Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Feminism: so much to critique, so little time

In response to an ongoing blogwar discussion we're having, Jennifer at Hope for America writes:

If all you think feminism is playing the victim card, then you're not looking into it far enough.


No, it's playing the victim card to create a feminist supremacy.

You don't seem to be the type to want anything to do with anything that has even the slightest bit of liberal taint on it.


Could be. Or it could be you're basing your assumptions on stereotypes of pro-life women.

Again, it's a case of a feminist not treating a woman as an individual.

Feminists kill 'dem babies. Would you care so much about a Muslim baby?


Why yes, as a matter of fact.

How about if the baby were to be born gay? I don't think you'd support "life" then.


As a matter of fact, yes I would. I'm pretty adamant about acknowledging the right to life of all unborn children.

It truly amazes me how these "pro lifers" fight so hard for fetuses, yet cry for more war.


As a matter of fact, I don't.

So you're zero for three.

And this is the very basic reason why I am on a mission to bring feminist issues to light. We may have the right to vote, but we are called "the weaker sex" women are still earning 70 cents to a man's dollar. Just look at the pay gap between the genders. Women are still being treated as objects. In Jessica Valenti's book, she made a good point. What's the worst thing you can call a man? A pussy, slut, fag, girl, etc.
What's the worst thing you can call a woman? Skank, whore, slut, bitch, cunt.

Hmmm,pretty "equal" there!


Let's break it down.

We may have the right to vote, but we are called "the weaker sex"


Because physically speaking, women are the weaker sex. It's a biological fact. Women don't have the muscle strength men do, nor the endurance. It's a fact of nature. It can't be re-engineered.

women are still earning 70 cents to a man's dollar.


I've addressed the issue elsewhere. But I will repeat: the majority of women enter pink ghetto jobs, and these jobs are poorly paid because there is an oversupply of people with these skills to do these jobs. Plus women take time off to have kids. That's not an injustice. Women and men are BOTH paid in function of their experience and seniority.

Women are not entitled to be paid more than their job or their experience is worth.

That's what I mean when I say feminists want a feminist supremacy: they want more than they are entitled to.

Women are still being treated as objects.


And so are men.

Women are treated as object because they allow that to happen. They allow themselves to be cast in movies about pornography; they still pose for lurid photo shoots.

Men have that freedom, too.

That's not inequality. That may not be right, but it's not inequality.

To those that "protest" abortion at clinics and harassing women


Again, another example of how feminists want to re-define the English language to create a non-existent right.

Pro-lifers pray at abortion clinics and offer women alternatives on the street.

That's not "harrassment". That's called freedom of speech.

Have you noticed how women are all victims in her speech here? In every single instance.

YEAH, they have NO rights to tell me or any other woman what to do with their bodies.


When that body houses a human being, yes I do. Feminists are principally responsible for discrimination against unborn children. For ideological reasons, they do not acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child.

Why do you think you have the right to protest my rights?


Because everyone does. Again, we all have the right to protest the rights of others. Abortion rights are not so special. If you want to speak out against the free speech rights of those who propagate "hate speech"; or if you want to lobby for the censorship of certain forms of entertainment; or if you protest religious doctors should no longer have conscience rights to oppose abortion--

That is your right.

You are allowed to protest against rights in this country, and in North America in general.

The right to kill the unborn is not an "equal right".

You don't think so? What gives you the right to "silence" me?


That is just a ridiculous quote, considering I let her comment several times on my blog.

What gives you the right to make my medical decisions?


Because those "medical decisions" regard a certain class of human beings who are discriminated against. And so long as these human beings are discriminated against in the name of feminism, I will speak out.

You're the one talking about a dictatorship and fascism.


Fascists and dictators kill human beings. That's what feminism is trying to do: justify its alleged right to kill human beings.

It denies a real right: the right to life-- and makes up a new, unheard-of right: the right to abortion.

That's the way fascism works. You can't have fascism under a natural rights regime. It's impossible.

If you don't want the government deciding whether or not you can have kids, or how many kids you're allowed to have, or if you should be FORCED to abort, then you should understand the government should have NO PLACE WHATSOEVER in my medical decisions.


The government's duty, however, is to protect the right to life of all human beings, including those in the womb.

An abortion is not a "medical decision". A pregnancy is not an illness. A pregnacy is the result of a healthy reproductive system doing what it's supposed to do after a sexual encounter.

A pregnancy is a sign of health.

You don't do away with a sign of health in the name of medicine.

Abortion is really another form of social engineering.

It's not about controlling a woman's own body. Because if this were the case, late-term abortions would only involve delivering the baby and allowing him to survive. The woman's body would be free of the burden of pregnancy at that point.

But that's not what she really wants to be free of. Because there would be the small matter of the existence of that child.

Abortion is about the ability to kill an inconvenient child. The parents who receive a diagnosis of Down Syndrome and who decide to abort aren't doing it in the name of a woman's health or a woman's autonomy. The woman was perfectly willing to carry that child before the diagnosis.

They are aborting because, in the end, they think killing their child and ending his life is their right. They think that killing is the right thing to do.

Killing an innocent life is never the right thing to do.

That situation debunks the notion that abortion is about the woman's body. It's not. It's about the right to escape the responsibility of parenting an unwanted baby-- it's about the right not to love a child.

There is no such right, but that's the right feminists have created.

If they can force me to give birth, they can force YOU to abort.


You do not understand the objection to abortion.

If, under a pro-life regime, killing an unborn child is illegal, no one can force another woman to abort. It would be equally illegal.

And another matter: no one is "forced" to give birth. You can't make someone give birth.

Birth just happens. After nine months, the baby comes out, whether you like it or not.

If the government can allow unborn children to be killed, it can allow other innocent humans to be killed, too. It's only a matter of time before the disabled and the elderly are killed off.

Tracy Latimer didn't get a choice.

Neither did Terri Schiavo.

More and more, people are being killed for being a burden. Just like unborn children are considered a burden.

Because human life is no longer considered an absolute. It's relative to other wishes, other priorities.

That is what it means to be pro CHOICE. Idiot.


Again, this is what is so alienating and offensive about feminism. I'm not so mad that she called me an idiot. I'm mad that she purports to speak and defend women, which includes me.

And I don't want her defending me.

And I don't want her defining "my" rights.

Wrong, YOU'RE trying to assert YOUR beliefs and morals Over MY uterus.


I don't give a damn about your uterus. I give a damn about the unborn child who may be killed in the uterus. Feminists don't want morals imposed on them, but they're happy to impose their values on others, especially the unborn child.

It's none of anyone's business but me, my doctor, my husband, and my God


It is the unborn child's business. And I speak out against unborn children being killed.