The Daily Mail, with its huge female readership, is the latest mainstream media outlet to start stating the facts.
Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, should read my friend Ann Farmer's Prophets and Priests: The Hidden Face of the Birth Control Movement (London: The Saint Austin Press, 2002; ISBN 1 901157 62 8). In addition to its unyielding racism, the war against fertility is, and has always been, the war against the working class, the war against the poor at home and abroad, the war against the electoral base of the Left, the war against the social provisions for which the Left exists, and, above all, the war against women.
Furthermore (this bit is Lindsay, not Farmer - but I'm sure that she would agree with it), the idea of fertility as a medicable condition, requiring powerful drugs or even surgical interventions to prevent a woman's body from doing exactly what it does naturally, is basically and ultimately the idea that femaleness itself is such a condition, a sort of XX Syndrome.
I can think of nothing that is actually more misogynistic than that, although some things are equally so, notably the view that the preborn child is simultaneously insentient and a part of the woman's body. Is it the whole of a woman's body that is insentient, or only the parts most directly connected with reproduction?
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More fascist nonsense from the arch clerical-fascist of County Durham. Heaven help the poor woman insane enough (no doubt a cousin) to ever marry you.
ReplyDeleteLooking for Miss Right to bundle you up in her arms? She would need to get her arms out of the strait jacket first (hat tip - Blackadder Goes Fourth).
Do you lecture your female relatives on their use of contraception? Your mother?
My mother is a widow.
ReplyDeleteOf course, no one could be more hostile than you to the working class, to the poor at home and abroad, to the electoral base of the Left, to the social provisions for which the Left exists, and, above all, to women.
Although, having said that, have you ever actually spoken to a woman? I can't imagine why you would.
She'd need very long arms indeed to get them all the way round the founder of the British People's Alliance.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know what Anonymous is on about. David is the best looking, best dressed politician I have ever seen. He is one of the best looking, best dressed men I have ever seen. And that charm! No one can accuse him of only having his moral beliefs because he could never get laid.
ReplyDeleteBack on topic, please.
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