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Old December 7th 05, 04:05 AM posted to alt.child-support
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Default 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.
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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


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Old December 7th 05, 03:06 PM posted to alt.child-support
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Default 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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