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In reply to the discussion: Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty [View all]Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Let me try to pull a 'Hitch'. Imagine there's a powerful pro - reproduction women only gang composed of twisted mutants on the scale of James Dobson, Ted Haggard, Ratzinger, Romney Ryan Akin Walsh Mourdock, Hitchens, the Ayatollahs, Taliban, and Lovecraft.
Those women are in charge, and at random force millions of men into a physical situation that matches the act of conception and child bearing. To simulate this, we're looking at physical insertion into (or intrusion of) the man, wanted or not, and maybe a tourniquet around the gonads to promote 9 months of eunich style weight increase. (Crass and not an attempt to demean child-bearing through caricature, just offered for the purposes of approximating physical feeling, and getting into mens' reproductive business.) At the end of 9 months, the guy is presented with one of the infants currently in the foster-adoption system, told 'you provide for this little person. Sayonara.', and kicked out the door.
I keep getting stuck mentally in my attempt to assemble likely suspects for the woman version of the juggernaut of men mutants in my first sentence, grasping at straws. I think Schlafly, Coulter, Christine O'Donnell, Palin, Angle, then have to reject them one by one as being on the other team. I find it impossible to build the juggernaut by thinking of any strong noted Women's Rights power wielding women. Maybe Starhawk could fill in for Lovecraft, that's about all I've got. I shot my bolt. All the top Women thinkers, religious, poltiicos, power holders on our side just say to the other side 'Mind your own business. Stop enforcing your insanity on others.'
So imagine Freidan, Smeal, Pat Farrell, Boxer Pelosi Baldwin McCaskill, Maddow, and LeGuin were representing the woman power gang. They enforced the 'pro-reproduction probes \ tourniquets \ child-rearing' initiative on men, and I chime in, backing or playing the part of K. vanden Huevel, (like the O.P. here backs or plays the part of 'hitch'), writing a little introspective piece that says 'unfortunately, the woman junta has a point'.
Zero women would jump on board to second that emotion here on this site, or in the general public. I'm pretty sure I could guess how many guy post-ers would be on board with backing the idea for 'political gains' or 'personal moral convictions' or 'survival of the species', even without taking a poll.
No matter how many times I roll my 20 sided dice and invoke Chthulu, I have failed to become vanden Huevel, and the Mc Mike vanden Huevel combination fails to score any advocacy points on behalf of the interests of the powerful womens' junta. My post advocating 'mandatory probes - tourniquets - orphan rearing' results in some butt cheek clenching and scrotum guarding by fellow DU ers, but no serious discussion, and sinks into oblivion. So my attempt to pull a 'hitch' fails. Sorry for the long-winded waste of time.
It would have been much shorter and simpler to say the repug 'pro-lifers' are full of shit, don't have a leg to stand on, and retail-sell transparent 3rd rate balderdash to advocate their cause.