I'm Sarah and things that I like include feminism, video games, television, (web)comics and having excessively fervent emotions about fictional characters. Mostly that last one.
July 6th
5:20 PM
Via

whippple:

“How to confuse a pro-lifer with one question.”

this is awesome. i love it when people get other people to actually THINK.

This video is both amazing and disturbing to me.

Amazing because it really succinctly calls them out on their lack of compassion and demonstrates that they aren’t just ethically compromised but LOGICALLY compromised too. And when they’re confronted with that reality they either try to retreat into meaningless rhetoric (“that’s between her and god”, “I’m no lawyer I’ll leave it up to society to decide”, “all I know is that I’ve been called to do this, we just have to pray for them”) or like the last interviewee just completely shut down any dialogue that even attempts to apply reason and logic to this issue.

The disturbing thing is the reality that questions like this in all likelyhood aren’t going to change the minds of any of these people. They’re too far in it. Too much of who they are is invested and embedded to start thinking and doubting now.

Because the church has done such a fantastic job of tying this issue to their religion and their religion to their self identity the idea that just maybe they should think critically about abortion is literally repulsive. Critical thinking is an attack on how they define themselves as a human beings. 

To truly question is to undo who they are.

No wonder these people are so small and hateful and dogmatic.

June 12th
2:08 PM
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The Catholic Church’s obsession with abortion, coupled with its willingness to cover up grand-scale child abuse, may be one of the most egregious examples of the way so many institutions and individuals fetishize the idea of children for specific ideological purposes. No decision that was made about the real health of real, breathing individual children could ever be made this way, where aborting a single 11-week-old fetus is an unforgivable crime, even in a case where four living children stand to benefit from continuing to have a living mother, while violating the safety, privacy, and dignity of tens of thousands of children in the United States alone is forgiven effortlessly.

But when the idea or concept of “child” replaces the real children, all bets are off. You can be pro- or anti-abortion, pro- or anti-gender essentialism, pro- or anti-public school, pro- or anti-vaccination… The list is endless. Any time you hear someone say “It’s about the children,” start looking for someone who’s grinding an axe rather than treating children as people.

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