That was honestly very hard to read. Are you replying to me? Because I am familiar with the helms amendment (you seem to think it’s bad, I think it’s bad—we agree?) as for “there are many countries in which the women do not wish to have so many children but are denied access to family planning” Yes? The U.S. is one of…

Well, but I think it’s pretty clear in the context, that I am talking about a very specific rhetoric. I’m not, and would never say “overpopulation is impossible and has never happened in other species or even in humans on smaller, local scales”

I’m talking about “everyone on the planet needs to have less children,…

Man and here I can’t imagine why I bothered approaching you like a reasonable person, especially after your first reply to me. That’s not sarcastic—I have no idea why, because it’s pretty clear you couldn’t reason your way out of a paper bag.

Good lord, I didn’t realize your ego was so fragile. I actually said that it was a racist myth that led to harmful policies and practices, all while I deliberately refrained from calling you names. I did call your tone flippant and accused you of being blinded by your own self-importance, which I stand by.

Congratulatio…

man please be more flippant, it makes me feel like you’re really smart and cool. nobody is saying “the earth can support an infinite number of people”—the point is, and I linked you to an entire organization that is dedicated to this, if you wanted to look beyond your own self-important bubble, that people aren’t…

yeah I will say that I was raised Catholic partially in south america and ok my mom has been terrible on many issues but has NOT been terrible on me being a woman. Like, that shit ain’t the quiverfull. My entire family is Catholic on both sides and we got doctors, engineers, biostatistician or whatever, a rockin…

overpopulation is a myth, and a racist myth to boot.

uh no, there needs to a better system where we place people who are unlikely to be assholes and are actually trained (not one-day “sensitivity” training, either) in charge of filing a report because cops have shown that they are not mature or compassionate enough to handle the responsibility. We also, as a society,…

LOL “fearing the police will do nothing” except avoiding a situation where you are almost guaranteed to be ignored and doubted with an extra dose of shaming, macho posturing, and blaming right after a trauma.

oh I mean I didn’t say it was the only disturbing thing by far. my partner grew up as a repressed mormon girl and the whole thing sounds like a psychological shitshow—but most religion is a shitshow when you’re perceived to be a woman—nobody has cornered the market on that yet.

My favorite part is in the middle where the mom artfully dodges explaining sex on camera for the first time.

I mean, I hope she answers his questions very soon when he continues to have them, but I did find it funny that she was like “mmm we’re not going to get into this while I got you on camera.... Are you excited…

I do feel like maybe Bush is like

it was poorly executed. I couldn’t get the wording right, and eventually cut out the part with the aliens

omg if the Cool Pope declares the place a sham my mother will have another piece of evidence to support her “Cool Pope is a cool guy but also literally Satan” theory, especially because she went to Medjugorje a few years ago so...

I was trying to make an alien abduction joke. As a former Catholic, I know that Catholics have an “explanation” for it, but it doesn’t really matter what they say—it’s in service of a narrative that Mary never had sex ever despite remaining married to Joseph, which >_>

Yeah the angel was like “yeah it happened, you’re pregnant. oh? what do you mean ‘get a say in this?’ nah it’s gonna be great, trust me. yeah, the baby is gonna be a cool bro, this is such an honor.”

Not stupid— scandalous! sacrilege!

not unless you are some mormon omg God doesn’t have a physical body

added: when a friend of mine told me that they were told about God having sex with Mary in LDS sunday-school-equivalent (what do I know, only that there was a lot more of it than Catholic sunday school) my former Catholic self was scandalized

This is the face of someone sniffing their own earwax.

OH MY GOD.