Am I the only one who is really creeped out by the concept of surrogacy where rich people rent a poor woman's uterus like she was some kind of baby-delivering van?
That was meant as a "fun fact", not a "China's family planning policy is great, let's start a struggle session about it". China's family planning policy is obviously pretty bad lol.
It feels like it's really narcissistic - you don't really get to choose what your kid is like anyways so doing it based on appearance is kinda BS IMO.
I think it's super creepy in that it's exploitative.
Volunteering for surrogacy would be good, even with basic compensation, but this kind of surrogacy is just a job and one that has extreme health risks and risks to being able to have a child in the future. The kind of thing that should be fully within a personal risk category rather than exploiting the desperation of those in poverty.
Imagine a means testing regime where only those with five years of above 2X median income could be surrogates. What would happen to the "industry"?
Good clarification. It's not the surrogacy by itself that is creepy, it's the exploitation.
Orphans can't expect to leech off rich couples for the rest of their lives. They would just become dependent. They have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and show some personal responsibility.
Parental romanticization, something that runs the gamut from (effectively) eugenics to a deep desire to see your partner in your children.
alternatively, it's a Birthing Pod mk3 in a Kensey Rapid Growth Cloning lab.
engineered progeny are made from human harvested fertilized oocytes injected into synthetic yolks made from ground-up undesirables.
once they cut the child out of the cocoon, the spent "mother" vessel is carted off to be reprocessed into nutrient dense kibble for Pete.
Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg are some of the bougiest names I've ever heard. Is Pete doing some downtown abbey larp with his kids names
I forgot the context for this so when I opened my inbox this reply looked absolutely fucking delusional
Maybe Joseph and Penelope will grow up to be Marxist professors, extending the cycle of Buttigieg
Mayo Pete, being the least queer gay man alive, falls for the classic breeder "let's save our strained relationship by having a baby" pitfall.
Because just like everything else mayo pete does, this is performative towards his goal of becoming president?
Can someone also explain to me how exactly this works? Surrogacy?
Yeah and I don't think anyone's typically present for the birth of their adopted child?
It's unusual, but not unheard of. Say a relative or close friend volunteers to adopt your baby, they'd probably be there for the birth.
that was extremely fast, like what a month or two since they said they were going to do it?
yeah I guess this is just a lesson in PR and tells us that the Chasten reading series rticle was completely intentional pathos as an attempt to create a dramatic story for Pete's political career
Just fleshing out the Lion King simulation I'm seeing happening here:
Does Chasten represent Mufasa whereas Mayo is Scar? Or is Chasten already subjugated like Sarabi?
And seriously, why are they on a hospital bed?
I posted this on my FB and three random libs are mad at me because:
- It's wrong to assume that neither of the adults in this picture has a uterus.
- They have gay friends who have taken pictures like this.
- Say what you will about Pete, but it's wrong to attack him for having a family.
I go on FB for a minute per day to post one or two memes (mostly from hexbear) purely to rile up the hundreds of lib "friends" I have there whom I haven't spoken with in twelve years. 99%, they don't react at all. Like, I mean, not a word in months—mostly because I already blocked the ones who were really awful. With this picture of Mayo Pete, however, they finally found a way to attack me.
I responded by saying that Biden and Pete have both been fervent supporters of amerikkka's forever wars which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of LGTBQ+ people around the world. If Hitler poses with his girlfriend in a photo, does that mean we should not criticize Hitler in that specific photo because we might offend people who have girlfriends? (Yes, I went there.) I also said it was incredibly disingenuous for them to say that it's possible for Pete or Chasten to have a uterus since they're both fucking celebrities and if either of them had undergone any kind of surgery the media never would have fucking shut up about it.
On their own FB walls, these libs haven't posted a word about coronavirus or Biden for months. They were not active in the Democratic primary and only involved themselves afterward to remind people to :vote:. One is a NIMBY I've never met in person, two are people I knew from college whom I liked a lot and who were really nice when I was there. Honestly it makes me sad.
I'm writing this here to ask: AITA?
I have no doubt that you were perceived as an asshole, but that doesn't mean you actually were one.
I think my top-level comment is pretty relevant to yours. The normative discourse on having children is extremely hostile to left positions and takes offense at essentially any criticism. I don't think it's clear how we can bridge that gap without the listening parties being socialist.
I ammnor saying they did it. But youbknoe they at least considered lubeinf up that baby and makekng a "birth" video
