Everybody Loves A Carnival

I've noticed something. Something that may or may not be blogworthy.

Might seem a bit silly at first, but please bare with me.



Bit of a touchy subject all up in this blog



Abortion.



But not just abortion. Teen pregnancy and hollywood as well.



It came to my attention in one of my recent stabs at pop culture, that Teen pregnancy appears to be developing into something...cool?



Example!

Juno. Everybody saw that movie. Everybody loved it, sob story about a teenage girl who gets knocked up and the events that follow.

Example!

The Countless teen dramas that at some point view a misunderstood teen mom and her struggle where everything turns out fairytale

Example!

My mortal enemy MTV has at least one if not more shows circling the lives of teenage pregos.



Now.

Dont get me wrong, Having kids seems like a good thing to do, it would be nice to have a family, I assume. But this whole pregnancy as entertainment thing is just weirding me out.



THEREFORE



I have a theory

I may be totally wrong here
and feel free to call me on it if I am
but I haven't really noticed a lot of shows concerning a pregnancy ended by abortion at this young age, when many abortions do indeed happen.
Could it be possible?
That popular culture media is somehow sweeping abortion under the proverbial rug to shelter the youth from it. Sounds like oppression to me. An unfair bias on the reality of teen pregnancies.
It could be an enormous catholic scandal. Pat Robertson could be behind the whole thing.
Fucking Terrifying.
I say up with shows about abortions!
Come on folks. Its the 20th century, Pro-Choice is the way to go.

If we are going to live in a world where every teen queen on our tv screens gets knocked up, at least dont have every one end in a goofy, sappy, everybody smiles happy ending.
I call for an injection of reality into "reality" tv. (either that or a complete end to reality tv)
Wake up you bastards, prego stories are not entertainment

Now.
If anyone is still reading.
I move to another subject
A subject that I mentioned above
Pat Robertson is worse than the black plague
For those of you not familiar with Pat, he is a right wing christian nutjob. Absolute nutjob.
First he calls hinduism "demonic", then he calls Islam "Satanic". Follow these comments up with numerous stabs at feminists, homosexuals and liberals and you've got dinner conversation at the Robertson house. When the United States government blew up the trade center towers on September 11th 2001 in order to begin a campaign of blood for oil most of the world believed it was done by middle eastern terrorists. It wasn't. Inside job baby, but that is beside the point. Robertson blamed this bad boy on the pagans, feminists (again), homosexuals (again), AND!!!
THE "ABORTIONISTS".
In 2005 Robertson spoke to the news media saying that Hurricane Katrina, that killed almost 2000 people, was "God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy".
This past November Robertson stated that Muslims should be treated as members of a fascist group, as Islam is a violent political system bent on world domination, not a religion.
WHICH BRINGS ME UP TO NOW.
The devastation in Haiti as a result of the earthquake is heart breaking. Good people from around the world are trying to help them overcome this desperate time. Is Pat Roberston a "good people"?

Hell Fucking No.

Roberson blamed this one on the Haitians themselves. Claiming that this is punishment for a "pact that the hatians made with the devil hundreds of years ago"

As you can well see.
This man is more bigoted than Hitler.
Therefore I would like to declare today January 21st to be ......
"International Fuck You Pat Roberston Day"

The good news is, he is sitting at 79 years of age right about now, so chances are he won't be living for that much longer.

and to that I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

-wingfield