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Pro-lifers view fetuses as having equal personhood to born children. At the core of the pro-life movement, controlling the woman has nothing to do with it, it’s about protecting the life of a child. Which is why there are so many pro-life women. It’s not rooted in authoritarianism, it’s rooted in the belief that the distinction between an unborn and born person is mostly if not completely arbitrary. But if it were about regulating bodies, pro-choicers would also be pro-drug legalization.

thehungryvortigaunt:

lj-writes:

A pregnant person’s body is not an arbitrary distinction. Infanticide is murder and abortion is not because the latter has a justifying reason–the pregnant person’s refusal, for whatever reason, to keep providing their body to the fetus’s survival. Protecting children is an admirable goal but you can’t force people, the vast majority of them women, to give fetuses the use of their organs and to undergo the pain and risk of childbirth.

While I don’t think every person who opposes abortion wants to control women, it’s also disingenuous to say the desire to control women’s bodies has “nothing” to do with anti-abortion beliefs. Anti-abortion beliefs are correlated with sexism (link), and mainstream anti-abortion beliefs have a strong theme of punishing women for having sex. And yes, women can absolutely have internalized sexist beliefs.

It’s also not the best argument to compare abortion rights which protect a person’s bodily autonomy, to drug laws which regulate the public availability of substances deemed to be dangerous. A better analogy would be, if anti-abortion people believe so strongly that a right to life overrides bodily autonomy they should also be okay with compulsory organ donation, or at least blood and tissue donation.

And why the weird silence on the tens of thousands of embryos in fertility clinics being discarded, i.e. killed? Shouldn’t the biological mothers of these children be compelled to implant them in their uteruses and give birth to all of them? Or be made to donate them to anyone who offers to implant them and carry them to term? Or maybe governments could compel people with uteri to implant and give birth, if there are no volunteers. Here’s an idea: We can put people in jail for getting or attempting to get abortions (murder or attempted murder according to anti-abortion people), and then make them implant and carry unwanted embryos to term as part of their, ahem, prison labor.

If anti-abortion people find these ideas horrific, why the arbitrary distinction? Isn’t an embryo in a freezer as much a baby as one in utero?

Shouldn’t forced-birthers also be anti-masturbation? Think of all those millions of unused babies that get wasted whenever a man’s sperm doesn’t get to fertilize a woman’s egg!!! Every time a man jacks off is a mass killing! :O

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A few things:

localbadgirl:

01. Gypsy is a slur & there is no “positive” or “acceptable” way of using it if you aren’t Romani. It should not be part of your vocabulary – the same goes for the term “gypped”. If you want to talk about the slur censor it or simply call it “the g slur.”

02. Anti Romani racism exists everywhere and there is a slur for the us in every language. Gypsy is the slur used in the English language but there is also Zigan, Tigan, Cigan, Gitano, Zigeuner, etc. – a lot of them stem from the Greek word for “slave” and are considered even worse than the Gypsy slur. However all of them are still slurs and shouldn’t be used by you if you aren’t Romani.

03. Gypsy has never been anything other than a derogatory slur against Romani that has been screamed at us while we have been branded, enslaved, hunted down, murdered, put through a genocide and a holocaust, segregated and discriminated against. 

04. Romani is the proper name of the people that are being targeted by the G slur. Some people write it as Rromani which is also correct. The term Roma/Rroma can be used too, however not all Romani are Roma.

05. Romani and Romanian do not mean the same thing. Romani are the people that are being targeted by the G slur and we are brown people originally from India. Romanians are people from the European country Romania.

06. The official term for racism directed towards Romani is called “Antiziganism”, that term however is offensive since it includes the word “Zigan” which is a horrible slur against Romani. Please do not use that term and instead use “Anti-Romani racism”, “Anti-Romanism”, etc.

07. Anti-Romani racism is very extreme in Europe (segregation in housing, education and health care, forced sterilizations, evictions and demolition of settlements, police brutality, etc), which is why we even received the title of “Europe’s Most Hated”, but it’s not an exclusively European thing. Anti-Romani racism exists in America and Canada as well. (Canada even has an immigration ban on Romani.)

08. “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding” does not display actual Romani people as far as I have heard so it does not represent Romani people/culture at all.

09. Your believes that Romani “don’t want to work”, “don’t want to send their children to school”, “steal children”, “are dirty”, “genetically prone to crime”, “are lazy”, etc. are nothing but racist stereotypes and left over Nazi propaganda. All of them are untrue as well. (Also: Romani would love to work and go to school but the extreme discrimination against us in the field of education makes that very hard. And the widely spread traditional anti-Romani attitudes and prejudices don’t make it any easier either.)

10. Stereotypes such as that all Romani women are “sexual temptresses” and promiscuous disregarding of age are obviously incorrect too. Virginity is actually considered important in Romani culture. Believing in those stereotypes is very harmful and dangerous as well because despite Romani being only a minority in most European countries we make up the highest % when it comes to sex trafficking victims.

11. Romani culture doesn’t have anything to do with witchcraft, wicca, paganism, etc. We didn’t create tarot, palm reading or crystal balls either. You can stop calling yourself a “Gypsy Witch” and faking Romani heritage now. The only reason why assumptions like that came to exist is because of racist believes and lies spread by the church. Our skills with medical herbs and palm reading were seen as “evidence of heresy” and from the 16th century onward we were outlawed, expelled and persecuted, culminating in the organized killing of our people. 

12. Fortune teller costumes are racist. Romani women have always been stereotyped as fortune tellers which is why the stereotypical image of a fortune teller is always linked with Romani women – dark skin, messy black hair, a big nose, a “weird” accent, a headscarf, big hoop earrings, gold coins added to clothes and an “untrustworthy/deceiving” nature, etc. (A lot of people even use the term “fortune teller” like a synonym for the G slur nowadays.) A person’s race/ethnicity is not a costume, so if you ever consider dressing up as a fortune teller chose something different. 

If you are Romani too please feel free to add things onto this list and please correct me if I made any mistakes.