For sure. Even crappy computers cost over a thousand dollars at the time, and for most people their internet couldn’t handle loading so many images at once. Not unless they wanted their phone to be out of commission for hours as they browsed.

Yes, I am 40 and the longer this played, the older I felt—I’m trying to imagine explaining this to my nephew who was born that year—-I feel like I should have a covered wagon.

And if they did, they probably had a 28k modem attached to the one and only landline in the house. Which meant whenever they were online, the phone was busy.

Exactly, and some people would have been like “Oh, just in case the thing I want isn’t at the store I can go to browse for other stuff and see if it’s there? Nice” because we also didn’t have the variety of online stores to buy this stuff that we have now, though I can’t speak to exactly what things were like shopping…

Not to mention that even most people who had Internet access at home were still using dial up connections at that point, so pages with a lot of images on them took ages to load.

Make a giant clay penis together?

This seems like a really weird thing to say. This isn’t an example of a stereotype. This is an example of the actual behavior the stereotype is meant to describe. It’s not the stereotype that was harmful here, it was the actual behavior.

Man, its really creepy how most of the people commenting here appear to feel more sorry for this psychopath than the little baby she murdered. “Oh no, poor girl, she had no choice but to put the baby down, because otherwise she would have had to see another person in order to give her away, OH THE HORROR, POOR GIRL”.…

Listen commenters: When your first thought after reading a story about how a baby was asphyxiated in a bag are for the poor, struggling mother and not the baby who was horribly murdered, it is time to review your perspective. That is some seriously fucked up ideological blinkering going on.

This is boggling my mind too. More boxes for what? Her to put the corpse in? Because she didn’t just leave a baby somewhere after she gave birth. She straight up, cold-blooded murdered a baby. That’s not a matter of just having more places to drop off unwanted babies, that’s a matter of not murdering them.

I was genuinely surprised by the comments here. I assumed that Jezebel would, in general, be as horrified by the mother’s actions as I was. Even if this young woman didn’t know about the Safe Haven, she had options other than placing the newborn in a trashcan. If she was too afraid to go to a police station or church,…

Sure everyone who has no patience for an adult who suffocated a newborn, instead of doing just about anything else is a hate-filled monster. Why am I thinking that if a 20 year old frat boy killed the newborn a girl handed him everyone would act as if he should know better even if he had access to exactly the same…

Having an abortion is not the same thing as killing a newborn, you lunatic.

You get to control whether you will use your body to sustain life within it. You do NOT get to kill extrauterine people, no matter how recently.

Thank you! I don’t have it in me to have empathy for someone who likely had about nine months to figure out ANY alternative and just decided “nope, I’ll just murder this infant instead.”

What? No no no. Its wrong to kill people and a newborn is a PERSON. Is this the same Jezebel where earlier every one was RIGHTLY condemning a man who killed some women and also condemning the idea that mental illness was to blame for his actions? That condemnation goes for EVERYONE who chooses to murder another…

She’s a white woman. Nothing is her fault.

blame pretty much no woman ever for aborting or killing their newborn

I am pro choice all day long and I agree. On what planet is this ok? I don’t care if she was embarrassed or scared. She birthed a human and has a responsibility to at least get it to SOMEONE who can do something. Horrifically killing a NEWBORN is the solution when you don’t want your kid? Fuck that. No.

I threw my hands in the air at:

Did we sympathize with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold because they were teased as kids?