Anti-Choice Art Explains Life, Sex, and Moral Decay...with Flowers

[BurtWorm]

Whorishness explained through botany.

Discuss.

My thought: The dandelion's soil looks much richer. :shrug:

[electprogdems]

1. not only that

roses take obscene amounts of food and water to thrive, and need copious amounts of chemical sprays (poison) to prevent blackspot and bugs in order to look good - especially hybrid teas of the type pictured above.

So many analogies, so little time.

[The Stranger]

2. The one on the right is a rubber plant -- it is a fake, hollow, shell of a plant.

Despite all of the fancy labels attached.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Sexual Chaos leads to Euthanasia?

Wow, that's a new one.... :wtf:

[noonwitch]

4. I'm going to go throw up now

this looks like the kind of thing that Campus Crusade for Christ hands out to college freshman when they go from dorm to dorm with their anti-sex speeches.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. It's very striking that she presents "poverty" and "poor education" as results rather than causes.

Not someone whose views need to be taken terribly seriously, I think.

[wtmusic]

6. I'm a bit partial to sexual chaos

and dandelions, too. Guess I'm in trouble.

[NashVegas]

16. Dandelion Leaves Get Served in Fine Restaurants

on salads.

'nuff said.

[wtmusic]

22. not to mention

it's a symbol of tenacity, rebellion, non-conformity. Kids love to blow the seed pods.

Fuck these freaks and their "weed control".

[atommom]

7. And which plant is hardy enough to survive on its own?

It ain't the rose with the roots of chastity. This is ridiculous, but the labels on the evil dandelion gave me a good laugh. Who knew that contraception keeps us from taking care of our children and our elders? And it's supposed to keep us from volunteering to help others, and from having good marriages too. Someone should have told me ... I've been doing it wrong all along!

[wtmusic]

10. Women can't survive on their own

Hence the appeal to "Security for Women". :eyes:

[Quantess]

15. Contraception leads to abortion!

It's true. It says so right there in the diagram.

[Left Is Write]

36. To these people, contraception is the same as abortion.

[tinfoil tiaras]

8. Single parent families are a "problem"?

WTF are these people's problems? I was raised just fine with only my mom. And I'm glad I live with just my mom too. Fuck them. They can take their anti-choice "art" and shove it up their ass.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. These people think contraception is a "problem", too. nt

[Matariki]

17. You know what

I know lots and lots of incredible, caring and productive people who were raised by their mom's only. including my partner. i always tell them they owe their mom's an extra bit of gratitude.

edited for lack of coffee ;-)

[NashVegas]

20. Isn't It Time We Stopped Trying to Defend a Less Than Ideal Situation

And stop trying to convince ourselves single-parent families are A-okay?

It's not the best option for raising emotionally healthy, whole, kids. Sometimes it's unavoidable and therefor, does not deserve judgement by others, but it's rarely, if ever, *best*.

[wtmusic]

24. Main reason is that it's hard as hell to pull off by yourself

Kudos to unmarried moms and dads who get the job done (and it can be done).

[Quantess]

25. Well, if we put an end to contraception and abortion,

there would be no more single parent families. According to the flower diagram. :crazy:

But then there's the "chaotic sex", which of course, all you single parent families are brimming over with. :sarcasm: All sex outside of marriage is "chaotic", you see. :eyes:

Not that I would know the difference...I've never been married, so I guess I only know the chaotic kind.

[NashVegas]

27. Agreed

That's just crazy.

[Warren DeMontague]

33. Actually, all sex where you enjoy yourself and aren't thinking about Jesus and praying for it to end

is "chaotic" for these geniuses.

[SemperEadem]

38. What do you have to say to widows, then?

bag the first man who runs across your field of vision because it's not ok that you are raising your children without a man?

[SemperEadem]

37. I agree with you

and what do they have to say about widows raising their children on their own? Being that that immoral war they all support is making widows and orphans each and every day, are these people saying that being a widow is a slippery slope to whorishness?

[wtmusic]

9. From the One More Soul website:

Meet Eric Scheidler, a man whose entire life was transformed through the use of Natural Family Planning!



Or lack thereof :scared:

[The Stranger]

18. Fucking the planet and its resources with too many people based on sick fairy tale cult beliefs.

[wtmusic]

23. Not just too many people:

too many people sharing that mindset. If he raised his brood to be energy- and resource-positive (contributors instead of consumers) we've got a different dynamic. But we know there's 500 lbs of Walmart shit under their Christmas tree, and will be for generations to come.

[lectrobyte]

11. Never the Rose without the Prick

Seems like there must be some parallel with the Christian Crusade Against the Unclean^TM
with this suburban war on crabgrass and dandelions.

[damntexdem]

12. A lot of manure was used on that rose.

;-)

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Yeah. So who still doesn't understand that criminalizing contraception is the next goal

of the "pro-life" movement?

Contraception, abortion- the bottom line is, these nutjobs want to make non-procreative fucking illegal.

[tinfoil tiaras]

21. and, just because something's illegal doesn't mean people won't do it

Stealing is illegal. There are still robberies. Taking and selling drugs like Meth and Heroin is illegal. People still take and sell drugs. Illegalizing abortion would be one of the worst things to happen, because instead of safe, clean legal abortions, women would have to resort to all sorts of ghastly methods of aborting that are even more disturbing than those photoshopped stillborn "fetus" pictures that the "pro-life" movement likes to throw in your face.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. You'll get no argument from me, there.

They're living in a fantasyland where they can just roll back the country to some 1950s utopia that never existed in the first place. The amount by which these folks are out of touch with reality is astounding; for instance, the religious right LOVES their "abstinence only" bullshit- nevermind the fact that a study just came out showing that premarital sex is not only far and away the norm, it has been for a very long time. Yet the religious right still wants to foist thinly veiled Jesus claptrap on public school students telling them that even if they don't get married until they're 35, they should abstain until marriage. It's ridiculous.

But the wholesale war on contraception- and this is where the "pro-life" movement is headed, mark my words- is even scarier.

[tinfoil tiaras]

34. contraception doesn't even terminate anything

Contraception PREVENTS abortions by PREVENTING people from getting pregnant (most of the time). Wow. The "pro-life" movement is insane.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Yeah, you said it.

If they were really interested in reducing the numbers of surgical abortions, support for birth control would be a no-brainer.

It's not about that; it's about trying to get people to stop screwing in what they consider "ungodly" ways.

Hopefully, with the new congress, we can get some traction on the putting prevention first act:

http://www.pcusa.org/washington/issuenet/wf-040518.htm

and in the process, shine some light on the real agenda of these folks.

[NashVegas]

19. I've Nothing Against the "Rose" Poster, Per Se

The things on there, for the most part, are all good things (if you substitute spirituality for religion).

What the imbeciles who drew these up refuse to concede is that the things on that chart only work when people consciously want to do them for their own reasons, not because their ministers say they must.

So much for compassionate conservatism.

They really should have chosen a different weed. Dandelions have many uses.

And what's wrong with hedonism? Oh, and lust? If these biddies could only feel it with no shame attached, for once in their lives, they might get attitude adjustments.

Final thought: sexual chaos does not necessarily need to be the opposite of strong family life.

[lectrobyte]

26. Look closer. It's got condoms and the pill over there with all those

other things such as materialism and sexual chaos. Sterilization, too... Hmmm... As someone who thinks the earth has too many people already, and I've already contributed my bit to help, am I going to hell because of my vasectomy?

[NashVegas]

28. Straight Down the Elevator Shaft, Baby!

I used to feel similarly about an overcrowded earth, and the thought of bringing a kid into the world as messed up as it is.

Now I just ... feel differently.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. I'm not against having kids- I'm against people trying to outlaw contraception.

And that's clearly where these kooks are headed.

There are several problems with the "rose" picture, if you ask me, including the idea that "premarital chastity" and "natural family planning" are such great fuckin' ideas. They're not, and neither are they realistic expectations to put on people.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

29. Pffft! Whoever made this nonsense must have manure for brains

Piss poor analogies and bizarre visual representation of their ideas.

Where the hell did this come from?

[Richard Steele]

30. Too stupid to deserve comment. nm