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hello

so i’m not sure if anyone noticed i was gone but i’m back. not for long, i think, just to kind of explain why i bailed.

i left. i left instagram, snapchat, twitter, whatsapp ((i left every group chat i was in, i didn’t answer people who i felt like didn’t need to be answered. basically i only used some of these apps to communicate with a selected group of people)). i unfollowed practically everyone on tumblr, deleted people from my snapchat, and erased a few contacts from my phone as well.

i was/am going through a rough patch right now and i need a break from all social media. a place i used to consider safe and comfortable became toxic and scary for me. it wasn’t what i needed for my already unstable mental health.

just a few months ago, i was doing great. i was finally happy. then, somwhere along the road, that happiness faded into the same darkness i thought i had escaped. every day i fell deeper into that dark hole that i never want to go back to. it’s like i blinked and all that i worked hard to achieve was taken away from me, replaced by ugliness.

people who i thought were my friends, weren’t. people i used to think i couldn’t live without, i coped with their absence. everything changed and i didn’t notice until it was too late to fix.

i don’t know when i’ll come back to this blog, if ever, but i just wanted to explain myself before disappearing again. i’ll be on and off for a few days and then i’ll be gone again.

bye, guys.

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The Signs’s Marvel Boyfriends

Aries: Thor

Taurus: Captain America / Steve Rogers

Gemini: Spider-Man / Peter Parker

Cancer: Daredevil / Matt Murdock

Leo: Deadpool / Wade Wilson

Virgo: Doctor Strange / Stephen Strange

Libra: Bucky Barnes

Scorpio: Iron Man / Tony Stark

Sagittarius: Starlord / Peter Quill

Capricorn: Bruce Banner

Aquarius: Loki

Pisces: Ant-Man / Scott Lang

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“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

reblogging for commentary 

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

And that is gross. 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE abortion that I have ever read.

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