Comments on: Got Sluts?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Where is the praise for these women, you know, for “choosing life?”

By: Maureen

Maureen — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

You mean, they were conceived in the manner Jesus was?

By: drublood

drublood — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I think I love you, Aunt Twisty.

By: M(i)sadventure

M(i)sadventure — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

In the midst of the Scooter stuff on CNN last night, they had a story about how America is essentially going down the shithole, as evidenced by (among other statistics) the one you cite here about the unwed mothers. It jumped out at me, too, as I found that to be significantly less shocking than, say, finding out that 47 million Americans have no health care coverage and that 1 out of 5 American kids live in poverty. But unwed motherhood was taken to be just as clear an index of how poorly the U.S. is doing as unemployment rates AND it conjures up an image of AMERICA’S MORAL DECAY. What I want to know is, how many of those unwed mothers chose single parenthood (through birth or adoption) or are in domestic relationships that are not frequently measured by pollsters or statisticians (e.g. cohabitating with a male or female partner). In other words, it seems that there are many ways of examining the moral weight of UNWED MOTHERHOOD (insert ominous music here).

In other news, Twisty rocks.

By: masterfraud

masterfraud — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I second that. Rockstar, indeed. From another rockstar, Ms. Dowd. Did you see this? All I have to say is holla.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/magazine/30feminism.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Perhaps my memory is failing. Were Joseph & Mary legally married? It sure would be a sore point for Bible thumpers if they weren’t!

By: Chris Clarke

Chris Clarke — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I think you’re being too hard on the sperm providers here, Twisty. I’m sure that many of them were actually, as The Lard demands, married men.

In other words, if the children were born out of wedlock, it’s the mothers’ fault. Because hey, the fathers were married.

By: Joolya

Joolya — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

This post cracked me up - one year, during Bush I (I think) my Single Mother got audited by the IRS. That was the year they were cracking down on Single Moms and the related mutant sub-species Welfare Queens. (Interestingly, my mom is a social worker.) So my mom, who makes like 12 dollars a year after taxes, had to go through a fucking audit as punishment for splitting up with my dad and having the audacity to be employed . . . essentially punished as a PR stunt for the right wing family values fascists.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Personally, I’m shocked and appalled that nobody has suggested the obvious: that these women should be forced to wear a scarlet ‘A’ like they would’ve done back in the Good Ol’ Days…

By: BitingBeaver

BitingBeaver — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

On a related note. Notice all the studies that are cited about teenage mothers. “Teenage pregnancy skyrocket!” etc. you’ve heard them.

Well, here’s the stats on Teenage mothers from a different perspective. A study in 91′ found that 70% of teenage mothers were impregnanted by men age 20 or older.

Another study around the same time showed that the younger the teenager the larger the age-gap would be between them. The median age of the father to an 11-12 year old mother was 21-22 years of age.

Why aren’t THOSE stats being published?

Of course they’re not, because we wouldn’t want to implicate ANY man in these pregnancies, to hear the reports all these women just miraculously give birth to children without a man being involved.

Fuck the Patriarchy.