This Salon piece reminds me of what nuns used to say: “The boys will try, and it’s your job to stop them.” Guess that’s why so many of my classmates got knocked up — they were slacking on the job.
Is it really so very difficult for a father to accept that his teenaged daughter is going to have sex — and might even possibly like it? Isn’t that a good thing? Or would you rather your daughter hated sex and used it in trade, as some women do? Wouldn’t it make more sense to talk to daughters about birth control and disease protection, rather than make them terrified you’ll find out?
And it’s really strange, how easily the evangelicals managed to turn back the tide on all the progress we made on women’s rights. After the 70s, I didn’t think I’d ever see this kind of backwards misogynist crap again.
Fathers, don’t let your babies grow up to wear purity rings! Because (as studies show) they’ll just have anal sex instead and need to get treated for venereal warts.
I’ve been saying it for decades now. All these right wing laws aren’t about abortion. They’re to punish women for being sluts and liking it.
