This is one of the most powerful things I've read on just why, why, why abortion is not just a single issue but one whose ramifications extend far and wide. Thank you.
"It’s an overreach so stunning it’s almost impossible to believe it’s happening. It’s embarrassing; it’s a shocking act of lawlessness from a judge brazenly abusing his power." It's also the first time a court has second-guessed the FDA and deemed it appropriate to rule that a drug should be taken off the market. The overreach is indeed stunning.
I completely agree this is about control but here's my take on what's behind the need to control. Marriage prospects for working class men have declined as women now have alternatives to a bad marriage of convenience. The revanchist laws being enacted across red states are intended to shore up the wounded masculinity of working class men. If I cannot attract a mate I will enlist the state in my failed romantic enterprise. The male ego is fragile in all its class incarnations but men in the professional managerial class have incomes that still make them attractive as mates. Working class men not so much.
Yes, I watch that situation in China with interest. Tidal waves of testosterone will have a ripple effect.
In this country, I think you're correct that this is not solely a class issue but my brief is what's driving fascism at base is the waning of social status for working class people. For years elites drifted away from the social contract and in the process began to think of themselves as different qualitatively from others. The GOP has taken that ball and run with it but, again, there is no clear way to create status. It must be bestowed by others and that's a bridge too far for this country.
Consider: when I was a teenager not only was abortion strictly illegal, the birth control pill hadn't been invented yet. And I had absolutely no desire to either get married or have children. And you don't think I take these matters seriously enough?
Reading the comments above, and Jill's article, I think all these motivations can come into play. But bottom line is that, in this day and age, the limits the right wants to impose on women, and in the long run all of us, is fascist. F:*#% that !!!!!!!!
A question. You often hear, when trying to find the real culprit, that you should follow the money trail. In the attack on reproductive rights, is their a money trail? Or is that a red herring?
It doesn't matter. It wasn't a trick question. Where some people see left and right. I see class struggle. I'm not standing up for the workin' man's point of view. I'm trying to parse the rock in their shoe. And with regard to this issue I think their unhappiness stems from the lack of social status needed to find a mate. Since we can't legislate social status the GOP coughs up these punishing laws whose ultimate purpose is to tether women to men. Hence control....
Once again, right on...we are still cavemen, living in the Middle Ages with modern technology. I don't understand any of this, except in the idea that men are supposed to be in control of women's lives...what a bunch of crap...
Look. GOP is going for insane judicial responses. Nobody till now has questioned the official US drug testing results. So, if the GOP is going there, why not the Dems, too.
You are absolutely right and the article is well articulated. Perhaps it is time to
a) get a judge to ban Viagra.
b) Lysistrata anyone?
As someone elsewhere memed, “I’ve come to a point in my life where I need a stronger word than ‘fuck’.”
This is one of the most powerful things I've read on just why, why, why abortion is not just a single issue but one whose ramifications extend far and wide. Thank you.
"It’s an overreach so stunning it’s almost impossible to believe it’s happening. It’s embarrassing; it’s a shocking act of lawlessness from a judge brazenly abusing his power." It's also the first time a court has second-guessed the FDA and deemed it appropriate to rule that a drug should be taken off the market. The overreach is indeed stunning.
I completely agree this is about control but here's my take on what's behind the need to control. Marriage prospects for working class men have declined as women now have alternatives to a bad marriage of convenience. The revanchist laws being enacted across red states are intended to shore up the wounded masculinity of working class men. If I cannot attract a mate I will enlist the state in my failed romantic enterprise. The male ego is fragile in all its class incarnations but men in the professional managerial class have incomes that still make them attractive as mates. Working class men not so much.
Yes, I watch that situation in China with interest. Tidal waves of testosterone will have a ripple effect.
In this country, I think you're correct that this is not solely a class issue but my brief is what's driving fascism at base is the waning of social status for working class people. For years elites drifted away from the social contract and in the process began to think of themselves as different qualitatively from others. The GOP has taken that ball and run with it but, again, there is no clear way to create status. It must be bestowed by others and that's a bridge too far for this country.
It's so painful to contemplate. Thanks for insisting on looking and speaking ... all of us need to be doing.
men are a nuisance :(
Same could be said for you.
Consider: when I was a teenager not only was abortion strictly illegal, the birth control pill hadn't been invented yet. And I had absolutely no desire to either get married or have children. And you don't think I take these matters seriously enough?
Reading the comments above, and Jill's article, I think all these motivations can come into play. But bottom line is that, in this day and age, the limits the right wants to impose on women, and in the long run all of us, is fascist. F:*#% that !!!!!!!!
A question. You often hear, when trying to find the real culprit, that you should follow the money trail. In the attack on reproductive rights, is their a money trail? Or is that a red herring?
Not to mention this man actually resembles Adolf Hitler
It doesn't matter. It wasn't a trick question. Where some people see left and right. I see class struggle. I'm not standing up for the workin' man's point of view. I'm trying to parse the rock in their shoe. And with regard to this issue I think their unhappiness stems from the lack of social status needed to find a mate. Since we can't legislate social status the GOP coughs up these punishing laws whose ultimate purpose is to tether women to men. Hence control....
I hope this explains how I understand this.
Once again, right on...we are still cavemen, living in the Middle Ages with modern technology. I don't understand any of this, except in the idea that men are supposed to be in control of women's lives...what a bunch of crap...
Look. GOP is going for insane judicial responses. Nobody till now has questioned the official US drug testing results. So, if the GOP is going there, why not the Dems, too.