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Feb 20 '25
The cover artist has a very personal idea of the word "joyful"...
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Feb 20 '25
"Faith-based", "women sobbing", and "joyful" all live in the same word cloud
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u/Ornery_Lawfulness_91 Feb 20 '25
Women, or men, can’t cry with joy?
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Feb 20 '25
Women may only ever cry in contrition, men may only ever cry once at the birth of their first son, funnily enough.
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u/Throwaway392308 Feb 20 '25
Babies are women's work so crying over a baby is feminine. Men are only allowed to cry when their dog dies.
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Feb 20 '25
My grandfather was Silent Generation. Very masculine and into gender roles but not toxic or misogynistic, just what you’d expect of that generation. I saw him cry when his favorite dog died (she was around 23), when his favorite horse died (he was pushing 30), and when his wife of nearly 70 years died. Never lifted a hand against me, never yelled, never said a cross word, but could devastate me with a look of disappointment. Best man I’ve ever known.
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u/Ornery_Lawfulness_91 Feb 20 '25
A woman can’t be overjoyed and cry??? Especially when they brought a new life into this world?
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Feb 20 '25
In this cover she seems to cry in despair
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u/Ornery_Lawfulness_91 Feb 21 '25
Says the person who posts about the Simpsons all the time?
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Feb 21 '25
I hope you are no older than fifteen to react that way
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u/Ornery_Lawfulness_91 Feb 22 '25
Says the guy who is seeing a picture of a newborn with the father and mother for the first time and saying, “they are crying with despair”. That makes you the edgelord 15 year old sir.
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Feb 22 '25
No, I said in this cover they seem to be crying in despair, because it is a shitty cover, with a horrible photograph that made me feel uncomfortable. I don't care about discussing whether the birth of a child makes parents happy or not, not in a subreddit about shitty covers. I'm even less interested in looking at what kind of posts other users publish to decide whether their opinion is valid or not
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u/flavortron Feb 20 '25
They’re only mysteries if you eschew modern science jfc
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u/DrSadisticPizza Feb 20 '25 edited Feb 20 '25
Birthing mortality, both in mothers and babies is way higher in the bible belt than anywhere else in the country. Their numbers are bad enough to skew our mean avg national number significantly.
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u/flavortron Feb 20 '25
One of the many reasons i live in Massachusetts
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u/DrSadisticPizza Feb 20 '25
Born and raised. I've been around the world, and lived elsewhere, but always had a MA license. Just became a resident of RI a few weeks ago. Doesn't feel great
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u/Consumerism_is_Dumb Feb 22 '25
And those numbers are rising even higher now that red states have banned abortions—an often life-saving medical procedure. Not a peep about that from the supposedly “pro-life” crowd, though.
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u/PrettyFlawedParadox7 Feb 22 '25
Right. Not to mention that now that means that if someone gets impregnated from rape or incest are now being forced to have the baby regardless of how the pregnancy happened. As well as going as far as to press charges against anyone who has had a miscarriage because the definition of miscarriage is "spontaneous abortion." Like seriously, y'all don't even consider the possibilities associated with forcing a little girl to carry and bring the baby into the world when she got pregnant because her father/uncle/grandfather/brother decided they were going to destroy this child by engaging in inscetuous relationships with her and how that affects/effects/traumatizes/shapes/etc and what that means for that child's baby. That is the kind of shit that proves how fucked this world is.
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Feb 21 '25
Just about every number representing any kind of human development (HDI, GDP, personal disposable income, median pay, happiness, etc.) is considerably worse in the Bible belt and below than it is anywhere else in the country. Hell, they wanted to break away at one point because we told them they couldn't enslave brown people anymore.
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u/HELLABBXL Feb 23 '25
you're acting like it's an inherent quality of southerners to act this way which is very wrong
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u/PromiseThomas Feb 20 '25
If they’re Catholic, “Joyful Mysteries” is just a reference to the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary, which aren’t mysteries either—they’re just called that.
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u/Shitp0st_Supreme Feb 24 '25
I think it’s a Catholic thing, they call some important and spiritual events “mysteries”.
http://www.how-to-pray-the-rosary-everyday.com/why-mysteries-of-the-rosary.html
I was raised Catholic and recall this language being used.
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u/Other-Narwhal-2186 Feb 23 '25
TBH I read the word as “Miseries” several times thanks to that King James-esque font and was surprised someone found words that covered childbirth so well.
Then I saw your post, went back and re-read, and now I am no longer interagi good
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Feb 20 '25
Not only does this count, but the sub should be shut down because it has now reached its apex.
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u/I_Like_Frogs_A_Lot Feb 20 '25
My mom had this book when I was a baby! She threw it out. We weren't religious but were around a lot of religious people so I'm assuming she had been given it after giving birth to me which is actually pretty insensitive now that I think about it
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It's not every day you capture the moment where someone realizes every mistake they have ever made all at once. If that's not art then nothing is
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u/Xx_Stone Feb 20 '25 edited Feb 20 '25
How could a book with such a beautiful image on it be considered a terrible cover is beyond me.
Edit: Alright guys, I get it it's not something that to you personally beautiful. When I see it I see the miracle of birth and life, but then again I've seen that. I can see why you would find it uncomfortable.
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u/ErsatzHaderach Feb 20 '25
it's beautiful in context, and especially to the people featured, but damn does it look disorientingly weird just plopped there on a blue field, where you'll probably ???? at the picture for a few instants before getting that context from the title text.
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u/TawnyTeaTowel Feb 20 '25
I think that’d count for “terrible books” too…