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Is "your body, my choice" something people are actually saying in all seriousness?

I thought "Your body my choice" was sarcastic satire. Is it really a thing they're actually saying?

It is pathetic. I lost my damn legs as a single father in my mid 30s. I was worried I would no longer be able to successfully date at all. I dated just fine and eventually met my wife. Turns out that treating women as fully independent human people worthy of the same respect I wanted goes a long way. If you're an alt right chud who can't get laid, it's not your looks. Take it from a half man; It's who you are and how you see women.

no one is saying this, are they?

Now do the version of this comic that calls out all the women that voted to take that choice away from themselves and others.

Unfortunately 46% of women voted Trump. So I guess they like this?

Preaching to the choir. The people who need to see this never will.

I have heard people say that good times create weak men, and looking at how the alt right have risen and how much "alpha males" are concerned about their masculinity, I would have to say that we have had some great times.

Also, I would never consider myself an alpha male, that is far too unstable, at best I am probably a decent release candidate, good enough to be sent to production, but needing a few patches to get a few bugs worked out.

Except this isn't how it would go because he would talk over her after the first 3 words.

This is my favourite response to this "your body my choice" thing: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113445007601304089

It's easy to laugh at the right-wingers, but the truth is that this is the way power is measured by the patriarchy - control over other people's bodies.

It doesn't matter if this power is obtained through the use of laws, money or physical violence (it's usually a combination of all three) - it's the power that matters, and the patriarchy doesn't care how it makes you look to the people you have that power over.

Ok. So on the one hand, people want to tell women they're forced to have babies.

On the other hand people want to tell that first hand to fuck off.

So I have a solution. If they want to force women to have a baby, then that woman gets to choose if a man who voted against abortion gets his testicles forcibly chopped off.

It's not a win/win, it's more like a lose/lose. But we haven't had any nukes dropped since the MAD doctrine went into effect.

So, if a woman wants to have an abortion, they'll call a man who voted against abortion. If he still says no, the woman has to have the baby, and the mans testles are copped off. Not even like a seditive, and sterile process. They instead take the man to the woman as she's giving birth, and she's given a meat cleaver. His balls are presented on a cutting board, and as she's in as much pain as childbirth brings, that's when she's allowed free reign to chop, and stab, and go nuts on his nuts.

Or he could just say "let her have an abortion", and avoid the whole scene.

It's not a win/win, but it's an even trade.