Sunday, August 2, 2020

Treating Women as Body Parts

Once upon a time, in the halcyon early days of feminism, liberated women insisted that they wanted to be respected for their minds, not for their body parts. Obviously, this predated the time when women donned adornments they called pussy hats and marched behind the leadership of virulent anti-Semites. 


And now, thanks to the ambient madness about transgenderism, the American Cancer Society, surely not a member of the vast left wing conspiracy, has taken to reducing women to their body parts. It has banned the word “woman” and replaced it with: individual with a cervix.


Monica Showalter expresses her outrage:


Suddenly, women are being reduced to body parts, commodified, based on the strange contortions of recognizing men with body dysmorphia as actual women, and vice versa. To accomodate this small group of people, women are being reduced to spare parts.


It’s dehumanizing, don’t you see:


To reduce women to body parts is absolutely dehumanizing - it's what the porno industry does, it's what butcher shops (which serve legitimate human needs) do. But now the medical industry is doing the same thing, reducing women to body parts as if they carried these parts around with them by choice in suitcases.


The very word 'woman' now has to be broken down into body part functions when in fact, all the characteristics that amount to being a woman or being a man are entirely integral to one's personhood. It goes right down into the DNA and chromosomes, XX for women, XY for men. No transgender surgery can change that, and it would be insane to treat someone medically as if they held the opposite configuration.


Of course, she’s right. If the human body contains some 4 trillion chromosomes, all of which are typed either XX or XY, changing your mind, even changing your pronouns has absolutely no effect on them. 


Showalter predicts a bleak future for women-- at least for those who accede to this madness. One hopes that sensible feminists will call halt to this ideologically driven insanity:


What's bad here is that this won't be the end of it. If women can be reduced to body parts, it's only a matter of time before more commodification happens. Body parts will eventually become like property, and perhaps bought and sold. And if bought and sold is the norm, then graded by quality - USDA choice, as commodities are. After that, they could also be stolen, or expropriated. Just as disgusting, a woman who's had a double masectomy could easily be classified as 'not a woman,' since women are now being defined by parts.

10 comments:

urbane legend said...

Willl historians eventually call this transgender period ( may or may not be a pun, not sure this morning ) the Cervix Era? As Ms. Showalter is correct, it is dehumanizing, perhaps it is the Cervix Error? It is a chess move in this man to woman/woman to man game.

Is there an office where people sit and think up these idiocies? Are they highly paid? More likely they are doing it just for fun. The people using these ideas are highly paid, though. They are getting paid to destroy civilization

Sam L. said...

The nuts are nuttier, by billions and billions, these days.

Janszoon said...

On a tangential note, it was interesting that the ‘Naked Athena’ of Portland was obviously too young to get the feminist memo from the Sixtiies about body objectification.

And why is it that these days as soon as women want to protest, out come the boobs and the muffs that they spend the rest of the time telling us we mustn’t stare at and which do not define them. “I’m an exhibitionist but do not objectify me sexually.”

urbane legend said...

" I'm a woman but unless I show you the parts that identify that you won't take me seriously. But if I do that you won't take me seriously. This is why we hate you. "

Or it could be you have no argument; that is, any good ideas.

Anonymous said...

Body parts will eventually become like property, and perhaps bought and sold.

Yup. Close Planned Parenthood.

Dennis said...

One of the joys of life is knowing that poor thinking always comes back to do the very damage that those who tried to inflict it on others. It is difficult for me to feel anything for leftists Women/feminists. You tried to destroy males. How did that work out for you now that you are the ones under attack? I will give the same assistance that women gave to their fathers, sons, brothers, et al which is to "enjoy your pain" as the president that many feminists said they would wear "kneepads" for. Karma is a bitch!

Anonymous said...

I see it as inserting the thought process that "woman" and "man" are to be discarded as relics of an antique and distasteful past. If you have a cervix, it is bad/wrong/evil to acknowledge that it defines anything about you. It's just like an eye or ear. The reason for this flight from reality is to insert men into women's sports, bathrooms, domestic violence shelters, prisons, etc. I'm not sure why the left has this goal but they certainly have it.

n.n said...

Diversity dogma documents class-based taxonomic systems, processes, and beliefs.

Feminism is a chauvinistic ideology. Keep women barefoot, available, and taxable.

That said, first they came for the babies and their colorful, profitable parts. #CosmicKarma

n.n said...

as soon as women want to protest, out come the boobs and the muffs

Hah! Eyes down here. Feminists exploit women for leverage. Masculinists approve.

n.n said...

insert men into women's sports, bathrooms, domestic violence shelters, prisons, etc. I'm not sure why the left has this goal but they certainly have it.

Ostensibly, a resolution of equity. However, this strategy was used to suppress or marginalize white men, then men, and now uppity white women. #BabyLivesMatter