tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post9013049202385413057..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: God's Little HandmaidenSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-43538700558925398972009-12-26T17:35:15.042-06:002009-12-26T17:35:15.042-06:00Yes, you can quote my blog.
I'm much too bor...Yes, you can quote my blog. <br /><br />I'm much too boring to twitter.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-72088068556820948802009-12-25T10:47:41.771-06:002009-12-25T10:47:41.771-06:00I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And ...I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?<br />And you et an account on Twitter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-31567968595002354462009-12-18T22:52:45.657-06:002009-12-18T22:52:45.657-06:00Dear Author agonyin8fits.blogspot.com !
It is int...Dear Author agonyin8fits.blogspot.com ! <br />It is interesting. Prompt, where to me to learn more about it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-34378997863910805192009-12-02T09:24:11.700-06:002009-12-02T09:24:11.700-06:00Not that libertarians are strangers to hypocrisy, ...Not that libertarians are strangers to hypocrisy, but being pro-life is almost completely incompatible with the freedoms they allegedly worship. You should be able to sell your kidneys, but you can't kill a fetus? Give me a break.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060825957664645319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-28771651057117536262009-12-01T12:32:10.001-06:002009-12-01T12:32:10.001-06:00One of her commenters makes the tenuous assertion ...One of her commenters makes the tenuous assertion that it's men who mostly pay for abortions anyway:<br /><br /><i>"...men pay for most abortions, either the presumed father(s) or male friends.<br /><br />"this is of course never mentioned by pro-choice folks, but actually bothering to ask girls who get abortions where the money came from reveals this again and again...."</i><br /><br />Okay, it's not tenuous, it's stupid and delusory and irrelevant.<br /><br />But it reminds me once again how the anti-abortion faction fetishizes pregnant girls. It's almost always a young girl, whether she is a poor little lamb who's gone astray, or a skanky slut. (When it isn't a young girl, they can't permit themselves to perceive "lost innocence", and fantasies about rescuing grown-up poor women aren't so titillating.)<br /><br />I keep wanting to yell at them that any woman capable of reproduction may find herself pregnant when she doesn't want to be. That includes a lot of young girls, but a hell of a lot of women throughout adulthood and into perimenopause. I would love to see them tell a 44 year old woman with three teen-age children that she should have this unplanned, possibly at-risk baby and <i>then give it up for adoption</i>.<br /><br />And satch is right: just because a human being is a woman does not mean she's your friend, much less your ally. Women are 100% bona fide human beings, and human beings are capable of a lot of stuff.Larkspurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-15944946987729957892009-11-30T17:53:41.954-06:002009-11-30T17:53:41.954-06:00The autonomy of the Female Body is a scary concept...The autonomy of the Female Body is a scary concept a lot of stupid and malicious people isn't it?<br /><br />Just how is "Personhood" defined, anyway? Just having human DNA and being alive? Because under a definition like that cancer cells could be considered "people", or fingernails, hair, and so on.<br /><br />Megan is too stupid to cross the street alone.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50366931078111072452009-11-30T15:21:32.757-06:002009-11-30T15:21:32.757-06:00It's a rainy day here, so I spent some time wa...It's a rainy day here, so I spent some time wading through Megan's comments. Good Christ...is there an argument more disingenuous and at the same time more essential to libertoonian "thinking" than: "I don't want my tax dollars to pay for someone else's [insert benefit-program-strawman here]"? I can actually understand the appeal of that line...it has a sort of superficial truthiness to it, while minimizing wear and tear on the brain cells, but it makes these people sound like they honestly believe that a modern, technologically advanced democracy will just spring up spontaneously out of the primordial ooze if only markets are unregulated and free.satchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-44301924150390356032009-11-30T15:20:27.537-06:002009-11-30T15:20:27.537-06:00McArdle wants so badly to be a hip and trendy and ...<i>McArdle wants so badly to be a hip and trendy and intellectual member of the Smart Set</i><br /><br />Yeah, she's a regular Stupak Shakur.DocAmazingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-14387887853185656452009-11-30T13:26:42.268-06:002009-11-30T13:26:42.268-06:00Maybe the reason so many "blithely assume awa...Maybe the reason so many "blithely assume away concerns about the personhood of the fetus" is because they have no reservations about the issue of whether or not a fetus is a person? There's a reason why it's called a fetus and not a person in the first place.<br /><br />I have to admit, I got such a headache from Megan's awful writing and regurgitation of the same stupid argument, that 1/4 of the way through, I just started skipping to your parts, Susan.Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-62514884280971023952009-11-30T12:49:30.842-06:002009-11-30T12:49:30.842-06:00Some women actually think they'll lose power i...Some women actually think they'll lose power if they are equal, not gain it. And some know you can make a buck by working for The Man, literally in this case. A lot just agree that they are inferior because they've been told that all their lives. Brainwashing works very well.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-3246519288530546692009-11-30T12:44:01.110-06:002009-11-30T12:44:01.110-06:00The only small disagreement I have is the assumpti...The only small disagreement I have is the assumption that it's men who want to control the abortion debate. At the risk of dating myself, in 1966 I was a freshman at a small, church related but progressive (by the standards of the day) college in central PA when I attended a colloquy on women's rights. As a naive but curious 19 year old, it never even occurred to me that women should not have the right of choice, and what astounded me was the fact that, in that group of women, more were outspokenly anti choice than pro, and the main rationale seemed to be that if a woman "fooled around", she deserved what she got. The speaker, Ti-Grace Atkinson, was considered beyond the pale to these young college women. In fact, more of the small number of men present were receptive to her message than were the women. Now granted, those men may have had some selfish concerns with not having their budding college careers complicated by a shotgun wedding, but even today, after all those years, the number and tyrannical vehemence of anti choice women never fails to amaze me.satchnoreply@blogger.com