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NOW calls men "hormone-ravaged animals" in local editorial!
Unfortunately, I don't have access to the original letter that prompted such
a snide response from the radfems at NOW. -------------------------------------------- http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.../OPINION02/512 06017/1005 Women are frequently objectified in media I would agree with Josh Amos' letter, were it not for the fact that he's dead wrong. True, a woman is more likely to get custody of her children in a divorce. She is also more likely to WANT custody. And, she is far more likely to fall under the poverty line after a divorce than her noncustodial ex-husband. Women do have more methods of birth control, but men have more than one. The second is called keeping your pants zipped. When you carry and deliver a baby, you will have control over contraception. If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament - take it from one who knows. And if women alone control if and when to have sex, men are hormone-ravaged animals with no sense of control. What a ringing endorsement for the poor, oppressed men Amos speaks of. True, a woman cannot be drafted. Remember, we had to scream mightily to be allowed to fight! We don't keep ourselves out of the draft, we are kept out by men who can't stand a world in which women are as strong as they are. True, men are frequently lampooned on television. Women are frequently objectified and fall into the categories of perfect, demure woman or slut. Hollywood has a lot of problems. We all know that. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Even so, the only men I hate are those who look to oppress me. Teresa Sykora Lovaas, president, Washington State National Organization of Women -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberalism: that haunting fear that someone, somewhere, can help themselves without Government intervention. |
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NOW calls men "hormone-ravaged animals" in local editorial!
"If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament," this state NOW
president says. I suppose she believes the old jokes are the best. That line was around in feminist circles at least 30 years ago. It's as invalid now as it was then -- in part because of its assumption that women universally think that they should have unrestricted access to abortion. The appropriate answer to any woman who says this is to say that, if women had to pay child support, nondiscriminatory access to reproductive choices would be a sacrament. Currently, the situation in the United States is that, although both sexes have approximately equal access to pre-conception reproductive choices, only women have access to post-conception choices (by means of abortion, newborn dropoff laws, abortion, or keeping the child). The man's choice is limited to accepting whatever the woman chooses. His "choice" may well involve paying the woman substantial amounts of money for 18+ years, as a result of a choice that she, and she alone, made. Honest and intelligent feminists accept that there is a major disparity between the sexes in reproductive choices. As for the rest, such as Ms. Lovaas, the only question is whether they're too stupid to understand, or whether they're being deliberately disingenuous. I suspect that most are being disingenuous, because they understand that acknowledging the disparity would undermine their dogmatic insistence that women must have unrestricted access to abortion, up to and including infanticide through the repellent partial birth abortion procedure. "Dusty" wrote in message ... Unfortunately, I don't have access to the original letter that prompted such a snide response from the radfems at NOW. -------------------------------------------- http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.../OPINION02/512 06017/1005 Women are frequently objectified in media I would agree with Josh Amos' letter, were it not for the fact that he's dead wrong. True, a woman is more likely to get custody of her children in a divorce. She is also more likely to WANT custody. And, she is far more likely to fall under the poverty line after a divorce than her noncustodial ex-husband. Women do have more methods of birth control, but men have more than one. The second is called keeping your pants zipped. When you carry and deliver a baby, you will have control over contraception. If men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament - take it from one who knows. And if women alone control if and when to have sex, men are hormone-ravaged animals with no sense of control. What a ringing endorsement for the poor, oppressed men Amos speaks of. True, a woman cannot be drafted. Remember, we had to scream mightily to be allowed to fight! We don't keep ourselves out of the draft, we are kept out by men who can't stand a world in which women are as strong as they are. True, men are frequently lampooned on television. Women are frequently objectified and fall into the categories of perfect, demure woman or slut. Hollywood has a lot of problems. We all know that. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Even so, the only men I hate are those who look to oppress me. Teresa Sykora Lovaas, president, Washington State National Organization of Women -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberalism: that haunting fear that someone, somewhere, can help themselves without Government intervention. |
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