It happens to the best of us. I cant help but be filled with rage and a sense of powerlessness sometimes. A moment of clarity as it were, came upon me today, the 35th birthday of my (tentative) legal right to make my own reproductive decisions. Blanket statements are typically prejudiced and fallacious, albeit cognitively convenient. Every single person on this planet with testicles doesn't hate women. Hugo Schwyzer seems to empathize and raise up the feminist movements. After reading several of his blog entries Ive deduced he has a firm grasp on reality- he understands the patriarchal rape culture, his role and privilege in it and how to address these issues. Men Can Stop Rape is another brilliant organization founded and run by members of the patriarchy that works in the community to raise awareness and address their role in the degradation of women. Women and men must work together and tackle the inequalities that we all suffer from in a gender biased society.
In any event, here we are, 35 years later, and my right to a safe abortion still up for debate. Legislation passes dangerously close to law that restricts our rights, and people came out is droves today in support of the "Anti Abortion" movement. Oh the horror- most of these people are women. Not only do we have to fight the sex hierarchy, we have to fight each other.
Imagine if those people protested the war instead of rallying together to oppress themselves. Epiphany.
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Feminism is a double-edged sword. I'm a little older than you (probably). Just enough to see that there is a price for everything.
In the 60's, women fought for and received sexual equality with the widespread distribution of that holy grail, "The Pill." Sadly, with this came a misplaced notion that if we had power over our own bodies, we had power, period. Wrong. What I hear women around me complaining about today are deadbeat dads and the child support payment that never came. Suddenly, women want to get married and have children, not abortions, with men who treat them like queens, and those men are nowhere to be found. Because men have been conditioned to treat us with the "equality" we banged on about, they have no more respect for sex than the women of the 60's did.
Think about it from a practical standpoint. None of those stiffs in the White House with hot pieces on the side (like a certain person in a certain high level position who I once worked under) are going to commit to raising their own bastards. "Choice" means that a woman either has an abortion, or she raises a child alone with the aid of the state. There are no good"choices" when it comes to this issue.
After the pill, abortion is the second best thing that happened to men. Don't think that they're going to vote away their own freedoms.
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