"It goes without saying..."

"If it goes without saying, then why do you say it?" — Charlie Brown.

This is one of my favourite quotes. It just sums up the irony that is the bullshit drummed into us every day, every corner of our lives. 

Just take today, whilst attending a class for Professional Ethics, here’s what I read:

"Women who have unintended pregnancies, or abortions, have a greater likelihood of having previously engaged in unprotected sexual intercourse (Insert: a bunch of "researchers" and date of publishing)."

ARE YOU SERIOUS? Some dudes sat around thinking, HEY! Let’s get some dumbass bullshit published in a respectable scientific journal!

But wait, it gets better because the next line reads (and I quote):

"One explanation for this pattern is that involvement in problem behaviours follows definite pathways in which specific factors place the individual who has participated in one behaviour (e.g., unprotected sexual intercourse) at risk of initiating another (e.g., unintended pregnancy), which in turn puts that person at risk for another event (e.g., abortion) (Insert: some more weed-smoking, high-fiving "researchers" and date of publishing)."

WHAT?! So that’s the sequence…Oh My God (in the voice of Janice from FRIENDS). I had no idea that I had to have a pregnancy before I could have an abortion. And I certainly did NOT know that unprotected sex puts me at risk of becoming pregnant!

See, that’s how much we can learn….all in a few hours. 

What a lovely Saturday night I’m having….learning about Professional Ethics and having read almost all the articles on Google News and then decides to look at what would happen if a client informed me that she wants to have an abortion and THIS IS WHAT I FOUND…and it’s under the American Psychological Association guidelines and reports regarding what else but “Abortion”. DUDE. I could not have used my time any better.

Happy Saturday.