\nThe ongoing struggle for the anti-choice movement is
\ncovering up the vicious misogyny that compels the belief that women who
\nhave sex should be punished with mandatory childbirth. In the past, most of the
\nfocus was on trying to argue for fetal personhood to distract from this ugly
\nmisogyny, but I suppose it became clear that erasing women from the equation
\naltogether doesn’t do much to convince people you don’t hate women. So now the
\nanti-choice focus is on arguing that they’re not misogynist, they just simply
\nbelieve women are too stupid to make their own decisions and have to be forced
\naway from abortion for their own good. Again, feminists tend to balk at the
\nidea that "women are fundamentally stupid" isn’t a misogynist argument, but I
\ncan see that anti-choicers might feel it’s downright compassionate compared to
\nthe "stupid sluts should have kept their legs shut" argument of old.\n<\/p>\n
\nUnfortunately for anti-choicers, the "punish the sluts" \nSo, as a public service to anti-choicers, I thought I’d \n*************\n<\/p>\n \nReasons Not To Have \nEducation is wasted \nUnintended motherhood \nHey, maybe he’ll \nAnd maybe he won’t.<\/strong> \nPain is what you \nNo one cares what you \n***********\n<\/p>\n \nOf course, I have to point out at this point that The ongoing struggle for the anti-choice movement is covering up the vicious misogyny that compels the belief that women who have sex should be punished with mandatory childbirth. In the past, most of the focus was on trying to argue for fetal personhood to distract from this ugly misogyny, but I suppose it became clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmessage may lose points for meanness, but it really gains points for being
\nstraightforward and easy to understand. Feigning compassion for pregnant women
\nhas introduced levels of complexity that render anti-choice arguments
\nincreasingly incoherent. For instance, a feminist buddy emailed me a link to 101 Reasons Not To Have An Abortion<\/a>, a
\nfaux "concerned" guide full of the usual lies about abortion, assumptions that
\nwomen who have abortions are a separate category from mothers (most women who have
\nabortions are already mothers)<\/a>, and maudlin rhetoric implying that all
\nwomen want exactly the same thing and anyone who says otherwise is in denial. But
\nwhat really jumped out at me about this pamphlet was that it was incoherent. I
\ncould barely read it, because the author Serena Gaefke gets so bent into a
\npretzel trying to make arguments against women’s hopes, dreams, and futures
\nso she can sound pro-woman.\n<\/p>\n
\nmodel a clear-cut argument stating in my terms the real reasons you<\/strong> don’t want women
\nto have abortions. Sure, these arguments might sound meaner than the
\nnonsensical ranting you’ve gotten into feigning concern for women, but they
\nhave the advantage of clarity. And in the world of politics, clarity matters
\nmore than anything.\n<\/p>\n
\nAn Abortion When You Have An Unwanted Pregnancy<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
\non women.<\/strong> Hey, teenage girls with unintended pregnancies! I know you’re
\nthinking, "Gosh, I really don’t think I can go to college with a baby in tow
\nand very little help. It’s just too much." And you’re right; you can’t. But so
\nwhat? What are they going to teach you in college that you need to know? Getting
\nthat education makes you start entertaining ideas like joining professions and
\nmaking your own money, instead of getting married and becoming dependent on a
\nman. Blegh, who wants to study anyway? It’s hard.\n<\/p>\n
\nisn’t a lot of fun.<\/strong> You heard it from Bristol Palin — having a baby when
\nyou’re not ready means watching your friends gallivant around, coming and going
\nand dating who they please, while you’re stuck at home changing diapers. Good! You
\nhad it coming for thinking you could just have sex because you wanted to. Hope
\nyou learned your lesson. And look on the bright side — having a baby around
\nmeans that you won’t be having nearly as much of that freedom and fun that
\nwomen weren’t meant to have anyway.\n<\/p>\n
\nmarry you.<\/strong> Sure, you had all these fantasies about having a baby with a man
\nwhen both of you decided that you were sure of the time and sure of each other.
\nBut that’s that desire for self-care and control that’s so unseemly in women. Having
\nyour spouse determined for you by the accidental slip of a condom is a useful
\nreminder that your life doesn’t belong to you, and your job is to passively
\naccept the fate that’s handed to you.\n<\/p>\n
\nWhoops! Too bad for you. But take heart in this — conservatives are working
\nround the clock to make sure that you don’t have much financial support outside
\nof that you can get through marriage. And that means that you’ll probably be in
\na situation where you’ll have to take anyone who’ll have you, because you’ll be
\ndesperate. That sounds unfair and cruel, but think of it from a man’s
\nperspective. Who wants to have to be a good man when artificially lowering
\nwomen’s standards works so much better?\n<\/p>\n
\ndeserve. <\/strong>Whether it’s the grief of giving a child up, the suffering of
\nmarrying someone you didn’t really want, or even just they physical pain of
\ngiving birth against your will, you have to ask yourself: Do you really think
\nyou deserve better? You did, after all, have sex. Be grateful that unwanted
\nchildbirth is all you’re getting, since stoning fornicators is the sort of
\nthing they did in less civilized eras.\n<\/p>\n
\nthink.<\/strong> You’re a woman, which means that you have a uterus, which means that
\nyou need to stop thinking and start procreating. A woman not having a baby is
\nlike the refrigerator spitting out the gallon of milk you just put in it. It’s
\njob is to chill milk! And your job is to gestate. You can no more turn than
\ndown than a refrigerator can reject a gallon of milk.\n<\/p>\n
\nGaefke’s rather incoherent pamphlet actually makes this last point, but in
\nobtuse, hard-to-understand language. She writes, " If
\nabortion is wrong… Then it’s the destruction of the family, the little child
\nand ultimately, women." Which is her attempt to say nicely that a woman not
\nhaving a baby is like a car that won’t drive, or a refrigerator that thinks it
\ngets to pick what food to contain. Except that she, in her attempts to make a
\nfundamentally misogynist idea sound better, ends up sounding dippy and
\nincoherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"