Because getting fucked once is just not enough
Via Shakes, a rant about the South Dakota abortion ban that nails it on the head:
It’s insulting. It’s belittling. It’s unfair. It’s infuriating. And none of that matters to the people who would seek to protect a life that doesn’t exist at the expense of mine, which does.
The whole spiel gets one big "ditto" from me. This crap burns me up every time, and it is precisely because what Shakes says is true: it seeks to ensure that women "have fewer rights and less value under the law than an unwanted fetus," and strip away the autonomy of all women. All women.
It's not as women aren't already devalued. It is that we have not been devalued enough to have been acceptably proclaimed defeated.
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My own rant comes from a quote in the story from Republican Sen. Lee Schoenbeck of Watertown:
Rape should be punished severely, he said, but the amendment is unfair to “some equally innocent souls who have no chance to stand and defend themselves.”
Lee, fuck the hell off. If I get to be an "innocent soul" who deserves a chance to "stand and defend" myself in your righteous scenario, then why the hell are you for taking that right away? Where was the support that would have allowed me to effectively "stand and defend" when, against my will, my virginal, "innocent soul" was put in the back of some guy's car and raped in the first place? The kind of support where someone like you and millions of other men step up and take to task others for their sexist entitlement behavior, instead of legislating "severe punishment" against the female victims of said shits?
Why, oh why, the fuck am I having to defend myself, against impossible odds, against some rapist shit at all? Why is it left to be my own damn fault if I chose not to risk further violence against me, in order to try to gather evidence to provide you with someone to severly punish? What value are words that say "rape should be punished severly" when it's not? When it really should be prevented severely? Why do I get the feeling this is about "standing" for and "defending" male privilege?
Lee, and the rest of you sick shits, the first and only chance I had to "stand" and "defend" my very self was the day I got an abortion. Obviously that was one chance too many in your mind. I, on the other hand, am
not.
letting.
that.
happen.
for the NNAF
2 comments:
Well of course, babies are innocent little creatures that don't ask for it, whereas a woman who was raped obviously asked for it.
Bah, this shit pisses me off. And here I thought I was going to get something done today and instead I'm checking out all the blogs *grin*
Excellent post!
I am getting nothing done today. The cable internet went down, which always screws with something when it domes back up, and after a few hours it was fixed. Turns out the fix is temporary, and I have to go through the process every 10 minutes to get the router to re-accept my IP assignment. Or something.
Don't you know they ask for it after they get raped, too? I am more incensed about that time than the rape itself, because instead of it being one person, it became a whole social mindset around me.
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