Do you think so? What percentage of the total electorate (not just Republicans) finds the fundamentalist position on women's rights a total deal-breaker? Check out the percentage of fundamentalists in the US and you will see what I mean. Even if a Bible-thumping candidate wins the nomination by appealing to evangelist hard-liners, will he be able to overcome his , uh, extremist anti-intellectualism in the general election?
Nods. Fundamentalists of all persuasions miss the simple truth that if a woman really wants to abort a fetus, she will. It just means more women will die. You don't need to look at other countries to see this. It was true here until Roe v Wade. Unfortunately, fundamentalists seem to see women, at best, as sub-human, and at worst, as evil incarnate, so their deaths do not matter. (That includes, sadly, female fundamentalists. Sometimes they are the worst. That sort of siding with an abuser is a feature of abusive/hostage relationships.)
You are so right. I am puzzled by how many women (the majority of readers) continue to put male writers at the top of best-seller lists in spite of the cardboard female characters the latter create.
For generations, women were raised to believe that their destiny was to "nurture" and even when they worked they were shuttled into such low-paid, work/skill intensive jobs as teaching, nursing, and office management.
Women who dared to assert themselves were labeled with synonyms of the b word--a female dog who dares to defend herself.
Some women have always dared not to care. It is hard to defy expectations, but not impossible. I think it's one of those things that has a threshold. One day, things could, seemingly all of a sudden, change.
Some men sense this and are scared to death that they will no longer have women at home who will take care of them and support them when they are immature, nasty jerks and women at work who will take the blame for their incompetence and allow them to take unearned credit.
As male/female percentages equalize in top grad schools, they are afraid their spoiled sons will have to study as hard as their neighbors' daughters in high school and college instead of "sowing wild oats" and hitting weekly keggers.
This is really why they are attacking birth control, as well as abortion. They want to turn back the clock to an imagined good old days when Dear Old Dad could act like a 2 year old and everyone would say, "Aw--we love him so much. Father knows best."
On some level, we all know what is happening. It's sad, in a way, but when we are choosing leaders and trying to prevent murders, we should be thinking about it.
Do you think so? What percentage of the total electorate (not just Republicans) finds the fundamentalist position on women's rights a total deal-breaker? Check out the percentage of fundamentalists in the US and you will see what I mean. Even if a Bible-thumping candidate wins the nomination by appealing to evangelist hard-liners, will he be able to overcome his , uh, extremist anti-intellectualism in the general election?
Nods. Fundamentalists of all persuasions miss the simple truth that if a woman really wants to abort a fetus, she will. It just means more women will die. You don't need to look at other countries to see this. It was true here until Roe v Wade. Unfortunately, fundamentalists seem to see women, at best, as sub-human, and at worst, as evil incarnate, so their deaths do not matter. (That includes, sadly, female fundamentalists. Sometimes they are the worst. That sort of siding with an abuser is a feature of abusive/hostage relationships.)
You are so right. I am puzzled by how many women (the majority of readers) continue to put male writers at the top of best-seller lists in spite of the cardboard female characters the latter create.
For generations, women were raised to believe that their destiny was to "nurture" and even when they worked they were shuttled into such low-paid, work/skill intensive jobs as teaching, nursing, and office management.
Women who dared to assert themselves were labeled with synonyms of the b word--a female dog who dares to defend herself.
Some women have always dared not to care. It is hard to defy expectations, but not impossible. I think it's one of those things that has a threshold. One day, things could, seemingly all of a sudden, change.
Some men sense this and are scared to death that they will no longer have women at home who will take care of them and support them when they are immature, nasty jerks and women at work who will take the blame for their incompetence and allow them to take unearned credit.
As male/female percentages equalize in top grad schools, they are afraid their spoiled sons will have to study as hard as their neighbors' daughters in high school and college instead of "sowing wild oats" and hitting weekly keggers.
This is really why they are attacking birth control, as well as abortion. They want to turn back the clock to an imagined good old days when Dear Old Dad could act like a 2 year old and everyone would say, "Aw--we love him so much. Father knows best."
On some level, we all know what is happening. It's sad, in a way, but when we are choosing leaders and trying to prevent murders, we should be thinking about it.