tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11818063.post987195759909814125..comments2024-03-21T00:29:41.066-07:00Comments on City of Destiny: Late January newsworthinessk of chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14726192719787418051noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11818063.post-34779026036919555112008-01-31T16:23:00.000-08:002008-01-31T16:23:00.000-08:00I'm the editor of Bruiser Review and I'm sorry you...I'm the editor of Bruiser Review and I'm sorry you couldn't make it to the party. It was a lot of fun but I imagine the frigid temps kept a lot of folks away.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for mentioning us. If you e-mail me (I have a hard time communicating through blog comments) I'll send you a list of places where the mag can be found around town. Cheers!<BR/><BR/>-Simon A. Smith<BR/>simon.something@gmail.comS.A.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11988179563507783442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11818063.post-88008379616282728462008-01-25T15:54:00.000-08:002008-01-25T15:54:00.000-08:00I knew at some point someone would disagree with s...I knew at some point someone would disagree with something here. I'd rather have that happen than be ignored. As long as there's no personal attacks/anonymous rants (oh, those aren't allowed anyway) well, agree to disagree.<BR/><BR/>Two points: first, a lot of women around the world don't always have the choice about what behaviors they engage in (I'm not just talking about rape).<BR/><BR/>Second, from "Abortion: Is a Woman a Person?" (1979) by Ellen Willis:<BR/><BR/>"...Even if she chooses to give up the baby, unwanted pregnancy is in itself a serious trauma...However gratifying pregnancy may be to a woman who desires it, for the unwilling it is literally an invasion--the closet analogy is to the difference between lovemaking and rape...Clearly, abortion is by normal standards an act of self-defense.<BR/>Whenever I make the case to a right-to-lifer, the exchange that follows is always substantially the same:<BR/>RTL: If a woman chooses to have sex, she should be willing to take the consequences. We must all be responsible for our actions.<BR/>EW: Men have sex, without having to 'take the consequences.'<BR/>RTL: You can't help that--it's biology.<BR/>EW: You don't think a woman has as much right as man to enjoy sex? Without living in fear that one slip will transform her life?<BR/>RTL: She has no right to selfish pleasure at the expense of the unborn.<BR/>It would seem, then, that the nitty-gritty issue in the abortion debate is not life but sex. If the fetus is sacrosanct, it follows that women must be continually vulnerable to the invasion of their bodies and loss of their freedom and independence--unless they are willing to resort to the only perfectly reliable contraceptive, abstinence. This is precisely the 'solution' right-to-lifers suggest, usually with a touch of glee; as Rep. Elwood Rudd once put it, 'If a woman has a right to control her own body, let her exercise control before she gets pregnant.' A common ploy is to compare sex to overeating or overdrinking, the idea being that pregnancy is a just punishment, like obesity or cirrhosis.<BR/>In 1979 it is depressing to have to insist that sex is not an unneccessary, morally dubious self-indulgence but a basic human need, no less for women than for men...The don't-have-sex argument is really another version of the familiar antifeminist dictum that autonomy and femaleness--that is, female sexuality, are incompatible; if you choose the first, you lose the second..."<BR/><BR/>I agree. But again, I'm not going to censor different points of view here.k of chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14726192719787418051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11818063.post-48824532750178373262008-01-25T10:51:00.000-08:002008-01-25T10:51:00.000-08:00call it what it is, pro-death. abortion is despic...call it what it is, pro-death. abortion is despicable. don't want a kid? make the choice to not engage in certain behaviors. simple. i may not think outlawing it will do much good, but at least the pro-life/anti-choice whatevers have the high ground.dkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13692873756318854989noreply@blogger.com