On the subject of pro-lifers hating women...

[catsittingstill]

Apparently the DNCC had a "Womens' Equali-Tea" for Women's Equality Day (the anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote.)

Guess what.

Pro-lifers protested against it.  Yes, that's right, pro-lifers protested a celebration of women getting the right to vote.  No, seriously.

And this, of course, is how reasonable people end up with the impression that pro-lifers hate women.  Sure, the protesters were women--as the first post observed, the organizers were very savvy about appearances. 

This is where the pro-lifers who don't hate women could come in and elbow their way into the news.  They could hold a spirited counter-protest, with 10 times as many people, or 20, or 50, however much of a majority they are in the pro-life movement, supporting women's right to vote.  What an opportunity missed.  Oh, well.

Comments

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

What did you expect? It happened in the 20th Century; therefore, Conservative Republicans hate it and would abolish it and burn people as witches for admitting to liking it, if they had the power.

Besides, women are more likely to vote Democrat.

Doesn't surprise me in the least. Disappoints me, but the only thing they could do to surprise me any more would be to do something decent and intelligent.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I can understand some women being pro-life. Maybe they feel that making a baby is all they can accomplish, so it must be the most sacred duty one can perform, and how dare anyone not take advantage of the opportunity?

I can even understand, to some degree, some women protesting against the ERA (and yes, there were a few). As one comedian observed, "When you stand up for your rights, you lose your seat."

But I cannot for the life of me imagine a woman capable of both speech and locomotion who would harangue a celebration of her right to vote. I can only conclude that these bearers of two X chromosomes were completely deranged.

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm missing something here. So let me see if I understand.

Pro-lifers are protesting that women have the vote?

Or am I missing the point here?

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's because the reproductive capacity of a woman is 'way too valuable a resource to let her have any of her own control over it. Hey, she might make a decision about it that conflicts with some man's plans for it! Can't be havin' any of that, now!

It's wryly amusing to observe how a group of people who would loudly denounce evolution and natural selection, will intensely practice natural selection in their reproduction, and the purposeful maintenance of speciation in their memes(*).

(*) a.k.a., purity of thought, anti-ecumenicalism, and no mixing with them other denominations.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

It just seems odd to me, that's all. I realize there are probably people out there who want women to be 2nd class citizens again; I just would have thought they would realize that their ideas are unpopular with normal people.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

(shakes head) I dunno. Maybe there was some sort of misunderstanding and the protesters didn't realize what the party was about.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently some pro-lifers did. If I'm understanding the blog posts and the bloggers are understanding what happened.

Weird, isn't it?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I like your icon. Is that the xray pattern from a crystal? If so, what's the crystal?

[smoooom.livejournal.com]

Weird that would be one word I'd use. I'd say more but I'm trying to avoid stress. Besides I'd be taking to the choir

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's Rosalind Franklin's X-ray crystallography image of DNA in its B form, that Watson and Crick hijacked to compose their double helix model.
In the acute publishing race against Linus Pauling, (but also the chronic celebrity later of "The Double Helix,") they did not credit Rosalind, and by the time that the Nobel Prizes were handed out, she had died too young, and was thus ineligible.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I remember Rosalind Franklin. They actually stole her data, didn't they?

Anyway--I didn't recognize the image. It's very striking :-)

[mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com]

I may or may not, at some point, post a response to the last two weeks' abortion-related news and LJ commentary, including some of my observations about the pro-life movement and about evangelical Christianity in general, from someone on the inside. It depends on whether I really feel able to (a) take the time, (b) be as careful and reasoned in my wording as I will need to be, and (c) respond to comments in the proper spirit and at the proper depth. Probably not, I'm afraid.

But I do want to respond quickly to this item: For a mainstream group to organize a counter-protest when some Koo-Koo for Cocoa Puffs crowd stages something nutty depends on the Cocoa Puffs publicizing their intentions in a forum where the rest of us can get wind of it. In my (admittedly limited) experience with people like this, that does not often happen.