No Guts, No Glory (I believed being a feminist meant never saying, "I agree with Randall Terry.")

Ragged Edge Magazine ^ | Oct. 29, 2003 | Ingrid Tischer

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Once a ridiculous feminist twit, always a ridiculous feminist twit.

[Cicero]

Good article. This is one of those cases, like clinton's rape of Juanita Broaddrick, that are going to embarrass the feminists no matter what they do. Maybe they should try doing the right thing for a change instead of worrying so much about their precious right to kill babies.

[nickcarraway]

They were embarassed by the Juanita Broaddrick epsiode? That's news to me.

[Enterprise]

The issues in the Schiavo case are the headlights of the car speeding right at every older woman, every chronically ill woman, every woman with a disability in this country."

Well, maybe the feminists are being true to themselves after all. They won't defend helpless babies, so why should they worry about helpless disabled women? Maybe they just think Terry is some sort of a plant.

[nickcarraway]

I didn't know you were a feminist?

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[Cicero]

No, they weren't embarrassed by Broaddrick. But they lost some of the remaining part of their reputation among sensible women when they ignored rape for political reasons.

[jocon307]

"Maybe they just think Terry is some sort of a plant."

Oh no, they don't think that. If they thought she was an endangered plant no effort would be too great to save her. No amount of housing not built, land not farmed, businesses not started, no sacrifice too great would there be to save Terry the plant.

The author has it right in the article, the womens movement(along with others, I assert) may "...see Schiavo less as a woman and more as a disability[.]"

They see her as a "useless mouth", someone to be exterminated.

This was a good post, the writer is a little all over the place, but she tells some true truths to "power" in this piece.

[dandelion]

It is time this issue is recognized about the right to life for the disabled in America, and I applaud this article for it's clarity. The Terri Schiavo case is about disability, and the rights of disabled people to live, regardless of elitist attempts to re-write the definition of "life".

Terri Schiavo is alive. She never left a written statement asking for death. Only her husband, who has a mistress, and his Attorney say she should die; they stand to gain monetarily from her death.

This, above all else, the about the right to choose - but whose right is it to choose life, or choose death for anyone?

[Search4Truth]

It is not possible for them to "do the right thing". They have no souls.

[dandelion]

Dang it, where did your cool Evil Empire pic go? I visit your profile page, and it's gone...

:(

[Rodney King]

Although I am sympathetic to his causes, Randall Terry is a jackass and I wish he would go away.

[livius]

but whose right is it to choose life, or choose death for anyone?

If the person can't make this choice, then the law should always "err" on the side of life.

Michael Schiavo is a corrupt twit who stands to benefit by his wife's death. His attorney is a pro-death freak who is giving the entire "hospice" concept a bad name. Neither of these people should have anything to do with this decision - but they are the ones who control it.

I am hoping that what will come out of this is a system of local (state) laws weighted on the side of life. Did anybody hear the woman interviewed on NPR, of all places, who had been in a "vegetative state" for years but could hear them discussing how to kill her? Every time she tried to speak or wave her arms, they announced that she was having random nervous impulses and gave her drugs to quiet her down. And then one day she woke up - fortunately just before they were about to kill her.

Mistakes are always made, but they should be made on the side of life.

[Monkey King]

Feminism IS a disability.

[dandelion]

http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/extra/wokeup.html

"When I Woke Up" By Russ Cooper-Dowda

---SNIP---

In February of 1985, I woke up in a hospital bed in Boston, MA. I couldn't see very well and I couldn't move much -- but boy could I ever hear!
I heard a terrifying discussion then that I will never, ever forget.

Around the end of my bed were a "school" of doctors in their white coats, planning when to disconnect my ventilator and feeding tube. I immediately started screaming, "I'm here!!" No one but me heard me.
They did notice my sudden agitation. They heavily sedated me. For a time, everytime I woke up I would make as much noise and move as a much as I could to show them I was "in there."

And they would, in response, heavily sedate me...
I then started spelling the same word in the air, "Don't! Don't! Don't!...."

---SNIP---

[SuziQ]

The issues in the Schiavo case are the headlights of the car speeding right at every older woman, every chronically ill woman, every woman with a disability in this country.

Those gray haired women who were at the forefront of the 'women's movement' are going to be hit square in the face with this issue at a point in the very near future. Maybe when it truly affects them, they'll start talking about it. Right now, I suspect that they don't want to be anywhere near this issue because there are too many conservative folks lined up on the side of Terry Schiavo. The feminazis certainly don't want to rub elbows with the likes of Randall Terry.

[Brian Allen]

<< Feminism IS a disability. >>

Femmunisn is a psychosis.

[thoughtomator]

Did you mean to say "femmunism?" ;)