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dev_chieftain) wrote2012-03-26 01:26 pm
dev_chieftain) wrote2012-03-26 01:26 pm
This is apropos of nothing enough to need its own post.
I have been thinking about babies because I have a coworker who often relates stories about hers and I have come to an inescapable conclusion. The only reason I want to have babies biologically is to further a narcissistic sense of ownership. "The family line". I want babies for like, Picard mourning his lost family in Star Trek: Generations reasons. Not for any other reasons. (And notably, not even for those reasons when I am experiencing near-breakdown emotional vulnerability over an existential crisis about mortality and the nature of life as suffering.)
Otherwise, I can't think of a single good reason not to adopt. It is entirely because part of me does take pride in my genetic make-up-- this translates simply to the fact that I think I'm hawt, and anyone who doesn't agree is sorely lacking in taste--that I even consider ever allowing myself to become pregnant. Why else than to vainly proclaim to the world that my genetic code is awesome would I bring a child into this world? There are plenty of children already around to adopt.
To this end, I sort of expect my younger brother to get married and have kids so I don't have to. Like, seriously. I might be as invested in his romantic endeavors as I am partially because I have decided (for no good reason) that it's his responsibility to make babies which I can dote on from the safe position of "aunt".
I think this potentially makes me extremely weird. Not because I don't want babies of my own, just because I have such weird reasons for wanting them, and for expecting my brother to procure them to ensure the continuation of the family line. Back to work now.
Edit: Now topical! I have now heard of October Baby, which blessedly has low critical ratings, though not for any particularly straightforward reason. The long and short is, this is an indie propaganda Catholic pro-life movie about an 'abortion survivor' who gets upset that her mom didn't want her, goes to find said mom, and then through Catholic counsel comes to forgive her mother for being so danged awful.
I sort of hope this movie will not make back its budget; it's 3/4 of the way there on just its opening weekend, however, which alarms and depresses me. I think every mother should be willing to have her child. (Allow me to explain: this means that no woman should be forced to become a mother if she is unwilling. It does NOT mean that every woman should be ready to pop out babies.) An unwanted child is treated to a pretty sour experience, and there are plenty of kids up for adoption who need homes. Why not help those kids first, instead of trying to prevent women from having the choice to live their lives however they want?
The thing that annoys me most about all of this is that Judao-Christianity contains the tenet "live and let live". It is not "living and letting live" to refuse to acknowledge other ways of life as valid and acceptable for the people who choose to live those ways. You don't have to approve. You don't have to do anything except agree NOT to harm or ostracize people simply because of differing beliefs. Blargh.
I do think it's a lovely testament to how unknown this film currently is that multiple articles listed The Hunger Games as the only new movie to come out this last weekend. Go The Hunger Games. I'm more and more tempted to watch you all the time.
Otherwise, I can't think of a single good reason not to adopt. It is entirely because part of me does take pride in my genetic make-up-- this translates simply to the fact that I think I'm hawt, and anyone who doesn't agree is sorely lacking in taste--that I even consider ever allowing myself to become pregnant. Why else than to vainly proclaim to the world that my genetic code is awesome would I bring a child into this world? There are plenty of children already around to adopt.
To this end, I sort of expect my younger brother to get married and have kids so I don't have to. Like, seriously. I might be as invested in his romantic endeavors as I am partially because I have decided (for no good reason) that it's his responsibility to make babies which I can dote on from the safe position of "aunt".
I think this potentially makes me extremely weird. Not because I don't want babies of my own, just because I have such weird reasons for wanting them, and for expecting my brother to procure them to ensure the continuation of the family line. Back to work now.
Edit: Now topical! I have now heard of October Baby, which blessedly has low critical ratings, though not for any particularly straightforward reason. The long and short is, this is an indie propaganda Catholic pro-life movie about an 'abortion survivor' who gets upset that her mom didn't want her, goes to find said mom, and then through Catholic counsel comes to forgive her mother for being so danged awful.
I sort of hope this movie will not make back its budget; it's 3/4 of the way there on just its opening weekend, however, which alarms and depresses me. I think every mother should be willing to have her child. (Allow me to explain: this means that no woman should be forced to become a mother if she is unwilling. It does NOT mean that every woman should be ready to pop out babies.) An unwanted child is treated to a pretty sour experience, and there are plenty of kids up for adoption who need homes. Why not help those kids first, instead of trying to prevent women from having the choice to live their lives however they want?
The thing that annoys me most about all of this is that Judao-Christianity contains the tenet "live and let live". It is not "living and letting live" to refuse to acknowledge other ways of life as valid and acceptable for the people who choose to live those ways. You don't have to approve. You don't have to do anything except agree NOT to harm or ostracize people simply because of differing beliefs. Blargh.
I do think it's a lovely testament to how unknown this film currently is that multiple articles listed The Hunger Games as the only new movie to come out this last weekend. Go The Hunger Games. I'm more and more tempted to watch you all the time.