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17th February 2012

Link reblogged from Forever Faithful with 16 notes

Forever Faithful: Dear liberals and pro-choicers, →

livingto-serve:

impuretale:

livingto-serve:

I am not a woman hater or anti-woman. I am a woman. So that would mean hating myself, which I don’t.

You just assume because conservatives and pro-lifers give dignity to human life that we “hate women.” That’s your incorrect interpretation; your interpretation has been formed because of bad…

If you align yourself with a movement whose goal in this country is 1) to outlaw abortion (which won’t stop it), 2) to oppose sex education beyond “abstinence only” — which was completely at fault for the enormous spike in abortions and unplanned pregnancies following Roe V. Wade, a rate that has only gone down as better sex education and access to contraception for all has become more widespread; 3) pass into law the belief that a woman does not have the right to consent to what happens to her body — even in cases of rape, 4) mandate pregnancy as a rightful “punishment” for having sex, and 5) use whatever means necessary to make this happen, including the distribution of criminal misinformation about cancer and medical procedures?

Then you are anti-woman. It’s called reverse sexism; being a woman doesn’t exclude you from it. Just look at Liz Trotta.

I agree with sex education. But I also think we need to teach that rape is never the woman’s fault and that it never will be. We should be teaching that rape is a crime committed by criminals who lack love and receive neglect. Pregnancy is never a punishment. That’s what we should be teaching. Since when was it feminist to WILLINGLY let another person strip you of your offspring via medical tools and/or the vacuum-like method? (Note: I said willingly because I’m aware that there are women who don’t want abortions but who feel that’s their only option. We need to educate that abortion isn’t the only option as well).

You sound like a Pro-Lifer from outside of the United States, which I admire, and you are much, much more reasonable. Abortion isn’t the only option for some people, however when it comes down to it, it’s simply not for others. A lot of others. To them, adoption is an alternative to parenthood, not pregnancy — which has just as many hurtles to overcome financially, emotionally, even health-wise that a woman has the right to consent to not put themselves through. 

If there is a middle-ground to be found then one of the major issues that needs to be resolved to get the ball rolling is to eliminate the dissemination of wrong information. As an example — Pregnancy Resource Centers identifying as Pro-Life should be under the same amount of federal investigation as those that are Pro-Choice for the simple fact that these are facilities providing some medical treatment but also distributing medical information, and government aid should not be given to resource centers on either side that are distributing false information, nor should they be tax exempt. (Such as telling women that contraception and abortion cause breast cancer. As someone who lost a mother to breast cancer, I am infuriated by misinformation about it.) People taking up the helm on both sides need to have some basic understanding of argument and logical fallacies, and also in how to find trustworthy, unbiased, reputable sources to support their claims. Finally, issues of privilege need to be fully understood on both sides so that it can be fully understood WHY this has become, especially in our country, an issue of civil rights for women and why religious persons, cisgendered men, and people above a certain financial means — while not excluded from the conversation — are being oppressive when they open their mouths and say how a woman (and others who can become pregnant) who may not identify with one or all of those groups SHOULD be behaving in this situation.

I am appreciative of your willingness to hold civil conversations, but presently the climate for this debate, especially in the USA, is largely hostile and saturated with ad hominem, appeals to emotion rather than logic, and plain false information, and people on both sides have their guards up because of it.

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  1. jupiterbee reblogged this from kwhynot and added:
    and wish i had a penis”
  2. kwhynot reblogged this from mediumtrip and added:
    “I don’t hate ALL women Just the ones who aren’t the way I think women should be.”