Once again, there's been an overwhelming number of women posting these words...
Well IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!! I have some AMAZING but at the same time shocking news! I'M EXPECTING!!!!! A little over 6 weeks and counting! I know, I'm shocked too. I can hardly believe it myself. I wasn't going to post it in Facebook but since y'all are my family and friends, I wanted to make it official. I'm too overwhelmed to keep it a secret!!! Who would have guessed that me of all people would be expecting!! But I am!! I am expecting Santa in just a little over 6 weeks! Repost if you have a sense of humor. Lets see how many people read the whole status. That's why it's good to read the whole story before you go run & gossip!!!
Stop it girls! Just stop it!
Whether we're tricking people into thinking we're pregnant because it's almost Christmas (what the fuck is the correlation anyway?) or to "increase breast cancer awareness" (how, may I ask?), just stop it!
Imagine, for a moment, your body has been hollowed out by breast cancer and now, unable to have children, you're skimming facebook and happen to see that a few of your friends are OFFICIALLY sharing their AMAZING news that they're EXPECTING!!! How painful would that be?
Or perhaps you're one of the many couples who struggle with infertility... it might seem like everybody can get pregnant but you. Ouch?
Or maybe, just maybe, you lost a baby last year? last month? yesterday?
Could we please just stop and think for a moment before we start posting things on facebook that could potentially hurt our friends and family? I know it's supposed to be funny. I get that people are excited about Christmas. But I'm not sorry that I'm perhaps too overprotective of my loved ones who wish they were, but just aren't, expecting.
So please, just stop.
Amen! "Jokes" like this are incredibly offensive. I know they aren't meant to be, people just don't realize (or don't think at all) how hurtful this is to those of us who've struggled with having kids. Thanks for speaking up, Amanda!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for reading and commenting!
DeleteGeeze, have a fucking sense of humor, and stop letting other people get to you. Don't you have a life? Really, getting upset over that? Are you a control freak or something? Ever hear of freedom of speech or humor? Wow. Smh. People like you make the world impossible to grow and be progressive. I bet your a christain too that hates people who don't think like you too, huh?
ReplyDeleteAny joke could be potentially offensive to someone. It's stupid to not make a pregnant joke just because someone somewhere can't have kids.
ReplyDeleteIt's not about not having a sense of humor, it's about where the sense of humor is appropriate... and those aren't appropriate. They're heartbreaking for women who are heartbroken over wanting "to be expecting" a child and see the beginning of that status and feel their stomach drop as yet another woman is lucky and blessed to be expecting, and then we realize it's supposed to be some silly joke and it hurts. It's got nothing to do with religion or being a control freak, it's about women being sensitive to other women. It's called compassion, something a lot of people seem to be severely lacking. I'm in complete agreement with this posting... never liked those posts, never will.
ReplyDeleteThis was great, thank you :)
ReplyDeleteAnd anonymous, you are kind of a jerk and I just don't like you. Freedom of speech, right?! I guess by your logic you don't have a life either? How are you any better sitting down and commenting on this? And the world won't grow if we aren't sensitive to those who are hurting around us? Ugh. So many, many things piss me off about your comment.
I'm sorry, but this is just crazy! It's a joke! Why should people stop having a sense of humor? I am one of the ones who is unable to have children because of infertility, yet, I found this funny! Which part makes it insensitive? Because it's not true? So should they not post it if it were true? I just don't understand your logic behind this. Should they also not post about finding a job so as not to offend unemployed people? Where does it end?
ReplyDeleteI just found this status update plain annoying-- not funny in the least. It's like kids laughing at the name "Dick".
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