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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

American Christian Right is seeking to repeal the 19th Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court is moving toward repealing Roe v. Wade, and the Federal Government is moving towards a nationwide ban on abortion. The next step is outlawing the Pill, and all female based contraception. Once women cease to have any control over their own reproductive rights, they will be at the total mercy of any man, known or unknown, who happens to choose to rape them. And, this is precisely the goal of the Christian Right. In fact, the Bible really doesn't touch on abortion, at all. The words "I knew you in your mother's womb" are totally ambiguous. However, there is a very powerful idea underlying the Christian hostility to abortion. After all, what if Jesus Christ had been aborted? So much for Christianity, right? And, it goes farther than that. The central image in all of Christianity is God raping a virgin girl, and conceiving a totally new kind of being -- a man who is a God. So, by raping and enslaving women, Christian men believe that they too can become Gods. Once women lose control over their reproductive rights, they will be totally at the mercy of their "men". They will have to do whatever they are told to do. And, ultimately, that means they must lose the right to vote, or own property, at all. They will be mere chattels of men, as in the past. So, the ultimate goal of the American Christian Right is the repeal of the 19th Amendment, the right of Women to vote. Once this occurs, men can decide what, if anything, they wish to do with their women. They may be allowed to exist as "comfort women", rather along the lines of the Japanese Imperialists with their female colonials. Or, women as an entire species, may simply be exterminated, en masse. After all, with new reproductive technologies, what do we really need women for, at all? But, their is hope for women, if they have the courage to sieze it. There is a great religion that was conceived as a bastion of safety for women against oppression, with a billion or more adherents ready to fight and die for the defense of Western women against oppression -- Islam. Islamic nations have no bans on abortion. Muhammad loved women. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries women were on their own against oppression, and had to depend on courageous suffragette heroines like Emma Goldman to fight their battles for them. But now, the forces of Islam have shown their power to fight Western Oppression. American feminists and Radical Muslims must join forces against the oppressive American State. Only then, can the survival of women be assured. This is an existential question, a question of mere survival of Women as a species. There is no choice here.

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