{"id":71898,"date":"2019-07-16T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=71898"},"modified":"2019-07-30T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:54:41","slug":"the-most-sexist-pro-choice-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/16\/the-most-sexist-pro-choice-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"The most sexist Pro-Choice Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yet another person on Facebook recently told me that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s not for me or any other man or woman to place their beliefs upon a woman who should have the right to choose whether we agree or not. We will all stand before our maker if the story plays out as told.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In response to these comments, I asked my friend whether or not he would say the same thing if he knew a mother planning on having her toddler drowned. If not, why not? As I’ve come to expect, I received no answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead I was told that my question was “wholly immaterial and inappropriate to this discussion”<\/em>. I asked why this was this the case? Why was it inappropriate? Why was it immaterial? Once again, I received no answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it’s pretty clear that my friend would intervene in the situation with the toddler. The question is, why? After all, by interfering, he’d be “plac[ing] [his] beliefs upon the woman”<\/em>, something which he’s apparently not meant to do. So, why interfere in one situation and not the other? What is the distinguishing factor?<\/a> Why does one child demand her protection but another not merit it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nThe implication here is that, unless I am directly impacted by a particular issue, I cannot comment upon its morality. That’s about as nonsensical as saying that unless you’re a plantation owner, you don’t get to comment on slavery. I have neither been the victim of sexual assault nor committed sexual assault. Despite this, I do not doubt for a moment that sexual assault is wrong and should be prevented. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main reason I wanted to briefly blog about this conversation is because there is a deeper problem with what my friend said. He was saying that, because I am a man, I’m not even allowed to express my opinion on the morality of abortion. How is this anything other than textbook sexism?<\/strong> What was the basis for his dismissal of my argument? Was it the argument itself? Did he find a logical fallacy or a false premise? No, it was dismissed based on the gender of the person offering the argument. That’s a variant of the Ad Hominem Fallacy<\/em> and remarkably sexist to boot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article I respond to the most sexist argument you’ll hear from pro-choice advocates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[232,2969,5385,5384],"class_list":["post-71898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","tag-abortion","tag-featured","tag-misogyny","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Men-and-Women-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71898"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72529,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71898\/revisions\/72529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}