Inactive Gwen Hartley & The Hartley Hooligans - Attention Seeking Horrorshow Mom of Two Dead Gremlins & Finally Free Human Son

[LittleAlice]

I feel this way about photos of stillborn babies which are dressed up to look like they're still living. It usually involves really, really premature babies which are basically foetuses.

You can find videos on Youtube by parents cradling these tiny red, translucent creatures while "The Arms of The Angels" plays in the background and there's sparkly Micky Mouse pictures surrounding them.

I know losing a baby is devestating but I think it's also a very personal loss; why share photos of your dead child on Facebook and Youtube for strangers like us to gawk at?

Because we live in an era where people think the internet is their secret diary and feel compelled to put their troubles on display for all to see.
Also maybe because they need to be conforted by the kind and compassionate words of strangers, or by people who went through the same terrible loss.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

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I feel this way about photos of stillborn babies which are dressed up to look like they're still living. It usually involves really, really premature babies which are basically foetuses.

You can find videos on Youtube by parents cradling these tiny red, translucent creatures while "The Arms of The Angels" plays in the background and there's sparkly Micky Mouse pictures surrounding them.

I know losing a baby is devestating but I think it's also a very personal loss; why share photos of your dead child on Facebook and Youtube for strangers like us to gawk at?

On the subject of such sites I’m just going to leave this link here. Thank me later. It’s what made me give 10 bux to join SA back in 2004 as a broke ass teen.

Spoiler

“Your poison womb is making heaven too fucking crowded” - still one of the best insult lines I’ve ever read.

 

[grumbleBum]

Without going into too much powerlevelly shit, I understand why women take photos of their dead babies. It’s all you have to show for what was supposed to be a whole lifetime. I absolutely cannot comprehend why you would choose to share this intensely, heartbreakingly, personal stuff with the internet at large.
But hey, this is a thread devoted to a woman who thinks it’s super cool to tell the whole fucking world about her sassy teenage taters with ‘tude shitting all over the place. Attention whore is so on trend now.

 

[multiverse]

Without going into too much powerlevelly shit, I understand why women take photos of their dead babies. It’s all you have to show for what was supposed to be a whole lifetime. I absolutely cannot comprehend why you would choose to share this intensely, heartbreakingly, personal stuff with the internet at large.
But hey, this is a thread devoted to a woman who thinks it’s super cool to tell the whole fucking world about her sassy teenage taters with ‘tude shitting all over the place. Attention whore is so on trend now.

It's the same thing that drives munchies. The motivation is a particular kind of sympathetic attention one gets from medical issues. I think the public dead bebe momma personas are pretty much the same as public munchies: they're as addicted to the attention as they are to their own sadness.

 

[Barbarella]

Taking photos of your dead children is not new. What is new is the ease in which we take photos and the number we can take these days.

It was done as far back as the early 1800s:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.dail...ldren-helped-parents-recover-bereavement.html

Most people no longer take photos of older children - but they used to, because it might be the only photo they ever got in the days of the daguerreotype. People didn’t have landslides of photos as we do. It was expensive and took a long time.

Now, there are sometimes services provided by the hospital that will come to the bed of a woman with a stillborn and take a gentle photo as remembrance. I could see wanting that done, we all take photos of our babies and want to remember what they looked like. They also get a box with the picture, the hospital clothes and the blanket, all so the parents can mourn privately. It’s not meant to be a public spectacle posted regularly.

Putting it online is the weird part. Now they are “angel babies” and have poems and music and stuff and pictures are posted on birthdays and Mother’s Day, etc.

I guess whatever gets you through but posting pictures of your dead baby on Facebook on Mother's Day is no different than Jahi McMath’s mom doing it. Dead is lead, lezbereal. It isn’t polite to show your dead relatives.

And it shouldn’t be polite to dress up your potato relatives and show them either.

 

[CWCissey]

Goddamn, I just jumped in after a night and I thought one of the spuds had died!

 

[JaneThough]

I don't think I've ever seen a better picture of just how little brain Claire has.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I don't think I've ever seen a better picture of just how little brain Claire has.

The contrast makes it seem like Gwen has a massive alien head.

Too bad Claire’s facial features keep growing instead of her brain.

I now understand why they always put pinheads hair in a ponytail on top. I used to think it was to exaggerate the head size for the freak show but now realize its pretty much the only hair style option when there’s is no back of the head and the hair line starts a cm above the eyebrows.

 

[Helvetica Scenario]

Might hold water if Gwen wasn't a relentless self-publicist who's been riding the Meatloaf Goblin Gravy Train for years.

If this family wanted privacy, Gwen wouldn't be blogging about her brainless daughter's bowel movements. She wouldn't be contacting corporations in the hope they'd trade free products for free publicity. She wouldn't have dragged her drooling, farting, boggle-eyed spuds onto breakfast TV for politely horrified anchorwomen to pretend to coo over, all to champion the thesis that brainless kids are totes amazing, and anyone who even considers aborting a Zika baby is a callous asshole who isn't sufficiently grateful for God's miracles and just wants an excuse not to try. Gwen chose to raise a pair of mutants in public. She chose to court the media and set herself up as the perfect martyr mommy. She chose to demand that the world at large validate her choices and enable her delusions, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to agree with her. She wanted the attention and she got it: she doesn't now get to cry harassment because she doesn't like the kind of attention that shoving your horribly deformed children in strangers' faces gets you, and nor does anyone else.

 

[Trombonista]

To get this thread back on track, I'm wondering what the Hartley Thanksgiving is like.

 

[Dysnomia]

That's the thing. It's not God's will for a newborn whose condition is incompatible with life to be whisked way to an incubator and hooked up to tubes and monitors and breathing machines. God's will would be for them to die in their parents arms right after birth to prevent prolonged agony or pain. It is selfish as hell to keep that child alive and suffering just because the parents won't let go.

That's why I don't get why the fundie types insist it's a miracle. It's a miracle your kid is alive even though he has 200 seizures a day?

I saw one of the videos. Matthew is entirely floppy and has no reaction to his mother at all. He just lays there. When she kisses his face though, he makes sucking motions with his mouth. So his brain must be very underdeveloped if he still possesses that reflex. Much like Lola's rooting reflex every time something gets close to her face.

We do have a youtube parents of autistic kids thread (can't link atm) and some of them do have serious medical issues these shitparents exploit somehow none can compare to Gwen in terms of sadism

The ones that are severely disabled potatoes at least can't feel the shame. Some day the autistic kids will grow up far more damaged than they should have been because their parents kept shoving a camera in their face every time they had a meltdown or did something quirky.

At least Claire and Lola will never know that their mermaid costumes scared children or that their mom constantly blogs about their projectile diarrhea episodes.

 

[jurassic bark]

I'll do it- might as well have a memorable first topic.

At least Claire and Lola will never know that their mermaid costumes scared children or that their mom constantly blogs about their projectile diarrhea episodes.

I really wonder about the trauma kids in that town go through, seeing the taters out and about. I'm not suggesting that the parents hide them, but don't go out of your way to force children to share what should be cherished childhood memories that make their own kids' Halloweens and school dances special with living practical effects monsters.

 

[JaneThough]

To get this thread back on track, I'm wondering what the Hartley Thanksgiving is like.

I can only assume Lola was devoured. We all know Claire has been waiting for this moment.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Most kids probably wait until the Hartleys are out of range and then ask their parents, "Mom/Dad what's wrong with those girls?" (That's how I would've done it as a kid, at least, since my parents would've smacked me for being rude if I said something within earshot)

 

[Trombonista]

Lola looks like she'd rather be anywhere else (that is Lola, right?).

 

[MysticMisty]

I'm not suggesting that the parents hide them

They really shouldn't be out in public though due to their (I'm assuming) non-existent immune systems. I mean, didn't Lola continue to have chicken pox months after it clears up in a regular kid? If you genuinely cared for someone's well being, and 100% believed that they are completely sentient and are otherwise normal sassy girls, you wouldn't want to put them in situations where they can get very sick and stay that way for months. Especially because medicine would (supposedly) harm them.

Gwen doesn't care about any of that though. That'd be denying her the only thing she actually does care about: asspats. She wants lots and lots of praise and attention and she can't max that out if she keeps them at home.

 

[heathercho]

With regards to Michael - I don't know how you could live with having a kid who looks like he's been pickaxed in the face. You're supposed to want to have kids to continue on your genetics. That things a dead end.
Our society is sick for allowing funds to keep these creatures alive.

I can only assume Lola was devoured. We all know Claire has been waiting for this moment.

That thing isn't cooked. Put it back in.

 

[jurassic bark]

Gwen doesn't care about any of that though. That'd be denying her the only thing she actually does care about: asspats. She wants lots and lots of praise and attention and she can't max that out if she keeps them at home.

That's because without asspats, it's all for nothing. It's a r.etard falling in the woods with no one around to hear it ╮(╯ل͜╰)╭

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

They really shouldn't be out in public though due to their (I'm assuming) non-existent immune systems. I mean, didn't Lola continue to have chicken pox months after it clears up in a regular kid? If you genuinely cared for someone's well being, and 100% believed that they are completely sentient and are otherwise normal sassy girls, you wouldn't want to put them in situations where they can get very sick and stay that way for months. Especially because medicine would (supposedly) harm them.

Gwen doesn't care about any of that though. That'd be denying her the only thing she actually does care about: asspats. She wants lots and lots of praise and attention and she can't max that out if she keeps them at home.

I was thinking it’s probably pretty easy to haul them around in public for the very reason that neither of them cry or make sounds.

When you take a normal baby out you need a ton of crap with you in case it gets fussy so you can feed/change/smooth it. Not an issue with potatoes, no matter what you do with them they don’t complain or act up. Gwen can drag their asses all over the place and never have to worry about them making a fuss.

The most difficult thing about taking them out would be transporting Claire’s chair or scooter - and ofc the never ending fountain of shit they spew that Gwen so loves to wax rhapsodic about.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

I was thinking it’s probably pretty easy to haul them around in public for the very reason that neither of them cry or make sounds.

When you take a normal baby out you need a ton of crap with you in case it gets fussy so you can feed/change/smooth it. Not an issue with potatoes, no matter what you do with them they don’t complain or act up. Gwen can drag their asses all over the place and never have to worry about them making a fuss.

The most difficult thing about taking them out would be transporting Claire’s chair or scooter - and ofc the never ending fountain of shit they spew that Gwen so loves to wax rhapsodic about.

Yes they do. They bleat like plagued lambs.
I forget which TV talk show they were on but during the interview, Lola iirc was making these bleating sounds. I think they made noises during Malibu Ken's interview too. But you're right in that it's nothing like the ungodly shrieks of a functioning baby.