think this?

I just wonder if I am a horrible person if every time a woman identifies herself as a “sex-positive feminist” I think “easy-peasy lemon-squeezy.”

Foul Language

If there is anyone reading this blog who hasn't read my old posts...here is a warning now. I was young when I wrote them, and angry. I started this blog in 2008, but I copied my blog posts from my MySpace account, so some of the posts I wrote as early as 2006. There is some coarse language and crude humor. If you are offended by either one of these things, my earliest posts might not be for you. Try my tumblr. It's fluffy. It's not really a blog, but I use it for visual and spiritual inspiration.

Women, don't be gross!

To the oversharing facebook acquaintance: Do you really, honestly believe that all 200+ of your facebook friends want to hear about your period? I'm a woman myself and I don't particularly want to hear about other women's periods. A discreet conversation with a close friend is one thing, perhaps a quiet chat about after-pregnancy symptoms or something similar, but do your high school friends, your one night stands, the guy who is only on your friends list because you had one class with him in college, do those people really need to hear about you being "on the rag?" REALLY? Learn some manners, have some class, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!

Babies Don't Keep

Mother, O’ Mother, come shake out your cloth, Empty the dustpan, poison the moth. Hang out the washing, make up the bed, Sew on a button and butter the bread. Where is the mother whose house is so shocking? She’s up in the nursery, blissfully rocking. Oh, I’ve grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue, Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo. Dishes are waiting and bills are past due, Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek - peekaboo. The shopping’s not done and there’s nothing for stew, And out in the yard there’s a hullabaloo. But I’m playing Kanga and this is my Roo. Look! Aren’t his eyes the most wonderful hue? Lullaby, rockaby, lullaby loo. The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow, But children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow. So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep! I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep. ~ Ruth Hulbert Hamilton

Femininity

It's OK to be feminine… I am sick of the ultra-feminists who want to remove everything sparkly or feminine from toy shelves because it is “harmful” for little girls. As a girl I loved outfits, sparkles, flowers, bows, singing, dancing, dolls, dress-up and fairy tales. I remember constantly being ridiculed for it by the “sporty” girls, P.E. teachers, and occasionally my own friends and family. Empowering little girls is not just about letting them play sports or do science experiments. It is about letting them be who they are and do what they like no matter what…barring anything illegal or immoral of course.

Why?

Why do people associate women’s equality with the supposed “right” of a woman to kill her baby when she doesn’t want it? What about the man? What about the poor baby? A woman’s right should never trump that of another human being, no matter how small….

Ultrasounds are NOT creepy!

22nd Jun 2012 Yes! The people who think ultrasound pictures are "creepy" have no understanding of the beauty of motherhood. I have one of my daughter's early ultrasound pictures framed:-)

Some thoughts on adoption

I just want to say that I am fully supportive of adoption. I am pro-life and believe that even if two parents have no use for their precious biological baby, someone else will love them. If I find out I can't have any more kids on my own, you can bet I will try and adopt! I have several friends who are either adoptees or who, when they were very young, gave a baby up for adoption to another family. However, I do think that in some cases unethical adoptions take place…for instance when one parent’s rights (usually the father) are denied, or living relatives who may want to raise the child aren’t taken into consideration, or when the biological parents are very young, social workers, agencies, and their own families coerce them into giving up a baby that they very much wanted to raise. I think adoption can be a beautiful, wonderful thing for all parties involved…as long as it is done ethically and no one’s rights are trampled on in the process.

Enabling is wrong.

26th Jun 2012 | 1 note Hateful brat attacks 3 year old with scissors and chops off her hair, judge says he will reduce her sentence if her mother cuts off her hair, mother whines that punishment was too harsh. Not to mention, this 13 year old had previously been in trouble with the law for threatening to rape and mutilate another girl. Classy. When I was a kid I would have been pushing the little one on the swings or helping her throw a ball. My daughter is 1 now, if a teen did this to her I would have a few harsh words to say to her mother, and if MY kid ever did this (and in my family we teach right from wrong) you can bet there’d be some haircutting. She’d be in a crew cut AND serving the maximum time! The mother is complaining that "an eye for an eye doesn't teach kids right from wrong." Well lady, it looks like YOUR methods aren't exactly working!

Restitution cut for North Carolina eugenics program victims. Governments should not have a right to decide who should and should not be having children. Sure, some people aren’t good parents, but just because they are “poor” or “uneducated” or whatever labels they want to put on people, doesn’t mean they will be bad parents.

German court rules religious circumcision a crime

28th Jun 2012 German court rules religious circumcision a crime While I don’t think it is completely necessary, parents should have a right to circumcise their child if it is their religious tradition. More government overstepping boundaries and trying to parent everyone.

A vomit-inducing story

29th Jun 2012 | 1 note Parents like this make me sick.

Yourself

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." --E.E. Cummings

Happy 4th

I still love this place, even if it isn’t the place I grew up in. I will love the U.S.A. until I feel that there is no love left for me here.

Pro-Life, Pro-Woman, Anti-Abortion message from Ireland...Beautiful

Get educated! Web Sites about abortion.

Silent Scream

This web site shows an abortion from an ultrasound point of view. Not for children. Also has other resources.


Abortion Instruments


This web site is VERY graphic. Shows a video of abortion procedures and pictures of aborted babies along with pictures of abortion instruments and descriptions of how they are used. This web site is NOT for children, and I wouldn't recommend this one to the faint of heart.

I posted these links for educational purposes only, not for shock value.

I am an anti-feminist because...

1. I'm actually quite fond of my father, husband, grandfathers, male cousins, and male friends.

2. I do not believe that American women are at all oppressed! You want to see oppression? Visit Afghanistan. You are not "being oppressed" because you are expected to dress appropriately at work.

3. I am against no-fault divorce. There should be a damn good reason for breaking your vows. No, the need to go out and "find yourself" is not a good reason.

4. I enjoy the traditional roles that my husband and I have in our family. He works, I work part time and spend most of my time taking care of our home and our child. He consults me about household decisions, but the final say is his. My daughter and I are well taken care of, and we love and appreciate our "patriarch."

5. I do not believe in abortion. Every life has value, no matter how they came to be, who their birth parents are, or what disability they have. For those of you who blather about it being a`"woman's right" to choose, what about the man? What about the BABY? What could such a tiny innocent being do to deserve such a fate?

6. I do not believe in the notion that marriage and motherhood oppress women. I am a homemaker and I love it!

7. I believe that mothers and fathers have equally important roles in a child's life. Without one or the other, you can tell that something is missing in a child's life. I've been around enough children to know this!

8. I believe that men and women are equally important but made differently. There are always exceptions, but women and men typically bring different gifts to a relationship.

9. I believe that men and women were made to complement each other. The current "battle of the sexes" society makes me sad. Why battle one another when we fit together so well?

10. I do not believe that every man has a desire to rape women! Men are not all dangerous. Most are just regular guys. Husbands, fathers, friends...there is no reason to be suspicious of each and every one.


Men and women should be considered equally important in society, but it has been proven time and time again that we are very different. I strongly believe that God made us that way for a reason, and feminism has made millions of women very unsatisfied with their lives by spouting their propaganda and insisting that the opposite is true.

Men: Not all women want to dominate you and take you for all you've got.

Women: Do yourselves a favor and stop listening to feminist propaganda. You will be a much happier person.

Lactation

For all you lactaphobes out there, I just want to say that there is nothing wrong with breastfeeding! It is not "gross" or "creepy" or "incestuous" or "backwards." No disrespect to formula-feeding moms (my own mother included!) I'm sure you had your own personal reasons for the way you fed/are feeding your baby. I'm just sick of reading articles by whining women talking about how they didn't breastfeed because they wanted their "fun bags" back, or being pestered for "inconveniently" having to slip away to nurse my baby, or reading a "study" done by a biased news site about how breastfeeding feels "oppressive" to women, or listening to women who don't have children pretend to gag when they see a mother nursing her baby under a shawl. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that breastfeeding is what is best for baby, and guess what? It's natural, normal, inexpensive, and helps get baby to sleep at night! I know that some women have trouble breastfeeding, and I am not dissing those moms at all. Whether you are a nursing mother or an Enfamil mother, your choices for your child's early nutrition should be your own, and not something that others should feel free to comment on! I chose nursing because it came naturally to me, and my husband and I made the decision early on that I would cut the hours I worked in order to look after our house and growing family, so it was convenient for me to nurse and pump one bottle a day for the time I would be away. We've also saved several hundred dollars in the past 9 months by not having to buy baby formula! What could possibly be wrong with that? I don't feel inconvenienced or oppressed, and (yay!) nursing helped me lose all the pregnancy weight.
Anyway, I'm off my soapbox for the day. Baby is napping, husband went to get his hair cut, and I'm going to use this opportunity to take a shower!

I am disgusted and appalled

The other day I read something online that made me absolutely sick. A woman in Massachusetts who suffered from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia was told in court that she would be forced to abort her 5 month old unborn baby and undergo a forced sterilization! In AMERICA! The country that was once free...

Luckily, a higher court ruled that a judge could not force anyone to do that. Thank God! This young woman and child need help, not harm for the woman and a bloody end for the child!
Where are the so-called pro-choice people on this issue? Why aren't they making a fuss about this? Forced abortion and sterilization is not "choice," it is control. It is government control over reproduction and the lives of children. This poor woman is also a Catholic, so her religious freedom was also being violated. Practicing Catholics are strictly pro-life. The judge, (who should be disbarred) said that her beliefs likely stemmed from her mental problems. WHAT? Never mind that her first psychotic break came after an abortion she'd had previously, which if you look at statistics, isn't uncommon!

Here is the link to the article:


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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/court-ordered-abortion-sterilization-of-catholic-woman-in-mass.-overturned


And here is the transcript of the vomit-inducing conversation I had on facebook after posting the link there:


Me: This is horrible! I can't believe things like this are happening in our once free country! I'm glad this was overturned!

Old Acquaintance: Yeah, nothing better than allowing a nutcase to breed . . . also, our country is far from free.

Me: I said "once free." And no one should be able to force someone else to have their baby ripped from them if it is against their beliefs.

Old Acquaintance: I disagree -- there are far too many people in this country reproducing that really shouldn't be. No where in the Constitution or Bill of Rights does it state that you have a right to just spit out kids regardless of your lack of ability to raise them. Her beliefs could very well stem from her delusional disorder, which is certainly a huge problem with her having a child. I almost even agree with the forced sterilization. This woman has a disorder that she needs to be responsible about and yes, it does come with many sacrifices -- including, not having children. The only issue I have with controlling reproduction is the fact that it would likely be controlled by the government and they're a bunch of worthless fucks as it is.

Me: The National Socialists forced sterilizations and abortions on "undesirables." Then they moved on to the ones that had already been born. Is that what kind of society you want to live in? This woman was also off her medication. When she has her baby (which by the way at 5 months has a good chance at survival outside the womb with medical care) she will go back on her medication and her situation can be reevaluated. This young woman and child need help, not harm. (This response was liked by a friend who is a single mother)

Old Acquaintance: I'm aware that the implications of it being actually put into mass effect are no good, which is why I don't advocate it on that scale. Our society and government has its own ways of weeding out the undesirables and fucking us over -- that's a fact of life no matter where you go. Let's go ahead and be idealistic, and pretend that fair actually happens, instead of looking at the facts. This woman has a very serious mental disorder and the prognosis for her ability to raise her child is very poor. Should that, in fact, turn out to be the case -- the child then becomes the problem of the state -- a problem for the taxpayers; the mother may even fall into that same boat, if she isn't already. Every life is precious; which is why you should not bring one into the world if you are not capable of caring for it. I know this sounds harsh, but reality is harsh.

Me: One more thing. What about all the people who are adopted who have wonderful lives despite how inept their birth parents may have been? With that, I think we will have to just agree to disagree. My mind is made up, and I think yours is too.

My Best Friend: So I was adopted. My mother was too young to have me and she could have easily gotten rid of me by abortion! She choose to give me to a family that couldn't have children. I wouldn't be here if she had chosen to kill me! Abortion is wrong!!! It is a living, breathing person in the mother's womb! It is murder no matter how you look at it! No one should ever force an abortion. I am appalled!

After this, the acquaintance had no more to say, and my friend and I began talking about our children's ultrasounds, and how alive they were at just 8 weeks, 12 weeks, etc. with their little heartbeats, actions, and responses. Which was a nice change from the start of that Facebook conversation!


I get really angry with people who think of new lives, children, as just burdens on women, society, and the environment. I just can't believe that people with the acquaintance's opinion about human life still exist in today's world. With all the "everyone has value" messages and all the scientific evidence that life begins in the womb, how on Earth can someone basically say that the life of a child with a mentally unstable birth mother has no value? How many young, unstable women have given birth to perfectly normal babies and given them to childless couples who love them, nurture them, and give them a good life? How many people who grow up with an unstable parent still have much to offer the world? What I really don't understand is how this person can constantly argue for "tolerance," and "acceptance" of people with differences, such as gays, bisexuals, and transgenders, but insist that people with other mental differences should be sterilized? And furthermore, as someone with no children, who doesn't really seem to desire to have children, why does she think she is the expert on who should be reproducing? If she doesn't want children, I think that it is her right to use birth control to prevent becoming pregnant, but it is no one's right, especially not the government's, to prevent people who want babies from having them, or order them to kill the babies they are already carrying!

Ugh....Beyonce!

I am seriously sick of celebrities demanding special treatment. If you are an American, you've probably been bombarded with news stories talking about Beyonce and Jay-Z's new bundle of joy. Congratulations to them, I'm sure they love their little girl. Being a new parent is an amazing, indescribable feeling. However, I was infuriated when reading several articles detailing the ridiculous demands that these two made, paying the hospital 1.3 million US dollars for special treatment that ruined the experience for several other new parents and put hospital security in jeopardy. They rented a whole floor (taking up rooms where other people could have gone), demanded that tape be put over security cameras (it's a good thing no one walked off with any newborns!), and also demanded that hospital staff turn in their cell phones. Their bodyguards also prevented a new father from visiting his premature twins in the NICU because they wanted to use the hallway. Why didn't Beyonce just have her baby at home and hire a doctor or an army of midwives? She has the money, and it wouldn't have resulted in a hospital bending its rules, jeopardizing its security, and disregarding the needs of other patients. I don't care how rich or talented Beyonce is. Her baby is valuable, but no more so than any other! How dare she decide that her needs could trample those of other people! In a hospital, celebrities should be treated as patients and nothing more! I'm so glad that I don't live anywhere near where overrated celebrities live and deem themselves more important than anyone else. Beyonce, I was never a fan anyway but now I will definitely not be buying any of your merchandise. Ever. UGH!