Always read game reviews before you buy something on Steam.

Let me tell you a little story- so last night I bought some games since Steam was doing their autumn sale and I’m always a sucker for screamin’ deals. Amid the interesting looking indie games I picked up, there was this game that looked so bad I had to get it: “Pregnancy”. The description listed it as a game where you guide a 14-year-old through the process of finding out she’s pregnant. Don’t judge me- much like how I love watching shitty shark horror movies, I like to play games that are so ridiculously awful that they’re funny. And for less than a dollar, I’m down.

So today I boot up the game.

It’s twenty minutes long, at the end it gives me links to the websites for Pro-Choice activist groups and Pro-Life activist groups.

I’ve been duped.

I was just tricked into playing a piece of political/social commentary on abortion.

Not only that, but the game is programmed to have the girl decide to do the opposite of what you suggest.

And if that wasn’t enough, your dialogue rarely changes her responses. She gave me the same response whether I told her she had a choice or she didn’t have a choice. 

I’ve been hoodwinked.

I can never get that half hour of my life back.

slytherinbunny:

tbh i find it disgusting that anti choice intactivists are using their intactivism to support their bigotry, because that means they completely don’t understand the point of pro choice arguments

Like they say that 1) it’s just as wrong/worse to cut up the “baby” when he’s in the uterus as when hes out 2) that “dont voice opinions on genitals that aren’t yours” is hypocritical because if “women” get to decide if “boys” should be circumcised then “men” get to decide is abortion is ok. (scare quotes bc not everyone with a penis is a man and not everyone with a uterus is a woman)

lemme break down why that’s wrong (don’t worry, theres a summary at the bottom)

1) This point completely misses the point of being pro choice. Pro choice people are pro choice because we want to uphold the right to bodily autonomy. When a fetus is in utero it is not autonomous and does not have the right to bodily autonomy because its body is not autonomous. And even if they were autonomous, they would be violating the pregnant person’s bodily autonomy by using their body without consent.

Once a infant is born it is now autonomous and has the right to bodily autonomy, which is why circumcision is wrong, because then you’d be violating that infants right to their own bodily integrity.

2) “Don’t voice opinions on genitals that aren’t yours” is, infact, not at all hypocritical with being pro choice, because all pro choicers believe that you have the right to your own bodily integrity and that others should not infringe upon that right. 

By saying that circumcision is wrong is upholding that belief by saying that an autonomous person should not have something done to their body without consent. The same is true of saying that pregnant people have the right to abortion, because by denying abortion to those who seek it is forcing them to remain pregnant without their consent.

TL;DR Bodily autonomy is a right, by denying abortion you are infringing on that right, by circumcising someone that is not yourself you are infringing on that right. Don’t force people to do things with their genitals that they haven’t consented to, whether it be circumcision or pregnancy.

Being pro choice and being against circumcision goes hand-in-hand because they both fight for the right of bodily autonomy.

I agree 100%- not only that, but they argue that the fetus should not be robbed of their bodily autonomy, yet that causes the parent, and already living and cognizant person, to lose their bodily autonomy. Also, you touched on this, but anti-choice people tend to be the ones who also deny the fact that not all pregnant people are women, which is a whole can of worms in and of itself.

Basically… yes to all of this post.