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I hope someone sees the humor in this =)

People Freak Out About OctoMom's Tattoo
Last night I was watching the news, and one of the top stories was that "Octo-Mom" got a tattoo. OMG NO!
Yeah, this is news in the states. Pretty embarrassing. If that wasn't enough, they went on to talk about how "immature" she was behaving. What the hell is wrong with people? This lady just gave birth to octuplets and already has 6 kids (srsly...enough). Don't you think she should be able to get a tattoo? On top of that, she's already tattooed. She's just finally getting back into the game =). What I thought was funny about the whole thing was in the video is shows her freaking out thinking it's going to hurt. I've never given birth, but I would imagine that passing 8 kids through body would be WAAAAAY more painful than a tattoo of an angel on my shoulder-blade. Maybe that's just me ;)
Here's the video that shows her getting the "way too large of a tattoo for a mom" Hahaha... news anchors are such tools.
The bigger issue here, to me anyway, is the use of fertility drugs. Talk about a serious body modification. We're talking about a whole new level... body creation? But back to the point. I understand that some people need the help of science to make the little creatures, but when I hear about cases of moms having more than triplets due to these drugs, it drives me nuts. That's not something that should be printed in little writing on the pill bottle as a "possible side effect". That should be more along the lines of, "hey, it's not ready yet". Reminds me of the crazy drug commercials, "may cause anal leakage". "Wait... WHAT?!"
Picture a pretty mom, playing with her 2 perfect little kids in a sand box:
"Do you want a baby, but you're genetics are just too fubar'd? Well, take our easy to insert anal suppository and you too could have a baby! Please consult with someone obviously smarter than yourself first though. Possible side effects include having 8 fucking babies, horrible mutations, inner-womb UFC throw-downs, and your ass may get fat which will cause your boyfriend to leave you."
Let's get the discussion started. Here are my questions to you:
1. What's your take on how news media is so quick to trash people that get tattooed?
2. What's your opinion on fertility drugs?
Discuss...
.: Adam


but to answer your questions i think it's silly that people who get there 15 minutes of fame (good or bad) always get torn down later. take for instance that one lady who got onto "Britain's got tallent" she got a make over and people are angry at her! wtF?! can't she have the right to look pretty?
and fertility drugs are just plain scary. there's plenty of chillinz in the world without making more.
My boyfriend is just shaking his head now.
I dunno about fertility drugs. I guess every woman should be able to have the experience of having a baby. Maybe not 8 TIMES... I mean come on, the earth is already overpopulated... I'm not going to get into that though. I just think that this is some bs that news shows are talking about just to get some viewership and publicity because they've already exhausted coverage of shirtless Obama and Swine Flu.
Oy vey.
I think the news media is quick to trash anything they don't understand. As body modification is slowly accepted, it won't be trashed as much. I hope...
As far as the fertility drugs go, I've had friends rely on them to conceive, and thank GOODNESS they only had one baby. I just wish there was a way to regulate it, and prevent multiples of a ginormous number. Twins, fine. Triplets, can live with that. But holy cow! It's a vagina, not a clown car! I don't mean regulate as in abort the "spares" or anything in that sense... just lessen the number of eggs? Something?
I'm hoping that people who can afford to do all the fertilization stuff can afford to have that many babies. Imagine shelling out $15k for treatments, then going on welfare because all of a sudden you have 12 children in formula and diapers. I'm not knocking welfare either. :P It's just that many is a bit ridiculous. But it's not her fault... she didnt ask to be impregnated with a sports team.
So what do we do - give them fertility drugs to make them have EIGHT babies!!??
Doctors are finally realizing that children born because of IVF or fertility drugs have more genetic defects and are more susceptible to all sorts of conditions.
Maybe people who are unable to conceive should just leave it at that, and adopt instead. There are more than enough human beings around.
I think fertility treatment needs to be regulated alot more closely in some instances. I am the result of fertility treatment but my Mum had no chance of having children without it and it was heavily regulated when I was conceived and I'm pretty sure it still is where I live.
i even read she is in talks about writing a book and a movie!!
how would that go really..... i had a messed up childhood, i got pregnant, it seemed to fill a void so i had more kids, i got obsessed with being pregnant but couldnt support all the kids i had so i hatched a plan to con a fertility person to inpregnate me with 8 babies then sell the story to anyone that will buy it and milk it for all its worth....... yeah that sounds like a riviting book/movie!!!
i think fertility drugs are an amazing invention, but this story proves how easy it is for them to be misused.
i have read stories of people who where perfectly healthy but chose to have ivf because they wanted to have twins, now i find that a bit sick, its too close to the whole designer baby theory, and its just wrong.
and as for the horror of het getting inked, i think any parent who is heavly modded has had someone judge their parently skills by their mods, its wrong and its total crap but people are dicks, we all know this!
2 - meh, i hate babies, but peeps should do what they want. you can always abort a few of them anyways! har har har.
could've gotten better ink tho....
I personally think that she should have not had fertility treatment. i'm down for right to choose etc, but seriously. It pours salt on the wounds of people who cannot have kids or even adopt..... why not go eat macdonalds of some starving kids in africa while your at it...
The tattoo 'thing' is just another way to ridicule or use as 'ammo' for whatever cause.
its all same recycled crap tabloids and chat shows love, just a different stink.
That's my thoughts anyway.