Female Rights In Retreat:

2006-11-26T05:08:00.000-08:00

Abortion, Rape and the American Way

Written by Suzanne MacNevin. Background art by Charles Alexander Moffat.

This is not to say that the women before 1980 had it any easier, but what I am more specifically talking about is the "feminist backlash" of the 1980s and 1990s. And it has continued.

The path towards equality has really not moved much in the past 20 years. If anything, we have regressed.

Pornography is now more prolific than ever. "Erotica", the much nicer and less humiliating variation is still almost non-existent. Lets face is, porn is humiliating to women. It treats them as objects to be controlled and fucked. Erotica at least attempts to maintain some idea of equality.

The different types of pornography has also increased, especially the more brutal kinds. Rape sex is now very popular, especially amongst Japanese anime (tentacle sex monsters and etc. that rape teenage girls).

And with the influence of the internet porn an increasing number of young boys are getting the wrong impressions of women. What kind of men will these little boys grow up to be in the next 10 years? Anti-social rapists? Of course, that is assuming the worst that could happen.

I am just being realistic. Statistically, I will not be surprised if we have a huge increase in teenage rapes during the next 10 years. Serial rapists on the rise, dare I say, and they won't be the people we normally think of. They will be our computer technicians, our doctors, our engineers, the people we trust and don't expect. Statistics have shown that serial rapists tend to be intelligent and have stressful jobs. "Jack the Ripper" was supposedly a Doctor afterall. Why else would he be raping women and cutting out specific parts of their bodies with a surgical knife.

Meanwhile George Bush's government has on the legal chopping block a woman's right to press charges against rapists. The reasoning? Because the "his word vs her word" argument wastes government money and the male always gets away scot-free anyway, so why bother prosecuting them in the first place.

Abortion is another item on the chopping block. We are losing the right to choose our own destiny, the right to remove a lifeless (it is not alive until it has a nervous system) fetus from our wombs before it becomes a living something we will regret. If we let George W. Bush get his way, there will be a lot more babies born from accidents and rapes in the next 2 years. His latest move is to get the churches to support his move towards making abortions illegal again. With Republicans controlling both Senate, Congress, etc. it will take a lot of protesting for American people to retain that right.

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2006-11-24T10:03:00.000-08:00

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