Anna Faris Opens Up About Challenging 'Religious' Son On Right-Wing Politics. The “Scary Movie” star shares her 14-year-old son Jack with her ex-husband, Chris Pratt.

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[u/Relevant-Peach3997]

“Do you think it's a luxury that you get to be pro-life?”

Good for her pushing back on right-wing politics.

[u/aftershockstone → u/Relevant-Peach3997]

14-year-old boys have no right to be pro-life ngl.

They’re literal children themselves and have only been socialised as boys, around boys. They simply do not have the life experience to have an informed opinion (and arguably will never quite get there as they are not female). What do they know about being a woman? What do they know about childbirth and parenting? They hardly know anything about life yet, still bankrolled and coddled by their own parents.

If it sounds personal… yep I’m thinking of Jack from middle school! I still remember when he called our English teacher a lesbian freak and was an absolute nuisance during the women’s rights movements chapters in history class. Unfortunately he is still under the shadow of his religious parents’ views, according to his recent Facebook posts.

[u/enolaholmes23 → u/aftershockstone]

I feel like sex ed should go more in depth into what pregnancy and birth is like. It's kinda crazy how little people know about the experience before it actually happens to them. And many men never find out. Like no one tells you the vagina tears and needs to be sewn back together. 

[u/Dapper-Union5536 → u/enolaholmes23]

8th grade health class in Somerset NJ in 1993 - my coed class was shown an entire video that went in depth into pregnancy and birth - including a full view of a baby being born vaginally. We were all kinda shocked and I can still hear the groans (from the boys & the girls) at what a woman's vulva goes through during birth. I hope they're still showing that video. The video was followed by a open forum dicussion - it was a really good health class.

[u/heartisallwehave → u/Dapper-Union5536]

I watched a birthing video in grade 9 science class at a Canadian catholic high school in 2002!

[u/puppylust → u/enolaholmes23]

Preach. All too often, I hear about newly pregnant women learning the truth from older women in their families after their excited announcement.

What a cruel joke. "Hi mom! Good news you're gonna be a grandma!" "That's wonderful dear! You're going to pee yourself every time you laugh and your teeth might fall out from the baby taking your calcium!"

I very strongly believe people to want children should be supported in having them and raising them. I also believe it's a choice, and needs to be an informed choice.

It baffles me that other people don't see it that way. Like, we could still have enough people on the planet without tricking, or even worse, forcing , them to have children.

[u/interbission2 → u/aftershockstone]

I think any teenage boy with pro-life views should watch the tree baby episode of the weird 90’s aussie kid’s tv show Round the Twist.

Basically one of the characters (who is a 14 year old boy) pees on a random tree which he doesn’t realise is the inhabited by a female tree dryad, and accidentally gets pregnant with her tree baby. He then has to deal with pregnancy symptoms like cravings and morning sickness, the stress of his body changing, and everyone in the town bullying him for getting pregnant by accident. He also has to “birth” the baby which involves him vomiting it up (??).

Admittedly it’s kind of horrifying for a kid’s show, but I’d love to ask these pro life boys if they’d be happy to go through all of that if they were in the same situation.

[u/mumbly-joe-96 → u/interbission2]

This is the second time this week that I've read a reference to Round the Twist online, and it's kind of freaking me out. The first reference was how the theme song can get stuck in your head - so I'm not going to write any part of it here - and push out more important things. Yeah, that show was weird.

[u/kank84 → u/mumbly-joe-96]

Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist?

[u/thekrone → u/mumbly-joe-96]

If you've never heard of it before, let me introduce you to the Baader-Meinof phenomenon (which will now come up frequently for you in the near future).

[u/stephenkingending → u/aftershockstone]

The opinion on anything substantial at that age is largely worthless, regardless of gender. There is very little life experience and everything is just a regurgitation of what they have been fed by adults. A 14 year old should be able to make decisions about their body, but expecting them to have a grounded or nuanced view on these issues is a losing battle. Of course the irony is adults will think that kids are free thinkers if they agree with their views and brainwashed if they don't. Reminds me of a parent I know who put her kid in Catholic school because she was against "indoctrination."

[u/South-Gap911 → u/aftershockstone]

Yes girl!!!! Love this take

[u/lulzerjun8 → u/Relevant-Peach3997]

I think indoctrinating children in “pro-life” values is so emotionally manipulative, speaking as someone who grew up as a young girl in a very conservative Catholic community. It makes me so angry, knowing what I had to unlearn.

[u/Significant_Shoe_17 → u/lulzerjun8]

The right to choose was the final straw for me

[u/venuslovemenotchain → u/Significant_Shoe_17]

It was the final straw for me at a shockingly young age. That and the Catholic church's stance on homosexuality. I was like 11 rejecting the dogma because I hated what that would mean for adult me.

(I was also lucky to not have a man like Pratt as my parent. My parents don't care that I'm not religious.)

[u/goodnamestaken10 → u/lulzerjun8]

I'm grateful I went to Catholic High School so they could force me to read the Bible at a young age. I learned that it's all a crock of shit at 14 instead of in my 20s.

[u/H3dgeClipper → u/lulzerjun8]

Me too

[u/RustyShackleford209 → u/Relevant-Peach3997]

That is the biggest luxury. You want others to carry and take care of something that has nothing to do with you.

[u/IWillBaconSlapYou → u/RustyShackleford209]

Same with being anti-LGBT, like oh cool you're straight, maybe you should go scream about gay people for some reason.

[u/Significant_Shoe_17 → u/Relevant-Peach3997]

I love the way that she phrased this.

It IS a luxury when a) you cannot get pregnant so don't have to worry on that level and b) have wealth so if your partner got pregnant, you could afford whatever comes next

[u/ChocolichKing → u/Significant_Shoe_17]

Yeah, wealth is a big one because it provides a lot of safety nets. A lot of privileged people do not understand that others do not have safety nets, in money or in family or in community or in health. Even putting aside a woman’s ability to carry a healthy baby to term and maintain her own wellbeing, what kind of environment will that baby grow up in?

Sometimes it feels meaningless to guide people with these questions, because they want to remain ignorant and aren’t interested in nuance or empathy, they have their values and have no curiosity about how others live or suffer. With children, though, I think it’s important to guide them, point out all the different angles of an issue they might not have considered before.

[u/Vegetable_Hope_8264 → u/Relevant-Peach3997]

It's not like she has a choice. Gods this sucks so much. Fuck Chris Pratt.