u/ilovepopcornandcandy

I can't wait to move to a country who people see abortion as a fundamental human right. The amount of egregious things lawmakers and pro-life people have said for the sake of a fetus at the expense of the woman is disgusting.

The minute the baby is born, they turn the other way and have no interest in making sure the child is fed, educated, and is raised in a loving household. Anyone who willingly has children under this administration, with the lack of social safety net, it nuts in my opinion.

It's funny that pro-lifers think the most just thing is giving birth, when logically speaking, it's the opposite (either not getting pregnant or getting an abortion imo).

I know people hate music gatekeepers and call me that if you want, but if you only know their most popular songs, then you can't really call yourself a fan. A fan, in my opinion, is someone who has actually listened to many songs of the artist and can engage in conversations about them. You cannot do that meaningfully if you have a narrow understanding of the music.

I am not saying you cannot like their music, but appreciating music and understanding music are two separate things.

Okay I can delete this if it's a bad take, but I hate how many people online claim to be fans and only know K, Apocalypse, Cry, and Heavenly. I know they're a popular band and I don't want to gatekeep, but my kneejerk reaction is to roll my eyes.

Their entire discography is so magical and there's so much more to them than their 4 most popular songs. It also makes me a little happy because it feels like a small portion of them, is still kind of undiscovered by most of the public? Anyways, this is probably a bad take but wtv.

Please don't crucify me with this post. I was raised Catholic, but fell out of religion probably 5-6 years ago. I am not in contact with my parents, and have been lacking purpose in my life. I am heading into my second year of university, but I have never felt more depressed in my life. I literally cannot get the motivation to do anything. Nothing excites me anymore and I can tell if I don't radically change, I will ruin my life. I am drawn to Orthodox Christianity because I am ethnically Russian but was adopted by american parents, so I never know what I could've believed in if I was raised where I came from.

I want the external motivation of something guiding me to be better and give up pleasures that only bring hurt down the line. The only thing stopping me, because I love Orthodox Christianity for its strict guidelines to always strive to be the best version of myself, is my lack of faith. I legitimately cannot get myself to believe there is a higher power due to a plethora of reasons. And the final reason is that I don't like how some women and people of LGBTQ are treated within religion.

I don't know if it would be disrespectful to adopt the religion, but not believe in it in a sense? I don't know if that's understandable :(.

Please don't crucify me with this post. I was raised Catholic, but fell out of religion probably 5-6 years ago. I am not in contact with my parents, and have been lacking purpose in my life. I am heading into my second year of university, but I have never felt more depressed in my life. I literally cannot get the motivation to do anything. Nothing excites me anymore and I can tell if I don't radically change, I will ruin my life.

I know race doesn't matter, but it would also be unusual in my city for a white girl to be muslim. I feel like if I wore a hijab people would judge me and think I converted for a man, when it was really to be a better version myself.

I want the external motivation of something guiding me to be better and give up pleasures that only bring hurt down the line (talking with boys, drinking, etc.) The only thing stopping me, because I love Islam for its strict guidelines to always strive to be the best version of myself, is my lack of faith. I legitimately cannot get myself to believe there is a higher power due to a plethora of reasons. And the final reason is that I don't like how some women and people of LGBTQ are treated within religion.

I don't know if it would be disrespectful to adopt the religion, but not believe in it in a sense? I don't know if that's understandable :(.

Sorry I have never been to Turkey, but want to go next summer. I watch a lot of Turkish dramas and almost all of them have over the top possessive male leads. He doesn't want her even smiling at the waiter, wearing certain things, or doing things independently (like having her finances).

Is this actually how dating is like in Turkey? I know the TV is a dramatized version of the society in general, but where I am from, men who are this possessive are not idealized or looked at favorably, so there must be a sliver of truth to this.

Sorry for posting twice in a row, but for some reason I was interested and looked at the r/ natalism subreddit. Tell me why, half the posts, are thinly guised white supremacist bullshit. They're mad that Europeans and American white people aren't having more children, and have thought up some elaborate conspiracy theories that corporations want the white race to go extinct? I thought most of it would just be misogyny and child propaganda, which it was, but there was also a weird racial undercurrent that I wasn't expecting. As a white person, I could not care less what the world will look like in 200 years.

It's so disgusting that they view children as extension to spread their flawed worldviews.

I think a lot of women from a young age are conditioned to want children. I remember being 4 and playing house and wanting children then. Now I can't say if my desire to have children comes from trauma growing up, society, or just pure biological impulse, but it is really strong. I often get baby fever and imagine what me and my boyfriend's children would look like. I want to see my eyes and his hair mixed together. But, it's selfish.

I don't know why this movement gets painted as baby-haters or anti-children. People who demonize us think we hate kids for the sake of hating them, but it couldn't be farther from the truth in my case. If I, for the sake of the argument, could 100% guarantee my children were to be born without defects and in a perfect world, I would have children. I have always wanted 3 or 4. It is just circumstances stopping me. I want to feel like what it would be like to get pregnant and give birth, as a lot of people say it's a magical part of your life, but the difference between me and those who don't think, is that I realize my own selfish desires do not outweigh the harms to bring a child into this world.

I want to hide christmas presents for my children and take them to dance class. I want to teach them their ABC's and play hopscotch with them. Part of me that aches for this life will probably never dull. I am only 20, so far off from even remotely considering children if I were to have them, but it's a strange grief to realize you're never going to be able to fulfill some of your lifelong desires.

I was watching a tiktok about how Europeans can always tell who is American before someone even opens their mouth. Though I am not sure how valid this statement is, it got me thinking.

Genetically, a lot of white Americans have more diversity in their ethnic admixture than your average Finnish or British person. Is there actually something about their features that looks different than your average European? Or is it more so due to mannerisms and clothing styles?

I also am a white American with 99% Eastern European DNA. When I traveled Europe, everyone would assume I was local and speak to me in their native language which was shocking since a lot of Americans have the opposite experience.

I have no idea why I thought this. The only reasoning is because I thought from their vibe and accent they sounded British 😭

I’ve been a devout fan for many months and swear I looked it up and it said Greg was from London 😭

I perused this subreddit after just discovering it today and I am shocked. Multiple screenshots of downright rude and uncalled behavior from both of them. It seems like they're both offended the show isn't very successful and there's a lot of criticism towards it (rightfully so). Rick can't even say he had no involvement since he helped co-write it.

I don't know the intricacies of script writing and film production and I am sure it is very difficult to get things 100% right, but Harry Potter did it extremely well without being identical to the books. Rick dogged on the movies for 15 years, saying how horrible they were, when they actually produced a far more interesting thing to watch than this show.

I used to be obsessed with the books, called him Uncle Rick on wattpad and goodreads, but his and Becky's behavior put a sour taste in my mouth. It's unfortunate because I don't want this to become another JKR situation where the author ruins the books for me.