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We are witness to the demonstrable and evident continuing need of many right wing men to assert domination over women, not just within their own communities, but with all of us. This reflects not only the extent of their innate insecurity (snowflakes) it is also a direct measure of the extent to which they believe women are inferior and the anger they feel towards those who would question the 'rightness' of patriarchy. There has never been any empirical evidence to back the view that one sex is innately better than the other, and if conservative women chose to allow their men to treat them like second class citizens, they need to own that. But that should not and must not mean that these stealers of female freedoms get to make choices for the rest of us. We have our own agency, but they seek to appropriate this every day as they drop multitudes of new abortion restrictions.
Being anti womens reproductive freedom is all about punishing women for having the nerve to be sexual, outside the strict confines of what these dominionists think acceptable (marriage, sex for reproductive purposes etc). In their bollocks approach of faux Christian faith system pregnancy is the punishment for us having sex in a way that they do not approve of and cannot control. They are after all alongside everything else, control freaks. They literally believe (because it suits their patriarchal world view) that women have their god given position in society as second class citizens, and to have the audacity to disturb their chosen natural order is of the devil. And as second class citizens women who have not followed their rules should never be allowed to be unburdened from the fears of an unwanted pregnancy. They could not conceive of a better punishment for our refusal in the 21st Century to give them our agency. If they get their way with abortion, you can guarantee birth control will be next.
2020 could not be more important.
in2herbs
(2,945 posts)Aristus
(66,328 posts)they'd better be square with God first.
Just sayin...
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)whose policies have taken the entire world to an ecological brink, still think they are superior to the rest of us & should be in charge. It would be laughable if it weren't so fucking tragic. The Republican Party has the power & influence to change the global narrative & lack of action on the climate crisis & they do nothing.