One major theme in this year’s presidential election was that of the “war on women”.
The complaint was and essentially that the state shouldn’t get involved in women’s reproductive choices.
I agree.
With the exception of abortion, where a child’s life is involved, the state should leave women alone and let them make their own reproductive choices. They should be free to do as they will and live with the consequences.
But, feminists lie. They do not want the state to let them make their own reproductive choices. They want the state to force them (and others) to only accept certain reproductive choices.
Feminists want privilege and choice, not freedom.
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Here’s a good example of the hypocrisy of the modern women espousing the creed of keep your hands off my body.
a woman in a country where politicians who actually believe that the female body has special powers to discern between evil sperm and loving sperm have been elected to create and vote on legislation that limits women’s control over their own health care.
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“Perhaps remove the focus from that one point and think instead about the free abortions and contraceptives that will be given to all females of reproductive age… Or about the Muslims, Christian scientists, and Amish ( among others) that are exempt from obamacare due to religious beliefs….”She goes on and on, hitting every talking point FoxNews and its ilk have drummed into her head, including the legitimacy (there’s that word again) of Obama’s citizenship and his ties to socialism. It was all a bunch of moronic nonsense, but what stood out to me the most was her first line: “Perhaps remove the focus from that one point” — that “one point” being a woman’s right to control her own health care choice, as if that point weren’t worthy of our focus!! This was a woman saying this! A woman who was fed the bullshit and ate it up with a spoon, just like the GOP wanted.
By “limiting a women’s control over their own health care” she obviously means don’t want others to pay for it, even if it goes against their religious principles.
She says she wants the state out of her body, but she’s very clearly inviting the state into her body by having the state pay for her health care.
Her next complaint is about how crime effects women: a valid point, but ignores how it also effects men and children. It’s not part of this topic, so we’ll mostly ignore it.
I didn’t get any paid maternity leave when my baby was born. I work for myself, so I wasn’t expecting any, of course. But here in America, even if I had been working for someone else, that person or that company would not have been required by law to give me even a day of paid maternity leave. Not even an hour. My job would have been held for a few weeks, but that’s it.
I started a new moms’ group when I was pregnant and most of us all had babies within a few weeks of each other. Some of the women took extended maternity leave — six whole months — so they could stay home with their babies until they started, you know, sleeping for more than three hours at a stretch. They weren’t paid for that leave, and they worried as their savings dwindled what they’d do if there were an emergency and they missed more work.
Here she demands that the state pay for and legislate her reproduction. She’s demanding her workplace interfere with her body. She’s begging the state and corporations to involve themselves in her reproductive choices.”When they did go back, they had to deal not only with juggling motherhood and their careers, but also with navigating the office politics surrounding working mothers. One woman, a producer at a major network news station, worried about being overlooked for assignments that would require her to travel now that she was a single mother of an infant. She worried about being overlooked for promotions and raises now that her “focus was split.” “I don’t want to be mommy-tracked,” she lamented, as she plotted ways to ensure topnotch child care for her daughter should her commitment to work be “tested” with a last-minute assignment that would take her out of town with just hours to prepare.”
Here she’s lamenting that the employer is not becoming involved these women’s reproductive choices.
How dare those corporations stay out of women’s private lives!
Many of my new mom friends who returned to work months after giving birth continued breastfeeding, which brought the new challenge of pumping at the office (or, “in the field,” in the case of my producer and journalist friends). They told me stories about the “designated areas” for them to pump, which are required by law. One woman, a clinical psychologist, pumped in a supply closet with a broken lock on the door. She kept one hand on her pump and one hand holding the door shut in case anyone wondered why the light was on and barged in on her without knocking. Finally, she put a sign on the door, but it was gone the next day and she had to make a new one. That one came down the next day, too.
Not content with the state and workplace involving themselves in her reproductive choices, she desperately wants the state and employers to further interfere in women’s breast-feeding decisions.
She notes that the state interferes in her breastfeeding decisions, but the tone of lament clearly indicates that the state is not interfering enough.
How dare they let women be free to make their own breastfeeding decisions!
Our rights are at risk — our basic rights — not to mention the fact that many of us are afraid, on a daily damn basis, of being attacked — legitimately attacked — simply because we are women.
This election year, vote to keep your rights. Vote for the people who are going to fight to protect you. And fight to keep the morons and the assholes and the douchebags out of power and out of our bodies.
She ends with a hypocritical statement about keeping people out of women’s bodies. How fitting when she spent the article arguing that other should involve themselves in women’s bodies and that this involvement was the basic right of the female.
One final observation, somewhere in the middle of her article she says:
I need a chaperone because some crazy douchebags think my body is public property. Hmm, I wonder wherever in the world they got that idea.
My suggestion: if you don’t want your body being viewed as public property, don’t act like it is by having the public pay for its upkeep.
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This was just one example I’m using for illustrative purposes that I happened to come across while thinking about this post. I could find numerous others, but the point is made: No matter what the issue, most modern women want the state in their bodies. They beg for it, they vote for it.
They will selectively say they don’t on certain issues. They will dissemble about what the “state in their bodies” means. They will flat out lie, saying they don’t. But when it comes down to it:
The modern women fervently desires state interference in her reproductive choices.
It’s a broad-brush generality, NAWALT, I know, but most modern women who would say something like “keep your rosaries out of my ovaries,” “my body, my choice,” “keep the state out of our bodies,” or whatever, truly want the state interfering in their bodies.
They want the state to pay for their contraception.
They demand the state pay for their abortions and reproductive health care decisions.
They demand the state educate children on sexuality, contraception, and reproduction.
They demand the employer subsidizes their reproductive choices.
They demand the employer and state make their breast-feeding choices for them.
They demand their employer make their personal work-life balance for them.
They demand the state dictate their private marriage contracts (and then demand that the state dictate homosexuals’ private relationship contracts).
The modern women demands that the state and society involves itself intimately in her personal, sexual, and reproductive choices… but only when its convenient for her.
She demands privilege without responsibility. She demands society cater to her every whim, without her having
She detests others’ freedom, but argues for it for herself when it suits her.
She demands you pay for her every whim, but denies you any say.
She is tyrannical, irresponsible, and greedy.
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To women reading this: either the state and society are involved in your body and your reproductive choices or they aren’t. You can’t have it both ways.
You can not demand that the state not regulate contraception, then demand that the state (or other organizations under the compulsion of the state) pay for your contraception.
You can not demand leave itself out of women’s abortion decisions, then demand that the state pay for abortion providers such as planned parenthood.
You can not demand that public schools stay out of dictating women’s sexual choices, then demand they engage in mandatory sexual education.
You can not demand that the public not comment on your reproductive choices, then demand that they pay for the maintenance of your children.
You can not demand the public refuse to comment on your sexual choices, then force the public to subsidize your sexual lifestyle and health care needs.
You can not demand that your employer not dictate your personal life to you, then demand your employer subsidize your maternity leave and fund your personal choices.
You can not demand that the church remove itself from your reproductive choices, then demand that the church pay for your reproductive choices.
It is an either-or proposition.
Either the state has the right to interfere in your sexuality and reproductive choices or it does not. Either the public has the right to interfere with your sexuality or it does not. Either your employer can interfere in your personal life, or it can not.
You are either free or you are not.
Make the choice.
If you choose to invite others into your sexual, reproductive, and personal lives, do not hypocritically complain when they do.
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In conclusion, the modern women, however much she may protest otherwise, desperately desires that others involve themselves in her reproductive and sexual choices, but only when it is convenient to her.
So, next time a modern women says the state should stay out of her uterus, ask her opinion on mandatory maternity leave. Point out the contradiction. Point out her hypocrisy.
