Pregnancy

Posted on August 16th
Filed under Rants, Updates, Media, Opinions
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Edit We continued on with our little discussion, and she said something that really made me mad -.-

I never said that sex is wrong, okay? Underage sex wrong. Also teenage pregnancy is wrong, because teenagers can’t take care of a baby—they’ll just end up ruining the baby’s life.

My mother was a teenage mother, she had my brother at a young age, and she did not ruin his life, nor did she even ruin her own. In fact, she says it’s made her a better person and if she could go back and change it, she wouldn’t. She wasn’t planning on becoming a teen mother, but she doesn’t regret it either. My mother is a very successful woman, she graduated high school with high marks, all the while working 2 jobs to pay for rent and babysitters for her son. After that she went on to get I don’t know how many degrees, (she’s a licensed hair dresser and a mechanic), she raised my brother, my sister and I basically on her own, with no help from anyone. And even so, she’s given my sister and I everything we could ask for, she owns her own house, her own car, she works as a manager and even though it’s a struggle sometimes, we make due.

She could of easily not of had my brother, she could of given it up for adoption, she could of gotten an abortion. But she didn’t. She had him, and she didn’t ruin her life, or his in the process. End Edit

I love the show The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, even though some people say the acting is horrible, I think that is the one thing that makes it great. I mean, it’s supposed to be about real life, and well let’s face it, life isn’t scripted. So it makes the show seem more real. Well I was on this forum and a comment made me go ‘wtf’.

This would never happen in real life. The acting is crappy and they keep talking about sex. There’s no episode that doesn’t have that word to be honest.

And I don’t see what “message” it’s really trying to bring. I mean, if it’s trying to encourage people not to have sex, it’s not working. It might even make people WANT to have sex.

It’s about American teenagers but does everyone in High School have sex? No. I don’t even know a lot of people who have done it. Just because they are teenagers doesn’t mean that ALL they do is have sex. There are other issues teenagers have not just SEX SEX SEX all the time.

Also it’s very stereotypical. All of the characters bug me a lot.

I wrote a quick response, trying to keep my cool. Here it is:

Ok, not EVERYONE is having sex on the show -.- actually, only 3 are, Adrian, Ricky & Jack. Amy isn’t having sex, nor is Ashley, nor is Grace. Or are Amy & Ben’s friend, neither is Ben. So don’t say that everyone is having sex.

How would that not happen in real life. I know plenty of 15 years who are pregnant, I know plenty of people who’ve cheated and been cheated on. I know lots of people who starts rumors. What exactly is soooooo unrealistic?

The message is, make choices according to what you feel is right, and don’t have unprotected sex if you don’t want to get pregnant or get someone pregnant.

Saying that anything will make people WANT to have sex is just ignorant, no one can make you have sex unless they are raping you. Not watching tv shows, not talking about it, nothing. I can guarantee that over half the world has had sex! and probably half of your own school has had sex. You don’t need to know it’s been done for people to have done it.

Yes there are other issues that teens have to be faced with, but pregnancy is the worst. If you drink, well you can stop with help, same with doing drugs. But if you get pregnant, well that affects you for the rest of your life. and THAT is what the message is.

How come people think that if you talk about sex, it makes people want to have sex, that is just stupid. Not talking about sex, makes pregnancy happens! If a person doesn’t know what sex is, and how to prevent getting STD’s and pregnant, then if they do decide to have sex (usually long before they are ready, and at guidance of their friends/peers) they could get an STD or worse, pregnant, or in a guys case, getting a girl pregnant.

Lots of people are having sex, and like I just said, normally before they are ready, and because they haven’t been talked to by their parents. Talking to people doesn’t make them go out and have sex. It’s an issue that needs to be talked about, not ‘omg sex, go away’ .. that is what I think most people feel when it comes to sex, either they ‘love’ it or ‘hate’ it. No one wants to talk about sex because it’s ‘awkward’ but they have no problem telling us not to do drugs, or drink and drive. Now, I don’t think that drugs or drinking is any less than pregnancy, but pregnancy affects you for the rest of your life, you can’t take back being pregnant. You can stop doing drugs, you can stop drinking and other than if you get in an accident, drinking and driving doesn’t affect anyone other than you (and anyone in the car).

Anyway, that is just my opinion on the subject, tell me what you think? I have a new section on my site, it’s for reviews I’ve gotten. You can find it under the HeartlessWind section. So far I have added 4 reviews and my comments. Jazzmo, Autumnsunsets, Them-Kids and Starbox all did reviews on me. One of them pissed me off severely, but the other 3 were fine as far as reviews go, and no not because I got a bad review, but because of something that was said that offended me. But read the reviews and put it all together if you’d like.

Well I believe that is all. I might do some smaller updates later on.