"What business do
you have wanting birth control, you whore?!"
The radical, uber-conservative
right has taken the entire debate over whether women are important enough to
consider their reproductive health (which is by the way, a major biological
function of all human females and as important as erectile dysfunction and
prostate cancer is to men) in regards to govt. mandated insurance coverage
straight to the gutter because that's where their minds are.
The misogyny and slut shame
is so off the charts, it's beyond sickening.
My ancestors stood on auction blocks while they were prodded, exposed, and humiliated because they were for sale and no different than livestock in the minds of racists and slave mongers. They had to stand still while their private parts were examined and handled by strangers. They had to listen (if they spoke English) to other human beings reduce their whole existence down to a 15 second advertisement. "Healthy, child-rearing age, strong, field work experience, "spoiled" sexually, won't run away...".
When you're reduced to being
humiliated like this, nothing of yours is sacred in the minds of your captors
and abusers. You have no privacy, no dignity, no mind and no soul. You're
nothing. People can run you down and they can do it right to your face and
while you're in the same room and there's nothing you can do about it.
Overseers come into your house and turn over your mattresses whenever the mood
strikes them. They're demanding to see the evidence of your first menstruation
cycle so that they can use you as a sex slave or a breeding machine to make more
slaves (some black, some half black) if you're a girl.
That horrifying time in history shapes the anti-black American racism we see today. Even though the force and energy of the ripple subsides when blacks are no longer on display to the world as livestock, those old, bad times still move the water around me in 2012. The ripples are weaker but I can still feel the auctioneers prodding me when the anti-"soshulisms" freaks demand to know what I spent my welfare check on or even imply that I receive one without them knowing anything about my life.
They look into my living
room to see if I can afford cable or if I'm buying crack and Cadillacs with my
tax payer-funded money. They want to count how many of us black women are unwed
mothers so they can report to the world how many times we've been
"spoiled" out of wedlock. They'd love to know how many abortions
we've had collectively had so again, they can count the times we screw and note
how slutty we are.
They say we're looting while
white people are salvaging or surviving. There's an unwelcome familiarity in
these kinds of accusations, like someone saying things about you when they've
never met you. It's surreal and so shocking, it makes you speechless. The cops
have searched through our vehicles, dwellings and our pockets without cause for
decades that I was alive to witness, an egregious violation of fourth amendment
rights to say the very least.
What does the world think of
you when you're always on the side of the road with three cop cars parked
behind you, spread out face down on the hood? What kind of humiliation and
exposure of your privacy and violation of your human dignity makes people
believe that they can tell you what to do with your private parts?
How long can this kind of
harassment carry on before it just morphs with the times into some other kind
of paternalism and subjugation? I don't know if there's a time frame for this
but it seems to never end. It just becomes something else. When people are
demanding to know why at times in my life, I have been vulnerable, poor and I
needed the govt.'s help, I feel like I'm on the auction block. The govt. says I
qualify for it regardless. These certain people (racists) believe that they
should be able to do everything short of examining my teeth for proof of my age
and they don't think I see what they're doing. Most importantly, they don't
care.
They want to see PRESIDENT
Obama's birth certificate, his college essays, his elementary school art work and
basically an 8mm video of Barack's mother's birth canal at the moment he was
born. They want to see white doctors on video with JFK accents handing him over
to a Pacific Islander nurse wearing a hula skirt and a ring of flowers around
her neck or else he's a fraud.
They watch First Lady
Michelle Obama's habits like she's a suspicious house maid trying to steal the
silver. They draw her body as obese in cartoons even though she's nowhere near
it. They diminish her looks and comment on her body parts and nothing is scared
about her as far as her haters are concerned. They diminish their own dignity
when they reduce themselves to trying to disrespect the First Lady of the United States
You see where I'm going
here?
So, when you're a woman and
you've been regarded as the property of men for so long, people begin to
believe that they should be able to talk about your private parts, what you do
with them and with how many people. They think they should be able to talk
about you under your clothes, comment on the clothes you wear under your
clothes, and even speculate on the cleanliness of your body.
Sometimes it's not so sexual
but no less sexually degrading. I've had men that I was just talking to in a
store tell me how unworthy of marriage I was because cooking food all day isn't
my favorite goddamn thing to do. Awwww, I'm totally crushed at dodging the
bullet of an asshole who wants a stove slave rather than a life partner. Can't
afford a butler so he goes around rating random women on their servant skills,
declaring whether they're marry-able or not. Kiss my entire ass and gtfo here.
I wouldn't marry an asshole like that if we were trapped together in a Ray
Bradbury story and had to populate Mars to save the human race.
This is the world we live
in. This is what women deal with all the time. We are stifled, slandered,
disrobed, prodded and humiliated for the sake of control.
When women collectively
demand anything that resembles equality or something that would lead to our
empowerment, the forces that work against us will get around eventually to
robbing us of dignity and ripping off our clothes in public to expose our
private parts. The latest war on women over mandated birth control coverage is
the perfect setup for the female and male misogynists on the right to begin
singling out one brave woman standing up for her own empowerment and heaping on
the slut shame. It's so schoolyard-ish, it's almost unworthy of attention but
this is a widespread problem.
The ripples on the water...
"So Miss Fluke and the
rest of you feminazis, here's the deal," he said. "If we are going to
pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want
something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch."
Dana
Loesch on twitter, advocating to deny women reproductive control and
also threatening to verbally abuse them because, you know, sluts aren't worthy
of respect and decency;
If you expect me to pay
higher insurance premiums to cover your "free" birth control, I can
call you whatever I want.
Patricia
Heaton on twitter, discussing the undergarments of a woman she knows
nothing about
Hey G-Town Gal: Turn your
underwear inside out! Then u only have to do laundry every two weeks - saves on
detergent and trips to laundromat!
If this isn't proof of the
mucky cesspool of misogyny that women barely tread water in everyday to
survive, I dunno what is. How are these woman-hating freaks on the American,
conservative, radical uber right sleeping at night and not seeing the parallels
between what they believe about "sluts" and what they imagine is
Sharia Law?
If she demands any kind of
empowerment, sexual or otherwise, she is stoned to death. Rush, Dana, Patricia
and others refuse to see the stones they've thrown at Sandra Fluke.
If she demands equality and
reproductive control, she is surrounded on the streets and humiliated by people
who yell "slut!" at her, I'm guessing shortly before she is stoned to
death or whipped with 100 lashes.
Patricia Heaton lobbed so
many stones at G-Town girl, she deleted
her account because of the bad PR.
I don't know if these
apologies and account deleting mean anything other than self-preservation for
these fat cats that make their money on hate spew. Perhaps they mean that women
have won the right to be regarded as human beings while demanding their
empowerment.
Or perhaps the fact that
this is even a debate is a better indication of where we stand as women in
regards to our own empowerment, progress and liberation. That the world
believes they should vote on the rights of any of us is a frightening thing to
process but this thing with women is ongoing since the beginning of time. That
our autonomy as women must be argued and debated in a country that supposedly
endorses life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is just another ripple in a
sea of misogynist history.
I intend to keep my head
above the water no matter how high they make this tide.
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