? Nothing tells me anything about their grade on page four. Is it the "Math III" written in the book cover? How am I supposed to know which grade that represents? You could have a math III theme in primary school too, so I don't see your point here.
That's kinda true, but the only changing detail is the knot instead of the usual necktie in one of the illustrations. Before that, they're drawn as toddlers with neither, so we only have one little drawing of her with a knot instead of a ribbon compared to all the neckties and all the nothings from younger than middle school.
So asking me to understand this is not happening in middle school when the "clues" are so sparse, that's kinda pushing it.
But I agree with you on this, and I already amended my statement saying, "Edit disclaimer: She's already gotten past middle school, so most of what I said in the spoiler comes from a wrong assumption." Meaning that most of what I said after that was kinda useless, although the critique about having a child not in middle school but in high school still stands, it's still way less disturbing and problematic than how I talked about it in the end.
I mean, they're not explaining how they're going to do things in the future, and since I live in reality, I'm simply imagining how things would go: They'll have a harsh life ahead of them, not like what the rosy end is leading us to think. At that point, it's totally normal to assume, and that's the only thing I can do. The only difference is how others will assume different things, so it's normal people aren't all going to agree with my vision of things in this story.
What change in situation? All knowledge that can be linked to this "situation" (story) is statistics on how hard it is to have a child at that age and educate it. Statistics on abortions at that age. And other stuff. But I don't know those numbers; I'm just convinced life isn't that rosy, that's all.
If you can't prove me with facts that I'm wrong, or I can't prove you I'm right with facts and examples (the numbers I just mentioned, for ex., or even better, interviews of auxiliary midwives or related personnel to childbirth and childcare), then we're only going to exchange our biased views on the matter, and that won't lead our discussion very far, unfortunately. No big deal though; at least we know where we both stand and how far this argument can go. That's already pretty cool.
Well, that's true; I'll give you that. But I'm not really acting blind, am I?
Anyway, it's true I wrote my initial comment to feel better. But my goal was not to trash around the story without reason; it was to express why I felt bad and the reasons for why I felt that way. Which led me to give the reasons why my opinion on this story is mostly negative.
The goal wasn't to rage bait people that think differently, and I apologise if you felt hurt by my comment; that wasn't the point.
After realising I made a mistake earlier (when the first person answered me about the mc being in middle school), I specifically modified my first comment to make sure people understand I didn't do what you accuse me of doing, "using everything as ammo and acting blind to push your agenda and feel better." Or at least to show that wasn't the intent.
If the explanation of me making a mistake in my post isn't transcribed well enough and people still don't understand me, then that's how it is. I already tried to turn back, but it was too late.
I didn't want to delete my comment; I wanted to amend it to leave my reflection behind, which I think is still relevant (high school girls giving birth and educating a child at that tender age).
Thank you for taking the time to answer me honestly like this; I appreciate it a lot.
