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TygrBright

(20,763 posts)
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:12 PM Jun 2022

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health is about "religion" the way rape is about "sex."

Religion is only a tool (albeit a very powerful one) of patriarchy.

The fundamental driver of patriarchy is not religion. It's POWER.

Placing half the population in a structurally subordinate role is the single most effective POWER move, ever.

Using religion to do that is like using money to do that (and money played a huge part - plenty of the steps to this culmination had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with leverage created by $$.)

It's about POWER.

Which is the only thing terrified manbabies and their manipulative, fearful female enablers think will stop the painful fear that lives inside them. The fear that they're insignificant.

THAT'S what it's about.

Religion and money are just frosting on a cake of raw, unchecked power-grabbing.

The problem for them is, the institutional structure that made it possible for them to impose and maintain this particular power fifty years ago is no longer what it was.

And this will not end well. For anyone.

But in the long run, they will lose the power they have appropriated today.

At a terrible cost to themselves, and to everyone else.

wearily,
Bright

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health is about "religion" the way rape is about "sex." (Original Post) TygrBright Jun 2022 OP
Absolutely leftieNanner Jun 2022 #1
They are already doing so. n/t TygrBright Jun 2022 #2
They have been calling many forms of birth control leftieNanner Jun 2022 #3
Disagree edhopper Jun 2022 #4

leftieNanner

(15,145 posts)
1. Absolutely
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:17 PM
Jun 2022

For them, progress is a zero sum game and they fear that any advancement for "others" (including women) means that they must certainly be losing something.

I fear for my two adult daughters.

Every young woman should be issued a case of condoms! They will go after contraception next, I fear.

leftieNanner

(15,145 posts)
3. They have been calling many forms of birth control
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:29 PM
Jun 2022

"abortifacients", which will allow them to ban IUDs as soon as the legislation can be put up.

My daughter will be looking for a University job this fall - hoping she doesn't find one in Texas.

edhopper

(33,612 posts)
4. Disagree
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:36 PM
Jun 2022

maybe for the small amount of people who gain the power.
But make no mistake, they gain that power because million who vote for them do so because of their religious beliefs.

We should not let religion off the hook.

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