Diaper Change #34 - Perspective

A Note About Diaper Changes

A mother isn’t bothered by a messy diaper or a child covered in vomit. We clean them off, sometimes singing to them or tickling them along the way and then we send them off to play.

As such a mom, I’m treating each Vulgar Buzz Original (VBO) as a child with a dirty diaper. I’m not bothered much by its stench and refuse to ignore the child because it is smelly or in this case, uttering crass vulgarities under dire duress. By the way, VBOs are also known as WWMSU's (What Would Michelle Say in Utero?) to honor our often referenced and Darling Derry Girl.

The Dirty Diaper (VBO #34 aka WWMSU #34)

The sheer contrast between the numbers of humans forcefully killed by abortion daily (200,000) and humans forcefully killed daily by every other means - excluding war but including murder by guns (1300) should be cause for alarm. Our society’s obsession over the latter and nonchalance towards the former is quite odd to me at least… and it seems as though Ms Vulgar Buzz would quite emphatically agree.

How can we continue to obsess over the 0.65% and casually dismiss the the 99.35% as irrelevant?

I was chatting with Ms. Buzz about this a day or two after a radicalized US Army Vet drove into a crowd of New Years Day revelers in New Orleans killing 14 and wounding 35. She said she had made this meme to slap some much needed perspective into the consciousness of all thoughtful people in the face of similar events in the past decade.

Less than 1% of the humans violently killed today will be at the hands of terrorists, gun toting gangsters, or any other person with murderous intent.

More than 99% of humans violently killed today will be at the hands of doctors who legally perform the killings with deft efficiency and focused regard for the safety of the women wishing to terminate their pregnancy.

Ms. Buzz commented further in our phone chat that there is a very plausible reason that there has been an uptick in mass murders in the last few decades. She proposes that there might be causation in the fact that 200,000 humans are killed and thrown away as trash daily, thus devaluing human life in general.

If human lives are that devalued and expendable would it not stand to reason that our entire world culture has become a culture of death?

If such a culture exists (and Ms Buzz and I think it does now more than ever before in human history) then why are we surprised at mass murders that mimic decades old video games produced by that culture (e.g. Death Race 2000)?

Honestly, what do we expect in such a global culture?

Of course there are those who conveniently dismiss the entire thought process above as coming from some right wing nut cases that just want to oppress female humans and their rights.

Perhaps here is where we need to remind those very folks that female fetuses are targeted for abortion more than males in many cultures.

So are fetuses of color.

So are fetuses with detectable disabilities.

Seems odd that we especially target female fetuses of color with disabilities for violent death in order to protect the rights of older females.

Strange indeed.

The Clean Diaper (WWFFS #34)

It was pretty easy to find the image used by The Vulgar Buzz and then copy the style with InDesign to make the more civil language version above. It isn't important which image helps a person make a better choice, it only matters that the message hits home before it is too late for the most vulnerable humans in the world.