Monday, May 16, 2011

Me As Your Other #6

Lets talk about sex! We all know what an awesome conversation that can be. We have come to see sex as a commodity. A good that we can pay for, strive for and even sell. When I learned about past cultures and the treatment of women and I imagine what I will do in those cultures, I say I would be a prostitute. In The History of Sexuality Foucault argues that sex become a sort of entertainment by the 19th century. From that point sex has being in the controlled of the few. One example is the religious leader like a priest. In our modern society Sex is controlled also. Women's sexuality is controlled in different ways (media, abortions rights, free clinics, society, job forces). Women are the humans that are give birth to the next generation. They some agree must be more controlled than men. The debate of pro-choice and pro life has nothing to  do with the life of a would-be-human. For a feminist like myself, the debate is one of power.   The power to control female sexuality and desire. Whoever seems to think that they know when the woman ends and the child in her womb began seems to know nothing about what womanhood is and the autonomy of the woman involved. If the perfect setting abortion wouldnt be nessesary yet society has had the mistake idea that women expose themselves this type of situations. What we dont take into account is what  Beauvoir explains that woman is not a womb. Her reason in life is not to fulfilled other peoples desired to reproduced "Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not as herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being." If we talked about the equality of the genders we must reconsider language as well as biology. Abortion and the neglect of children in general is an issue of all people not just of a particular gender.  Women are the carriers of children but that is as different to men as they can be. Even when a woman tries to be the perfect woman it is contradictive "Although some women try zealously to incarnate this essense, It is hardly patentable. If the life of an unborn child is so important to our society than why not march and lobby for the annihilation of child poverty? Why not open more Planned Parenthood Clinics that offer free contraceptives to all women and men, no matter ethnicity, age, financial stability and sexual orientation? Why not condemn fathers that abandoned their children?  The debate of an unborn child will cease to exist and women as well as men will be able to in charge of their sexuality, and production.

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