These days, it seems like anywhere you turn, you come across the phrase 'The War on Women.' Now, I do agree that there is a war on women going on, and it is cruel, brutal and straight from the forces of darkness...but I don't think it's quite the same war that the people screaming about it think it is.
This war attacks us, as women, on numerous different fronts, and it takes forms blatant and subtle. For instance, the sickening atrocities perpetuated by the zealots of Islam and the government puppets of China read like the bleakest dystopian novel, or the most disgusting horror story. There, the war on women is blatant, obvious, and bloody.
But there is another front to this war, one which is far subtler. And it is here that I propose we make our stand, to unmask the weapons, that they may be destroyed more easily.
1: Pornography Despite the blithe assurances given to us by the media, the porn industry, or Planned Parenthood, pornography is not something 'harmless', something every man looks at, or natural. Though possibly as old as civilization, it is right at the root of the subtle war. Pornography degrades all women, not just the sex slaves forced to perform for the professional voyeur's camera. It degrades the men who look at it, tearing them down from a fallen god to the level of a monster. Every serial rapist started with an addiction to porn. It turns a woman from the pinnacle of creation to a toy--and often a dirty toy.
2: Contraception: Far from being the liberating force women were promised when it first came out, contraception has done more than any other thing to enslave us. First off, the whole idea of contraception is that women are broken; that our fertility is something that must be fixed or suppressed. Really? That is an integral part of ourselves as women! In fact, it is that that truly makes us women! Whether or not we have children--I, for instance, am celibate, and therefore have never carried a child--we should be proud of our ability to bring life forth.
In the second place, contraception and the porn industry go hand-in-hand. Contrary to what the soldiers of Death tell us, your average man looking to pick up girls probably isn't really interested in fathering a child. He wants a loose night on the town, a good time with a pretty toy, and wants no responsibility to come out of it. He can't do that unless he knows for sure that the woman he will be sleeping with is sterile--and with contraception, he can believe that. Contraception fulfilled the dreams of every rakehell and cad in history: they could have their fun without worrying about having to support a child. And if contraception fails, there is always,
3: Abortion: This is probably hands-down the worst assault on women outside of the atrocities in Sharia Law and Communist China--and in China, this is the tool they use. I won't even go into the horrors of what abortion entails, save to say that most of the babies murdered in this fashion are female. (Sex-selective abortions, anyone? You know, the kind PP fought to keep from being banned?) Abortion is not liberating to women--quite the opposite, in fact. Even those who enter it freely, and by freely I mean 'not being threatened with death from the child's father if they don't', suffer for years afterwards. Flashbacks, hallucinations, a loss of sanity, promiscuity, and suicidal impulses are all common in post-abortive women. Some women who aborted a child are unable to bond with the children they have afterwards. Many become abusive. Some go so far as to kill themselves and their children.
And probably 1% of women go into an abortion without feeling pressure from somewhere. Whether it's an abusive boyfriend or husband who doesn't want the child, an incestuous relative who wants to keep his crime hidden, or just the staff down at the local Planned Parenthood, women often don't feel like they have a choice. Ironic, isn't it? They claim to give women 'choices,' but they only give her one--and it's often a choice she doesn't want.
Then there's the little fact that women who go into abortion clinics are often abused. The book Lime 5 is a nightmare compendium, listing women who died from complications with abortions, women who were raped by the abortionists, women who were permanently sterilized, and the callous treatment they received when asking for justice afterwards. And the list has just got longer over the years. Kharnamaya Mongar? Jennifer Morbelli? These are only two whom the media has recognized. How many hundreds never get mentioned at all?
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