friskie business

sometimes i wish that i could go back to new york simply for the reason that i wish to be lonely amogst a vast sea of lonely people.

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thoseareturkeys:

katoleary:

ohfortheloveofdog:

The truth is, because that God is a fiction created by fallible, woman-hating men to escape the knowledge that only women have the power to create life, and every man and woman on this planet was created by a woman’s work. Men contribute part of the template, of course, in an act that they almost always find enjoyable even if the woman doesn’t; but only women are left to do the incredibly hard work of creating a self-sustaining human body, more or less from scratch. And because our bodies do this work unconsciously, without our will involved, the fact that it *is* work for us is overlooked all the time. it’s treated as a natural process that “just happens”. Well, no, it doesn’t just happen. If a woman’s body didn’t respond hormonally to the presence of the fetus, it would die. A woman’s body has to actively *do* something to make that fetus live and grow.

Fetuses are not people because WOMEN HAVEN’T FINISHED MAKING THEM INTO PEOPLE. When they are born, and are independent entities who can be cared for by anyone (and BTW, adoptive mothers and men *can*, with great effort, lactate; humans have been *made* with the kind of multiple redundancy that ensures that, if an entire society isn’t starving, there will always be someone around to feed a baby), then they are people. Confusing the blueprint, or even the unfinished product, with the finished product, and using this as an excuse to demand the forced labor involved in creating the finished product, out of women only because only women have the power to create people…

Let’s put it this way. If you wanted to create an artificial womb, it would have an entire team of nursing and IT staff watching it and monitoring it around the clock, adjusting its nutrient feeds, responding to its hormonal impulses as read by machines that cost much money to invent, design and build. it would not be free. it would be *obviously* hard work, done by multiple people, and they wouldn’t work for free. If the medical staff in the hospital with the artificial wombs goes on strike, the babies all die. If the government declares that they’re not allowed to go on strike, then no one takes that job and the babies *still* all die because the massively overworked few who still do the job for too little money can’t keep up with the need. It is only because abortion is an artificial process women must have performed on themselves, and in the absence of that process their bodies will continue to build babies against their will, that you can get away with *trying* to stop it; if you were a rabbit, where the females have the power to re-absorb fetuses any time they are under too much stress to safely carry the pregnancy, you’d have no luck with that. The fact that a woman’s body will do this incredibly hard work without her conscious input DOES NOT MAKE IT NOT HARD WORK, and it doesn’t make it not slavery to force her to do it against her will.

As long as human beings must do hard physical labor to create other human beings out of blastocysts, and as long as there is no way to spare one human being from having to do that work and giving the work to a volunteer or a paid worker instead once the work has begun… there must be a way to stop that work. And that is abortion. Born children can be given up to foster care if the parents can’t handle the burden of caring for them, but there is no foster care for embryos. Either you let women stop working on making blastocysts into people when they don’t want to, or you allow women to be enslaved to the needs of beings who aren’t even human yet. There is no other way.

- Alara J Rogers, in this clusterfuck of a thread

my mom had a pretty impressive collection of lawn gnomes on our front porch. unfortunately, someone stole them all last night :(