10 minutes after the first comment i submitted below @ the Socialist Alliance discussion board, I opened my big fat mouth again trying to help but probably making things worse, this time on the debate over women's right to choose re: reproduction and abortion.
I wrote:
"Don't the rhetorics of 'choice' and 'life' resound with the neoliberal worldview a little too much?
Many a good scholar have questioned the notion of 'free choice' by interrogating the social conditions that give rise to the choices people make. e.g. many pre-teen girls 'freely choose' to buy Bratz dolls and dress accordingly, or do they?
Shouldn't both [so-called] pro-life and pro-choice groups, instead of attacking the women at the vulnerable point of their decision on what to do, look at the social conditions + pressures that compel them to go either way? (in particular, the unjust income distribution in society and poor health care)
Perhaps an unlikely alliance may even be conceived."
Wow, I'm an opinionated bastard aren't I?
Monday, September 15, 2008
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