JaBbA's Hut

From the Independent Women's Forum:

But since my husband and I, movie buffs that we are, were on and off Metro trains all weekend attending the offerings of the D.C. Film Festival, we saw hundreds of female marchers wearing their "My Body Is Not Public Property" T-shirts. Several of them glared at me angrily because I was with--horrors!--a man. Sleeping with the enemy!

In a word, I saw the face of pro-choice America. And I hate to sound catty, gals, but, from the 70-year-old Gloria Steinem and the ancient Frances Kissling of Catholics for a Free Choice down to the grim gaggles of tongue-pierced, shaved-headed, Birkenstock-footed coeds, it.s one old, ugly, or old-and-ugly-both face. As The Other Charlotte, who was also on the street this weekend, e-mailed to me: "The most attractive marcher I.ve seen in the .hood was a pug dog wearing a sign that read, .Another pug for choice.." The pro-choice movement is not a youth movement. The few teenage girls in evidence on the streets were in the firm tow of their activist mothers. Scarcely a single one of those hundreds of thousands of marchers was in the slightest danger of getting pregnant.

I happen to be a high school advisor for my church, so I know some of the teenagers who were in DC last weekend. They are beautiful, amazing, smart women who aren't in the firm tow of ANYONE. I'm continually amazed at what the right wing will do to further their cause - in this case, tell young women that "only ugly girls are pro-choice". I just wish that more teenagers had the self-confidence to reject that kind of thinking and stick up for their beliefs.

Oh, yeah, BTW Charlotte - SOME of the young, smart, independent women I know are lesbians - and NONE of them think of MEN as the enemy - the enemy, for these young women, both gay and straight, is right-wing prudes who want to codify their prudishness into law.