Texas or Afghanistan

 What are women for? 

Obviously, it’s the womb. Without the baby carrying sack wo-men would just be men, right? The current arguments between the trans community and a certain group of feminists have arisen (I believe) because owning a baby making bag makes a person valuable, dangerous and in need of control. Generations and generations of control. Because if you don’t control them then they might decide they don’t want to host a man’s seed.

Once, in the long dim distant past, this might have been a problem but not now. Now, we know, or should know that not all women have the equipment to make a baby (even if they do  own the expandable bag) and that allowing them free will and choice doesn’t automatically mean that they won’t want to have children. Dividing the world into male and female and treating all the females poorly because you a frightened of  the end of the human project, turns out to be wonky thinking. Yet it still persists.

In Afghanistan they have decided that no women (including girls) are allowed to think, hold a high position in society, be seen in public and many other things, just in case the approximately 14% of them who could have a child decided they don’t want to host any man’s offspring. It’s overkill, right? We can all see that but somehow we believe it. Women fight amongst themselves about the best way to control all women, like we are all exactly the same. Just to keep the 14% of us who are actually fertile from deciding not to have a child. 

The so-called TERFS (hate the word) (trans exclusionary radical feminists) are frightened that if they let people who have never had a womb into the women group it will be more difficult to argue that all women are picked on because of the small number who are fertile. That might sound laughable but we know that the reason women (as a group) can be controlled so easily is because the people who own a penis (I know I’ve made it sound like a pet but I’m not sure that’s wrong) have a strength advantage. (Read Naomi Alderman’s The Power if you’ve ever wondered what would happen if the power was reversed)

“But that’s just Afghanistan,” you say. We don’t need to worry about that. The World Bank did a study in 2019 looking into equal rights for men and women at work and found that only six countries did, in actual fact, have equal rights (Spoiler; Uk isn’t one of them) https://wbl.worldbank.org/en/wbl# Also, what about countries likeSaudi Arabia where women aren’t allowed to drive?or Yemen, where a woman’s life is literally valued at half the price of a man’s?

“But those are just backward countries!” you say.

Shall we talk Texas then? Texas yesterday passed a law to make abortion illegal after 6 weeks. For anyone. Regardless of circumstance. Raped? Unless you have it aborted before 6 weeks you have to keep it. Genetic deformity that means child can’t live outside the womb? No have to keep that unless it’s spotted before your first scan, even if that puts the mother’s life at risk.

Now, six weeks isn’t six weeks pregnant. Unless all women are always pregnant because pregnancy is measured from the first day of your last period. You are actually deemed to have been pregnant at the point where you were the least pregnant it was possible to be.. So, depending on the length of your cycle to be 6 weeks pregnant intercourse could have taken place somewhere between 2 and 4 weeks before.  I’ve said pregnant too many times.

How do these laws get passed? I’m despairing. So much progress and yet none at all. First day of school and I have too much to worry about.