Congratu-fucking-lations!

Sometimes I just have to sit down and say to myself, what the fuck is wrong with society these days?

So this girl I know had a dream.
Her dream was to go to Thailand and help people.
She was going to achieve that dream next year, she graduates from highschool this year and she was raising money to afford it.
Now instead, she's going to be raising a child.

This girl may sound like a great person from what I've told you about her, but you don't know her. She makes a lot of commitments that she can't live up to, she spends her time partying and drinking.

But that's not important. It doesn't matter what kind of person she is.
What matters is that she is a young girl with a dream.
So why then, why are people saying to her "congratulations!"?

Congratulations for what?
For getting pregnant in high school?
For getting pregnant when you don't have the mental or financial capacity to look after a child?
These people might as well be saying "Congratulations! Your future is over and you can no longer achieve your dream of going to Thailand! Good job!"

Now before you get on my case saying maybe it wasn't her fault, remember that you don't know the backstory, but I do. She is happy about this baby.

I don't understand why.
Why would someone be happy about the fact that an 18 year old girl who had her whole life ahead of her is going to have to give up her dreams to be a mother?
Why is that something to be congratulated on?
It's not.

I will not congratulate you for bringing a human being into this world when you are not capable of giving it the life that it deserves.

Property Of…

So today I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed and this one thing stuck out to me.
This girl that I've talked to maybe twice updated her profile picture.
Why is that a big deal? Well, it's not.
But what I saw next is. Her boyfriend had commented on it.
"Property of *her boyfriend's name*".
And that just really infuriated me.

People are not property, you cannot own a person.
And you know what's worse?
He probably meant that in a "loving" way.
This is a perfect example of how women are treated in this society.
We're supposed to belong to somebody else and not only be okay with that, but WANT it.