Posted on 09/15/2014 6:42:03 PM PDT by Morgana
I’ve seen a lot of bizarre responses to pro-life activism. There’s the crude picket signs, the illiterate chants, the flashes of violence, the incoherent threats that so often seem to involve used tampons, and even activists dressed up like giant genitalia.
But there is one phenomenon that never ceases to stagger me with its counterproductive stupidity and moral blindness: The increasing prevalence of “feminist” protestors, almost exclusively women, stripping down to “protest” something—usually protection for the pre-born or some other dissent from the totalitarian death cult of the Sexual Revolution.
When people ask me what the weirdest response to pro-life work is and I try to explain this phenomenon, they find it hard to believe. So do I. But yet it happens, time and time again.
One student stripped down and sat on a folding chair in front of our pro-life display at the University of British Columbia. A few protestors decided to protest the launch of our 2012 national tour by going topless. Then, at a presentation in London, Ontario, a bunch of pro-abortion protesters showed up at a counter-protest organized by the Canadian Auto Worker’s Union, sans clothing. And of course, at last year’s March for Life a topless Femen protestor flung herself at a remarkably composed Catholic bishop as he spoke to the crowd, shrieking “F*** your morals!”
You’d think such behaviour would attract ire rather than admiration. But this is 2014 and most of our municipal governments use our taxpayer’s cash basically to fund a day dedicated to that type of behaviour when the Pride Parade rolls around.
Instead, these women are now generally referred to as “brave.” Even the popular, but tiresomely far-left website Upworthy recently pushed a video with a street activist protesting harassment by misogynist pigs by standing on the street in her lingerie. (Little tip: Protesting the fact that some misogynists define you by your body by voluntarily showing them what they wanted to see in the first place isn't defiance, it's acquiescence. Protesting the fact that these guys aren't treating you with dignity by acting like you have none is counter-productive. “That guy crudely suggested he wants to see me naked! Well, I’ll show him! By showing him exactly what he wants to see! Wait…”)
A bit of research into the infamous nude activist group Femen (“Our mission is protest, our weapon is bare breasts”) shows just how exploitative (inadvertent though it may sometimes be) this entire phenomenon is. In recent documentary the group’s leader, Viktor Svyatski, admitted that he had perhaps started the group to “get girls,” and that he carefully selected only the most attractive girls for his group. The documentary also revealed that Svyatski had described the Femen girls as “weak,” and was often verbally abusive with them.
Again, the suicidal tendencies of modern-day feminism would be almost laughable if they were not so depressing.
But the phenomenon of public nudity is also more than just incoherent protest—it is a way of forcing people to accept any and all manifestations of the Sexual Revolution. As I noted some time ago: The public is now regularly subjected to crude and wildly exhibitionist “Gay Pride Parades” and “Slut Walks.” These are not considered to be optional festivals hosted by tiny minority groups. No, politicians who refuse to attend are labelled as heretics by the high priests of the New Moral Order, which is of course not an order at all, but a proud lack thereof.
Liberal activists don’t want the State to be outside the bedroom anymore, they want the State in the bedroom—loudly applauding the acts they see taking place, refraining from any judgment but one of approval, and paying for pills and bits of rubber to ensure that such acts do not go awry and result in reproduction or infection.
Your prayers are not welcome in public, but your privates are. The Emperor has no clothes, and is quite enjoying it—so long as the chilly breezes of moral truth don’t leak out of drafty cathedrals to cause discomfort.
There may be hope on the horizon, as indicated by the wild popularity of such books as Wendy ShaIit’s A Return to Modesty, as well as increasing disinterest in topless beaches in places like France. Some “feminists” have responded to such trends with irritation, grumbling that all the hard-won ground they had fought for is being spurned by the ungrateful brats of today. But perhaps, instead, many women are realizing that allowing men to freely objectify them in public is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Perhaps people have begun to rediscover a human value that was once enormously prized, but now almost forgotten: Dignity.
I also notice that those pro-abortion people, weren’t.
It’s just another way for them to express their rebellion against God.
This sort of behavior indicates to me that they are very insecure about their belief and deep down know they are wrong but cannot stand to admit it. They really do behave as if possessed, sort of a lucid and controlled insanity. They are to be first laughed at, and then pitied. I have been to a pro life event where the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence showed up, I got a lot of laughs out of that. For the most part they were ignored, and that is the best and most appropriate reaction.
I haven’t seen a lesbian yet as hot as him. Not sayin’ just sayin’.
I have seen a few girls who were lesbians or we suspected they were. I remember one girl who was about as pretty as a girl gets. She played softball and was very good. She threw just like a boy. On the other hand she was friendly with boys and did not seem to hold any dislike for boys, she just never dated any.
Now the big ugly ones, I guess they call them Bull Dykes, I can’t see how anyone finds them attractive even if you were a lesbian.
Were they as hot as Dr. Frank N. Furter? That was kinda the whole point.
IMHO no they weren’t.
I knew a girl for many years who looked just like the perfect bull dyke. We called her Sarge because she looked like Sgt. Snorkle on Beetle Bailey. The only problem was she liked boys but there just weren’t any who liked her romantically.
We all liked her as a friend because she was funny and hard working with a pleasant personality.
Poor Sarge, she never married and I noticed she died around 4 years ago.
Had a girl friend in college. Same deal, love her to this day, just not like that. She married a older man and has a cute family. We still facebook on occasion. Super awesome person.
It’s just a big step in the process to the next abortion!
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