Comments on: Same oppressive paradigm, different fascists. No wait, it’s the same fascists

By: Crowfoot

Crowfoot — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:24:36 +0000

Long time blamer, probable second time delurker here with a question that is a few days late for slade and her legislative asshole (but good for any other Blamer with a fetus fetishist in their sights):

Ask them if they were also interesting in legislating compulsory liver, kidney and bone marrow transplants. Reassure them that it would only be half of their liver, and in about a year, they’d back to normal and right as rain. One must think of saving lives, after all.

(yeah I probably got the liver/marrow recovery time wrong and that one kidney doesn’t grow back, but you get my meaning. Inspired by Susan Bordo’s chapter “Are Mother’s Persons?” in Unbearable Weight)

(erk, and I’ll likely get the tags wrong)

(Oh! and hello all, this site is a lovely wonder of blamerishessness. yum!)

By: utri

utri — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:55:29 +0000

20 years from now MTV has the show “Pimp my brain”

One more step to the glorious posthuman era. Well glorious if your rich because enhanced intelligence, life extension and designer babies cost megabucks. The poor on the other side are busy living in biddonvilles after most of the jobs go to robots

By: TwissB

TwissB — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:13:41 +0000

Thanks, murphy and Dr. Steph for kind and interesting words.
I forgot to provide a sample question for Slade to ask an anti-abortion legislator e.g:
“Are you drafting legislation to regulate male fertility since uncontrolled male fertility is the main cause of the need for abortion?” (Don’t accept any protests that it can’t be done. Of course it can.) Suggestions for other questions welcome.

To read a discussion of way that First Amendment Fundamentalists use Roe v Wade’s basis in women’s nonexistent first amendment right to privacy (thanks for nothing, Justice Blackmun) as a gotcha on behalf of pornography, see #417 (Yale J. of Law & Feminism article) at http://www.equality4women.org.

By: Sev

Sev — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:19:16 +0000

Speaking of technology and loss of privacy here’s a story about how every Dude’z fantasy is becoming real:

http://www.keenme.com/products/digital-cameras/digital-cameras-that-can-see-through-clothing-its-true

Combine this with the fact that electronics keep becoming smaller and more discrete and well…

By: Dr. Steph

Dr. Steph — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:49:57 +0000

Thanks for the link TwissB. I’ve used that argument in the past with men who think they have some right to decision making about abortion. My response: your decision to conceive or not conceive children comes when you stick your penis in a woman. If you don’t use condoms then you’ve made your choice and have to live with the consequences.

It’s amazing how they suddenly get this feeling of having no agency and choice. If only for a nano second, they get a sense of being a woman.

It never really sticks though. IBTP.

By: murphy

murphy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:05:10 +0000

TwissB, I read your one-pager about how to “stop abortion.” Wow, thanks! I love reading people like Twisty and you who effectively change the frameworks of how I didn’t even realize I was thinking. It’s what true original thinking consists of and is generally in such short supply, though not so short among women in my experience. maybe why the accusation of “irrational” gets flung so often.

I’ve printed it out and taped it to my office “door of things to think about” for my daughters to read.

By: hanna jörgel

hanna jörgel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:33:02 +0000

(To be precise, the adrenaline was pumping, it just wasn’t finding any cozy receptors to call home)

By: hanna jörgel

hanna jörgel — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:31:43 +0000

Not trying to pile on, but I used to use propranolol for performance anxiety in music performance.

It was really strange. I was terrified in a room full of people, but there’s no adrenalin pumping. None. My hands didn’t shake. I didn’t get any butterflies.

Later, I’d crash. But I didn’t forget the horror of being in a room full of people playing music very badly. I became a much better performer once I got off the stuff and learned how to harness the fear.

By: ate

ate — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:23:35 +0000

Oh the distress of the Wired geeks (and i say that as a ‘geek’ myself)! Their utopian future could possibly be threatened by reality! The continuation of oppression! Golly gosh! Nonetheless I am surprised by the outcry here. Why are we worried? The menz already think they know what is good for us (particularly in terms of reproduction!), i can’t imagine a world where they are interested in our opinions or what is occuring in our brains.

P.s. In Australia we have no law or constitution that protects a right to free speech. Though in the late 1990s the High Court of Australia found that there was an “implied right of free speech in relation to political or economic matters”. What?!?! Two areas dominated by white haired white men?!?! Here is a good article on Australia and free speech/freedom of press and how that changed under the last prime minister (the same prime minister that couldn’t understand the objections to a Goods and Services Tax on tampons when there was going to be the same tax on shaving cream and it’s like the same thing, right?)

http://www.safecom.org.au/marr-freedom-of-speech.htm

By: panoptical

panoptical — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:01:14 +0000

“More oppression seems to be the only remedy anyone can ever come up with to fix the horrible problems caused by oppression.”

Amen to that!

It never ceases to amaze me that we still live in a society where the state can just claim ownership of whatever it wants through “eminent domain” and “due process” and other throwbacks to ancient English law. Nowhere is the patriarchy so evident as in our system of laws that took the power away from the King and gave it to some other rich white guys.