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There was a fashion competition with Tan france (god that last name! what an apropriating prick) as one of the judges, can confirm he comes off as a snobby ass
Next in fashion with Alexa Chung.
agree he didn’t come off well but I actually really appreciated the designers and showing the process and they picked my winner so I was happy.
 
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There was a fashion competition with Tan france (god that last name! what an apropriating prick) as one of the judges, can confirm he comes off as a snobby ass
It's his married name, I guess that's fair enough

I couldn’t breastfeed, my milk barely came in after a c section. At the time the “breast is best” mantra was prevalent and I had nurses and pumps and all sorts. I’m sure it’s partly what triggered my PND, I felt such a failure and that I was harming my daughter with formula (it was depression skewing my view).

These pricks politicising it again have NO idea how harmful it can be to new mums having all this pressure thrown at them. Just feed your goddamn baby, however you choose.
My mother had complications caused by a multiple birth, so she couldn't breastfeed because of the medication she needed. She had "only" had twins, using IVF e.g. for surrogacy increases the chance of twins or more which makes things a lot more complicated. I don't think a lot of the men who use surrogates have the most basic idea about any of this
 
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I used to enjoy queer eye but I really hated Tan's surrogacy announcement - if you didn't see he took an ultrasound picture of the baby and held it over his stomach - it was such a Serena Joy thing to do.

I'm very pro gay and lesbian couples being able to have a family but adoption seems to get so forgotten.

However, I also understand in America that adoption is (unsurprisingly given america) much more commercialised/unregulated. As in, it's possible to for pregnant women and couples looking to adopt to basically try and advertise to each other via the internet etc rather than it all going through government agencies or regstered charities etc.
 
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I used to enjoy queer eye but I really hated Tan's surrogacy announcement - if you didn't see he took an ultrasound picture of the baby and held it over his stomach - it was such a Serena Joy thing to do.

I'm very pro gay and lesbian couples being able to have a family but adoption seems to get so forgotten.

However, I also understand in America that adoption is (unsurprisingly given america) much more commercialised/unregulated. As in, it's possible to for pregnant women and couples looking to adopt to basically try and advertise to each other via the internet etc rather than it all going through government agencies or regstered charities etc.
It’s the Wild West over there. If you have enough money you can buy a baby whatever way you like
 
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That's right, adoption is a lot more commercial in the USA. This is how you get things like the infamous Lisa Steinberg case (child repeatedly abused and then beaten to death by her adoptive parents) where an illegal adoption went under the radar. The "Bible belt" has a problem with families who adopt a ton of children intending to train them as evangelical Christians, often turning into essentially child hoarding. Often with far more children than they can comfortably care for (this is usually on top of the family's biological children as they don't believe in birth control) or kids who come with severe disabilities that the parents cannot cope with, etc.

I think there is a lot of unfair stigma around adoption, parents insisting they only want a child who is "their blood" or believing that if the child is up for adoption they will have inherited something "wrong" from the birth parents, etc. But if you're using a surrogate, that's still genes from an extra person who isn't related to either of the parents that will be raising the child. In those instances I don't see why they'd be so opposed to adoption
 
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I also want to say, 'cos there's a lot of discussion about the woman who looks like a baby, on Ovarit people are discussing whether this person just got an outfit that they didn't think how it'd look on them. The dungarees are by a shop called Blackmilk and on their models the stuff doesn't look ageplay at all. But when you look like Matt Lucas' twin sister, that's the vibe it's going to end up having - so it just depends on whether that's the vibe they were intending or not and that's hard to say. They do have 'kinky' in their twitter bio so that will raise suspicions - especially with the slut and catboy badges.

I'm quite into alt fashion so I'm not the 'everyone has to wear boring clothes' club, But this look doesn't have me going 'wow, this person's fashion is on point!'
 
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I love this man

Oh bless him wearing a bullet vest. I hope he has a lot of support. I really hope the vigilante action the TRAs do backfires on them one day. We can’t have every one having their businesses cancelled and safety compromised just for believing reality.
 
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I had a look at the formula company IG page. They're being criticised by users for making a formula ad during breastfeeding advocacy week/month - their defence is to appropriate social justice language of 'inclusivity' and 'safe space' to try and shut people up (it's a relation of BeKind). They deliberately used a gay man as a human shield to try and deflect any criticism they anticipated. Gross tactics.
 
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