Happy Spring Break for some of us. Others? Not so good and not so “spring” and definitely, no breaks whatsoever. The news gets more concerning as the fight in this War on Women continues. I am in constant amazement that these people, the people working to limit women’s choices have little else going on in their lives except to judge and demean women into submission, or at least try to. I yawn at their feeble, attached emotional attempts to somehow think they will try to “shame me” into silence, as that has never worked for me. Women who have lived under constant oppression are used to insults and the finger pointing, slut shaming tactics that accompanies conservative arguments against abortion, rape, equal pay, feminists…etc.
As a matter of fact, my rule is to erase all the emotion and defense mechanisms used by anti-feminists and just listen to their words. All I hear is “yadda, yadda, yadda…aspirin between your knees…yadda, yadda, yadda…body prevents pregnancy in a legitimate rape…yadda, yadda, yadda…incest babies are blessings from God…yadda, yadda, yadda…there is no gender pay gap.” The words are enough. They say everything. For me, this plus my humanist, intellectual side is how I determine if something is defensible or indefensible.
How about passing “gentlemen” legislation or starting a group that begins with “men don’t have a right to…” and ends with “oppress women, or any other marginalized group under any circumstance”?
And on that note, here are the headlines for this week: