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trinityvixenA little late, as it was Blog for Choice day yesterday, but I do hope people read this article. It's great that there's all this snide editorializing about the central woe-is-me, saving-your-heathen-asses-is-so-terrific-of-me woman with a martyr complex that reeks worse than Elizabeth, New Jersey. The author sneaks it in, I think, in order to stop herself from coming right out with, "Jesus Christ, this lady is a psycho, get me out of here!"
When Arias talks about the effects of abortion, she’s so fervent that it’s hard to maintain her gaze.
Translation: This woman is batshit insane, and she can burn holes through sluts with her lazer eyeballs.
By concentrating on the babies she feels she has lost (she has named the first two Adam and Jason), Arias has drained other aching memories of some of their power.
Translation: Being molested isn't something she can talk about, as directing her energies there wouldn't give her an opportunity to be a ghoulish freak. Anyone surprised? Anyone? ...Bueller?
Abortion-recovery counselors like Arias could focus on why women don’t have the material or social support they need to continue pregnancies they might not want to end. They could call for improving the circumstances of women’s lives in order to reduce the number of abortions. Instead they are working to change laws to restrict and ban abortion. (underlined emphasis mine, btw)
Translation: She's not being very helpful, attacking the effects, is she? I should get her a copy of Don Quixote, see if she understands the metaphor. Then again, I'm not sure she even has a sense of humor, let alone a nose for satire.
On a previous trip she threw her wedding ring into a valley, pledging to live as a new virgin.
Translation: Fun fact? You can only live as a new virgin if you sin first. Since it doesn't seem to matter to Crackpot God, go ahead--live a little!
She returned home to the news that Jacqui was pregnant. “I was the last person they told,” she said of Jacqui and her boyfriend, whom Jacqui met in church. Arias taught her daughters about saving themselves for marriage but not about contraception. “Abstinence works better than birth control, really,” she said. “It’s just that people don’t do it.” (emphasis mine again)
Translation: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
...
No, wait, you're serious? You're serious! Dude, if we discount human error, condoms would be like 100% effective at preventing pregnancy, and then you could have your pussy and eat it, too! (wow, that was vulgar for me, but I'm still laughing my ass off here! HAHAHAHA!! "It's just that people don't do it." Oh God, someone please make a sitcom out of her brain!)
“I want to ask you a question,” she said. “If you found yourself in the situation of another crisis pregnancy, would you consider abortion?”
“No!” a chorus shouted.
“Can you see yourself living a life of chastity when you leave this place?”
This time, the response was muted.
Translation: You can lead a horse to water, but just 'cause he's thirsty doesn't mean he'll start drinking the Kool Aid, lady. Not when the water is so good. All natural, too.
But along with promoting adoption, the reforms Forney and Morana described were Baby Moses laws, which make it easier not for women to avoid pregnancy in the first place or to take care of children to whom they give birth but to abandon newborns at places like fire stations and hospitals.
Translation: Hey, if it worked for Moses, it's gotta be awesome. Everything in his life was so easy and fun. Ended well, too.
A few years ago, after she preached at a pro-life rally on the steps of the state capitol in Austin, a man jumped out of his pickup truck and grabbed her. “He said, ‘You made me want to worship God!’ That is the highest compliment anyone ever paid me.”
Translation: Worst. Pick-Up. Line. Ever. ("Hey Baby, wanna worship God with me?")
At the prison the day before, I watched the inmates drink in Arias’s preaching, too.
Translation: What? You said I couldn't mention Kool Aid in the article itself! This was the next best thing!
Her ardor and influence is better explained, perhaps, by the theory of social contagion, which psychologists use to explain phenomena like the Salem witch trials or the wave of unfounded reports of repressed memories of sexual abuse.
Translation: We could shut down anti-choicers for good by having them read (okay, rent a video of) The Crucible. And if we forbad meeting in groups of larger than three or four. Okay, so we can't do that, but if they can dream of restricting freedoms, so can we.
And then there is the relief in seizing on a single clear explanation for a host of unwanted and overwhelming feelings, a cause for everything gone wrong.
Translation: If you blame something you chose to do for the way you are now, people can't call you crazy 'cause it's not your fault! Magic pill! Want some Kool Aid?
When Arias talks about the effects of abortion, she’s so fervent that it’s hard to maintain her gaze.
Translation: This woman is batshit insane, and she can burn holes through sluts with her lazer eyeballs.
By concentrating on the babies she feels she has lost (she has named the first two Adam and Jason), Arias has drained other aching memories of some of their power.
Translation: Being molested isn't something she can talk about, as directing her energies there wouldn't give her an opportunity to be a ghoulish freak. Anyone surprised? Anyone? ...Bueller?
Abortion-recovery counselors like Arias could focus on why women don’t have the material or social support they need to continue pregnancies they might not want to end. They could call for improving the circumstances of women’s lives in order to reduce the number of abortions. Instead they are working to change laws to restrict and ban abortion. (underlined emphasis mine, btw)
Translation: She's not being very helpful, attacking the effects, is she? I should get her a copy of Don Quixote, see if she understands the metaphor. Then again, I'm not sure she even has a sense of humor, let alone a nose for satire.
On a previous trip she threw her wedding ring into a valley, pledging to live as a new virgin.
Translation: Fun fact? You can only live as a new virgin if you sin first. Since it doesn't seem to matter to Crackpot God, go ahead--live a little!
She returned home to the news that Jacqui was pregnant. “I was the last person they told,” she said of Jacqui and her boyfriend, whom Jacqui met in church. Arias taught her daughters about saving themselves for marriage but not about contraception. “Abstinence works better than birth control, really,” she said. “It’s just that people don’t do it.” (emphasis mine again)
Translation: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
...
No, wait, you're serious? You're serious! Dude, if we discount human error, condoms would be like 100% effective at preventing pregnancy, and then you could have your pussy and eat it, too! (wow, that was vulgar for me, but I'm still laughing my ass off here! HAHAHAHA!! "It's just that people don't do it." Oh God, someone please make a sitcom out of her brain!)
“I want to ask you a question,” she said. “If you found yourself in the situation of another crisis pregnancy, would you consider abortion?”
“No!” a chorus shouted.
“Can you see yourself living a life of chastity when you leave this place?”
This time, the response was muted.
Translation: You can lead a horse to water, but just 'cause he's thirsty doesn't mean he'll start drinking the Kool Aid, lady. Not when the water is so good. All natural, too.
But along with promoting adoption, the reforms Forney and Morana described were Baby Moses laws, which make it easier not for women to avoid pregnancy in the first place or to take care of children to whom they give birth but to abandon newborns at places like fire stations and hospitals.
Translation: Hey, if it worked for Moses, it's gotta be awesome. Everything in his life was so easy and fun. Ended well, too.
A few years ago, after she preached at a pro-life rally on the steps of the state capitol in Austin, a man jumped out of his pickup truck and grabbed her. “He said, ‘You made me want to worship God!’ That is the highest compliment anyone ever paid me.”
Translation: Worst. Pick-Up. Line. Ever. ("Hey Baby, wanna worship God with me?")
At the prison the day before, I watched the inmates drink in Arias’s preaching, too.
Translation: What? You said I couldn't mention Kool Aid in the article itself! This was the next best thing!
Her ardor and influence is better explained, perhaps, by the theory of social contagion, which psychologists use to explain phenomena like the Salem witch trials or the wave of unfounded reports of repressed memories of sexual abuse.
Translation: We could shut down anti-choicers for good by having them read (okay, rent a video of) The Crucible. And if we forbad meeting in groups of larger than three or four. Okay, so we can't do that, but if they can dream of restricting freedoms, so can we.
And then there is the relief in seizing on a single clear explanation for a host of unwanted and overwhelming feelings, a cause for everything gone wrong.
Translation: If you blame something you chose to do for the way you are now, people can't call you crazy 'cause it's not your fault! Magic pill! Want some Kool Aid?
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Date: 2007-01-24 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-24 11:15 pm (UTC)just for the record
Date: 2007-01-24 09:16 pm (UTC)Re: just for the record
Date: 2007-01-24 09:49 pm (UTC)