I know of a conservative influencer (using that word generously) that was using “all-natural” methods to treat her infertility. When she finally saw a real doctor, it turns out those remedies were actually preventing pregnancy. She stopped taking them and got pregnant pretty much right away. Personally, I hope more of her ilk use the “natural” route if it keeps them having more kids that they’ll treat like property.
gotta tell ya, there is just no way i can imagine having reproductive (or any) sex with some clown just because i thought it was my duty and was virtuous. call me crazy, but something a little more seems to be required.
OT- I fell down yesterday because I didn't see a wet floor sign and I landed on my butt. I got a bruise/scrape on my arm, and my right hip hurts but I don't see a bruise. Took painkillers but still hurting. Ugh.
Also I discovered that if I search "brocade dressing gown" I'm more likely to find Sherlock Holmes style robes than the terrycloth bath kind. If only they weren't so expensive.
You see, the good laird, he made us all. Eight and half billion little hairless primates running around. Everyone with their own unique soul. Their own family history. Own culture. Own country. Own religions. Gave each little human their own talents, flaws, strengths, weaknesses, hopes, dreams, ambitions, desires. Every human a priceless unique work of art wanting to find joy and happiness in a brief life in a seemingly cold and uncaring universe. Each little spark of light hoping to burn in its own unique way before the darkness snuffs it out. He took each one of those eight and half billion little human and put them on this Earth and then he wants them to act in exactly 1 of 2 ways depending entirely on what they were born with down there.
Get it? HAHAHAHA... Oh, you don't?
Well, ya had to be there, I guess. Eternity is really fucking boring. Tormenting the local wildlife is really all of us gods have got.
“Restorative reproductive medicine” sounds like something you'd give someone my age, who has already been through menopause, so they could have a miracle babby.
It didn't make sense to me, why they would encourage reproduction, but be against IVF. But I think I get it now. They don't want gay or trans people to be able to reproduce, and ending IVF would help them in that goal. It's pure white christian nationalism.
Why don't these fuckers just move to Utah and be Mormon and do a whole sister wives thing and leave us alone?
See, here's the thing: millennials, the primary age bracket that is currently having children, was forced to delay having them due to not being economically well off enough to afford them. Adjusted for inflation, the average millennial makes about as much as the average boomer did at their age, but the cost of fucking *everything* has risen disproportionately in the interim.
One of the biggest costs, college, has *doubled* in the 18 years since the average millennial went to college, and there is absolutely no reason at all to think that it won't double again 18 years from now. Who wants to send a kid to college and have them come back with a MILLION in student debt that simultaneously has high interest and cannot be discharged through bankruptcy? Why on earth would people have children unless they by definition are much wealthier than the average?
Gee, I wonder why these "tradwives" the Reactionaries keep pushing don't ever seem to consider the issues my wife and I considered when we were deciding to begin a family (have kids).
We knew that the surest way to generational poverty is to have kids before the parents are financially established, at least a little.
Daycare can cost $1000/week for a newborn. Maybe less but maybe not. Healthcare? How about the costs of pregnancy and delivery? Where are you living, by the way? Do you have transportation?
Somehow all these people just have enough money to support themselves, a baby, not have to work fulltime jobs, etc.
that's becuse Fuckface has attacked Iran again and the Strait of Hormuz is closed to ships transporting fertilizer... and as a result, produce prices will skyrocket.
I know of a conservative influencer (using that word generously) that was using “all-natural” methods to treat her infertility. When she finally saw a real doctor, it turns out those remedies were actually preventing pregnancy. She stopped taking them and got pregnant pretty much right away. Personally, I hope more of her ilk use the “natural” route if it keeps them having more kids that they’ll treat like property.
OT: should I be concerned that I don't think I've seen SkeptiKC in a couple days?
She said ahead of time she was looking at a hospital stay. I haven’t seen paul either.
It's been that long? Has Paul been around?
I'm going to start calling babies economic catastrophes. It's so fucking true.
gotta tell ya, there is just no way i can imagine having reproductive (or any) sex with some clown just because i thought it was my duty and was virtuous. call me crazy, but something a little more seems to be required.
You're not a soft-minded little bint, I would wager. :) :) :)
OT- I fell down yesterday because I didn't see a wet floor sign and I landed on my butt. I got a bruise/scrape on my arm, and my right hip hurts but I don't see a bruise. Took painkillers but still hurting. Ugh.
Also I discovered that if I search "brocade dressing gown" I'm more likely to find Sherlock Holmes style robes than the terrycloth bath kind. If only they weren't so expensive.
I'm sorry! I'm glad you weren't hurt worse!
:( I'm so glad you didn't get seriously hurt.
Thank you. Just annoyed at myself and embarrassed.
Surely there's someone you can sue??
"Lee University," a private christian college in Cleveland Tennessee, can surely take pride in this product of their "education."
Typical Heritage Foundation hire -- only dimwits unemployable anywhere else.
Ah, ya see, you're not getting the joke.
You see, the good laird, he made us all. Eight and half billion little hairless primates running around. Everyone with their own unique soul. Their own family history. Own culture. Own country. Own religions. Gave each little human their own talents, flaws, strengths, weaknesses, hopes, dreams, ambitions, desires. Every human a priceless unique work of art wanting to find joy and happiness in a brief life in a seemingly cold and uncaring universe. Each little spark of light hoping to burn in its own unique way before the darkness snuffs it out. He took each one of those eight and half billion little human and put them on this Earth and then he wants them to act in exactly 1 of 2 ways depending entirely on what they were born with down there.
Get it? HAHAHAHA... Oh, you don't?
Well, ya had to be there, I guess. Eternity is really fucking boring. Tormenting the local wildlife is really all of us gods have got.
See now, I always thought that might be it.
“Restorative reproductive medicine” sounds like something you'd give someone my age, who has already been through menopause, so they could have a miracle babby.
It didn't make sense to me, why they would encourage reproduction, but be against IVF. But I think I get it now. They don't want gay or trans people to be able to reproduce, and ending IVF would help them in that goal. It's pure white christian nationalism.
Why don't these fuckers just move to Utah and be Mormon and do a whole sister wives thing and leave us alone?
Because everyone else's religion is a cult. You know - 'mine is the only true g-d', etc., etc.
OT
He's right you know
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I’ve never met an Emma who wasn’t trouble.
me neither. coincidence?
There is no such thing as coincidence.
See, here's the thing: millennials, the primary age bracket that is currently having children, was forced to delay having them due to not being economically well off enough to afford them. Adjusted for inflation, the average millennial makes about as much as the average boomer did at their age, but the cost of fucking *everything* has risen disproportionately in the interim.
One of the biggest costs, college, has *doubled* in the 18 years since the average millennial went to college, and there is absolutely no reason at all to think that it won't double again 18 years from now. Who wants to send a kid to college and have them come back with a MILLION in student debt that simultaneously has high interest and cannot be discharged through bankruptcy? Why on earth would people have children unless they by definition are much wealthier than the average?
OT
Tehran:
"So call him now.
No, you call him.
One of you call him now!
Yes, your worship, he will call him. He went to NYU and can do the accent.
Gawd damn you.
What ?!
Nothing your worship. I'll call him!
Sound real sorry and shit, cry a little, like your dog died.
Yeah, I know. He eats that shit up. "
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/09/trump-iran-war-strikes-hormuz.html
Why is it the women who always push this bullshit aren't at home barefoot and pregnant with 10 kids?
She is married to Jesse Watters, so that tells me ALL I need to know.
Nope, same first name, different last name. She's married to a guy studying to be an Anglican! minister
IF there is a "fertility crisis" (assumes fact not in evidence) it's probably because there's an affordability crisis affecting everyone who has kids.
And those who WANT kids, too.
Gee, I wonder why these "tradwives" the Reactionaries keep pushing don't ever seem to consider the issues my wife and I considered when we were deciding to begin a family (have kids).
We knew that the surest way to generational poverty is to have kids before the parents are financially established, at least a little.
Daycare can cost $1000/week for a newborn. Maybe less but maybe not. Healthcare? How about the costs of pregnancy and delivery? Where are you living, by the way? Do you have transportation?
Somehow all these people just have enough money to support themselves, a baby, not have to work fulltime jobs, etc.
Who the hell are they?
People who were already wealthy.
Which is why they're so happy to shit all over "Kids These Days" who aren't rich, and have to wait to start a family and have kids.
Just as the banking interests can't understand why "Kids These Days" aren't buying new cars and houses until they're into their thirties.
Which is what my wife and I did, and yes; these same assholes were shitting all over us then, in the early '90s.
I hear "fertility crisis" and I check to see if the speaker is drooling.
that's becuse Fuckface has attacked Iran again and the Strait of Hormuz is closed to ships transporting fertilizer... and as a result, produce prices will skyrocket.
that's the REAL fertility crisis.