Oh, fun! Another anti-abortion article
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How did you spend the anniversary of Roe v. Wade?
Sleeping? Why?
Militant feminist members of the Feminist League of Organized Resistance partied the night away in morbid celebration of their right to kill babies. One can imagine many past and present world dictators - proponents of genocide all - such as Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Joseph Stalin, and Adolph Hitler all smiling at the notion.
We have a Feminist League of Organized Resistance? Really? I have to check this out later - after I do that project.
Isn't it funny how all supporters of abortion happen to be alive?
Except they don't. Quite a few supporters of abortion have died since they started supporting abortion.
Nancy Theriot, professor of Women's Studies at U of L, complains that the media unfairly portrays feminists as "crazy, shrill, unreasonably angry, ugly and man-hating." Meanwhile, the lovely ladies of FLOR are holding death to baby parties. Way to fight the perception, girls.
Except we're not...? And anyway, even if we were, that's got nothing to do with being shrill, unreasonably angry, ugly, or manhating. I'll give you "crazy", since if you believe abortion is infanticide, and you believe infanticide is wrong, it is logical that you'd believe that people who are pro-choice are crazy.
Very quickly here, allow me to expand on the true definition of a feminist. If you believe that men and women should have equal rights, then you are not a feminist. You're normal.
Aw, I'm so glad that he can define words! Wrongly! And you're not normal if you believe that, alas and alack.
The feminists of today are not Susan B. Anthony reincarnated. They're nothing more than ugly women screaming for attention. They were born with less testosterone, and for that, society must pay.
Um, riiiiight. *looks down* I don't think I'm ugly... and I don't usually scream for attention. And I don't care if I have less testosterone than somebody else. Nor do I think society should pay. Equality is nice, though. You know, that thing? Where people make the same wage for the same job, and have access to those jobs, that sort of thing.
Actually, one shouldn't refer to a feminist as "ugly." According to FLOR member Jessica Farquhar, feminists simply resist "patriarchal standards of beauty." This is akin to the idiot who, upon flunking out of school, blames society's discriminatory "standards of academics."
I'm really not sure if I'm more disturbed at his idea that feminists are ugly, or the idea that beauty matters, for anything.
Today's feminist movement seems to be rooted in jealousy masquerading as a fight for suffrage.
We have suffrage, sweetie. As for jealousy... well, I suppose you could call it that. Maybe. If you have an unreasonable view of what people are entitled to.
Louisville itself has huge problems...museums. We have "huge, phallic, male things" such as the Louisville Slugger Museum, but no comparable monument to women. So instead of working to create a dominatrix memorial...they just complain. (And Theriot has to wonder why feminists are called man-hating?)
Man, he's just determined to revel in his ignorance, isn't he? Though he's right, to an extent - if you want a monument for something yonic (yay for cool words!) you need to design one. Oh, and get funding. Oh, and get permission from somebody to build it.
The lovely ladies whine that there has never been a female president and about the lack of female policymakers. "That's surely not a democracy," Farquhar said, "The majority of us (women are 51% of the population) are not represented."
I'm not sure that's whining, honey.
Wait a minute. Women do have the right to vote (and have since 1920.) If they hold the majority then whose fault is it that there has been no female president? Not the minority of men. I have no idea what they're teaching in the Women's Studies program, but clearly they don't waste any time on statistics.
Except that maybe women also have a habit of buying into sexist ideas like "a woman could never be president"? Except that maybe, in order to run for president, you need more than potential voters, you need money and powerful supporters - who, really, tend to be male? And you need people who think you can win, which is unlikely to happen as everybody assumes that you can't?
Hm.
Not even the University of Louisville administration can dodge the venom. "Eighty-one percent of tenure-track positions are held by men," bemoaned Farquhar. But in fact, over one-third of faculty positions belong to women, the second-most powerful position (provost) at U of L is held by a woman, and deans of the colleges of law, medicine, nursing and libraries system are all women. Women comprise over 53% of the student body. And the university has just created a $2 million endowed chair in Pan-African, women's and gender studies.
So, most of the school is female, but most of the faculty is male? And this is equality?
Listening to our friends at the Women's Center might lead one to believe that women were still prevented from working outside the home. But in fact, it would appear that equality of the sexes at U of L would not appear to be a colossal problem.
Maybe not to you, but to me... it's not as rosy as you think. And women still make less than men do, and women still have the double standard of "if you work outside the home, you're a bad mom, if you stay home, you're a bad mom (and often poor)". Men don't have this problem (their problem is "if you stay home, you're effeminate").
Apparently FLOR hasn't noticed they're 85 years too late for America's suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony fought for the right to vote; today's feminist fights for the right to abort the baby that she will likely never have.
Well, not if it's aborted!
But then there's the working rights I listed, the rights of people outside the US, fights against FGM, rights of women to breastfeed, yea, even in public....
But with the rights of women not under assault from chauvinist men (to a feminist, this means all straight men), what - other than introducing babies to the Planned Parenthood equivalent of the Orkin Man - is today's feminist supposed to fight for?
Sorry, guys of my friends list, apparently I was wrong, and you're all chauvinists. I never knew what my feelings were on men until this man bothered to tell me!
If FLOR wants a fight, they should head to Saudi Arabia or Iran. Or they could volunteer to help in Afghanistan, where women have only recently been granted the right to vote, go to school, and wear normal clothing. Or they could help the women of Iraq, who are only now free of the threat from Saddam Hussein's rape rooms.
Oh, Iraq is great. So, they went from being a largely secular society to being one with women virtually confined to their homes!
Sweetie, let's fight our battles at home first. When we solve our own problems, then we can feel qualified to tell other people how to solve their problems.
There is plenty for someone interested in equality for all to be thankful for and more than enough work to be done in savage backwards countries around the globe. But I suppose it's much easier to just play the part of victim yourself.
Savage backwards countries? Why don't you go there, and tell them what you think. I'll be interested in their replies!
And thankful. Pshaw. Just because things are worse elsewhere doesn't mean that we should be happy for what we have here. That's like telling somebody "you only were beaten up as a kid, you should be thankful you didn't die".
How did you spend the anniversary of Roe v. Wade?
Sleeping? Why?
Militant feminist members of the Feminist League of Organized Resistance partied the night away in morbid celebration of their right to kill babies. One can imagine many past and present world dictators - proponents of genocide all - such as Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Joseph Stalin, and Adolph Hitler all smiling at the notion.
We have a Feminist League of Organized Resistance? Really? I have to check this out later - after I do that project.
Isn't it funny how all supporters of abortion happen to be alive?
Except they don't. Quite a few supporters of abortion have died since they started supporting abortion.
Nancy Theriot, professor of Women's Studies at U of L, complains that the media unfairly portrays feminists as "crazy, shrill, unreasonably angry, ugly and man-hating." Meanwhile, the lovely ladies of FLOR are holding death to baby parties. Way to fight the perception, girls.
Except we're not...? And anyway, even if we were, that's got nothing to do with being shrill, unreasonably angry, ugly, or manhating. I'll give you "crazy", since if you believe abortion is infanticide, and you believe infanticide is wrong, it is logical that you'd believe that people who are pro-choice are crazy.
Very quickly here, allow me to expand on the true definition of a feminist. If you believe that men and women should have equal rights, then you are not a feminist. You're normal.
Aw, I'm so glad that he can define words! Wrongly! And you're not normal if you believe that, alas and alack.
The feminists of today are not Susan B. Anthony reincarnated. They're nothing more than ugly women screaming for attention. They were born with less testosterone, and for that, society must pay.
Um, riiiiight. *looks down* I don't think I'm ugly... and I don't usually scream for attention. And I don't care if I have less testosterone than somebody else. Nor do I think society should pay. Equality is nice, though. You know, that thing? Where people make the same wage for the same job, and have access to those jobs, that sort of thing.
Actually, one shouldn't refer to a feminist as "ugly." According to FLOR member Jessica Farquhar, feminists simply resist "patriarchal standards of beauty." This is akin to the idiot who, upon flunking out of school, blames society's discriminatory "standards of academics."
I'm really not sure if I'm more disturbed at his idea that feminists are ugly, or the idea that beauty matters, for anything.
Today's feminist movement seems to be rooted in jealousy masquerading as a fight for suffrage.
We have suffrage, sweetie. As for jealousy... well, I suppose you could call it that. Maybe. If you have an unreasonable view of what people are entitled to.
Louisville itself has huge problems...museums. We have "huge, phallic, male things" such as the Louisville Slugger Museum, but no comparable monument to women. So instead of working to create a dominatrix memorial...they just complain. (And Theriot has to wonder why feminists are called man-hating?)
Man, he's just determined to revel in his ignorance, isn't he? Though he's right, to an extent - if you want a monument for something yonic (yay for cool words!) you need to design one. Oh, and get funding. Oh, and get permission from somebody to build it.
The lovely ladies whine that there has never been a female president and about the lack of female policymakers. "That's surely not a democracy," Farquhar said, "The majority of us (women are 51% of the population) are not represented."
I'm not sure that's whining, honey.
Wait a minute. Women do have the right to vote (and have since 1920.) If they hold the majority then whose fault is it that there has been no female president? Not the minority of men. I have no idea what they're teaching in the Women's Studies program, but clearly they don't waste any time on statistics.
Except that maybe women also have a habit of buying into sexist ideas like "a woman could never be president"? Except that maybe, in order to run for president, you need more than potential voters, you need money and powerful supporters - who, really, tend to be male? And you need people who think you can win, which is unlikely to happen as everybody assumes that you can't?
Hm.
Not even the University of Louisville administration can dodge the venom. "Eighty-one percent of tenure-track positions are held by men," bemoaned Farquhar. But in fact, over one-third of faculty positions belong to women, the second-most powerful position (provost) at U of L is held by a woman, and deans of the colleges of law, medicine, nursing and libraries system are all women. Women comprise over 53% of the student body. And the university has just created a $2 million endowed chair in Pan-African, women's and gender studies.
So, most of the school is female, but most of the faculty is male? And this is equality?
Listening to our friends at the Women's Center might lead one to believe that women were still prevented from working outside the home. But in fact, it would appear that equality of the sexes at U of L would not appear to be a colossal problem.
Maybe not to you, but to me... it's not as rosy as you think. And women still make less than men do, and women still have the double standard of "if you work outside the home, you're a bad mom, if you stay home, you're a bad mom (and often poor)". Men don't have this problem (their problem is "if you stay home, you're effeminate").
Apparently FLOR hasn't noticed they're 85 years too late for America's suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony fought for the right to vote; today's feminist fights for the right to abort the baby that she will likely never have.
Well, not if it's aborted!
But then there's the working rights I listed, the rights of people outside the US, fights against FGM, rights of women to breastfeed, yea, even in public....
But with the rights of women not under assault from chauvinist men (to a feminist, this means all straight men), what - other than introducing babies to the Planned Parenthood equivalent of the Orkin Man - is today's feminist supposed to fight for?
Sorry, guys of my friends list, apparently I was wrong, and you're all chauvinists. I never knew what my feelings were on men until this man bothered to tell me!
If FLOR wants a fight, they should head to Saudi Arabia or Iran. Or they could volunteer to help in Afghanistan, where women have only recently been granted the right to vote, go to school, and wear normal clothing. Or they could help the women of Iraq, who are only now free of the threat from Saddam Hussein's rape rooms.
Oh, Iraq is great. So, they went from being a largely secular society to being one with women virtually confined to their homes!
Sweetie, let's fight our battles at home first. When we solve our own problems, then we can feel qualified to tell other people how to solve their problems.
There is plenty for someone interested in equality for all to be thankful for and more than enough work to be done in savage backwards countries around the globe. But I suppose it's much easier to just play the part of victim yourself.
Savage backwards countries? Why don't you go there, and tell them what you think. I'll be interested in their replies!
And thankful. Pshaw. Just because things are worse elsewhere doesn't mean that we should be happy for what we have here. That's like telling somebody "you only were beaten up as a kid, you should be thankful you didn't die".
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Date: 2005-03-10 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-10 04:21 pm (UTC)Really sad excuse for an article, though.