Bloodless Coup

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Regarding both my earlier joke about reciprocal control of men's bodies as well as the current discussion in the comments about empathy for another's position, I thought these quotes might be interesting to the fellahs.

We've been talking about how criticizing patriarchy doesn't mean the same thing as criticizing all men (or women) who are enmeshed in the social structures, and also about how patriarchy doesn't just hurt women, but men too. I didn't even have to go looking and an example landed in my lap. South Dakota, of course, where the Governor has just signed the abortion ban which contains no exceptions for rape or incest. One of the supporters starting thinking out loud about what a rape exception might look like. It does sound like he has a vivid picture in his head.

BILL NAPOLI: A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.

So, for the married woman who was not a virgin, no exception. Huh. And, I wonder what kind of sex ed this man has had, because last I knew, sodomy and pregnancy had nothing to do with each other. But I digress. The part to which I wanted to draw the gentleman commenters' attention is below:

BILL NAPOLI: When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn't allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story. And so I happen to believe that can happen again.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: You really do?

BILL NAPOLI: Yes, I do. I don't think we're so far beyond that, that we can't go back to that.

See that? He just moved on from controlling women's lives via their uteruses, to controlling men's lives too. He wants to tell you to get married, and how you have to raise your kids.

Or maybe, perhaps, you would look fetching wearing this?

And since I know you love her work, you know who.

Posted by binky at March 6, 2006 04:52 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Reproductive Autonomy