I'm bored. Let's have a baby.

A recent confrontation with the ass-talker has left me raging about people who seem to want to have kids just because it's the thing to do. They have kids because they believe that doing so will bring them a sense of fulfillment in their lives, and maybe, for some people, it really does, but I still think it's a terrible reason to breed.

Recently, generalizations about gender have really been irritating me. According to some of these generalizations, all women are dying to become mothers and all men are reluctant to become fathers. I am a woman, I am 26 years old, and I do not feel that my purpose here is to bring another human being into existence. If I did feel that way, I would simply reproduce, and then my offspring would reproduce, and their offspring would reproduce, and so on. What exactly would be the point of all of this reproduction? Is our society underpopulated? Certainly not. Some call it an evolutionary leftover, like craving sugar and fat. Others believe there is something sacred about carrying on the family name.

Maybe I just don't want kids because I'm selfish. I want to live my life for myself, but at least I can admit it. I think it's more selfish to bring a whole new person into the world because you think it will complete you. I'm not saying nobody should have kids, but there are a lot of people that probably shouldn't. If your goal is to nurture and protect your child and help them develop into a well-adjusted human being, then be my guest, go to it, but if you think having kids will satisfy the emptiness in your life, then no child deserves you as a parent.

Jacko Trial Goes Wacko

If it wasn't enough that the prosecution in the Michael Jackson case has spent weeks putting on over 50 witnesses, the week-long examination of the alleged victim's mother takes the cake. Aside from all the other scams she has tried to perpetrate, most of her testimony was unbelievable, to say the least.
Now, two of Jacko's own security guards lend credence to the claim that the young man was confined to Neverland, via a huge posted notice not to let him leave the grounds. These were off duty police officers whose credibility was good.
Every week this trial looks different, depending on who has testified last. I guess the trick will be for the prosecutors to find some believable witnesses to put on last...more will be revealed, as McCauly Culkin is expected to testify soon for the defense.

Anything but Ethical

It was over a year ago that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) handed out these flyers to children attending a performance of the Nutcracker. How can a group known for believing that the ends justify the means have the word “ethical” in their name? They are anything but, unless your concept of ethics includes practices such as terrorizing children with graphic images, taking the law into your own hands, disregarding the importance of human life and funding arsonists and terrorists.

Since handing out these flyers, PETA activists have also visited several Middle Schools dressed as a chicken or a fish, claiming that neither should be eaten because “fish are intelligent” and “eating chicken is unhealthy”. Who supports the medical claims made by PETA that meat and cheese are unhealthy? The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization with less than 5% of its members consisting of actual physicians. PETA, of course, funds PCRM, in fact, they are so connected that they are practically one in the same. How ethical is that?

I’m not saying that eating animal products is healthy or unhealthy (like 95% of PCRM, I am not a doctor), but I do think it’s wrong to say that eating meat is unhealthy just because the idea supports your cause. Recently, an article written by PCRM activists argued that giving milk to your kids as a source of calcium is unnecessary and urged other options, such as spinach. How many children do you know who are willing to eat eight cups of cooked spinach? One glass of milk contains the same amount of calcium. The article even alludes to the idea that milk is unhealthy, and PCRM’s website says it outright.

What bothers me most about PETA is that on the surface, they seem like a perfectly legitimate organization. If you visit their website, you will not see any evidence of their unethical practices or over the top justifications for criminal behavior. You will simply see an organization that cares deeply about animals, and even compromises with companies such as Petco and Burger King. It scares me to think about the amount of people who donate money to PETA without digging below the surface, simply because they want to help animals. Making donations to support a cause is a great way to get involved. However, as John will often remind us, people are stupid. They usually have no idea what kind of group they are funding, or what their money is going to be used for.

Dr. Jerry Vlasak, PCRM’s spokesperson, is known to have openly endorsed the murder of doctors who rely on animal research. How are animal rights activists supposed to convince us of the importance of the lives of animals when they don’t even have respect for human life? It’s so hypocritical. If you are against the cruelty and suffering of animals, your scope should include human beings. We are, after all, living creatures too.


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Planned Parenthood Protestors

A few weeks ago, I saw protestors in front of the Planned Parenthood clinic in West Allis. It has always dumbfounded me to see anti-abortion lunatics in front of a building that doesn’t even perform abortions. In fact, out of the 31 Planned Parent facilities in Wisconsin, only two offer abortion services, and neither one of them is in West Allis. What are these people thinking? Most anti-abortion nuts think that the other services provided by Planned Parenthood are also immoral, such as birth control.

We have about 460,000 people in Wisconsin living in poverty. It seems perfectly logical to me that if people can barely afford to feed themselves, they should not have children, and options such as birth control help make that decision a possibility. Even if the fundamentalist anti-abortion wackos are right in their thinking, and I’m going to hell for my use of birth control, I really wouldn’t mind. If I had a baby every time I had sex and ended up with a houseful of kids that I couldn’t possibly handle, that would be worse than any hell I can imagine.

Our society is already full of parents who don't know what the hell to do with their kids. A lot of people don’t realize that being able to reproduce physically does not mean that they are capable of raising children, and if people who aren’t ready to have children get pregnant by mistake, I’d much rather see them have the freedom to choose abortion then to join the ever-growing society of apathetic parents, or worse yet, abusive parents.

One of the protestors in front of Planned Parenthood was holding a sign that said, “I regret my abortion”. I found this detail particularly interesting. Would it help preserve our right to choose if others who have had an abortion could stand outside with a sign reading “I don’t regret my abortion”, or if everyone who has had a child that they aren’t capable of raising held a sign reading “I wish I’d had an abortion”? Probably not. Mostly, it would just be in bad taste. Personally, I am glad to live in a country that allows me the possibility of regretting my decisions, because it means that I am a free person. The decisions I will regret are mine to make, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

As you may have guessed, I have chosen social movements/societal issues as the area that I would like to criticize. I plan to return to the topic of abortion regularly.

"Reverse-discrimination"

I was watching the news last night and one of the anchors referred to the Arthur Jones lawsuit as a case of "reverse-discrimination". It really bothers me that the media uses this term. There is no such thing as "reverse-discrimination". To discriminate is to discriminate, no matter how it is done or who is involved. The term itself is discriminatory because it suggests that the normal, forward way to discriminate is for whites to discriminate against blacks. I hereby banish the term.

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