{"id":209,"date":"2006-03-09T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2006\/03\/09\/alas-a-comment\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T18:45:23","slug":"alas-a-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2006\/03\/09\/alas-a-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alas, a comment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since there is a good chance my comment<\/a> will get deleted, below is the comment I wrote over at “Alas, a blog<\/a>” in response to a recent post<\/a>. Yes, I forgot to spell check it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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posted by Soulhuntre,
March 9th, 2006 at 11:38 am<\/a> <\/p>\n

I see how raising children is treated as some kind of weird hobby, where it’s fine if you want to do it, but don’t ask the rest of us to support you.
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There are two perspectives on this statement I want to mention. <\/p>\n

The first is that if one believes (and I do) that a woman has the right to abort her pregnancy without havign to justify the reason then you have now made the decision to carry that child a literal choice. If, as a business owner, someone decides than that a employee choosing an extended absence (pregnancy leave) is no useful tot he firm then you should be able to dismiss them.<\/p>\n

If you believe that pregnancy is not really choice, and that taking time off to have a child is morally different than takign that time off to do anything else then you have introduced problems into the moral argument of absolute abortion choice.<\/p>\n

The second point is that looking down on women who have children and raise them is ALSO a feminist phenominon. We see blog entry after blog entry by women lookign down on stay at home mothers as either victims of internalized patriarchy or lacking in feminist drive. Not to mention implying they might just be lazy and ignorant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since there is a good chance my comment will get deleted, below is the comment I wrote over at “Alas, a blog” in response to a recent post. Yes, I forgot to spell check it \ud83d\ude09 posted by Soulhuntre,March 9th, 2006 at 11:38 am I see how raising children is treated as some kind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}