Blog for Choice
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trinityvixenNobody does it better.... Makes me feel saaaad foooor the ressstttttt....
Okay, no more crooning obscure Bond-movie theme songs. But give the link above some love, m'kay?
I forgot it was Blog for Choice day. I think anyone who's ever read my journal would know that I am pro-choice. I've given ground in previous arguments to my more conservative friends about "well, maybe there shouldn't be abortions in later term unless there's a health reason," but I wouldn't today. If the child can survive outside the mother, I would definitely prefer the mother not abort, but I wouldn't support any law making it a crime if she did. It's all-or-none for me. Are some women going to abuse the right? Sure. Are the abuses going to be worse than if laws did constrict the period in which you were legally allowed an abortion? Fuck no.
Coincidentally, I talked with my mother about sex and such today (without being mortified! woo!) and it's clear that she feels things have changed for the worse with regards to how "kids" (meaning unmarried younger folk) are encouraged to treat sex as nothing, especially girls. I think that's a little media saturation on her part (she's a grandma, this is what they bitch about), and it is an unfortunate side-effect of the drive towards sexual equality: the message is being co-opted by patriarchal forces still bent on punishing the sexual woman. So, while we have supposedly reclaimed "slut," we still get shrewish over Scarlett Johannsen saying she gets regular HIV tests because, you know, she has sex. With different people. Sometimes more than one a year. Women who are sexual and enjoy it are sexualized so as to put them back their place, a reminder that, you may have your orgasms, Hot Starlet/Singer of the Moment, but you better stay pretty and submit when your time comes.
I get a little cynical sometimes, so that's that, but I'm mostly positive about how I view a world where choice is a right. I fret over its being curtailed, but not so much as I worry about equality never happening. It's part-and-parcel of equality that choice be an option for women because there is a biological bias against sticking women with the consequences of sex (whether that sex was her will or not).
More than that, more personally, as I already discussed in gross detail today, the options go beyond abortion when you talk about choice. I am talking about correcting a horrendous joke of nature that leaves me a crippled ball of pain once a month and removing the fear of pregnancy. About the freedom to plan my life so that my reproductive urges (or lack thereof) do not determine my self worth. For that, I have my mother to thank. I dunno how it happened, but my siblings and I all have healthy disrespect for the shit other people try to heap on us, and, since I am a female, that adds up to making me a feminist because I honestly don't see how (crippling uterine pain aside) I am any different or why I should be any different than who I am and proud.
Choose life--choose to choose.
Okay, no more crooning obscure Bond-movie theme songs. But give the link above some love, m'kay?
I forgot it was Blog for Choice day. I think anyone who's ever read my journal would know that I am pro-choice. I've given ground in previous arguments to my more conservative friends about "well, maybe there shouldn't be abortions in later term unless there's a health reason," but I wouldn't today. If the child can survive outside the mother, I would definitely prefer the mother not abort, but I wouldn't support any law making it a crime if she did. It's all-or-none for me. Are some women going to abuse the right? Sure. Are the abuses going to be worse than if laws did constrict the period in which you were legally allowed an abortion? Fuck no.
Coincidentally, I talked with my mother about sex and such today (without being mortified! woo!) and it's clear that she feels things have changed for the worse with regards to how "kids" (meaning unmarried younger folk) are encouraged to treat sex as nothing, especially girls. I think that's a little media saturation on her part (she's a grandma, this is what they bitch about), and it is an unfortunate side-effect of the drive towards sexual equality: the message is being co-opted by patriarchal forces still bent on punishing the sexual woman. So, while we have supposedly reclaimed "slut," we still get shrewish over Scarlett Johannsen saying she gets regular HIV tests because, you know, she has sex. With different people. Sometimes more than one a year. Women who are sexual and enjoy it are sexualized so as to put them back their place, a reminder that, you may have your orgasms, Hot Starlet/Singer of the Moment, but you better stay pretty and submit when your time comes.
I get a little cynical sometimes, so that's that, but I'm mostly positive about how I view a world where choice is a right. I fret over its being curtailed, but not so much as I worry about equality never happening. It's part-and-parcel of equality that choice be an option for women because there is a biological bias against sticking women with the consequences of sex (whether that sex was her will or not).
More than that, more personally, as I already discussed in gross detail today, the options go beyond abortion when you talk about choice. I am talking about correcting a horrendous joke of nature that leaves me a crippled ball of pain once a month and removing the fear of pregnancy. About the freedom to plan my life so that my reproductive urges (or lack thereof) do not determine my self worth. For that, I have my mother to thank. I dunno how it happened, but my siblings and I all have healthy disrespect for the shit other people try to heap on us, and, since I am a female, that adds up to making me a feminist because I honestly don't see how (crippling uterine pain aside) I am any different or why I should be any different than who I am and proud.
Choose life--choose to choose.
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Date: 2007-01-22 09:53 pm (UTC)Agree with you 100% on the pro-choice stance, though.
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Date: 2007-01-22 10:03 pm (UTC)Pro-choice is pro-equality, and I don't think guys suffer for equality. After the male-bashing that went on around the Duke rape case, I think it would be clear that equality in terms of sex and cases of possible sex crime would benefit all parties.
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Date: 2007-01-22 10:30 pm (UTC)