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Written on our bodies : Comments

By Jennifer Wilson, published 22/3/2012

There is an 'insane bout of mass misogyny' perpetrated by GOP leaders in their efforts to outdo one another in selling their religious conservative credentials to voters.

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What a load of nonsense. A simplistic, misguided, rhetorical rant that is not worthy of 5 minutes of anybody's time.
Posted by Trav, Thursday, 22 March 2012 8:16:28 AM
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...Jennifer Wilson …The sharpest arrow in the quiver of the religious right: Assailant of the OLO “wailing Wall” of the secular left. The Feminist rant, “Done and Dusted” again; and permanently tuned to the ABC.
Posted by diver dan, Thursday, 22 March 2012 9:08:27 AM
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Great stuff. It is really impossible to make any rational arguments against what Jennifer has written.
Check out Alternet for various essays which confirm what Jennifer writes about.
Plus this essay and website which connects all of the dots re the totalitarian agendas of right-wing christians in the USA.

http://tpjmagazine.us/adams29
Posted by Daffy Duck, Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:21:25 AM
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It's worth remembering that the Obama administration started this fight when they tried to get religious institutions to sacrifice their religious freedom on the altar of secular atheism by forcing the church, mosque, and synagogue to provide abortifacients to staff.

It's also worth noting that since the birth control debate started that Obama has lost several percentage points in support amongst women, while Rick Santorum's support from women voters has increased -indicating that it's only a handful of feminists that are set on dismantling religious organisations (Bishops have stated that they will have to close every Catholic school, hospital, and university in America if this rule is not overturned) but that most women would rather be responsible for their own birth control.
Posted by progressive pat, Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:36:27 AM
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progressive pat,

"The white House have now proposes (sic) a compromise that will allow religious organisations to opt out of providing coverage that would include birth control for women. But insurers will be required to offer complete coverage free of charge to any women who work for such institutions."

http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=19834

How would we feel if we were confronted by the same fundamentalist/literal view of Christianity seeking to embed itself in mainstream political and social discourse in this country?

...freaky indeed.
Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:53:52 AM
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Aside from this poor piece of garbage writing, filled with it's simplistic notions of key ideas that Wilson assumes, her misunderstandings of the nature of religion vs state and secularism and how faith interplays in the public sphere, her horrendous usage of phrases like "reproductive rights" and the like, there is something more general at play here. Something ironically amusing and deeply sad about her and her feminist ilk. They simply have no idea that the ideas they promulgate will ultimately lead to the downfall of women. Thankfully feminism is a movement that has begun withering away and will one day be seen as one of the many quirks of history.
Posted by Trav, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:01:15 AM
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