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Corporations are People. Women, Not so Much

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Corporations Are People. Women, Not so Much

Women, although quite relevant, should be changed to People with Uteri/Ovaries

Except that this wouldn’t be an issue if it weren’t for misogynistic attempts to control women’s bodies. Women are presumed to have this particular set of reproductive organs, and that assumption combined with sexism is what produces the horrifying desire to control contraceptive access, abortion, etc.  

Yes, people who have uteri/ovaries and are not women will be impacted. Yes, I want those people to have full autonomy over their reproductive decisions.  In fact, I want comprehensive reproductive rights for all people.  However, that does not mean that these policies were not designed with the specific intent of impacting women.  Neglecting that fact in favor of “inclusion” (and incidentally, this terminology that reduces people to their genitals is actually pretty ignorant of the way these policies operate on non-cis women’s bodies) obfuscates from the larger problem: sexism.

i knew it was only a matter of hours before we had to go over this again.

Yep. Knew it.

I almost reblogged this earlier. I wanted to say something like “hey guys, how long will it be until a SJW insists that we change this to uterus-bearers?!”

Not long at all, apparently.

God fucking forbid women have one thing of their own in this world. We can’t write about ourselves, we can’t speak about ourselves, we can’t advocate for ourselves even within our own so-called “social justice” spheres without someone telling us to shut up about our own experiences.

What about our experiences? Why the fuck do cis women’s experiences take precedence over mine?

I know of about four people who have had abortions in my meatspace life.

Two of these people are not women. One of them is a man.

What the fuck about their experiences?

No one is asking you to shut up about your experiences. What we’re asking is for you to acknowledge ours.

You know, instead of telling us to shut up.

You cannot divorce sexism from cissexism in this discussion, or any discussion around bodies and controlling of bodies. The people you are fighting against are trying to control how, when and if women have sex. Cissupramacy and heterosupramacy directly tie into this because of cissexist ideas of what a woman’s body looks like and does, and how women have sex.

The fact is this does not just fuck over women. This fucks over EVERYBODY who fits, however loosely, into these ideas of what a woman is and how her body works.

But our experiences don’t matter. God forbid we speak about them, or ask you to acknowledge them.

You’ll come back for us later, right?