Shir, your question on BDS
Interesting points, Typo, but I'm not sure it's understood here the same way as you see it. There's a difference between boycotting the occupied territories and boycotting Israel. These artists and lecturers aren't boycotting Israel and don't necessarily advocating it.
Hey society!! Want to decrease the number of teenage mothers? Allow birth control to be taught in public schools and STOP GLORIFYING TEENAGE PREGNANCY!
I just needed to see it again.
ION. There's nothing that can make me angry as watching the news for more than two minutes.
Hey! I'm totally slutty! Where are my 3 other kids??
You're obviously not lazy enough. You fail at cheating welfare.
GREAT! ONE MORE THING I FAIL AT. FUCK.
It's customary to swear oaths upon fixed objects. Swords, bibles, flags, mother's graves... It runs through all sorts of human culture.
By the power of Grayskull!
In other news, am I right to think it is laughable to say: "From [this Pakistani guy] to [that Indian guy], the team deliberately sought to include non-Western views."?
Edit: I mean because of the "from this to that" construction -- from India to Pakistan doesn't feel like much of a range....
Forget the pregnancy - follow those girls around when they're 22 and struggle every single day to finish school/work/pay bills/care for a child/have a life/get some actual sleep. Instead of all the BS they actually show.
...have you seen any episodes of 16 And Pregnant? I've seen one or two, and I gotta say, the ones I did see weren't glorifying at all. They were pretty freakin' crappy--and that was just while the chick was preggo, and not really once she had the baby and had to deal with THAT.
Though admittedly, the US Weekly or People or whatever spread on "Where are they NOW?" made them sound all happy and shit, which I doubt they are (one of them was all "Well, we broke up a couple months before the birth because he was hitting me, but then he died in a motorcycle accident two months after she was born, so that sucks because she'll never get to meet her daddy and I'm still living with my parents, but GOSH, SHE"S SO CUTE AND I LOVE HER (CUE ADORABLE PICTURES!!"))
