Actual women who have been through abortions see them as something we wish males wouldn't fetishize. It's a medical necessity. That's it. The way you talk about subjects incredibly personal and harrowing, and deeply female shows how very male you are.
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Replying to @JenGene2020 @graceelavery
Celebrating the existence of safe and accessible abortion isn't fetishizing anything; but dismissing the perspectives of women who had abortions and didn't experience them as 'harrowing' is pretty misogynistic
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How specifically is it misogynistic to say that some women find abortions to be traumatic and harrowing?
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She didn't say "some women" find abortions to be harrowing; she said that *not* finding them harrowing "shows how very male you are". You are either dishonest or very bad at reading.
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She said the way Grace talks about abortions shows Grace is not female. Which I agree with. Just because some women don't find abortions to be harrowing doesn't mean the overall experience isn't generally traumatic (due to access restrictions, family pressure, clinic protests,
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Replying to @rach12sun @matryoshka_core and
The physical experience and the pain). Not all women will have had a bad experience, but to pretend that abortion is something casual, even celebratory, when so many women have suffered for and because of them, shows a deeply deeply male way of thinking.
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The #ShoutYourAbortion hashtag was started in 2015, by Lindy West, Amelia Bonow and Kimberly Morrison, all of whom, I believe, were born with a uterus
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