• Smorty [she/her]
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    246 months ago

    I think I don’t get it. What does Your body - your choice refer to?
    Is this like blablabla i don't care about queer people, do what you want but don't come near me or what am I missing here?

    • Splashy5928
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      1236 months ago

      The phrase is “your body, our choice” and its a rape threat

    • flamingos-cantOP
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      596 months ago

      It says Your body our choice, a play on the line “my body, my choice” trotted out by fascist yanks to celebrate stripping women of their autonomy.

      • Smorty [she/her]
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        486 months ago

        Just the fact that this whole women aren’t people argument is even around still is such a joke to me.

        I’m lucky enough to live somewhere where that isn’t questioned ever, but damn

    • @TaTTe@lemmy.world
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      276 months ago

      “Your body - your choice” refers to the basic human right that you’re your own master and no one else can own/control you.

      It’s especially used in the discussion about whether abortion should be legal or not, where it refers to the fact that the fetus in a pregnant person is indeed part of that person, and they are allowed to do what they want with their own body (e.g. abortion).

      The post mentions the opposite, “your body, our choice” which refers to the anti-abortion movement where people, often due to religious reasons, think they should have control over a pregnant person’s body, rather than the pregnant person themself.

      • Smorty [she/her]
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        266 months ago

        God will smite you if you kill his children I guess.

        The fact that religion has such an impact on society still is crazy. Having a belief is nice and can be comforting, but putting restrictions on others which makes their life objectively worse, damn that’s shiddy

        • @BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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          106 months ago

          And if you combine that with the love for the 2nd amendment, and indifference to school shootings it gets even crazier.

          If they were consistent pro life they would:

          • Be against abortion (except for medical emergency)
          • Be pro sex-ed and contraceptives, to avoid unwanted pregnancies.
          • Be for gun control, to avoid people getting killed.
          • Be for different social support systems (food/housing/health/education/etc.)
          • And so on.

          But they ended up with supply side jesus instead…

      • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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        116 months ago

        Pretty sure it has nothing to do with a “pregnant person” and is just a straight-up open rape threat.

      • @daddy32@lemmy.world
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        16 months ago

        I hate american christian fundamentalist like any sane person, but you have to admit that the fetus is not entirely part of woman’s body - it’s on its way to become its own “thing”… And the longer it grows, more “own” it is. With different DNA etc. While I vehemently refuse anyone dictating these kind of things to anyone else - thaťs just forcing their will upon someone, in one of the most important questions - I found this “my body” view the weakest part of the defense.

    • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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      196 months ago

      You know my body, my choice?

      Yeah. This is a crowing threat in the face of a second trump presidency

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    196 months ago

    The same folks that want to unperson women (and non-whites, and LGBT+) are the same folks who are poisoning our air until 500-year hurricanes become the norm, and we run out water and can’t feed everyone.

    So we’re at a point that killing them for their transgressions is literally fighting for our lives and for humanity.

    I think we’re one step away from suicide bombers. After all, if we’re going to be executed anyhow…

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    196 months ago

    I keep having thoughts. Dangerous, untoward MCU Supervillain thoughts.

    For instance, the reason we stopped doing outlawry ( wikipedia ) as a thing is because when you unperson someone, their only defense is to fight back and hide, and if that means a wondering child happens upon your camp, well, dead kids tell no tales.

    So at the point that a given group is treated is stripped of rights enough that it threatens their life (say putting someone at risk for morbid pregnancy complications, or a homeless person needing to sleep) they are required by necessity ( wikipedia ) to defend themselves violently, since defending themselves procedurally is useless.

    Which means it is right and proper for those people to stab anyone whose awareness of them and their predicament is a threat. And it’s right and proper to stab the monarchists who would strip us of our rights. Looking at you SCOTUS.

  • @LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    186 months ago

    My mom works with mentally ill children in a school. I had to warn her about this so she knows it’s something that needs corrected.

    • Nexy
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      46 months ago

      ty for the info! sounds nice

  • @rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    How about we stop focusing on reacting in kind to things the biggest nazi assholes say (possibly to evoke this sort of reaction and get more attention for themselves) and maybe just ignore them instead so they don’t bring down the conversation to some bullshit fascist online troll level.

    • Zement
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      136 months ago

      Well too late, now they are the government.

    • @A7thStone@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

      Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

      Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

      Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

      • @rational_lib@lemmy.world
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        16 months ago

        That’s not actually related to my point though. This is more like:

        First they tweeted offensive things about women, and I made sure that thing they tweeted is now the only thing we talk about.

        Then we couldn’t talk about all the women dying of not getting abortions on time because we’re too busy talking about tweets.