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In reply to the discussion: Here is why the Anti-Abortion Crew are wrong. Completely, totally, massively, stupidly wrong: [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)18. I think you're exactly right
Both men and women have been convinced of this. Interestingly enough the darling of the right, Ayn Rand, went the other way on this. She believed the rights of the woman trumped whatever rights anyone wants to bestow on a fetus and it's one of the few things in which I agree with her.
The point being those who seek to divide people on this issue on the basis of gender are going about it the wrong way. There just isn't that much difference between the attitudes of men and women on this issue.
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Here is why the Anti-Abortion Crew are wrong. Completely, totally, massively, stupidly wrong: [View all]
riqster
Mar 2014
OP
It's called internalized misogyny. Which is directly the product of hegemonic masculinity.
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#23
No, because the proportion of the population who is absolutist in abortion rhetoric is less...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#28
You just argued in another post that more female political leaders would be bad...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#32
These are your words. Own them like someone who has courage of conviction...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#36
You're convinced you're right and I'm wrong on something that is purely speculative
Major Nikon
Mar 2014
#40
I actually don't like the core argument of the OP. I think it's ill informed and ill constructed.
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#43
This is another Gallup analysis that doesn't fit your own gallup polls...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#20
As I've stated elsewhere, female anti-abortion advocacy is internalized misogyny...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#27
If anything I've said seems like word salad, you should avoid continental philosophers...
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#30
"The idea that everyone does because deep down they really hate women is not a good one."
Gravitycollapse
Mar 2014
#34
"You do not have the right to tell people what to do with their own bodies." except on DU
The Straight Story
Mar 2014
#25