Yeah, there are some questionable sites out there. That happens everywhere in life, why single out a particular subject matter? I tend to distrust authorities in real life and perhaps the internet as well.
It seems anytime I attempt to discuss topics in the alternative health and food community people think I'm simply believing internet stories. First, the internet is a truly great source of information though it takes a bit of wading through the murky waters. Second, where else can you get information on marginalized topics? Who talks about vitamin research, holistic dentistry, organic food, quality natural products, and much else in "real life"?
Yeah, there are some questionable sites out there. That happens everywhere in life, why single out a particular subject matter? I tend to distrust authorities in real life and perhaps the internet as well.
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There was an article recently titled the regrets of a stay-at-home mom. My first thought was "duh, what did you expect, lady?" I've long known that having kids wrecks your life by way of ruining career opportunities and the simple joy of having the life you want. Why didn't she know this before reproducing? Why do these women always choose men partners who don't do their equal share of the childrearing and household work?
I don't want to be a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, or a single mom. I don't want to be a mom period. On a similar note, I've been hearing stories of women drinking/doing drugs excessively in order to deal with the stress of family life. Seriously, if you need to do drugs and drink that must prove that motherhood sucks. Upon reading an article on someone explaining why "poor people" making bad choices makes perfect sense it left me wondering what the other side of the story really is. I've known poor people in my life and they never made the very unwise decisions that this lady made. Why didn't she go to college before having dependents? Wheres the real father of the kids? Why do you live in an expensive urban area? Why didn't she find a tall staircase if she couldn't obtain a legal abortion? Why go ahead making yourself a burden on society and the people around you?
I'm not rich myself. Never have been and probably never will be. I don't expect to get rich. But I did grow up with a working class single mother who was an example of what I never wanted my life to be like. I didn't want my adulthood to suck the same way my childhood did. Did the lady who wrote this article know what it was like to grow up in a single parent household? Did she know what it was like for my to have to spend almost everyday caring for my younger behavioral problem brother because my mother was working late? Did she know what a burden and misery dependents can be on you and the older siblings? Obviously not. Well, I'm not saying she deserved to be poor, but really there was some decisions there that could have been chosen differently. Maybe she had an abusive or difficult childhood that blurred the lines between the way life should be and the way she grew up believing it to be. Eh, decisions aren't enough though. Going beyond that and something none of the commentators will ever mention is that yes people do become poor and don't end up like this author. I perhaps just don't want to hear someone elses whining and talking about their shitty life. "I'm braver than you..." crap that could apply to anyone. If I was ever going to be called
Then you must've crashed Somewhere they would all know And I a no one Afraid of my fragility Your way of making me feel fragile So I could crash along with you Its the way in society Its the way in culture Its the dependence on reason A fear their bred on So when you crash I could came with you Down to the last bottle The last pack to meet your fate Its the way in class Its the way in history Its the dependence on fear As the camping is short And the lines are longer then politics Every tire borrowed for a dead end You crashed and I wanted to do the same Its the looks Its the times Its the dependence on individualism But I would never be known ~~~ Trust She always trusts One adherent of the logical Is the others new god And if I was looking down Then what reason is there to look up Someone had to go on their way down On the way down you won't think That trust doesn't exist Trust just a word unknown to this age Media lies, established control If I wanted to meddle with the divine But not too far away the gatekeepers shall stop me If whatever they find me worth And if nothing much still I shall miss Looking up for a reason Someone had to look down On the way down you won't think She always trusts Results expected, trials untrue She always trusts That the screen isn't moving That its not real A new god can save us all Bought misery for the inedible Bought the screen for deterred mind Trust doesn't exist Not long ago on a site supposedly dedicated to unconventional ideas the topic of vaccines came up. It was msotly related to a poster who called out the "anti-vaccine movement" and another poster who accused them of following the mainstream. I have to agree that I was surprised that someone who normally is outside the box would agree so unquestioningly with the orthodox medical establishment. Never understood how someone could not follow the mainstream on some topics then on others. A mystery to me. I've always wondered about the "official story" even if it leads to me being outed as a conspiracy theorist or weirdo.
Theres alot of some who do that though. When you think someone is outside the box there really just in a much bigger box. |