Caramel Baloney

krona:

The problem with oft-reblogged catchy pro-choice slogans such as “77% of anti-choice campaign leaders are men” and “No Uterus, No Opinion” is that they arrive at the right answer completely erroneously, therefore hacking to bits any chance that an open-minded newbie to the question has of following their fallacious logic anywhere useful.

If 100% of anti-choice campaign leaders were women, would that be checkmate?

If everyone on the planet with a uterus decided you didn’t have control of your own, would that be enough?

Besides being morbidly interesting for the pre-converted, and completely telling signifiers of patriarchal influence, they are unhelpfully bereft of worthy target. Kyriarchy is the problem, not ‘men’. Because, while it reigns, we’re all conduits of kyriarchy - whatever our gender.

Nobody has the rights to your body.

Logical fallacies abound. The overused anecdote is also problematic. It may be helpful in swaying undecideds, but only temporarily. For every positive anecdote of the woman who never regretted her abortion, there is an equal and opposite anecdote of the woman whose unexpected child became the best thing that ever happened to her. Or the woman who aborted and went on to finish college, compared to the fetus that was spared from abortion and grew to become…President of the United States! Aggregate stats are very useful, but sentimental personal stories really only deepen the beliefs of those already holding a position (as they begin to ignore or discount the opposite stories). They also fail to articulate the most powerful point: nobody has the rights to your body.

Source: krthing