General Discussion

Every school year, I read at least one news article about a Catholic or right-wing elementary school sending out dress code warnings to parents. Girls are not allowed to wear certain types of clothing because “it will excite the boys.”
Little boys are indoctrinated to believe that girls are to blame for the excited behavior of boys. This is why those dirty, old, white men in red state legislatures are writing the antiabortion laws.
Here is more context: 21st Century dirty, old, white guy Sam Alito, in his majority opinion, quoted a 17th Century dirty, old, white guy, Mathew Hale. Hale also wrote: If women are accorded bodily autonomy, it will limit the freedom of men (paraphrase).
I take all this antiabortion talk and legislation very personally. As a young mother, I had emergency surgery to remove a dead fetus because of an ectopic pregnancy. I, and other women like me who have had crisis pregnancies, are now labeled murderers and threatened with prison and execution.
One of those dirty, old, white men in a red state legislature stood up before his colleagues and stated that the children involved in ectopic pregnancies should not be killed because the pregnancy can be placed back in the womb. Idiot! He could not pass a 3rd Grade science test!
As a non-Catholic, I married a guy who claimed to be a nonpracticing Catholic. This was a plausible claim because, years earlier, his two older siblings had left the church. However, he continues to practice his Catholic indoctrination. This past summer while shopping in Walmart, he motioned to a woman walking in front of us, and said, “Those shorts are inappropriate.” What!! I walked behind the woman for several feet, trying to figure out what was inappropriate. They were plain, ordinary denim shorts with stitched decorations on the back pockets! Nothing inappropriate!
Anyone who has taken a junior high science course knows that there are two partners in a pregnancy: a man and a woman. These stupid, old, mostly white men writing the antiabortion laws turn science on its head and blame just the woman for abortion.
Little boys must be taught that they, and only they, are responsible for their “excited” behavior and the consequences of such.