“Your Women Are Ugly!” is not a political argument.
This is from a (particularly disturbing) post at Feministing. Apparently, those of us who are pro-choice and/or democrat, are not only Godless, and unpatriotic, but now we are “ugly” too. Seems like a “pretty” pathetic argument, if you ask me.
The anti-choice crowd, which is usually so eager to stop talking about women’s bodies and start talking about fetuses, has been known to say that women who want to force pregnancy on other women are, like, sooo much prettier than pro-choicers.
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Even if it were remotely true, “our women are better-looking!” is not an argument. The idea that discussing the attractiveness of women’s bodies as a point in favor of or against a specific set of political beliefs is just disgusting. And the implied possession — as in, our things are pretty and yours are ugly — is also revoltingly sexist.
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Time: October 23, 2007, 10:34 am
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