This is what I don’t get about people like Vance who criticize others for being childless. You don’t know what is going on in that person’s life. They may have chosen to not have kids for myriad reasons. They may not have had the choice due to health reasons. Maybe their partner had trauma in their childhood and they don’t want to continue generational trauma.
Judging them for not having kids is just idiotic.
This is the nature of all Republicans that i know. It’s not just a disrespect for people from different backgrounds, they don’t even see people who live a life different from their own. They’re anti-abortion because bad things don’t happen in their world - there’s no rape or child abuse or mental health issues or addiction. Well, there are those things but they don’t talk about it.
I work in a public school with kids with severe disabilities. A Republican friend was shocked that these kids attend school. I explained that the other option (the old way) was going to an institution where the rate of abuse was outrageously high and they’re not making babies only because the girls go on birth control to stop their periods for easier hygiene. He said, “Oh my God! That’s disgusting!” No shit dude - that’s the world we live in - step outside of your own before you start telling others how to live theirs.
ETA: I kind of got on an angry tangent there. Sorry about that.
To add to this, a lot of people don’t see individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (IDD) as people. To them, they’re something else.
A person with IDD has all the same rights, including voting, as any other person. To reinforce that, many (or maybe all) states have their rights specifically codified (e.g., Florida Statute 393.13). To remove those rights, it requires a court order, just like it does for you and me.
In Florida, the supports for individuals with IDD promotes and assists them with the voting process, especially with getting to the polls to cast their votes!
I don’t disagree with the ability for IDD to vote, but after living in an apartment complex with a large portion of “intellectually challenged” (they were quiet fine neighbors…the complex was getting away with no maintenance a other scams) I worry that unscrupulous individuals would try to influence them to vote against their best interest (all im am saying is they might not get to vote their choice) which is a shitty thing to do
Idiots don’t care, they just get upset when others enjoy freedoms they do not or simply do not understand or share. Misery loves company and many people are cunts.
It’s deeper and more dangerous than that.
The childless cat ladies are now the ‘others’, outsiders to the in group and free to be attacked.
To the right wing if you are a woman who isn’t ‘breedable’ then you’re in league with the enemy.
That means disabled, gay, asexual, mentally unbalanced, liberal, and thoroughly un-American.
You know… fascism.
I, for one, would love to be bread.
Warm, soft, and moist on the inside. Stuffed with meat like a nice thick savory sausage. Or maybe filled with sweet cream. At least spread with butter and covered with seed. Sesame is my favorite, while poppy is ok.
It all comes down to a lack of empathy. These people made their own life choices that worked out for them personally, but can’t get their head around the notion that other people can make different life choices (or have the choice made for them due to circumstances beyond their control).
It’s like they perceive only one path to happiness - the path they took - and look with disdain on anyone who is doing it differently.
I’m sure Vance read Aniston’s story and was secretly thinking to himself “Hah! That’s what you get when you promote your career over your family”, while booking several campaign trips which will take him away from his kids for weeks at a time.
It’s lack of empathy and lack of personal exposure. They live in bubbles where they only associate with people who think and act like themselves. It’s a fertile ground for disconnection with reality, and it breeds this withholding of empathy for those who live outside the bubble.
