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Dear Fucktards update.

Dear Fucktards, my new blog has been updated! http://dearfucktards.blogspot.com/

Unrealistic Expectations

So there's a woman in my due month group who is devastated because she's 6 months pregnant and she and her husband have gone 10 whole days without sex.

....seriously?

Her husband is desperate to the point of begging. Apparently he came home last night and asked, "Shawna, am I ever going to get any?" Poor. Baby.

So he proceeds to tell her - in this incredibly shamed manner - that he's quite afraid of this ten day gap. .. I mean...he's so deprived, he's been having...*gulp*...THOUGHTS about other women. He even admits that he's not even, you know, daydreaming about bending that hot receptionist over the desk - but rather, he sees a hot woman and thinks about sex with his wife.

She proceeded to come unhinged. She was devastated. It apparently hurts her to think that her husband could have sexual thoughts that weren't 100% about her or that anyone but her could inspire sexual thoughts in him. She started questioning whether or not he was going to start cheating on her because she hadn't had sex with him in 10 days and she started blaming him for making her feel bad by putting these thoughts in her head.

REALLY??!

I love it when we live in a world where not only does a wife feel mortified, furious and disgusted at the thought of her husband having (lets face it) completely normal and healthy feelings but a world in which her husband feels completely ashamed and horrified at them himself.

(TMI)
I'm also 6 months pregnant and I think I've probably done the horizontal shuffle maybe 4 times? Maybe? I'm just not interested. Husband? Totally fine with this. He told me that while yes, he'd sure like to participate with me, my body "seems a little preoccupied" and he's happy to do this in single player mode. Sounds good to me, honey...here's some porn, go for it.
(/TMI)

Is that...SO HARD? (no pun intended) Do we really have to go into a shame spiral and start denying that when it comes down to it - we ARE "just animals" in many ways?

So many people spend their lives bashing their heads against a wall trying -so hard- to make themselves BETTER than animals. ...and I have to wonder why? Isn't it simply enough to recognize that hey - we're animals, but we've sure as hell got one on those fucking lemurs over there. Stupid monkeys (yes, I know), they can't even do calculus! AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. We need to deny that we could possibly have ANYTHING in common with ANY animal? It's not only denial - it's ARROGANT.

Get over yourselves, humans. You may have huge brains and fancy pants - you're still basically just apes.

Losing Friends

Lost a friend today. He told me about his family neglecting their dog - I told him that this was not okay. He gave me the 'it's just a dog' attitude - I reported him to the SPCA. I hope they find that the dog is well cared for and that nothing's wrong - but I can't hear about a dog being locked in a dark garage 24/7, his house full of animal feces/urine and remember the cat that they let die without getting treatment (after hearing about it festering for -months-) and not at least err on the side of caution. No dog is 'just a dog' to me.

I told him - I didn't throw it in his face, I let him know gently that I had called and again that I hoped that they'd find nothing to be concerned about. He would have known anyway. It felt like the right thing to do to just own it to begin with.

Was called a bad friend, was told that he doubted I'd call them because I'm not 'that good a person'. Was called all manner of names. Was told that his family life is unstable (mother threatening to go back to the Ukraine if anything happens to the dog while the father is insisting that they don't want/can't keep the dog) and that if this breaks their family apart it's on me.

Was called a horrible person for being more concerned about the welfare of a dog than the marriage of his parents.

He's right. I am more concerned about the 'it's just a dog' who can't speak for himself, who can't fight for his rights and who is regarded as 'just a dog' than his parents' apparently already ridiculously fragile marriage. And sure...if his mother does move back to the Ukraine because of this, I might feel a little bad. But if the SPCA goes out there, finds something seriously wrong and finds this dog a better home that actually loves it - I'll know that I did the right thing.

Dan Fanelli Ad

Doesn't this kind of make you sick?

..I'm a sick, sick woman and -I- find this several levels of disturbing.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1100/masturbation.html

(EDIT: I am apparently also the last person to discover that this website is a joke.)

People Never Have Anything Positive To Say

Have you ever noticed people's tendency to make only (or mostly) negative comments when they hear that someone is pregnant?

"You must be getting so uncomfortable."
"You're getting bigger so fast!"
"You'll never sleep again."
"Say goodbye to your freedom."
"Your body will never recover."
"You're having joint pain? That will last forever, now."
"I hope you like the sound of screaming."
"Get used to it (whatever uncomfortable thing you're experiencing)."

Do they think this is somehow...helpful? Do they think they're clever? Or...are they begging me to run them down with my car?