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Would I be unreasonable to dress dd as a uterus?

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BigOldFanny · 22/08/2012 14:10

The Republican National Convention is going to be held very close to where I live... I'm thinking of going to protest and dressing up dd as a model of the female reproductive system... I'm slightly concerned about there being trouble there though and about using her when she's too young to have an opinion on anything herself (even though this will affect her long term). Is it wrong?

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oopsi · 22/08/2012 22:33

how does she know what her daughters moral religous and political views will be ? To say nothing oe undermining her dignity by dressing her as sex organs ,why is the or not wearing the costume

FrankieMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 22/08/2012 22:41

The protest is legitimate but I think the idea of dressing a little girl up as a Uterus is appalling.

It is the kind of thing that switches me of from a cause personally.

Iamsparkly' idea is much better.

lovebunny · 22/08/2012 22:47

i think its pretty horrible.

WilsonFrickett · 22/08/2012 22:48

The way things are going oopsi she won't have any rights.

MrsTerryPratchett · 22/08/2012 23:17

Her daughter can have any political, religious and moral views she wants but if she is forced to have an examination when she miscarries to make sure she didn't murder her baby she may thank her mother for the attempt to protect her rights.

I would liken it to any group of people who are fighting for their basic human rights. This isn't about a difference of opinion. It is sending women back to the Dark Ages. These people hate women (and Gay people and Muslims people...) and want to be able to tell them what to do. I would woman the barricades myself and I bet OP's daughter will thank her mother for her commitment.

Iamsparklyknickers · 22/08/2012 23:19

It's not like she's proposing to make some huge sexual statement and paint breasts and nipple rings on a bib and make a clitoris bonnet (although pubes would look awesome as trimming!)

The only bit I would take issue with is the likely tone of the protest and any danger she may get caught up in.

Like it or not parents impose their political, religious and moral views on their children 24/7 while they raise them in whatever way they see fit, there's nothing that unusual going on.

ninah · 22/08/2012 23:21

making statements with clothes, uteris trumps boden imo
go for it op

Trebuchet · 22/08/2012 23:22

My ds(5) wants to go to his birthday party dressed as a vaginaBlush(sighs)

ninah · 22/08/2012 23:24

oopp sp
lol at the horror about making decisions for a small child
who else does it? christening, for example

RiaOverTheRainbow · 22/08/2012 23:31

Unless you're worried about aggressive counter-protesters or similar I say go for it. And if you do decide against I like the photo placard idea.

PicklesThePottyMouthedParrot · 22/08/2012 23:35

Yarn vagina. Best. Costume. Ever!

Good luck fanny what a worthy cause.

oopsi · 22/08/2012 23:57

this will make some therapist's bank manager very happy one day!

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/08/2012 00:03

It's only a bloody uterus FFS. If she hates herself and her body so much that she needs a therapist to deal with being dressed as part of her own body she will have problems.

These people are scum and anything the OP and others can do to stop them is fine in my book.

cocolepew · 23/08/2012 00:14

I would leave her behind, just in case of trouble. Go yourself though, its the right thing to do Smile

aufaniae · 23/08/2012 00:14

My first protest was a pro-choice one at a few months, apparently.

I'm proud of that! You should take her, she'll make a cute uterus!

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BigOldFanny · 23/08/2012 02:45

Thanks guys, I will have a think about it and then maybe gauge the crowd on the day as well as stay out to the side a bit in case anything kicks off at all.

If things don't seem totally kosher I'll try the placard idea.

oops If these men get their way my daughter could one day have a miscarriage and go to jail for it if it's deemed not a real miscarriage.

save your disgust for the men in my country who say abortion doesn't need to be legal for rape victims as if they were legitimately raped they wouldn't have gotten pregnant at all. That's what we are dealing with.

This doesn't just disgust me it scares the bejeezus out of me.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 23/08/2012 02:48

I will be there in spirit!

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/08/2012 02:49

Damn. I meant... I will be there in spirit!

Alameda · 23/08/2012 02:51

blimey there are some strange people on here at the moment with deeply skewed values, all the better to show up the rational thinkers though? (not me, am terrified by what trickles through my fingers in ears, la la la response to the news from the states)

anyway what a fabulous idea, I especially like 'cuterous'! please keep us all posted

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/08/2012 02:55

Alameda if you have your fingers in your ears you can't hold hands with me and BigOldFanny.

Alameda · 23/08/2012 02:56

no but I can stand shoulder to shoulder!

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BigOldFanny · 23/08/2012 02:58

Get your fingers out alameda you know you wanna hold hands..

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bogeyface · 23/08/2012 03:03

Can I recommend you all (the yes's and the no's) read Eve by Petrina Brown? It is a history of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood since early history and has some very interesting information about how women were treated in the middle ages (and since) if they had a miscarriage. There was a hypothetical question put by a writer that asked, if a priest on a horse runs into a pregnant woman and she later miscarries, but she didnt have bed rest or avoid her normal duties in the meantime, who is at fault? The question should never have needed to be asked, but the fact that fault needs to be found, says it all. This all came from the church.

how long before women in the US will be unclean during their periods and pregnancies and need to be "churched" after a baby?

Alameda · 23/08/2012 03:09

I'm going to sleep on it but I suspect I would like to hold hands.

My fingers aren't in my ears because I don't care, but because I really really really cannot cope with an excess of that sort of reality. I would donate my own uterus to the cause though, it could come in handy for something?

FairPhyllis · 23/08/2012 03:47

I love, love, love the yarngina.

I think you should be the one to dress up as a uterus, but I don't see why you shouldn't take DD along and perhaps attach a placard to her buggy. I'm sure you're perfectly able to judge if you need to leave if things get tense.

For anyone who thinks this is a disgusting idea, you need to know that women in the US will soon be in law little more than walking uteruses (uteri?) if the current trend in Repug politics continues.