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May. 15th, 2005 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaI am trying to get out of working on showering and A+ certification the only way I can:
You know, I really do not like the guy. But he does make a good point:
We won! On the left we've always said that the corporate press tells lies and now, for a variety of reasons, at most people believe us. The corporate media are discredited, the same way the corporate political parties are. They have zero credibility. Newspapers are dying. The main tv networks have lost a third of their audience over the past twenty years. There's no need for whining that the problem consists of narrowing ownership. The corporate press was just as bad when there were five hundred different newspaper owners instead of five. And, for now at least, we have the web. We're infinitely better off than we were thirty years ago.
Kathryn Joyce sez that emphasizing sympathetic women and 'choice' isn't the answer:
The right to choose is the right to abortion, birth control and bodily self-determination. So stop squirming when pro-lifers say it, and start telling people why it's a worthwhile thing. If reproductive freedom is to survive as anything more than an empty slogan, that's the only choice we have. If we believe what we say, it's the only one we need.
To certain objectors, I have this to say: it is hard to take seriously cries of responsibility, reproduction, and life, when adults and children are murdered in wars anti-abortion folks support and when men have made decisions on when and if children are born without the woman's feedback. Why is a fetus 'life' and civilians killed in wars are 'casualities'? This is a reluctant thing, but somewhere in the back of my head, I hear 'first abortion, then celibacy will be outlawed.'
May I also mention that in the history of infantcide, part of the reasons were the child was from another father, or deformed, a girl, or some other reason that 'disgraced' the father?
Yes, yes, we lefties will stop taking foaming batshit insane commentators seriously when the right starts (and need I mention Scalia, Frist, Robertson, Falwell . . .shit, if being dangerously insane leads to power and influence, or at least Time covers, I ought to channel 2000 year old Atlantan warriors or something).
(And why is anyone glad that Bush won when it is damn clear that he failed to protect against a major terrorist attack? Oh right, I am part of the conspiracy of the NYT, academia, and the International Bankers, or at least Soros and Buffett)
You know, I really do not like the guy. But he does make a good point:
We won! On the left we've always said that the corporate press tells lies and now, for a variety of reasons, at most people believe us. The corporate media are discredited, the same way the corporate political parties are. They have zero credibility. Newspapers are dying. The main tv networks have lost a third of their audience over the past twenty years. There's no need for whining that the problem consists of narrowing ownership. The corporate press was just as bad when there were five hundred different newspaper owners instead of five. And, for now at least, we have the web. We're infinitely better off than we were thirty years ago.
Kathryn Joyce sez that emphasizing sympathetic women and 'choice' isn't the answer:
The right to choose is the right to abortion, birth control and bodily self-determination. So stop squirming when pro-lifers say it, and start telling people why it's a worthwhile thing. If reproductive freedom is to survive as anything more than an empty slogan, that's the only choice we have. If we believe what we say, it's the only one we need.
To certain objectors, I have this to say: it is hard to take seriously cries of responsibility, reproduction, and life, when adults and children are murdered in wars anti-abortion folks support and when men have made decisions on when and if children are born without the woman's feedback. Why is a fetus 'life' and civilians killed in wars are 'casualities'? This is a reluctant thing, but somewhere in the back of my head, I hear 'first abortion, then celibacy will be outlawed.'
May I also mention that in the history of infantcide, part of the reasons were the child was from another father, or deformed, a girl, or some other reason that 'disgraced' the father?
Yes, yes, we lefties will stop taking foaming batshit insane commentators seriously when the right starts (and need I mention Scalia, Frist, Robertson, Falwell . . .shit, if being dangerously insane leads to power and influence, or at least Time covers, I ought to channel 2000 year old Atlantan warriors or something).
(And why is anyone glad that Bush won when it is damn clear that he failed to protect against a major terrorist attack? Oh right, I am part of the conspiracy of the NYT, academia, and the International Bankers, or at least Soros and Buffett)
