“The natural result of cheating a man, or “keeping him down” or neglecting him, is to arouse resentment; that is, to impose upon him the temptation of becoming what the Psalmists were when they wrote the vindictive passages. He may succeed in resisting the temptation; or he may not. If he fails, if he dies spiritually because of his hatred for me, how do I, who provoked that hatred, stand?” — CS Lewis, writing about some of the Psalms that call for revenge on the oppressor. “We ought to read the psalms that curse the oppressor; read them with fear. Who knows what imprecations of the same sort have been uttered against ourselves? ”
Lewis, as Fred Clark notes at the link, gave that warning to racial oppressors but I think it works for misogyny too. Except our culture has a built-in bias to treat misogyny and male supremacy as normal so it’ll never occur to them, even shitbags like these. Or like Jason Whitlock, a right-winger hopping on the women shouldn’t vote bandwagon: “A vote used to represent the family. When we were a culture that really valued family and really understood the natural order that God intended, man serving God, woman following man who serves God.” Which is bullshit, by the way: votes were not based on households.
In other news about misogyny and the fight against it:
An Ohio prosecutor insists he has no choice but to convene a grand jury over whether a woman who miscarried at home disrespected the corpse of her fetus. As Adam Serwer says, “state commissars see mothers and their families as little more than props in their own ideological holy war.” Shakezula suggests the prosecutor is full of it.
Texas says pro-choice abortion funds can’t help women leave the state. The funds are fighting back.
Texas AG Ken Paxton says out-of-state hospitals should provide records of trans-care to Texas residents. Some hospitals are pushing back too.
Actor Dakota Johnson wants more discussion of women’s sexual pleasure.
Rape of women civilians has been a weapon of war since ancient times. In Gaza, Hamas has deployed it.
Canada is promoting $10/day child care. If anyone tries pushing this in the US — and they should — I can imagine the outrage at moms not being tied down to staying at home.
Ohio voters sided overwhelmingly with protecting abortion rights. Ohio forced-birthers have decided they don’t have to listen. And although birth control can cut the abortion rate, forced-birthers still want to ban it.
A priest went to prison for raping a child. A US bishop worked secretly to get him released.
New Hampshire’s proposed 15-day abortion ban would effectively ban all abortions.
Viewers tried body-shaming a female TV reporter. She pushed back.
Oppressors can be female too: Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy claims feminists don’t support women they support “abortion and communism.”
Pregnancy can stop divorce in Missouri because the fetus isn’t a child so the court can’t settle child support. Funny, that’s not what the right to lifers say … but conservatives really hate women being able to divorce men.
For more on these topics, Undead Sexist Cliches is available as a Amazon paperback, an ebook and from several other retailers.
