Kaveros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days agoWhy are women in pregnancy test ads always happy it's positive?hexbear.netexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1103arrow-down1external-linkWhy are women in pregnancy test ads always happy it's positive?hexbear.netKaveros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
I mean why? Wouldn’t it be much more realistic and relatable if the ad was like “oh thank fuck I’m not pregnant”
minus-square7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·6 days agonew conspiracy theory: they’re in cahoots with other industries that do body shaming. Oh you think you’re pregnant? What if you just got oddly fat?
minus-squareTraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoI remember there was this morbid Discovery Channel show that was all about women who didn’t know they were pregnant until they had some really bad abdominal pain and pretty much gave birth. My mom was obsessed with that show.
new conspiracy theory: they’re in cahoots with other industries that do body shaming. Oh you think you’re pregnant? What if you just got oddly fat?
I remember there was this morbid Discovery Channel show that was all about women who didn’t know they were pregnant until they had some really bad abdominal pain and pretty much gave birth.
My mom was obsessed with that show.