ByGrabtharsHammarWhatASavings ·
06/04/2019 13:28
Is it just me or are all these thing converging on the same point?
Step 1: Make it impossible for women to organise without men, or have access to woman only safe spaces.
Step 2: Dehumanise women by reclassifying us as a less worthy subgroup of our own sex class, and by reducing us to body parts ie "breeders", "menstruators" etc
Step 3: Legitimise and main stream the commercialisation of our bodies for sexual and reproductive purchase.
Step 4: Profit and exploitation dressed up as liberation and progress
Is this going to end with board rooms full of men, half of them identifying as women, celebrating having 50/50 representation, while the people now just known as "breeders" are farmed for sex and babies? Lets not forget that the women in the handmaid's tale were constantly told that they were freer than women in the past because they now had the "freedom from" rather than the "freedom to". They were also told that this situation gave them more dignity because motherhood was more valued, which is an argument I've heard almost verbatim from the religious right who are pretty much the only other group pushing back against TRAs. That is I've heard them argue that the TWAW argument is bad because it erodes women's value "as mothers".
This is "the left see women as public property, the right see women as private property" in action, isn't it.