And there we go.
Soooo not surprised.
Just another day ending in āyā, then. 
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Why do I get the feeling that the value of the fetusā life far outweighed hers, and thus she was taken halfway across the country away from her family and tribe, put on a ventilator so she couldnāt know what was going on and fight back, and immediately given a C-section 4 days before she was even diagnosed with covid-19?
Didnāt you know? Women are just shells for babies. You get a baby in there then break the shell and throw away the woman.
Thatās a shockingly accurate summation of the plot of the handmaids taleā¦
And of course, once the babyās born, the Republican party couldnāt care less about its well-being. To them, the right to life starts at conception and ends at birth.
Follow up ā at least the story has been publicly noted and condemned by Democratic senators:
Anyone else feeling ambivalent about this āKaren and the n-wordā thing?
I mean, if thereās a white Male equivalent to it, I doubt it would receive quite the same kind and level of hateā¦
Yeah, that seems like a bullshit comparision, to be honest.
āKarenā, in this context, is a snarky insult for a particular sort of an entitled and obnoxious, usually middle-aged, white woman. Saying itās equivalent or stronger than the ān-wordā seems like obvious, and obnoxious, nonsense to me, and saying itās a tool of misogynistic oppression looks equally nonsensical.
That whole tweet comes off as āDonāt call me mean names when Iām being obnoxiousā wrapped up in āwokeā language, to try and make snarking at self-centered entitled women an anathema to socially concious young people.
(Edit: Damn, Iām overusing āobnoxiousā hereā¦)
Iām not ambivalent about it at all: I recognize it as the latest version of #alllivesmatter and thus find it offensive and wrong.
A snarky insult to middle aged women, assumed to be of a certain socioeconomic class isnāt an ageist, classist insult? It feels like names have become insults because the actual insults arenāt codeable as jokes or snark.
As for ānot using one wordā if anyone wrote that word here, even in the context of a discussion of insults, they would be complained about. Itās much harder to call for an erasure of a common name than for a specific word not used except as an insult.
I think the whole āKarenā phenomenon is meant to call out a set of behaviors exhibited by privileged individualsā¦ but it is a kind of sloppy taxonomy, and it does have sexist and classist overtones. So Iām not sure how useful the terminology really is.
(Itās funny-- I was on a YouTube livestream a few days ago where someone wondered if it was possible to āweaponizeā āKarensā for good. If the people with privilege actually used their abilities for positive reasons, to call out injustices instead of supporting them, their strategy could make a big difference in the world. I should note that the discussion was tongue-in-cheek, and I canāt point you at it because the stream wasnāt archived. But itās food for thought.)
Okay, thatās the (obvious) racist part, but Iām talking about a sort of countervailing sexist part.
Yep, thatās a pretty good summary of the āambivalenceā I initially mentioned.
Right? Sexist, racist bros gonna sexist, racist bro, and appropriate accordingly.
