November 25, 2022
"It sucks. I haven’t heard anyone who thinks, ‘This is awesome. This rocks.'"
That's one of many, many quotes collected from college students at "TERRIFIED, ELATED, ANXIOUS/Young people on campuses had a lot to say about living in a world where the right to abortion is not guaranteed" (WaPo).
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Generally speaking, college students today are terrified to live in a world where x is not guaranteed, where x is any and everything from being comfortable at every second to real jobs. And it's our fault for bringing them up that way.
My young adult world always had a right to an abortion. It also had cheap(er) college and a 90s economic boom, a pre-9/11 view of the world, and no social media. It would be easy for me to disparage GenZ attitudes, but I come from a different time.
Well, at least some are elated.
Interesting the quoted student has not heard an opposing view. That is what should be terrifying.
I grew up in the 70's. I never gave abortion a thought, because I had PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for myself, and NEVER put myself IN that position. There are ways you know!!
College educated adults haven't figured out how babies are made.
Wow! What have we, as parents, done? To teach our children such disregard for the sanctity of life! No forethought, no regrets, no angst! Just indignation!
Just wait until they realize freedom of speech is not guaranteed, either, since we have to keep fighting for that constitutional right not to be infringed. And that right is first listed, with all the clarity in the world.
Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing.
Unfortunate metaphor: "It sucks."
It calls to mind the abortion method of vacuum aspiration.
Interesting the quoted student has not heard an opposing view. That is what should be terrifying.
Those with opposing views are attacked and shut down as haters. So they keep their mouths shut at school and celebrate at home and in church.
Is that you, Pauline?
Unfortunate metaphor: "It sucks."
It calls to mind the abortion method of vacuum aspiration.
It calls to mind an alternative form of sex that doesn't result in pregnancy.
A bunch of social cowards, panty waist putzes. Should anything even mildly earth shaking ever happen to them, commonly referred to as life, they will soil themselves and squeegee about the unfairness or blame some euphemistic "ism" for their plight. Never will they consider that their cowardice, self inflicted, has anything to do with their failure. Indeed their uselessness to society as a whole. Whiney twits.
Consequences? We don’t need no stinking consequences.
It really makes you have to think before you roofie someone.
Consequences have actions.
Well, at least some are elated.
Someone probably thought the prospect of abortion "terrified" them. Alas, it is from WaPo, and they have a history of misreporting the behavior of young adults.
There's no tag for "snowflake"?
'"It sucks. I haven’t heard anyone who thinks, ‘This is awesome. This rocks.'"' Everything in life needs to be awesome or it sucks. Not a prescription for a happy life.
Kate said...
My young adult world always had a right to an abortion. It also had cheap(er) college and a 90s economic boom, a pre-9/11 view of the world, and no social media. It would be easy for me to disparage GenZ attitudes, but I come from a different time.
11/25/22, 4:35 AM
But ‘we’ should disparage (?) the youth of today, especially in their formative years. Our parents chastised us for stepping out of bounds, and in society - physical - we were often taught quite quickly where the bounds of social interactions and behavior was.
The generation today (and the last generation which gave rise to this to some extent) has the ability to never face conflict or repercussions of belief or action, the ability to live in a bubble of those who think the same.
Today, with social media and the pervasive (invasive) extent of the internet, you will always find someone who believes or thinks the same as oneself, legitimizing that idea, and trivial to ignore anything to the contrary.
Ah, the mystery of sex and conception that eludes the college educated, the performance of human rites for social, redistributive, clinical, political, and fair weather causes cannot be denied.
Elective abortion is a wicked solution to the hard problem: Keep women affordable, available, and taxable, and the "burden" h/t Obama of evidence from underage girls sequestered in darkness. To paraphrase WaPo: demos-cracy is aborted at the twilight fringe.
It calls to mind the abortion method of vacuum aspiration.
The cleaning solution for the leading class of homicide. We need reasonable regulation of vacuums h/t an Ass, of course, of course. Ban high-capacity assault-style vacuums h/t Democratz... is surely playing with a double-edged scalpel h/t #Me... MeToo.
To paraphrase Monty Python: Bring out your fetal-babies on a cold, gray Slate!
Democracy Dies in Darkness!
because I had PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for myself, and NEVER put myself IN that position
To fuck or not to fuck, that is the question. To take reasonable steps for regulation of impregnation. And, when all else fails, per chance to succeed, to accept responsibility for a choice made with informed consent, a woman and man offer safe sanctuary and say I do until our Posterity leaves home and thereafter in mutual affection.
Demos-cracy thrives with Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
In a world where far too much of college is more akin to an indoctrinating summer camp, what shouldn’t students want everything in life to be easy? Just like the best jobs out of school has shifted from hard-working, high-paying industries like financial services/investment banking, corporate law, fast-track management development rotation programs at major corporations to catered positions in tech companies that have monopolistic market positions with money rolling in regardless of individual effort {e.g., Twitter).
On abortion, if nothing in life seems to depend on your effort, why bother to use birth control or think about the effects of abortion on women and developing babies?
It calls to mind an alternative form of sex that doesn't result in pregnancy.
There is only one form of sex. Penetration through alternatives holes: the top hole, the back... black hole... whore h/t NAACP, and perhaps other creative openings in the queerest of the queer.
Query whether they asked around at SEC schools.
Some people love it.
Well according to the headline, someone was elated...
This generation of college students is the most ignorant since the 19th century. Just ask them who won the Civil War or was our ally in WWII. They probably believe that Dobbs banned all abortions. That was the hysteria propagated by Democrats. "Birth control? What's that ?"
The reaction of youthful nitwits who are unfamiliar with birth control.
I haven’t heard anyone who thinks, “This is awesome. This rocks.”
Bragging about not knowing anyone outside your bubble? Why?
My sympathies are limited. Levonorgestrel (sold over the counter as “Plan B”) is readily available at the local Walgreens. And Republicans have been pushing for oral contraception to be available OTC, but Democrats have been stymying this commonsense evolution in birth control. Yet the young vote for Democrats. Go figure.
Google search will reveal self abortion instructions.
Did not read beyond headlines and did not search for videos.
Well, many children would be distressed upon discovering that they may face adult consequences for adult behavior.
What I've found surprising in the wake of Dobbs, is how many young women today feel they have no choice but to have unprotected sex, well other than choosing to not be social. Feminism has been going downhill since about 1980 when women reached parity in college attendance, no jobs were prohibited to them and, in my experience, many of the 17 yr old girls exercised their "freedom" by dating 30 year olds. (The latter making it hard to date girls my age in high school).
My young adult world also had access to abortion. HOWEVER:
There were no in home pregnancy tests. You had to go to a doctor's office, offer up body fluids, then wait a week for results. If you were trying to keep the whole thing a secret from family, add in a layer of logistics necessary to keep that secret.
Getting that phone call from the doctor's office, without family knowing, another layer of subterfuge. Many of my peers would rely on the 'cool parent' - someone else's parents who were not going to freak out about a pregnancy.
THEN - only then could you move onto the medical abortion, NOT the in-home, swallow a pill abortion.
FFS - these days the entire thing can be done without leaving home!
"Terrified, elated, anxious."
That sounds like the start of what could be an amazing love affair.
Also sounds like what you might feel with an unplanned pregnancy.
Personally, I think sex goes a lot better with powerful emotions. If Dobbs is wrecking your sex life, you might want to rethink your sex life. Strong emotions + human sexuality = passionate love affair. Cheap no-name sex where you pay to abort your nothing baby is not a good life.
I'd imagine this would make the risk of the "yankus-interuptus" birth control method so much more exciting. Now you're really living on the edge.
Ohnoes, we can't rut like animals in a STD factory anymore!
"I haven’t heard anyone who thinks, ‘This is awesome. This rocks.'"
What do you expect? You aborted them all.
Oh, for the days when herpes was feared.
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