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ismnotwasm

(42,478 posts)
Mon May 23, 2011, 12:54 AM May 2011

Reproductive choice

I mean, there is the bizarre sexualization of little girls, women who have no idea how to measure their worth other than what they think is sexually attractive, the plight of impoverished women worldwide, the wholesald violence against women, there is a long,long list, but right now reproductive choice seems to be almost a harbringer.

We lose choice as we are and have, we go back a thousand years in certain ways. Anti-choice women themselves don't understand, or don't seem to understand WHY choice is so important.

But you're right the lack of awareness, the whole "we don't need feminism anymore, we've arrived" meme that's out there is more than disturbing. On a thread in GD on "stunned french women" over the misogynistic response to the rape, I made the arguement that no one should be "stunned", because it's expected, or at least *I* expect it. But now I wonder. Do women really think that rape is either not common, or prosecuted fairly?

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