CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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One Annoying Thing About Lefty Pro-Choicers

Sunday, November 11, 2007

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Whenever I ask liberal friends what they believe in regarding abortion, they inevitably say the same thing, particularly if they're women: "Well, I'm pro-choice, except for myself. I could never abort my own child, but I would never take away someone's right to do so."

See, the whole latter part of that statement is completely redundant. You can just say "Pro-choice." The other part is irrelevent. Obviously it might seem odd that this irritates me, that I would be annoyed that they specify that they'd never abort their own child. I asked for their opinion, they give it to me, and I feel annoyed when I feel like they give me too much information? What kind of dick am I?

Adding "but not for myself" when someone says that they're pro-choice isn't neccesary, because they don't need to define for me what pro-choice means after saying that they're pro-choice. Pro-choice means just that, choice, so once you've told me that you support choice, the rest of the statement doesn't need to be said. It's as if you're saying "I support choice, but for myself I make a choice." The annoying part is that I feel that it seems to pre-emptively give in to the opposition's argument without even being argued with. Right wing anti-abortionists seem to take the stance that "pro-choice" means "pro-death", and that pro-abortionists line up babies against walls regularly and take shots at them, execution style, while gleefully laughing and masturbating on the corpses. To tell me that you're pro-choice but not for yourself seems to me to be giving credence to this falsehood, as if you need to explain to me that, while you support abortion, you don't enjoy killing your own babies. Nobody enjoys killing babies. Nobody sane, anyway. Saying that you're pro-choice means that you understand that abortion is a difficult decision that some people need to make, and, politically, you wouldn't embark on any person's rights. As to what your personal decision is at any point in time during any given situation, it really isn't anybody elses' business.

To me, it's as if I, as a married man with a child, were to say "I'm pro gay marriage, except for myself." While this statement isn't exactly untrue, the latter half of the sentence doesn't need to be said.
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