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

[eggman]

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".

Yes, this is another attempt to change the definition of human life. Three decades ago the Supreme Court removed the unborn from the human race and abortion is now just a choice to be made with no consideration of a human life being lost.

Now the courts are attempting to remove the disabled who cannot speak for themselves. If you don't have the ability to communicate you no longer have rights and the court can decide if your life is worth living.

[bethelgrad]

and...he is an opportunist, family abanding, greedy, SOB who exploits peoples feelings to pad his own pocket.

[bethelgrad]

sorry, should be "abandoning"

[Brian Allen]

yep

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

It seems like the writer has had a moment of clarity in her life, and realizes what she has stood for in favor of "women's rights" all these years. Now she is starting to learn the truth. It's going to take some time, especially surrounded by idiots as she no doubt is in San Francisco, for her to see what it has meant. Good for her for admitting her past folly in public.

[T'wit]

>> join me in questioning how to define bodily integrity.

Bodily integrity is when you totally neglect the body of a handicapped woman who has a urinary tract infection. That way you never tamper with the integrity of her body. You do this by taking away her antibiotics.

Michael Schiavo pioneered this technique.

[T'wit]

>> Terri Schiavo is a woman, remember? That's all that matters.

Right, right, keep killing MEN with disabilities.

[Nick Danger]

It seems like the writer has had a moment of clarity in her life, and realizes what she has stood for in favor of "women's rights" all these years.

She has learned nothing. Fundamentally this article is a plea to her fellow team members not to abandon a member of the team that has fallen down.

It is hard to read this article without coming away with the distinct sense that if that were a disabled man lying there, or God forbid a child, she wouldn't give two hoots to Hell what happened. Only women matter to her; it seeps from every pore in the article.

She sees women as being a "team." It's up to women to stick together and make sure that men and children don't get any resources. It's all for one and one for all. Women united, to kill the babies and stick it to the men. Yeah, hooray, just listen to her roar.

She's what's been wrong for the last 30 years: collective selfishness wrapped in victimology. She makes me puke.

[cyborg]

I remember seeing Randall Terry on Donahue way back. I found him to a distasteful, toady zealot. Why do people resort to asking the advice of the insane? Randall Terry, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson,etc.

[Qwinn]

Well said. I agree with your summary entirely.

Qwinn