This week, Paola Dragnic wrote about the abortion that allowed her to become a mother. Read that and other essays from Hazlitt, Vox, Vice, and more.
"The Abortion That Let Me Be a Mother" — BuzzFeed Ideas
The government of Chile wouldn't let Paola Dragnic terminate a failing pregnancy that put her life at risk. For BuzzFeed Ideas, Dragnic recounts those harrowing four and a half months of her life. "...I stopped being a cute, chubby pregnant woman and became a kind of walking coffin for a half dead unborn child who was killing me." Read it at BuzzFeed Ideas.
Marina Muun for BuzzFeed News
"Swole Without a Goal" — Hazlitt
Anshuman Iddamsetty works out, not to obtain an ideal body but simply to get bigger. For Hazlitt, he wrote about getting swole and how it's actually a rejection of what society tells us we should look like. "I want to be fatter. Significantly fatter, for no other reason than that it feels right," he writes. Read it at Hazlitt.
Illustration by Jeremy Sorese
"Rape Scenes Aren’t Just Awful. They’re Lazy Writing" — WIRED
Laura Hudson broke down everything films and TV shows get wrong portraying rape. Simply put, rape scenes are cheap and reinforce misconceptions about sexual violence and objectification of women. "One of the reasons that creators of media like to include rape in their work is specifically because it elicits strong feelings, even when divorced from all context and consequences," she explains. "Think of it as a recipe for cheap drama: Take a story, add one rape, stir vigorously, and presto—instant emotional reaction!" Read her piece at WIRED.
Neil Davidson / HBO
"10 Things I Wanted My Little Brother To Know Before He Started University" — BuzzFeed Ideas
Navigating the world as a young black British man is a game of trial and error. To reduce the likelihood of error for his younger brother, Carl Anka shared some of the knowledge he passed on to his 18-year-old brother. Read his piece at BuzzFeed Ideas.
Sian Butcher / BuzzFeed
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