The entire Star Wars franchise is fictional. The author of this article is merely pointing out (in a tongue-in-cheek way) that the fictional storyline would only make sense in a galaxy that lacked access to basic reproductive medicine.
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I don’t know… not being able to control what happens inside my own body feels like a dick-tatership to me. YMMV.
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Politically speaking a dictatorship is much more than that. Your country can be democratic but not have the resources to have medical access for women that would allow you to “control what happens inside [your] own body.” That’s why it reads “defund”, the money isn’t there, or is allocated somewhere else where the people that have the power to allocate money prefer it to be.
She didn’t say “dictatorship,” did she?
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You got me, but it was implied
No, it wasn’t. She was making a witty remark, not espousing a belief that lack of control of a (female) body literally meant a dictatorship.
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Wasn’t witty to me
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This i do
Let’s take funding off the table. Why pass legislation designed to limit access to legal abortions and birth control by adding obstacles that other medical specialists don’t have to follow? Doesn’t sound like democracy to me.
(ETA: sorry to go slightly off topic)
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Wow. I really love it when men tell me what I’m thinking. It’s magical how men can understand my brain better than I can!
And @enso is correct when he states that I was making a witty remark as opposed to seriously suggesting that a dictatorship only means that control of my body is lost because of my gender. But in that case, democracy or not, I am literally not free. @Mawile_303 might not give a shit if I’m free or not, but I and many other women actually do. And arbitrary controls of freedom for some, means that ALL can be vulnerable.
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Its to pander to the Christian (Evangelical) vote, the reason why much of the Deep South votes Rep is because there’s a region called the Bible Belt that stretches across that section of the U.S. & the Reps claim to support Christian values.
It’s purely political the fact that legislation like that is brought up. If American politicians were to go back to the idealodgy the Founding Fathers were following, which was classical liberalism, and take into account that Roe v. Wade is still around then women’s access to healthcare wouldn’t be an issue. It would have already been resolved.
Literally no one is free, we have all been given different opportunities in life and we must make the best that we can with what we have. I’m sorry if i am coming off as being anti women’s health (or anti freedom which is completely wrong) but I’m not doing that intentionally.
My gripe was that the author is obviously in support of easier access to women’s health services but is going about it in a fallacies way. She’s pointing out illogical points in a fake story that is only meant to entertain. Not provide insight or parody into today’s political climate.
I know why they do it, I was asking a rhetorical question in response to your view of democracy.
But thank you for your response because I don’t think I learned anything when I got my B.A. in political science at an American university.
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No, I think you just don’t think it’s an important issue and ignoring why it matters to some of us, and how literally not being in control of one’s body make one even further away from freedom.
I disagree. Fiction today serves the same function that stories/mythologies have always done, which is to point out some sort of truths of our existence. Humans are meaning-making machines, and stories are a key way that we make meaning. We can actually tease out greater lessons for our lives through fiction. And I’d say that Lucas was always somewhat political in his works. It’s pretty clear that the 60s counterculture in part helped to set themes in Star Wars back in the 1970s.
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I get that you’re new here but please do go back and read the hundreds and hundreds of posts in political discussions here over, say, the last year. We don’t need PoliSci or Civics 101. We know these things. In fact, some of us have degrees, even graduate ones, in these things.
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