Theologically speaking, masturbation does not prevent a soul from being born. However, killing a soul’s body before it exits the womb does. Sperm is alive and genetically human, but it’s not a person and doesn’t have a soul because it’s not bonded with an egg. And yes, which sperm attaches to which egg determines the kind of person is born, down to every trait, but from a metaphysical standpoint, I’m not sure that matters.

All I hear is “I don’t want men to be held to account for having sex like I want women to be!”

list of canon and semi-canon gay people in star wars

bobavader:

  • evil imperial 
  • evil imperial
  • imperial who defected 
  • imperial who defected for furry cock 
  • background lesbian couple who doesn’t really matter but showed up for two seconds in the aftermath novels 
  • …………………………………………………there was an nb character in those same novels? 
  • that’s it 
  • you know what i’m adding c3p0 to this list i don’t care what anyone says he’s gay 

lj-writes:

Talking to my father is an exercise in holding back screams of rage.

“I’m not blaming you or tearing you down, I’m just worried for your future!”

This, after he went on a five-minute tirade about how I’m going to end up a loser and never amount to anything unless I do exactly as he says. Bitch, like abusers don’t justify the shit out of the former all the time with the latter excuse?

Also, did I mention that “exactly as he says” means assuring a fundamentalist Christian potential employer that I am a good little homophobic Christian? Talk about would literally rather die. There are of course people who are financially desperate enough that they have to do this kind of degrading shit–not to mention seriously abnormal shit, we’re talking about an academic employer here–and I sympathize with that. But I am not in that kind of strait and can’t bring myself to do it, especially at his insistence.

“I think homosexuals are disgusting too, do you think that’s so terrible?”

YOU IDIOT. YOU UTTER FOOL. YOU’RE TELLING ME I’M DISGUSTING AND YOU DON’T EVEN FUCKING KNOW. This shit right here is EXACTLY why I never came out to you even though I came dangerously close for one heart-stopping second of my life. It’s why there are huge parts me that I will never ever share with you and why we will never be close as a father and daughter should be. I’ve had to let go of that bone-deep hope, a process that took me decades, but I will never stop mourning what might have been. It’s why I would rather die rather than hurt my own child the way you hurt me, despite your disingenuous and insidious insistence that I’ll end up being like you once I’m a parent. Fuck out of here with that noise.

Guess what, asshole, I’m better than you and I am a better parent and better person than you. Not because I’m smarter or richer or anything, but because I do not believe as you do that my child is an extension of me and owes it to me to live as I want them to. I don’t have your fucking sense of narcissist entitlement, and from that alone I’m already light-years ahead of you.

chikabiddy:

lj-writes:

guineapig-crazed:

morbidly-tiny-alice:

prochoice-chick:

Yes spanking your child is abuse

Yes slapping your child is abuse

Yes telling your child they are fat/useless/stupid or any of that is abuse.

Don’t be abusive. Love your kids and those who trust you and are in your care.

How about unless you’re a parent, shut up.

Hmm no thanks 🙂 as a kid who was abused I have really specific opinions on this.

Don’t hit your kids, thanks

I’m a parent. Don’t hit your kids and don’t tear them down.

I have a Master’s degree in Child Development (and I’m a parent, because I guess that’s the only way to have an opinion on parenting??). Don’t hit your kids. It’s abuse. Don’t belittle them. That’s abuse. Don’t ignore them. That’s neglect. 

Care about your kids. Read a couple researched backed parenting books. Stuff your pride, and learn how to be a good parent. It’s not all about instinct. 

Lawmakers seek answers for why Native American women vanish

rapeculturerealities:

No one knows precisely how many there are because some cases go unreported, others aren’t documented thoroughly and there isn’t a specific government database tracking these cases. But one U.S. senator with victims in her home state calls this an epidemic, a long-standing problem linked to inadequate resources, outright indifference and a confusing jurisdictional maze.

Now, in the era of #MeToo, this issue is gaining political traction as an expanding activist movement focuses on Native women — a population known to experience some of the nation’s highest rates of murder, sexual violence and domestic abuse.

“Just the fact we’re making policymakers acknowledge this is an issue that requires government response, that’s progress in itself,” says Annita Lucchesi, a cartographer and descendant of the Cheyenne who is building a database of missing and murdered indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada — a list of some 2,700 names so far.

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Lawmakers seek answers for why Native American women vanish

“Every sperm is sacred” is the dumbest thing ever and I hope pro-choicers don’t believe pro-lifers ACTUALLY believe it. A sperm isn’t even a fetus. That requires a sperm AND an egg. So even life-at-conceptioners don’t hold sperm to be people. Even anti-contraceptivists don’t consider sperm people. Most religions are anti-masturbation for chastity reasons, not because we have no idea when life begins. “But sperm must be people too if fetuses are” is the worst strawman I’ve ever heard.

pinkstache:

lj-writes:

Sperm is still alive, and genetically human. Its genes are different from those of the body of the person who made them. Besides, why would you want to deprive poor babies of the chance to be born by throwing all that sperm away? :O

Also, Sperm might actually smell it’s way to the egg. Only living things can smell thank you very much! :/

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“Every sperm is sacred” is the dumbest thing ever and I hope pro-choicers don’t believe pro-lifers ACTUALLY believe it. A sperm isn’t even a fetus. That requires a sperm AND an egg. So even life-at-conceptioners don’t hold sperm to be people. Even anti-contraceptivists don’t consider sperm people. Most religions are anti-masturbation for chastity reasons, not because we have no idea when life begins. “But sperm must be people too if fetuses are” is the worst strawman I’ve ever heard.

Sperm is still alive, and genetically human. Its genes are different from those of the body of the person who made them. Besides, why would you want to deprive poor babies of the chance to be born by throwing all that sperm away? :O