Initially, I wanted to send a general email to this blog’s editors, following up on one of Lauren’s old reproductive rights posts (sniff, I remember when it was just Lauren! Ah, the beauty and sadness of evolution…), titled Taking it Personally (here).
Alas, I can’t seem to find a means for simple, direct email (understandable given your blog traffic), so I’m posting that follow-up note here.

In any event, Lauren’s post referenced a blog entry by a man honoring his mother’s struggle and grief, after he’d learned of her having been raped, and what she’d had to go through to get an abortion. Aside from my personal reasons for identifying with his mom’s story (detailed somewhat here), which I certainly would not have encountered were it not for its link at Feministe, I was glad to be introduced to his writing, and consider him a friendly ally. (I doubt that on my own power, I would have stumbled upon the Financial Times story about an Ohio company implanting electronic tags in two of its workers on a trial basis, were it not for this guy’s blog entry earlier this month, for example.)

Anyway, I thought I might give you a heads up that the same fellow has a follow-up entry on the whole abortion/ sexual assault quandary. It doesn’t revisit his mother’s story per se (surely, that was painful enough the first time around), but it’s a good read. (Winsomely, it begins with the following sentence: “Tony Snow is a piece of shit.”). If you care to read it, the link is here.

that’s what he was here for: to troll. his fake polite demeanor is an oft-used troll technique. he was inflammatory, deliberately obtuse, and unwilling to defend the positions for which he went out of his way to declare his support. i imagine part of it was an attempt to drive traffic to his blog that no one reads, and the rest was about being annoying while pretending to be here for ‘dialogue’.

that loony fringe scares me, too (ever hear of the Penal Laws, when the fringe of Protestantism made being Catholic a capital crime?)

so he’s afraid of the loony fringe that dislikes catholics, yet would vote to legally ban all contraception. i guess it’s ok to force religious beliefs down peoples throats, as long as it’s DT’s religion? aaauuggghh! it’s just maddening!

Having said that, I think it’s unfortunate (at least) that Deep Thought doesn’t ‘get’ that starting things out with “Jill, please.” and keeping that tone throughout isn’t going to help any discussion, won’t change any minds, and won’t even get whatever point he was trying to make across. Was a banning necessary? I’m guessing this has been some time coming, because it seemed to me that he was relatively quickly smacked down in this thread, at least. Or is having to smack him down just more than the posters and commenters ought to bear?

You know you can’t be having sex because there’s no penis involved.

Silly girl.

:)