ATTENTION Younger folks — let that sink in! You probably assumed birth control was always legal … because why wouldn’t it be?
It took a Supreme Court decision in the 1965 legalize birth control for MARRIED women; it wasn’t available to unmarried women until another Supreme Court case in 1972!
Now Republicans want to turn back the clock to make birth control illegal again — taking away women’s health choices even more than when they got the right to abortion reversed.
The ONLY thing women can do to fight this is vote for Democratic candidates at every level of government — but particularly in Federal elections. Gove Biden/Harris the majorities in the House and Srnate they need to pass Federal laws to protect our freedom of choice. #choice#abortion#birthcontrol
And it's important to remember that the legal doctrine that was used to legalize birth control was the same legal doctrine that SCOTUS found to be unconstitutional in Dobbs. And in his concurring opinion, Justice Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court “should reconsider” its past rulings codifying rights to contraception access as a result.
So, yeah. Banning birth control is 100% definitely on their to-do list.
@bronakins@GottaLaff I'm thinking you should mention to men that they're not gonna get laid anymore (without child support and/or prison-time involved).
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And the reason they're doing it is the #GreatReplacementTheory*: not nearly enough "white babies" are being born.
Watch The #HandmaidsTale (again.) This is what is ultimately coming for you.
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If you let the MAGA minority have the reins of power to control all of us, America is quickly heading to the dystopian and theocratic, misogynist future Margaret Atwood portrayed in her 1985 classic novel The Handmaids Tale. 😟😬😱 (where the only relief for those oppressed was escape to Canada--such as you're doing preemptively, Laffy) @SherBeareth @GottaLaff @bkahn @rabbijill
@bronakins@GottaLaff Just need to note: I get a notification for any edits made on toots I boost. I boosted this one. I kinda regret it, now.
If I have a long one to do, because I'm a terrible typist, I paste into or just use a text editor and proof it a couple times before I post it. That's just me-- I've found that process useful.
Sorry and thank you for the advice— I’ll be more careful in future & utilize your tip on pre-editing.
Fwiw, I didn’t know edits created additional notifications.
@GottaLaff@bronakins they do for me. It's Mastodon's default way, that my instance retained, of making sure I know what I'm endorsing. I could boost something, and someone could easily change it to something spammy, or worse. I'm glad it does even though it creates a high bar for me as a typo-prone user.
When i first got here a year or so ago, I edited all the time cuz I was advised to use hashtags but I kept forgetting them. In fact I posted to ask if edits created notifications but don’t remember getting a definitive answer.
Now, I usually edit when I catch a typo—especially it’s something got a lot of attention—cuz it’s embarrassing & drives me nuts. But now that I know an edit is a pain for some, I’ll just let the picayune stuff go. I can certainly see the point of notifying those who engaged — for their own well-being.
I grew up in an era where women were newly blinking in the amazing sudden light of legalized birth control and abortion rights.
It was very much a time of excitement for the future where we would all finally be free to make our own choices, having come out of a long dark chamber of repression, control, and danger.
It has never been a given and that must never be forgotten.
@_L1vY_@bronakins@GottaLaff We rolled back rights for "illegals", the middle class who have incomes between $80k-200 live pay check to paycheck, a grad degree is near worthless in some cases and 50% of the US lives in or near poverty. Our rights are always at risk and most of us vote against our own interests for the interests of the ruling class.
@gentrifiedrose@_L1vY_@bronakins@GottaLaff Houses WERE 20,000 when I bought first house in 72. My pay was 10,000 so house was 2x salary. Today where I live in Nanaimo BC, average income is 40,000 - average house price is 640,000 so 16x salary. Average down payment is 1.5x salary. I do not get how any new buyer can survive.Banks are just giving longer & longer mortgages squeezing more interest and making fortunes for the rich. Time to buy pitchforks, I guess.
@davidarnell@_L1vY_@bronakins@GottaLaff My mom was earning $3 an hour when I was in kindergaten, not a great salary but she owned her own beater car and rented a small town home. I am prohibited from renting a studio apartment because it is more than 3 times my salary which is $50k.
@GottaLaff Pretty sure we have three "Justices" who would agree, and Trump would appoint the rest in a second term. If you vote for anyone but Biden, you endorse that outcome.
The real game plan of the #Christofascists is this, even though I doubt that many of them'll have read the books.(I think I'm missing out on 2.)
Quiz time:
Who is the only author with two novels in this dystopian Venn diagram? 😉
Yes,
however in contrast to the fantasy genre (Conan, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones), science fiction is always based on (sometimes imaginary) science, even a similar saga, #PlanetOfTheApes.
In fact, there is one dystopian book missing, which impressed me a lot reading 📚 it in high school, which is most definitely not #SciFi, #WilliamGolding's #LordOfTheFlies: he elegantly...
...disects the laughably thin layer of civilization that we have accumulated since the Stone Age.
In contrast, Orwell's #AnimalFarm never strives to scientifically explain why the animals on the Farm behave like human beings because it is an ancient way of telling a fairy tale. It isn't even fantasy (no magic weapon with which a quest to fulfill, etc.,) but a modern fairy tale used to show society...
...their (spitting) mirror image how defunct and amoral it had become.
There are probably more novels like this, I just can't think of any right now. (And, no, H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" is #SciFi#Horror, neither fantasy, nor sci-fi. 😉)
But, hell yes, it does belong!
There are even several others that definitely would need to be added to this...
@HistoPol@carturo222@obot50549535 Lord of the Flies certainly belongs in the graphic. I'd say given the numeric constraints it'd be the last book out if you will.
Actually, giving it a second round of contemplation, though not chronologically, but evolutionarily speaking, the #LordOfTheFlies points to the root of all evil: humanity. It is the philosophical antipode of #JeanJacqueRouseau's concept of a "noble savage."
No, savages are not noble, they are just savage, they fight for their survival every day and every hour. And, I daresay from what I have read as a layman, not an... @carturo222@obot50549535
...anthropologist: homo sapiens has literally exterminated any other human being (like the Neanderthals) that might have become dangerous. Collectively, not individually, humans carry the seed of their own destruction in them.
Now, that we have "conquered the earth," have destroyed any number of wild animals that might have threatened us significantly, so that they became extent, we have been turning on each other in...
...endless and ultimately senseless wars, brothers against brothers (#WarInUkraine,) and neighbor against neighbor (MiddleEastWar.)
Conclusion:
The Lord of The Flies doesn’t only belong in the Venn diagram, it actually should be the cornerstone of a 3D version to be constructed. (That'd be something for my friend @mina sci-fy pro and math wizard 😉.)
"In his Discourse on the Inequality Among Men (1755), [#Rousseau]...
The funny thing is: "Lord of the Flies" might be the only dystopia in the diagram, where the book is better known than any Film or TV representation (well, maybe 1984 too).
I noticed, when I was looking for "A canticle for Leibowitz" in the diagram (also a classic post-apocalyptic novel, with the loss of humanity's memory as its main theme), then I realized: it never made it onto a screen (big or small).
...argues that humans are naturally good, and that injustice is caused by civil society." 1)
While the latter is true, the former assumption is incorrect, as I have tried to show by means of the extinction-level events we humans have been bequeathing on our genetic brethren, and the animals in our garden that we should have been taking care of, as well as the..
@HistoPol@obot50549535@GottaLaff I certainly think that's true. It may get lumped in here because scifi does the heavy lifting on political commentary right now.
The content fits in quite nicely. In fact, apart from the plutocrats/kleptocrats/autocrats, the rot in society is sztongest among politicians, maybe even more do in the US, who also wanted to be a beacon of hope for democracies around the globe:
"...Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched... @obot50549535@GottaLaff
@GottaLaff as a Tennessee resident, I do hope Gloria Johnson is able to unseat the worthless bag of hair that is Marsha Blackburn. I’m sure encouraging everyone I know to vote for Johnson, but as I live in one of the few blue pockets of the state, that’s just preaching to the choir.
@GottaLaff Loving is the only one they are not targeting, difficult to keep Thomas on overturning that one... But if I understand, they're essentially on equal constitutional footing.
@GottaLaff Trajectory will be similar to abortion. Overturn the scotus ruling, claim to let the states decide, finally move to use comstock or similar to functionally ban it nationwide
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