I can’t embed this video of the first Mad Med episode where Peggy goes to the gynecologist, but I had forgotten just how exactly it mirrors the latest freak-out over contraception until I saw it again the other day. The dialog for the gynecologist is pretty much the current Republican attitude towards contraception: you can have it, but you have to pay for it, and if you use it “too much” you’re going to be called a whore and we can take it away. That episode was set in March, 1960. The Obama team should hire Matthew Weiner and have him edit it down to a 60 second ad to emphasize just how retrograde the last couple of months have been.
Women's Rights
Tuesday Morning Open Thread
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Also worth reading, if you missed it: Shelby Knox talks about “My Roommate, Gloria Steinem“:
IF young feminists believed in fairy tales, then moving to New York City and winding up with Gloria Steinem as your roommate would definitely count as one.
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That is what happened to Shelby Knox when she came here in 2007 from Lubbock, Tex., to work at a summer program dedicated to empowering teenage girls. Then 20, Ms. Knox was already somewhat known in the feminist world: In high school she was the subject of a documentary, “The Education of Shelby Knox,” about her fight to change Lubbock’s sex education curriculum, which taught abstinence-only, and how the battle gradually distanced her from the Baptist church in which she had been raised….
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At first, “I was incredibly intimidated,” said Ms. Knox, now 25. “As a 20-year-old would, I was like, ‘I’m not smart enough to talk to her.’ ”
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But then Ms. Steinem watched the documentary, and they started talking about Ms. Knox’s experience promoting it, when she traveled around the country talking to young people about her experience coming of age as a feminist in an evangelical community.
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“She said, ‘You’re an itinerant feminist organizer,’ ” Ms. Knox said. “And I was like: ‘What? This has a name? This isn’t just me avoiding getting a job?’ ” …
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“There’s all these stories about ‘someone will give you your chance,’ and she did,” Ms. Knox said. “It’s not like she did anything magical. It’s not like she anointed me ‘feminist whatever.’ She just said, ‘I’ll give you a roof over your head while you try to learn to make it in New York.’”
All that she wants is another baby, oo wo oh
by Sarah, Proud and Tall
Occasionally I do like to slip on my anti-bacterial floaties and my best Vera Wang one piece, and wade into the piss-scented and vaguely warm kiddie pool that is the Corner.
Currently, Michael Walsh is standing in the shallow end, screaming his lungs out like a toddler who dropped his lollipop in the water and had it land on a turd floater, and doing a fine variation on that old favourite, “Wimmins is not birthin’ enough and we’re all going to die”.
On the one hand — as NRO’s resident demography bore has been tirelessly pointing out — the Western world is facing an unparalleled demographic crisis brought on by a feminist-inspired modern twist on Lysistrata (showering sex but withholding children), while at the same time, the West’s vaunted “safety net” is collapsing because the system has been turned upside-down and a bevy of great-grandparents now coos over a single child.
Surely, this is the ultimate expression of the suicide cult that is the modern Left, a subset of libertine takers that so loathes itself that it will dragoon the makers into underwriting the chalices of tasty hemlock it’s so eager for everybody to quaff in order to put itself out of its misery. If, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody, it feels good, do it! Alas, it does hurt somebody — it hurts society, by robbing it of its future and burdening those lucky kids who make it through the contraceptive/abortifacient gantlet with an unpayable debt to the very people who tried to get rid of them.
And for what? So that somebody might not be “punished” by a baby as a consequence of his or her personal behavior?
Self-centered Baby Boomer liberalism emerged from the “sexual revolution” of the sixties, and for the past half century Boomers have been trying to escape the consequences of no consequences, which now threaten the underpinnings of the Left’s beloved, bankrupting welfare state. And yet, at the same time, women of child-bearing age demand that somebody — insurance companies, Washington, the pope in Rome — pay for universal contraceptive and abortion services in the name of “women’s health.”
If this is not the definition of a suicide cult — one driven by the leftist insistence that sexual license be, well, licensed by the state, non-judgmentally and consequence-free — it’s hard to know what is. The Shakers had nothing on these people; at least they made furniture. But it’s what comes from treating pregnancy as a preventable disease, and viewing people as carbon-based pollutants instead of beings created in the image and likeness of God.
You left-wing sluts out there are trying to kill us all, with your desperate need to control your own birth cycles, with your libidinous concupiscence and your filthy backroom orgies (often, I am told, involving the wanton use of abortifacients and condoms), and your pathetic reliance upon government handouts because you have failed to produce enough children to look after you when you are old and have been brought low by syphilis and the other deservéd wages of your sin.
The answer?
The trick will be restoring what, in the days of family-owned farms and small businesses, was once true: that babies are an asset rather than a burden. Imagine a society in which parents get to keep more of the human capital they form by investing in their children. Imagine a society in which the family is no longer just a consumer unit, but a productive enterprise. The society that figures out how to restore the economic foundation of the family will own the future.
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” That was the witticism that passed for cleverness back in the day. Who needs men in the Brave New World? We’re about to find out.
Of course. All you lefty women need to do is stop it with your baby hatred and remember that kids are exploitable labor. If nothing else, you could get good prices on the organ market. Do you know what a baby kidney goes for today in Marrakesh? Imagine how many hip replacements that could pay for. Worst comes to worst, we can always eat the little fuckers.
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Don’t Fuck With Planned Parenthood Update
Komen for the Cure has lost five top executives and they’re losing money.
Just to be clear: I take no joy in the fact that Komen will have less money to spend on breast cancer research, prevention and treatment. However, I do take joy in the latest ad campaign against Rush Limbaugh, which is at least somewhat related to his willingness to fuck with Planned Parenthood. I also like this:
“I suspect some people will permanently stay away,” said Tom Taylor, executive editor at Radio-Info.com. “I suspect some people will drift back to Rush. What you won’t see is a press release of someone saying, `Hey, we’re back with Rush!'”
I think what he’s trying to say is that advertising with Rush is a little like owning a Fleshlight–it might meet a need, but you sure aren’t going to tell your friends about it.
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Cathy McMorris-Rodgers Thinks Democrats Are Scaring Women
Oh, fuck this:
This woman is out of her fucking skull. How DARE she? Democrats are scaring women to drum up votes? Is she serious? Let’s take a little walk down GOP Fuckery Lane, shall we?
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I’m Curious About This Guy’s Views on Contraceptives
Another day, another pervert:
A Roman Catholic priest in Montana has been charged with felony sexual abuse of children after sexual images of naked children were found on his Nintendo DS gaming console and personal computer.
The Missoulian reported that a woman called authorities last October to report that nude images of young boys were found on a Nintendo DS game console she purchased from Rudolph “Rudy” Carl Bullman, 67, who serves as a priest at Risen Christ Parish in Kalispell.
The priest admitted to a Flathead County Sheriff’s Office detective that he had used the gaming console to view gay pornography, but insisted all the subjects were at least 18 years old.
A search of Bullman’s personal computer uncovered “images of young males between the ages of 12 and 18, either engaged in sexual activity or displaying their genitals,” according to the Missoulian.
“Well those aren’t adults,” Bullman allegedly agreed upon seeing the images.
A forensic analysis of his computer found an additional 23 images of child pornography in his Internet cache and 23 deleted JPG images.
I love how he was caught- selling his Nintendo with the naked pictures still on it. A guy around where I live was caught in pretty much the same way when he took his computer in for maintenance and the tech guys booted it up and found a shitload of kiddie porn and called the FBI.
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Knit Your Congressman a Snatchel
I realize this is ABL territory, but could there be a better gift for Members of Congress than a knitted representation of their obscure object of desire, shame and regulation? The Snatchel Project’s premise is “if they have their own, they’ll leave ours alone”, and their site has patterns for a womb, snatchel, felt cervix, knitted vulva and three different uteri. (via MJ)