Argh.

YES re the @!$&**@!^^! feminist blogosphere. If for one moment I believed feminism was about what goes on there, I would cry all day every day instead of just once in a while when I’m blue, like lately.

Well, I miss you, Heather, but glad you are having a rest and some fun.

Heart

- AFR

Speaking of books, congrats on yours. I wish I had a book like this to reference when I was a teenager.

2. I hear what you’re saying about the feminist blogosphere, I’ve been becoming increasingly disillusioned with it lately. Although I wouldn’t underestimate its importance in the modern feminist movement– it’s certainly done a LOT to help me with my understanding of feminism– I am increasingly thinking that it’s not the best place to continue growing as a feminist. The blogosphere is good and useful… but if you let it become the whole picture, it skews your sense of things.

Reproductive rights rest with women and responsible societal encouragement will bring us to our senses: there are too many people now. Too many lack necessary support from parents and community.

We can greatly diminish the violence of abortion in our culture by speaking calmly and with compassion about sexual activity. Instead of playing on lurid images of passion in sex
as the current mail stream media does, with time I’m sure sensible behavior will emerge.

But at a national level we must head in the right direction: examine the basic issue: freedom of the individual depends on that person not harming others. Is the fertilized egg entitled to cause further harm to a rape victim?

Let the most respected and helpful leaders examine this issue to its source.

At present, I favor the middle way: reason in each case of request for abortion, but addressing the problem of unwanted pregnancy at the source. We have started to do this in public schools. I feel it can be done better.
Read Heather Corinna’s new book, S.E.X.