@Anthonysmdoyle I'm inclined to believe Lyndsey. Platner gives me psycho bf vibes. (Also, didn't he cheat on his wife within like, 20 minutes of being married to her?) But the irony of a woman insisting we shouldn't believe all women, while insisting we believe her is, uh, not lost on me.
@girlbosswoman Republicans are still riding the high of having Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham in their ranks in the 90s, so they're always insisting their women are "hotter." Meanwhile it's like...you guys have Katie Miller, Usha Vance, and whatever is happening here.
@KittyConspires@girlbosswoman Not really. If we're comparing equal photos (both professionally photographed for newspapers) Amy is slightly prettier. https://t.co/Rr9ECZ7EHU
@EmmaVigeland Oh boy. So we shouldn't believe all women but we should believe Lindsey? Seems a bit hypocritical. "You have to believe me! No, not THAT woman."
@TruueDiscipline Lots to unpack this week on twitter. Right wingers telling me babies w DS are a blessing while simultaneously using the r-word, and then left wingers using words like, "it," "defective," etc. Can anyone be normal when talking about disabled ppl? (Answer: No, from the sound of it)
@shagbark_hick Also, is this in reference to the couple TFMR over a DS dx? Bc we don't do preliminary screening for DS by ultrasound anymore. Preliminary screening is done by blood test around Week 10-12 and then confirmed by other means, usually, yes, ultrasound.
@shagbark_hick Well, one, if a birth defect *can* be fixed in utero, wouldn't you want to consider all your options? But two, I would say ultrasounds allow you to be prepared. Building your baby's care team during the pregnancy, so everyone is on the same page about care from the start.
@KatCornay@mkhammer Oh. Yeah. I’m gonna try to explain this as best as someone as horrific at stats as I was can. The individual risk goes up. But since the majority of babies born in the world are born to women under 35, 80% of (live) Down Syndrome births are to mothers under 35.
I don’t want to do this. Just to be clear because you all lack nuance. I don’t want to forcibly abort every baby everywhere. I just want my Uber Eats driver to go to jail. Damn.
I’m just a girl who made a twitter to get @UberEats to help me arrest a guy who stole shit from my neighbors I stayed a little too long bc finally I understood my terminally online right wing bf. And now I’m being yelled at for allegedly wanting to abort every baby ever conceived
@KatCornay@mkhammer ???? The majority of babies in this country w DS are born to mothers in their 20s. There are always going to be babies w DS regardless of average age of first birth. Btw you have great curtain bangs. I have been trying to get mine to lay like that for two years 🤨
@DCFanFirst@_carmen_dioxide Interesting. I just got called it by a guy with “heritage American” in his bio. It’s almost like both sides use it and should stop.
@JSteph45@_carmen_dioxide ???? Verbalize what’s wrong with saying ppl w DS don’t exist for the world’s amusement. And don’t just say I want to abort them bc I don’t.
@Ga76596597Julie@_carmen_dioxide You are welcome. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m off to go tell an internet random for the five thousandth time that I’m not suggesting we abort every single baby with any disability ever. 🙄