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No. Everyday I look around me and remark how common sense really isn't all that common.
Well, I did. Still, I didn't need it to tell me that people who say things like "rape is just another form of conception" or "if it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down" or that contraception is "a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be" are sexist, and unsurprisingly anti-abortion. Because duh, a woman's job is to breed and her value lies between her legs, not between her ears.
I find comments like "men should place a good woman on a pedestal" quite patronizing, and as unpalatable as the suggestion that women are happier at home raising their babies and letting their man handle life's heavy lifting.
I used "anti abortion" without even thinking, though I reject that as a position distinguishable from those who self identify as pro-choice. I know a lot of pro-choice individuals, I don't know anyone who is pro-abortion. Well, until @Revoltingest that is.
It is my experience that those who benefit from a privileged status are the least likely to recognize that privilege, and often conflate acknowledgement with being an -ist (racist, sexist, etc.). There are many types of privilege in the US, and acknowledging that one may possess one (or all) of them doesn't make one anything but aware. It also costs and individual nothing to allow others access to the same benefits that *I* may already possess.
Agreed. Props to Ari!I think when it comes to the sociological descriptions of "sexist" and "racist" terms, people have a tendency to value a persons very worth off of those charges. As if there is no such thing as "sexism" unless the person who holds those views are truly awful and evil people.
So for me or other pro-choice people who find anti-choice arguments to carry sexist underpinnings, I am seen as insulting that very person and saying they're horrible horrible people. It's conflating, I think, an opinion with an identity.
And to include in this thought, your signature, Marisa.
Sometimes people say stupid stuff when things get heated. When you really care about something it can be difficult to avoid percieving opponents of your view as motivated by the worst intentions.
Uh . . . Rush Limbaugh? Not to mention Todd Akin and Rick Santorum, whom I quoted in my previous post. Coulda quoted more, too. Anyone remember Clayton Williams and his "weather is like rape" comment or am I the only one whose memory goes back that far? Don't worry though, the DNC has its own vice sexist, a la Joe Biden.
Huh?
I added more to my comment FYI. Uncle Rush is the conservative republican who demanded Sandre Fluke's alleged sex tapes after accusing her of being a prostitute because he was unhappy that she testified before congress about birth control.Huh?
What does rattling off men in the public eye have to do with what I said?
So what? I'm talking about the population in general, not some men in the media.
Well they do have a base to which they appeal. Rather a large one, if voting statistics are to be accepted as evidence.
And do you think that most people who may vote for them agree specifically with those statements? I vote for people where I don't agree with everything they say or support.
Those particular statements? Yeah. I think they hold their noses on other stuff. I vote based on statements like that and hold my nose on the fact that most democrats are otherwise largely indistinguishable from conservatives who earn the label RINO, like Jon Huntsman, who doesn't say crap like that but tries to get his party to focus on non-social domestic policy issues and foreign policy. If you were trying to suggest that these may be extreme conservative issues, don't waste your time, Rick Santorum was one sick child away from taking the 2012 nomination right out from under Romney.