Feel for poor Lauren Rankin, a graduate student in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, assuaging her deep guilt over her cis-privilege assumptions about abortion by rending her garments in public
At this crucial moment for reproductive freedom and abortion access, the abortion rights movement stands at yet another crossroads: How do we adequately address and include those who have abortions but are not women?
We must acknowledge and come to terms with the implicit cissexism in assuming that only women have abortions. Trans men have abortions. People who do not identify as women have abortions. They deserve to be represented in our advocacy and activist framework. Honestly, I am guilty of perpetuating that harmful myth, both in my rhetoric and framing. I often frame abortion restrictions as misogynistic attacks meant to control women’s reproductive lives, and that is true. But abortion restrictions also affect the lives of people who aren’t women, and they hinder trans men and gender-non-conforming people and others who were Designated Female at Birth (DFAB) from accessing abortion care, as well.
Some people just can’t be savagely mocked enough.
Name one.
And if it is a “woman’s right to choose”, exactly what are they choosing? Let’s start being specific about the choice they are making. Because some choices have consequences far beyond bruised feelings…
What an extra-sensitive princess, to be able to sense such a TINY pea under ALL THOSE MATTRESSES!
That such a being should exist in the same mortal plane as I is almost more than I can comprehend.
“Transgenderqueer” is a new one on me, but I actually know someone that fits that description.
Heh, finally comes an answer to the perennial human question “what is the best life?”: “the best life is a life lived with the aim to fit a description.”
The aborted child is the one “hurt” who did not have an abortion, you dolt.
I hope she is swimming in student loan debt.
The best life is one where you have crushed your enemies, seen them driven before you, and heard the lamentation of their bio-women.
“But abortion restrictions also affect the lives of people who aren’t women, and they hinder trans men and gender-non-conforming people and others who were Designated Female at Birth (DFAB) from accessing abortion care, as well.”
There are no words…
This absurd gibberish is the work of a mush brain who is too stupid to understand the words it assembles into diagrammatic sentences or their relationship to observable elements of reality.
The treacherous amphibious pencil also invokes the anti-purple sky polish incorrigibly upon the fishy border cork behind medieval chewing and our indeterminate nostaglia gradient.
“Trans men have abortions.”
I need to you scrape my pretend accidentally offspring out of my prostate so I feel like I belong. Also please put your taser away and unlock the door.
A finer example of “First World problems” you’ll never see.
It’s odd how these freethinking radicals, these leaders unto the light, are very, very careful to mouth the same boilerplate. As if they were reading from lecture notes.
Drumwaster says August 1, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Name one.
This fits nicely with my new motto: Prove it.
I’ve been hearing a lot of recent racialist misery-mongering from some people who I think should know better, and they describe events from the last few years that sound much more likely to be stories from the 50’s and 60’s. My answer: Prove it, or shut up. I know they can’t prove it, and for that matter it is unreasonable to expect proof; it is just that I am no longer willing to accept their word for anything. They have used up all their “wolf!” cries, and can no longer be treated as anything but an inveterate liar.
Funny how the observation of “If you can give birth to a baby, you are not a man.” is viewed as some sort of speech crime and a demonstration of hatred, rather than an acknowledgement of biological fact.
Who are the “science deniers”, again?
“I was born with a vagina, but I am NOT a woman!” is not a compelling argument. It is crazy talk.
This fits nicely with my new motto: Prove it.
Lost, and found again — or as the scholar put it, “Americans are all like the Missourians, saying ‘Show me.’ ” Or again, as Tocqueville put it, all Cartesians (“We doubt, methodologically”).
Tocqueville, DinA, Vol. II, Chpt. 1:
*** America is therefore one of the countries where the precepts of Descartes are least studied and are best applied. Nor is this surprising. The Americans do not read the works of Descartes, because their social condition deters them from speculative studies; but they follow his maxims, because this same social condition naturally disposes their minds to adopt them. ***
The phrase “war on women” often made me wonder if the women were the invaders attempting conquest to gain, land captives, spoils, control of trade routes, and a program of regular tribute. Was China in WW2 guilty of a war on Japan…that happened inside China?
As if they were reading from lecture notes.
Thanks, David. I did have a certain sense of déjà vu when reading precious Ms. Lauren.
I’m sure her graduate studies in Womyn will make her such as asset in her post-grad job at Walmart.
Trans men? They were bad guys on Doctor Who, right?
And from now on, I want you all to call me “Loretta“. It’s my right as a man.
I recall trying to write stuff my lesbian writing instructor would like. In actuality she was pretty cool and wasn’t very judgmental at all. That was over 30 years ago so, who know what college is like today for students like Lauren.
That’s cis-lunacy, h8er.