Killing Themselves With Kindness, Then We Did Pilates

Maud Kelly

Maud Kelly is a poet and essayist who feels pretty certain it's all going to be okay in the end. In the meantime, she's writing a book.

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  1. Barney Quick says:

    “There was a time when people worshipped THE GODDESS. In all her forms. Maiden. Mother. Crone. Life Force. Death Force. THÉ ONE WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS.”
    Was this in all cultures all over the globe, or just in certain ones? What happened to those cultures? Why did patriarchy become so predominantly the norm?
    One more question: Is the value of human life relative or absolute?Report

    • CJColucci in reply to Barney Quick says:

      To judge by practice, it must be relative. If it weren’t, the speed limits on our roads would be five miles an hour, nobody would go down into the mines, our supermarkets would not be full of delicious seafood from the most dangerous waters on the planet, and we wouldn’t fly anywhere. And yet we do.Report

  2. Pinky says:

    An anthropologist seething with rage? That sounds like a terrible anthropologist. But even if you were a good one, should you be treating others as if they merit study? This is “conservatives in the mist”.Report

  3. Chip Daniels says:

    No under the age of about 70 has an adult memory of a world in which the right to abortion wasn’t the law of the land.

    But there is a large minority that bitterly opposes this state of affairs.

    That young woman probably can’t conceive of such a world, can’t even imagine living in a world where an unplanned pregnancy, or medically difficult pregnancy will be entirely outside of her control, where the most critical and intimate choices about her body and life will be determined by a tribunal of men.Report

  4. MM says:

    61% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances, according to a recent national poll by the Pew Research Center.  Seething rage (though UGLY) is an appropriate response for anyone to this insistence on minority rule. Overturning Roe Vs. Wade isn’t about being pro-life. It’s about control.Report

      • CJColucci in reply to Philip H says:

        It is often said that most people favor some restrictions, but the restrictions favored more or less line up with what Roe actually held. Only about 1% of abortions happen after the Roe viability line, and almost all of those involve horrific medical issues.Report

        • Philip H in reply to CJColucci says:

          And yet 13 states now have trigger laws that would go full pre-Roe and outlaw abortion except in cases of rape, incest or saving the mother. None of which were used in the litigation to get Roe tossed . . . .Report

    • Mike Schilling in reply to MM says:

      In 1973, it wasn’t that controversial a decision. Opposition to abortion was seen as a Catholic-specific issue, like divorce, even (perhaps especially) among evangelicals. If anyone says otherwise, they’re selling something.Report

  5. DensityDuck says:

    “I also know that still, to this day, RIGHT NOW, many many women do not feel comfortable having honest conversations with other women about this subject.”

    yeah, maybe

    but also maybe it’s “ma’am, this is a Wendy’s”Report