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bimbo_zombie in feminist_101

Brand new to this community!

May 27, 2011 12:07

I've been wanting to really get into feminism for a while now. But lately I'm still deciding exactly what I am.
I will understand if you think this is a crap post.

( about me ect )

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crystallinegirl May 27 2011, 03:35:40 UTC

Yes, I'm not getting an abortion because I don't have any good reasons to. I can call myself Pro-Life. I will also call myself Pro-Choice because I CHOSE this. I LIKE this.

Calling yourself pro-choice doesn't mean you'll abort your pregnancy. It means you agree that other people also have the right to make the choice for themselves whether to carry the fetus to term or not. (Pro-life usually means you think the rights of the fetus to be born outweigh the rights of the mother to choose whether or not to carry the pregnancy to term.)

Yes, I would like to have a job someday and not be fired just for having a family while my husband in the same job gets a raise just for having a family. I CHOSE this. I LIKE this.Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this. This seems to say you'd be okay with simply not being fired, while your husband got a raise? Because you had a child? That's hardly equality. White Women are already only making 87 cents to every dollar White men make. (Black Women: 77 cents, Hispanic Women, 67 cents!) It's a good thing to ( ... )

bimbo_zombie May 27 2011, 11:40:24 UTC

Actually I would put an unborn's life over my own :P
Physically and mentally I'm a pile of shit and I'm fairly certain that I'm wasting the taxpayers money right now. So I would think that a baby is much more important than myself right now.
I mean, an unborn hasn't experienced life yet. I have and all I have to show for it at 21 is a Certificate in Arts and Media from Polytech and the first draft of a novel. And the occasional volunteer work potting plants.

So can I be pro-life with a heavy importance on choice? I'm more like anti-stupidity. Or only pro-abortion-for-a-desperately-good-fucking-reason.

Personally, I see whoever uses the term 'anti-choice' as idiots. Since when is giving birth not a choice? Some people want to do it. It's called reproduction! We kind of like...need to do it for the survival of the species?

crystallinegirl May 27 2011, 19:12:35 UTC

That's your choice. Being pro-choice is, do you support OTHER WOMEN having the same choice? Pro-life means taking the choice out of their hands. Saying they don't get to make the choice, the fetus is more important than their choice. Take yourself out of the equation, that's not what we're talking about ( ... )

bimbo_zombie May 27 2011, 23:34:47 UTC

Like I said: I'm only pro-abortion for really desperately good reasons.
I support many options, because there are many options and telling women that abortion is their one and only option that will magically cure everything really isn't helping women.

On the 'feminist, pro-'choice'' blogs I've seen its all about ABORT ABORT ABORT and they don't seem to know anything about the existence of adoption, government benefits, family helping to raise children or that some women actually have the ability to raise a child AND go to work/school. In fact some actually discourage every other option that isn't abortion.

I also agree that abortion should NEVER be classed as 'birth control'. It is not a contraceptive because well...she's already pregnant...

Personally I probably wouldn't even have one even after rape. It does get rid of the baby but I don't see how it fixes everything else.
And how am I going to demand that he pays child support after I've had an abortion?