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Apparently, Roe v. Wade is in peril. The Supreme Court has added a Mississippi abortion law to its docket this session, and it may use the legal kerfuffle that this law has engendered to overturn a woman’s Constitutional right to abort her developing fetus.
Now, I’m not going to use this post to argue for or against Roe v. Wade. All I’m going to say is that I sympathize with some of the key arguments made by the pro-choice side. And as a freedomist, I’m naturally suspicious of any federal or state law that degrades a person’s autonomy. But as far as the Supreme Court’s decision regarding this Mississippi abortion law is concerned, I’m going to take a knee. In other words, I don’t care if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
I’m not proud of this indifference. I should care whenever any American feels that one of his or her integral freedoms is about to be whisked away from him or her. But I feel nothing.
Let me be brutally honest. I see no evidence that feminists give a shit about the freedoms and well-being of white males. Whenever I come across a hectoring harpy of hate in the media, she’s always fulminating against white males and recklessly tossing around such acrimonious terms as “male privilege,” “white privilege,” “white fragility,” “toxic masculinity,” and “patriarchy.” The hectoring harpy of hate, not surprisingly, is very much in favor of laws that allow government and businesses to legally discriminate against white men and give preferential treatment to women. And I can’t remember when I last saw a hectoring harpy of hate show the slightest bit of concern for the well-being of men in general and white men in particular. Men are more likely than women to drop out of high school, commit suicide, die from an overdose, suffer homelessness, be jailed, be maimed at work, and be killed in war, and feminists couldn’t care less about these inequities. So why should I—being that I’m white and male—give a shit about the freedoms and well-being of women?
Note to feminists: If you want friends, you have to be a friend. If you don’t want me and other white males to be indifferent or hostile to your rights and well-being, don’t be indifferent or hostile to our rights and well-being.
Something Good
I fancy myself a positive, cheerful person. I always try to find something good in every bad situation, regardless of how dismal it might be. And what could be more dismal than the realization that I’m suffering from cis-gender white male abandonment syndrome? So here we go.
Generally speaking, woke rule has been a catastrophe. But as far as abortion is concerned, it has made that contentious issue a little less contentious. And it has done this by erasing gender. Abortion used to be a woman’s issue exclusively. But thanks to our psychotic woke overlords, a biological woman who identifies as a man is a man. And anyone who fails to submit to this fantasy is not only worthy of a scarlet “t” for transphobe but is also worthy of personal, professional, and financial ruin. Abortion is thus no longer a battle of the sexes. Men can get pregnant too!
Whew. Sexist men are now less likely to be anti-abortion because anti-abortion laws are as much anti-male as they are anti-female. And that’s such a relief. I feel a little better about my cis-gender white male abandonment syndrome.
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