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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly that just looks weird to me

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

brah's just GAPIN' out this sweet lil possy omg y'all

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

What a wonderful day to have eyes and the skill of being able to read

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

You probably need to go outside and touch some opossum

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it got scratched up.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

She seems remarkably calm. Or maybe they've got her doped up, hard to tell with those eyes. Love her demurely crossed legs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone with tokophobia, I find this deeply disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tokophobia is a significant fear of childbirth.[1] It is a common reason why some women request an elective cesarean section.[3] Factors often include a fear of pain, death, unexpected problems, injury to the baby, sexual problems and a lack of self-belief of the capacity to birth a child.[4] Treatment may occur via counselling.[1] It is a type of specific phobia. In 2000, an article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry described the fear of childbirth as a psychological disorder that has received little attention and may be overlooked.[5]

-https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokophobia

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's also a fear of pregnancy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it or do you just want it to be? Not saying Wikipedia is wrong but it very clearly states it's a fear of childbirth not pregnancy...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can imagine people afraid of being pregnant because of the fear of childbirth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Complications can also occur during pregnancy. Such as losing teeth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It is.

https://www.acog.org/womens-health/experts-and-stories/the-latest/tokophobia-what-to-know-about-this-severe-fear-of-pregnancy-and-childbirth

It's just more common, I guess, for people to be afraid of childbirth. Or more common for people to be able to understand that fear.