Writer's Block: You and me and baby makes three

[lisaquestions]

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Oh, what the hell, Livejournal? What kind of inane, misogynist question is this? Were you wistfully wondering why there wasn't enough eugenicist talk lately? Did you think that women needed to be reminded that our bodies are never considered to actually belong to us? Did you just feel that it was a good time to have a rip roaring classist, misogynist, ableist party?

You're not even trying. Just throwing out questions wrapped in fake edginess and inviting your readers to show the worst of themselves to the world.

Seriously, stick to the fluffy questions. Don't bring anyone's human rights under debate. It's sickening.

Comments

[stephocalypse.livejournal.com]

Lemme guess, lotta "childfree" responses on the main page there?

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Probably. I saw people advocate eugenics which set me off.

[stephocalypse.livejournal.com]

Just clicked the answers page, 2nd result mentioned a "Breeding License", slowly backed away.

Wow. People LOVE their Orwellian universes when it works out for them, don't they?

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Yep. People say shit like it would never ever be applied to them.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first non-Cyrillic post that I saw was heavy on the "there should be means- and intelligence-testing that any prospective parent should have to pass before they are allowed to breed" eugenicist bullshit. That sort of post is the type that makes me want to reply with "you'd better thank whatever god you believe in that your parents weren't subject to such rules because, nature or nurture, somehow, somewhere, you were failed."

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. Like, I think most people who advocate for this shit probably don't realize how unlikely it is they'd exist if it worked that way.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because they all think that they are the brightest, specialist snowflakes of all and that they'd never be on the bad side of a eugenicist panel's decisions. Is that eugenicist position more or less what Huxley was arguing against in "Brave New World"?