What's Your Pet Peeves?

[Goddess]

Another would be people whom are consistantly depressed. I can understand the occasional sadness, but dude, Cynicism is SO 1980's doncha know?

I assume you're talking about negative people, not the ones with real, serious, debilitating depression, right? Because... that's not a choice. We can debate what CAUSES such depression, but it is a real condition.

Also? Pro Lifers. Like, not the concept itself. Just the people whom blindly crush medical scientific advances just because it don't jive with their jeebus mess.

They are a pet peeve of mine too. The idea of banning abortion is so dangerously irrational, I can't believe people even argue for it.
It is purely emotional, not based on reality. If I try to explain the necessity of abortion to them all they say is, "But it's MURDER! Those sweet innocent babies! *SOB*" I'm a mother myself. I know how precious and amazing babies are. That's why I choose to keep unwanted babies from having shitty lives, and focus on improving the lives of LIVING, CONSCIOUS people.

Mormons, also. For no other reason than the forced Child bride thing. they said they stopped doing it, but come on man. What goes on behind closed doors?

I was raised Mormon and I can tell you for a fact that there is no child-bride stuff going on in the mainstream church. It happens a lot in certain off-shoots of the mainstream church, but the huge multi-billion dollar monstrosity we all think of as the "Mormon" church, really, truly doesn't do that stuff anymore.

I am now atheist, if you were wondering. I'm not trying to defend the church, just share my inside experience of it.


But anyway... pet peeves? Well, I spend a lot of time debating religion and also parenting practices. I am a home birth and breastfeeding advocate, so I get into it with a lot of women. There are a few catch-phrases that REALLY grate on my nerves. Some are,

"I don't care about studies and statistics. I do what's right for MY family!"

As if their children are so magically different from all others????????

And, "No, you don't understand. I REALLY couldn't breastfeed! I couldn't produce any milk!"

Then you find out that they gave birth in a hospital, and their baby was supplemented with formula from day one. Gee, I wonder WHY you didn't produce milk??? You can't claim innocence if you did nothing to PREVENT the problem in the first place.

Anyway... there's a lot more but I'll stop there for now lol