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It's been a week
This week has gone pretty well overall. Didn't get much housekeeping done, but work didn't suck, I had lunch with a friend, and I did manage to do at least a few dishes. Also, as a benefit of being on afternoons this week, I currently have 6600XP on Duolingo, though I am still roughly 5000XP away from first place. Ah well, there will always be next week.
In related news, I had a sentence in French today that was roughly "He always falls in love with the firefighters on the calendar." I might have the exact wording wrong, but it was definitely "he" and definitely talking about the firefighters on the calendar. XD Yay for inclusivity!
On a not so related note, I saw anti-abortion protestors outside of the hospital today as I drove past. They come out every so often and they always seem peaceful to me, but I always have an urge to go stand there with my own sign, slightly contrary to them. Don't get me wrong, I don't approve of abortion, but I do think it should be a choice, and that there should be the option to do it safely. That being said, once the baby is viable, I really don't think abortions should be allowed (Canada has no abortion laws at all.) That aside, I think abortion shouldn't be needed. I get that there are always going to be exceptions, where carrying the baby to term is just not doable for some reason, but if it's a preventable reason, let's treat the cause. If it's financially driven, let's treat poverty. If it's lack of medical care, let's make that accessible. If it's lack of ability or desire, let's make as many classes available as possible, let's facilitate adoption so it is true option (if it is less than ideal right now), and let's make birth control as widely accessible as possible. Getting rid of abortion without fixing the reasons behind it does nothing except lead to desperate people doing dangerous things.
Also, specifically today, there were a few signs that said "Abortion is the biggest human rights violation." Now, I will it give to them that abortion is not great, but look at the rest of the world. I think the human rights atrocities that are happening in the Middle East and the FREAKING United States and a worse concern than abortion. I know the two aren't actually comparable, and that one nastiness doesn't negate the validity of protesting a different nastiness, but, priorities maybe? Not that I really get a say in it either way.
And now that that's done, I'm hoping to get some gardening done tomorrow, and maybe a few entries/editing, and a butt-tonne of Duolingo. For next week, I would like to see if I can reach number 1 in Diamond League (but I'm out if it gets cuckoo), work on my basket, and maybe buy some yarn for Christmas ornaments.
I hope y'all are having a good week, and there is a Comfort Croner post coming this Sunday if anyone needs it.
In related news, I had a sentence in French today that was roughly "He always falls in love with the firefighters on the calendar." I might have the exact wording wrong, but it was definitely "he" and definitely talking about the firefighters on the calendar. XD Yay for inclusivity!
On a not so related note, I saw anti-abortion protestors outside of the hospital today as I drove past. They come out every so often and they always seem peaceful to me, but I always have an urge to go stand there with my own sign, slightly contrary to them. Don't get me wrong, I don't approve of abortion, but I do think it should be a choice, and that there should be the option to do it safely. That being said, once the baby is viable, I really don't think abortions should be allowed (Canada has no abortion laws at all.) That aside, I think abortion shouldn't be needed. I get that there are always going to be exceptions, where carrying the baby to term is just not doable for some reason, but if it's a preventable reason, let's treat the cause. If it's financially driven, let's treat poverty. If it's lack of medical care, let's make that accessible. If it's lack of ability or desire, let's make as many classes available as possible, let's facilitate adoption so it is true option (if it is less than ideal right now), and let's make birth control as widely accessible as possible. Getting rid of abortion without fixing the reasons behind it does nothing except lead to desperate people doing dangerous things.
Also, specifically today, there were a few signs that said "Abortion is the biggest human rights violation." Now, I will it give to them that abortion is not great, but look at the rest of the world. I think the human rights atrocities that are happening in the Middle East and the FREAKING United States and a worse concern than abortion. I know the two aren't actually comparable, and that one nastiness doesn't negate the validity of protesting a different nastiness, but, priorities maybe? Not that I really get a say in it either way.
And now that that's done, I'm hoping to get some gardening done tomorrow, and maybe a few entries/editing, and a butt-tonne of Duolingo. For next week, I would like to see if I can reach number 1 in Diamond League (but I'm out if it gets cuckoo), work on my basket, and maybe buy some yarn for Christmas ornaments.
I hope y'all are having a good week, and there is a Comfort Croner post coming this Sunday if anyone needs it.
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I consider myself pro-choice, with that said I agree strongly that steps to make it preventable are a good and necessary thing (especially increasing access to birth control, and reducing poverty). I also have thoughts about the breakdown of the extended family and how hard it is to raise kids in a nuclear family or as a single parent, it's easier (for some measure of "easy", parenting is still a tough job) when you've got grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other people involved.
One of the problems I have with pro-life rhetoric here in the States is that a lot of so-called pro-life people here are against things like welfare/assistance and I'm like "so basically you want to force children to starve". Not to mention what you pointed out, that there are far worse things happening in the world that the pro-life movement seems to completely ignore; it is indeed obnoxiously hypocritical to me that the pro-life movement in the States is all like "bUt TeH uNbOrN" when there are people suffering and dying all around them.
So yes, I'm in favor of reducing the need for abortion, while still keeping it safe and legal.
Onto Duolingo...
I hope you can reach number 1 in Diamond League! Meanwhile I've resigned myself to getting demoted because it's too much of a struggle to pull myself up past #45 in my particular Diamond League. People need to calm down XD
Yay for inclusivity in the French course!
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O.o Uhhh.... Yeaaaa. Those to beliefs are sort of contradictory. If you want people to keep their babies, make sure they can keep the babies, in a life that is not filled with poverty, starvation, and homelessness. And again, as you also said, I really do think there are more pressing matters at the moment than women being free to get abortions. Let's try to put out the dumpster fire that is the world first, then worry about killing unborn babies, ok?
>>So yes, I'm in favor of reducing the need for abortion, while still keeping it safe and legal.<<
That. That is what I want. (Also, I did a quick check about abortion in Canada, and all of the provinces do have a gestational limit on abortion, which is good in my opinion, because I thought I remember from high school that you could "abort" the baby after it was born, which just *shudder* NO. I'm glad that is not the case here.)
Re: Duolingo, Thanks! I don't think I'll get it this week, though I'm still going to try. Maybe next week will be better. It definitely seems like you'd have a better time in my Diamond League; to survive the cut off you would only need 471XP currently, which I think sounds doable.
Yes! Yay for the good stuff!
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In fairness I've only done like 200something XP this week. Last week my Diamond league needed 800+ XP to stay out of the demotion zone and I ended up doing a lot of last-minute scrambling to not get demoted. This week I haven't been feeling well so I haven't had a lot of motivation for doing lessons except a little more than my daily goal to maintain my streak. So unless I haul ass last-minute like I did last week, which probably won't happen because I have a chapter to write, I'm going back to Obsidian, lol.
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Ah, I think we all have weeks like that. Certainly I had some veryyyy slow weeks a while back, and it is a little daunting to know how long I have to keep my streak going in order to get the full acheivement there. I hope you feel better next week, and that Obsidian is less stressful for you. :)
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The penultimate clause there... they want the biggest human rights violations? I invite them to walk, not ride, not drive, _walk_ southeast, fight their way across the border, and walk into #1600 and put an end to human rights violations (the latest of which is attempting to steal an election in broad daylight) against three hundred million of their neighbours this side of the Smith and Wesson line. And then they can swim the Atlantic, round England the long way, and up the Thames, and drag his counterpart out and chuck him in the river whence they came, for similar offences against a thousand-year-old nation that threaten its very existence.
*/rant*
Then we can consider the toxic "benevolent" sexism they're perpetrating on you and half the human race.
And as you mention, the same kind of thing going on all over the world... women being put on a pedestal and "protected" "for their own good" (read: not being allowed to kick ass and take names like they can better than the soft-headed dude-bros who try to keep them there)...
*/rant, this time for sure*
What yummy shall I bring for the Comfort Corner?
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And methinks that if there was less poverty, less homelessness, more family support, and more community resources in general (that don't cost an arm and a leg *cough*daycare*cough*), then you would naturally see a decline in abortion, because it wouldn't seem like the only possible option.
Hmm.... Something chocolatey? And perhaps a main dish that is not boring North American food?
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