I had to flip to the article just to make sure I understanding that right.
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Same here. At first I thought it was a pact, but now I see the truth of Alabama White Evangelical Logic.
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There’s a passage from Kristin Luker’s Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood , a 1984 book about the views of people on either side of the abortion rights issue, that finally answered this question to my satisfaction. In a paragraph about anti-abortion activists’ opposition to the provision of confidential contraception and abortion services for teenagers, Luker wrote, “Pro-life people see public policy in this realm as intruding the state into areas where it does not belong, namely, within the family. From their point of view, the family is both beleaguered and sacred.” Any outside force that treats a member of the family as a separate entity, “rather than as an organic whole,” is, from this perspective, problematic. (Implicit in this idea, I might add, is that the family is a patriarchal one, governed by a strong and benevolent father.)
In a footnote to this passage, Luker blew my mind: “This explains the frequent opposition of pro-life people to policies one would think they would support, as the intended beneficiaries are children.” Programs like those that provide state-supported day care, free school lunches, or nutrition assistance for pregnant women didn’t meet with support among the anti-abortion activists Luker interviewed, because “they resist the idea of letting the state into the sacrosanct territory of the home.”
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This is also why the U.S. refuses to ratify the U.N. Declaration on Children’s Rights. Seriously.
Children have no rights in a patriarchal society.
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I’m Liking that, not because it’s good or that I agree, but because it’s the best explanation I’ve seen for the cognitive dissonance of valuing potential life in the womb vs. not caring what happens after a child’s born.
It’s still horrible, of course. But I comprehend it a little better now.
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Yeah, it explains the comment the xtian family who once lived next door, when I complained about their barking-at-all-hours dog. “FAMILIES live in this neighborhood, and FAMILIES have dogs.”
Sorry for the above; ordinarily I avoid the F word.
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That is fascinating. That’s like a cargo cult approach to life. If they go to church, don’t swear, have two children and a house and a white picket fence and a dog, that means they’re having a good life and are beyond reproach? Guess so.
But they missed a spot, because FAMILIES have well-behaved dogs.
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I wished I’d said that. Thanks for the perspective!
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I don’t know why this won’t open. It’s a multiple page post, but it won’t onebox. It’s Gemma Correll on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzV6WNqDj4e/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet
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An almost but not realistically unrelated story:
It’s a shock to boys when we learn that we can be considered by some to be owned too. The evangelical and other cult causes are much the same as National Bolshevism.
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Mansplaining The Handmaid’s Tale…to Margaret Atwood:
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Christ &c.
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Damn, even codinghorror wasn’t quite that bad!
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Lmao
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President Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Fla., is scheduled to host a golf tournament Saturday put on by a Miami-area strip club, which will allow golfers to pay for a dancer to serve as their “caddy girl” while they play at the president’s club.
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It has been advertising the golf tournament at Doral online, on Facebook, on Instagram and via the industry website exoticdancer.com. It offers packages that claim to combine hotel rooms at Doral with services at the strip club: a $1,000 “VIP Upgrade,” for instance, includes three days at the hotel and “1/2 Hour VIP Room + Bottle @ Club.”
It’s sort of amazing how little money they’re charging to sell us all into a misogynist hellscape.
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A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor has refused to be interviewed by a female reporter unless she brings a male colleague with her.
Larrison Campbell, 40, said she had asked to shadow Robert Foster on a 15-hour “ride-a-long” on his campaign, but was denied because of her sex.
Mr Foster said he was acting out of precaution and he did not want to raise any suspicions about his marriage.
“This is my truck, and in my truck we go by my rules,” he said on CNN.
During the CNN interview with Ms Campbell and Mr Foster on Thursday, the 36-year-old gubernatorial candidate cited his religion and faith, arguing he made a vow to his wife to not be alone with someone of the opposite sex.
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Just to be clear, he’s claiming, as a prospective public official, that the entire state of Mississippi is “his truck” and because he owns it, everyone in the state has to do what he says.
No way that could ever be used against the good people of Mississippi.
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