I'm All Riled Up.
Feminism is like my crack. Or my religion. My "opiate" of not-the-masses-but-just-me, shall we say.
One of my friends posted something on Facebook about abortion (pro-choice) and it started a huge discussion, like it always does.
Which I love. I love to argue, and arguing about Feminism gets me all adrenaline-y and I sit there on the edge of my seat, refreshing the page every 90 seconds.
But I work a desk job. And the anti-choice came out of the woodwork and got me all riled up with nowhere to go. And it was someone with whom I'm actually Facebook friends!
I can't sum up everything that was said, since it was 30 comments in 15 hours, and a lot of different things were mentioned. What really got me was how one person started talking about fathers' rights, which I respect, except his whole point was that a man's feelings trump a woman's right to her bodily privacy.
His argument, as far as there was one, was that women are hormonal and lack judgement, and should not be allowed to make such an important choice as to whether or not a child enters the world. Then he wrapped it up with a "don't knock-up femi-nazis" and, bafflingly enough, a "I'm for humanity."
I'm sorry, when did humanity become (I guess I should say "return to") just being made up of men?
Why is it still okay to denigrate women by implying they're at the emotional and decision-making level of a two year old having a tantrum in the sugary cereal section of the supermarket?
One of my friends posted something on Facebook about abortion (pro-choice) and it started a huge discussion, like it always does.
Which I love. I love to argue, and arguing about Feminism gets me all adrenaline-y and I sit there on the edge of my seat, refreshing the page every 90 seconds.
But I work a desk job. And the anti-choice came out of the woodwork and got me all riled up with nowhere to go. And it was someone with whom I'm actually Facebook friends!
I can't sum up everything that was said, since it was 30 comments in 15 hours, and a lot of different things were mentioned. What really got me was how one person started talking about fathers' rights, which I respect, except his whole point was that a man's feelings trump a woman's right to her bodily privacy.
His argument, as far as there was one, was that women are hormonal and lack judgement, and should not be allowed to make such an important choice as to whether or not a child enters the world. Then he wrapped it up with a "don't knock-up femi-nazis" and, bafflingly enough, a "I'm for humanity."
I'm sorry, when did humanity become (I guess I should say "return to") just being made up of men?
Why is it still okay to denigrate women by implying they're at the emotional and decision-making level of a two year old having a tantrum in the sugary cereal section of the supermarket?