iridaniotter

iridaniotter, 16 days ago

Good article. I have written a lengthy response. phoenix-evidence

Sterilization, Murders, Suicides: Bans Haven’t Slowed Abortions, and They’re Costing Lives: Is this what the “pro-life” movement wanted?

Sartre has an answer for us. Let me paraphrase:

Never believe that anti-abortionists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since she believes in words. The anti-abortionists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

The “pro-life” movement as a whole is not actually pro-life. Even liberal activists understand this and they constantly point out the “pro-life” movement’s hypocrisy. However, pointing out hypocrisy has been largely ineffective. Maybe it works on some individuals, but it’s the wrong approach to pro-abortion activism. “Pro-life” is a rhetorical trick that shouldn’t be taken seriously. So instead of accepting the anti-abortionist’s concern trolling at face value, we need to do our own analysis. Another favorite quote on this forum by Stafford Beer:

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Abortion medication can now only be obtained from underground feminist organizations in some states. So the anti-abortion laws have had the effect of criminalizing feminism. Women are twice as likely as men to get sterilized to avoid the risk of an unwanted pregnancy. So the anti-abortion laws have increased the risk of being a woman. Fascists are now aiming to ban contraception. This would further increase the risk of being a woman, greatly reduce the sexual autonomy of women, and reaffirm patriarchal domination over women. Actually none of this is gender-specific and would affect anyone with a womb. So the anti-abortion movement is anti-transmasculinity^[1]^ made concrete: gender fascists want to re-gender anyone with a womb that isn’t a woman back into the social role of a woman. So the anti-abortion movement is also a violently transphobic (specifically, trans people assigned female at birth) movement. Many pregnant people have to drive hours out of state to get an abortion. People will always be able to flee somewhere for an abortion, but fascists want to make the number of safe states as low as possible. This is a class and freedom of movement issue. And more proof that anti-abortionism is about control over other people. Forced pregnancy also makes it harder to leave abusive partners, abusive partners are more likely to kill you if you’re pregnant, and anti-abortion laws increase suicide (social murder) rates. So the anti-abortion movement is a femicidal movement.

In conclusion, the “pro-life” movement is simply the pro-patriarchy movement and must be treated as such. They do not care about lives. They care about dominating and killing anyone that is not a cisgender man. The “pro-choice” movement needs to recognize this, build solidarity between the oppressed genders where it’s possible^[2][3]^, support radical bodily autonomy, and organize towards the destruction of the patriarchy.

^[1]^ I’m not sure if this is the right word. Transphobia is too broad here, but transmasculine is probably too strict. However, anti-transafabism just sounds terrible.

^[2]^ There are some activists who have largely given up on trans men, since trans men are men and can benefit from wielding misogyny. Well, they are also oppressed by cissexual society that wants to re-gender them as women, so I can’t agree with this wholesale rejection.

^[3]^ Obviously allies are great. I don’t think we should #KillAllMen, although I do think we should abolish the male sex (don’t worry: we should abolish sex in general). Vigilance against misogyny and transphobia in the movement is what’s required.

iridaniotter, 18 days ago

Undermining my own argument for social democracy by repeating the anti-communist myth that increased wages cause increased prices. ancap-good

iridaniotter, 18 days ago

But then they deny it’s cannibalism and pretend to be upset when other cultures do it. So pretty cringe.

iridaniotter, 18 days ago

Interesting that the reactionary is recuperating “gender self-expression” to describe girls wearing feminized clothes but not the normalized (in the 20th-21st century) crossdressing. Instead that’s described as communistic and sexless. Which is also interesting. What depths the Sinophobic reactionary brainpan has!

iridaniotter, 19 days ago

It’s literally 1984

iridaniotter, 19 days ago

19th century British bourgeoisie seeing this: porky-scared-flipped

Them after seeing what Labour has become: capitalist-laugh

iridaniotter, 22 days ago

edit: $6000 for a two person room

People fly first class flights for 8-10k cringe Or… do they? I think they mostly fly 100 times beforehand and use their points

iridaniotter, 26 days ago

Love to live in a country where the only way to convict a few white supremacists is through months of nationwide uprisings, the deaths of even more martyrs, and the arrests of thousands. agony-yehaw

iridaniotter, 26 days ago

A funny outcome would be America cutting itself off from international web standards due to communist infiltration of open source code. https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/1134105f-7f7b-4579-8ecd-47c11299501b.png

iridaniotter, 28 days ago

Just fucking shoot me

iridaniotter, 30 days ago

Reasons why I personally wear a binder in order of frequency:

• I keep neglecting to buy a sports bra
• The outfit looks better with a flat chest
• It’s like a wearable hug for two hours
• Don’t want breasts in the moment
• Shirt doesn’t fit otherwise q.q

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Ok America is definitely going to ban Chinese solar panels and guarantee an extra degree of warming

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

phoenix-objection-1phoenix-objection-2 objection

All of the “amazing” Chinese cars pictured in the article are full of touchscreen infotainment systems. China is cooked as well.

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Vague anti first world sentiment is now tankieism oooaaaaaaauhhh

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

China is teaching white kids how to dance and it’s making the government nervous

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/394dfb4e-1ab3-48a7-8068-5b8c32cef647.jpeg

I am canceling Twilight Sparkle

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Babies will be produced both in vivo in either endogenous or transplanted wombs, and ex vivo.

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

I used the genderbread man in my high school GSA ooooooooooooooh We need to provide better political education for the youth

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Give it 50 years. Trust the plan. microplastics-cool

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

IDK, Russia becomes the birthplace of fascism? Nazis still take power because Germany’s situation hasn’t changed? WW2 lasts longer and nukes are dropped in Japan, Russia, Afghanistan, Germany, etc.? American unipolarity begins in 1950 instead of 1990? It would probably suck real bad.

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Give everyone that asks a different answer sans-troll

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

ATU 514 meme

iridaniotter, 1 month ago

Biden admin to allow trans healthcare bans, anti-trans discrimination

twitter.com/gaynarcan/status/1783995899183534117