"A bunch of girls think that you don't need no man to raise no child... shut the fuck up with the bullshit! Yeah, you can do it without a man, but it don't mean it's to be done! Shit! You can drive a car with your feet if you want to; it don't mean its a good fucking idea!" -- Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker, 1999
Call me a closet republican, but as far as I can see, everything, EVERYTHING about this story is just plain WRONG.
From the oh-so-jolly headline, to the happy family grins on these womens' faces, WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Yeah, I'm judging these people. So sue me.
Even more disgusting, the Daily News has chosen to glorify and normalize this, rather than examining it from a serious point of view. And we wonder why the cycle of poverty and teen pregnancy and crime in the inner city remains unbroken.
"If a kid calls his grandma 'mama' and his mama 'Pam,' he's going to jail." -- Chris Rock again
2 comments:
It's a tough one though. I would love and support my daughter, too, if that happened, and even if I were sad about it, I would smile for the photos. I guess I just don't get why the people who can least afford this aren't more careful about birth control and why they don't choose to terminate. Maybe they think they have nothing else good in their lives, so add in a cute baby? I don't know. The father and his family, of course, should be made to help pay, but I don't know if it actually works that way.
The righties/McCainites would NOT support giving these girls birth control and/or abotion options, so they're not helping anything either. "Just say no!" Yeahright. The rich white teens aren't saying no; they just use BC and abortion.
You're not tipping Republican at all. Just looking at a culture whose values are not very clear and and going, whoah.
I didn't see anything in the article to suggest they didn't have access to birth control or an abortion. Indeed, these were all presented as solidly middle-class families, with supportive grandmas and everything. What's going on is cultural: Even though many folks may appear to be on the "Democratic" side of things, they still have the normal instinct to go ahead and have that child. I've known many single mothers. I feel kind of insulted, as one feels when a friend is insulted, at the idea that they chose not to terminate but to welcome a child into their lives out of ignorance or poverty. I saw it as a brave choice made in love and not a damn one regretted it (well, except for those times when they sort of did).
It does suck that the Repugs have to kow-tow to backwards moralists who think of withholding sex information and access to support as a kind of tuff love. Idjits.
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