Fake Baby Bumps Are Popular in China: Wonderful or Weird?
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2011/12/12 23:00:00
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Maybe you've seen a documentary on TV where a teen wears a fake baby bump to show and experience what it's like to be a pregnant teen, or even a movie where an actress simply needed to look like she's got one in the oven. Fake pregnancy belly suits are nothing new. But this is the first time we've heard of the items becoming noticeably popular.
According to The Washington Post, fake pregnant bellies, which are made out of skin-like silica gel and run for $80 to $250, are selling like hotcakes online. Well, we're actually not too sure how well hotcakes sell online, but you get the point. The product comes in a number of sizes and stages of pregnancy, and has been used in a number of ways, from fashion to fun. One seller told People's Daily, "Most of the costumers have bought the bellies for acting performances or as a joke, though others wanted to experience the life of a pregnant woman." What do you have to say about this kooky baby bump trend?
According to The Washington Post, fake pregnant bellies, which are made out of skin-like silica gel and run for $80 to $250, are selling like hotcakes online. Well, we're actually not too sure how well hotcakes sell online, but you get the point. The product comes in a number of sizes and stages of pregnancy, and has been used in a number of ways, from fashion to fun. One seller told People's Daily, "Most of the costumers have bought the bellies for acting performances or as a joke, though others wanted to experience the life of a pregnant woman." What do you have to say about this kooky baby bump trend?
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lightflow 2011/12/13 01:36:43Weird
+18Sad. To be honest. China denies people the right to reproduce, and they're physically dissatisfied with their appearance so they alter it to look like they are reproducing. Meanwhile they walk past a dying little girl hit by a truck, ignore the little babies dropped in the dump, and try to ignore impending disaster by too many girls 'disappearing' and boys surviving. China's messed up.
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If they are popular in China, I take that as a sign that Chinese women WANT MORE BABIES. A pretend thing can't satisfy those natural yearnings for offspring, so China, stop the oppression and let the Chinese enjoy having their "traditionally very large" families, in China.
People should never be expected to pollute their bodies directly with contrary-to-life, unnatural, shoddy, awkward, Big Pharma contraceptive potions and poisons.
The more populated we get, the more people there are around to benefit from whatever.
Encourage large families worldwide, so that far more people may experience life.
Who wants fake, when the real deal is so much better?
BTW, how does one compliment a woman for a (sorry, didn't know) fake baby bump? "So wonderful you have a bun in the oven?" To which, she begins to cry?
Let world population soar naturally. What part of God's commandment to people, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, did we not understand?
Of course I am for modern death control (i.e. public sanitation, indoor flush toilets, trash collection, clean cooking technologies and refrigerators, canning, hospitals, VOLUNTARY vaccines, herbal remedies) without the unnatural "birth control," as more and more people would be glad to live.
Only secularly "educated" people with small minds, couldn't entertain concepts other than that births be "balanced" with deaths. There is an obvious pro-life alternative. Why not let human populations accumulate and spread naturally, as God and (God's) nature designed us to do?
To suggest that we don't have enough deaths anymore, that's even more bizarre than to single out and target babies to blame for so much population. We have so much population, because God commanded people to Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, and quite many people actually believe that following God's word is still relevant. Nobody is to blame, because to multiply is human nature and the way God designed us. A newborn baby is no more to blame, than you are for continuing to live. A person is a person, when it comes to global headcount. People point the finger of blame, saying "It's those other people over yonder" (of different skin color usually), "who are having 'too many' babies." Do such blamers or population phobics, not see the other 3 fingers, pointing back at themselves?
The world is nowhere near full of people. There's lots of places all around where we could put more people. Who in their right mind wouldn't be for death control, but against the rampant pushing of "birth control?" Which do we celebrate? BIRTH-days or death-days?
There is no need to "compensate" for people living longer, families can remain as large as ever. Parents don't have children just to watch them die, but to see them live, grow up, and have still more children.
Half the world is "overpopulated?" I don't think Asians would like you talking about them that way? (Half the world is Asian, if you didn't know.)
I know the world is "strained." Bible calls it "birth pangs" of the endtimes. Anyway, nature is resilient. Grass comes up even in the cracks of the payment. The planet can much more easily withstand the growing population "pressure," than people can be expected to struggle against nature to "control" their fertility. Human population growth can be very hard to "control," a very logical reason, to EMBRACE the natural spre...
There is no need to "compensate" for people living longer, families can remain as large as ever. Parents don't have children just to watch them die, but to see them live, grow up, and have still more children.
Half the world is "overpopulated?" I don't think Asians would like you talking about them that way? (Half the world is Asian, if you didn't know.)
I know the world is "strained." Bible calls it "birth pangs" of the endtimes. Anyway, nature is resilient. Grass comes up even in the cracks of the payment. The planet can much more easily withstand the growing population "pressure," than people can be expected to struggle against nature to "control" their fertility. Human population growth can be very hard to "control," a very logical reason, to EMBRACE the natural spread of human life, and stop trying contrary-to-nature (-and God) to hinder the natural flow.
Regardless what you and I think, we are due to reach 8 billion, by 2025, if not a few years before. We may already be there, if you believe the various "undercounting" theories going around out there. Probably babies in the womb, bad and sloppy counts or commies who can't count, and tribal people not controlled by the NWO, may not be included in estimated population counts?
Whether people are actually living longer, or it's due to health care, seems rather debatable. I've never been hospitalized since my birth, so how is health care helping me live longer? Perhaps public sanitation (toilets, safe potable water) and plenty of food, are more relevant? There is no obligation to "compensate" with fewer births, for people living longer. The doctors and experts who brought such improvements, never asked nor expected us to reduce birthrates as a result. I think some even realized population could burgeon, and saw that as a good thing to promote. Growth was good. Parents don't have babies to watch their children die. They have children, to see them grow up, and give them still more grandchildren.
Where are all these additional billions, going to live? We put them where we always have. In between all the people already living. Let the world grow denser and denser, whatever it takes to find and make place for everybody and their progeny. There's 3 perceptional dimensions we can yet grow into. Outwards, Inwards, and Upwards. Urban sprawl, denser cities, stacked into highrises. Surely that's ample enough options to cope, well into the for...
Whether people are actually living longer, or it's due to health care, seems rather debatable. I've never been hospitalized since my birth, so how is health care helping me live longer? Perhaps public sanitation (toilets, safe potable water) and plenty of food, are more relevant? There is no obligation to "compensate" with fewer births, for people living longer. The doctors and experts who brought such improvements, never asked nor expected us to reduce birthrates as a result. I think some even realized population could burgeon, and saw that as a good thing to promote. Growth was good. Parents don't have babies to watch their children die. They have children, to see them grow up, and give them still more grandchildren.
Where are all these additional billions, going to live? We put them where we always have. In between all the people already living. Let the world grow denser and denser, whatever it takes to find and make place for everybody and their progeny. There's 3 perceptional dimensions we can yet grow into. Outwards, Inwards, and Upwards. Urban sprawl, denser cities, stacked into highrises. Surely that's ample enough options to cope, well into the foreseeable future.
Yes, I believe in being kind to animals, but I also still eat meat. If we fear or refuse to expand, we do so at the detriment of our children who could have been.
Read the Bible more carefully, and see that human populations have been growing and spreading, ever since Adam and Eve. Some Creationist, thinks world population was around a billion, just before the Great Deluge (Noah's Ark). Human population is supposed to grow exponentially, the way God designed us to. That most all Adam and Eve's descendents also inherit the ability to reproduce, tells us to keep growing exponentially. Even liberals would say we have to allow more people to become sexually active, as the numbers of women of childbearing age continues to grow naturally in many regions of the world. What I disagree with, is their rampant contraceptive pushing. Humans were not designed to use any method of "birth control."
Why do animals tend to be somewhat, more or less, "stable" in population size, while human populations are inherently "unstable" and prone to grow naturally "wild," even though rather predictably and gradually? Because Genesis 1:26 says that we are not animals, and that God gave people dominion over nature and other creatures. That explains why nature is either unable or unwilling to keep human populations "in check." But nature still wants us to multiply and spread, no matter that our numbers are already so "huge" now. Because in nature, most all life spreads into most every niche it can, so why not all the more so, with supposedly intelligent human life? Beehives are natural, so too are mankind's huge megacities, especially if they are built properly. There is a reason they call the NATURAL spread of humanity, natural increase. It's still quite NATURAL.
"Birth control" is not needed, to have smaller family sizes? I think you meant, imposition of population "control." Yes, families come in all sizes, and I'm quite sure, some small families are due to infertility issues, or that many people aren't near as fertile as they think, and not because everybody has been duped into using unnatural contraceptives.
Communists count wrong, because they are incompetent, evil, stupid, and because too much government control over people, just doesn't work. If people fear persecution for having "too many" children, then the solution is clear. "What Beijing doesn't know, won't hurt them." How do we accurately count undocumented births? Now if the "overpopulation " is getting so bad, as the fear-mongers would have us believe, then shouldn't we stop the persecution, so at least we can get more accurate head counts? For infrastructure planning purposes or whatever?
Another issue I have against "family planning." Why have a piddly little small "planned" family of 3 or 4 children, when I needn't use any "birth control" at all, and can expect maybe 5 or 6 "unplanned" children, as is typical in countries where families are still mostly "unplanned." What's so "bad" about having a "bonus" child or 2, in exchange for not having to bother with the shoddy Big Pharma contraceptive potions and poisons? Wouldn't I still love ALL my children? I would want my children to know how much they are wanted, in that their parents never practice any form of birth control, as more children are always welcome, should God allow us more.