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\"man-sad\"Last week was not great for Amanda Marcotte\u2019s image. The day after bemoaning the prospect of \u201cforcing\u201d Down syndrome kids on their parents (eviscerated here on LAN by Cassy Fiano<\/a>), she followed up with an\u00a0angry condemnation of fathers who grieve for their aborted children<\/a>\u00a0in stories shared by\u00a0Heroic Media<\/a>,\u00a0Silent No More<\/a>, and others.\u00a0While the natural reaction for anyone with a soul would be empathy, Marcotte\u2019s is \u201cvomiting in your mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The instigator of her venom was \u201cThe Apology<\/a>,\u201d a recent Heroic Media video featuring the heartfelt confessions of several men who either agreed to or failed to more strongly object to girlfriends\u2019 abortions earlier in their lives. They apologize for not fighting for the sons and daughters they\u2019ll never get to know, who lost their chance to grow in and experience this world, and to the women considering or suffering from abortion today who aren’t getting the support they need:<\/p>\n

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Their compassion and sorrow are readily apparent, but true to form, our abortiophile can see nothing but her own sex obsession projected onto everyone else:<\/p>\n

Freud famously posited that women suffer from penis envy, but this video demonstrates, conclusively, that the opposite is true: These cis men\u2019s uterus envy has reached the level where\u00a0they\u2019re saying, \u201cI had an abortion,\u201d which is physically impossible for biological reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n

Quite the display of doublethink: if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament, abortion orthodoxy teaches, yet apparently those same men are simultaneously consumed with jealousy that they\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>get pregnant.\u00a0If Marcotte really thinks this \u201cuterus envy\u201d\u00a0is a more logical \u2014 “conclusive,” no less \u2014 explanation than a parent’s natural grief over losing a child, then we may need a new term for the opposite of Occam\u2019s Razor: Marcotte\u2019s Jigsaw.<\/p>\n

The whole video is underpinned with the belief that\u00a0men should own women\u2019s bodies so completely\u00a0that even a woman\u2019s experiences are assumed to belong to them\u2014while the men themselves benefit from\u00a0avoiding unwanted parenthood. It\u2019s a win-win situation for these men, and the only thing they have to do is shed a few crocodile tears over their supposed \u201cmistake\u201d in not bullying the women they were dating into choosing to have a child.<\/em><\/p>\n

And here we have Amanda’s contribution to the\u00a0microaggression craze<\/a>: tolerating your significant other’s legal power to unilaterally kill your son or daughter is no longer enough. Now you have to like it, too. To acknowledge that men have experiences too is to infringe on women’s rights.\u00a0The mere act of expressing dissent and agony and loss, of giving\u00a0voice to your most basic parental instincts, now constitutes an act of misogynistic oppression. And on top of that, those reactions are never to be deemed sincere.<\/p>\n

Words fail to capture the depths of the malice on display here \u2014 and we’re still not done.<\/p>\n

For a movement apparently trying to avoid charges of misogyny, it\u2019s odd to see anti-choicers highlighting stories of men who wish they\u2019d been bigger assholes to women.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, this from a woman\u00a0who once actually<\/a>\u00a0said that “conservatives rely heavily on bad faith arguments, so liberals need to hold ourselves to a higher standard,” whose hypocrisy is so absolute that she can\u00a0type with a straight face<\/a>, “I specifically concentrate, as a journalist, on reproductive rights, and in my many years of doing this, I’ve come to the conclusion that all the ‘official’ arguments against abortion and contraception employed by Republicans are 100% pure bad faith.\u00a0All of them<\/em>.” (Emphasis in the original.)<\/p>\n

At this point, one can’t help but wonder if Marcotte’s entire career is an elaborate hoax, a single persona embodying all of abortion zealots’ worst character flaws. Like an unfunny Stephen Colbert, whose audience saw themselves in the caricature and didn’t realize it wasn’t a compliment.<\/p>\n

[T]here\u2019s a real flaw in many of these abortion regret stories. If getting married to the woman and having children with her was, in fact, the right choice, it\u2019s hard not to ask why they didn\u2019t go on to do just that. Deciding\u00a0not to get married and have a child\u00a0is one of those regrets that is easy to remedy! All you need to do is get married and have a child.<\/em><\/p>\n

The stupidity burns. Aside from how she would even know how many of them go on to form families or her blithe dismissal of the emotional and trust issues from such a betrayal\u00a0that might impair future relationships, just marvel at the denseness it takes to say “just get another one!” as if we’re talking about replacing a lost copy of your favorite book or movie. Children are not interchangeable. A post-abortive father is not mourning for a lost chance to become a parent, but for the death of\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>child. His child wasn’t a potentiality; he or she\u00a0already\u00a0<\/em>existed,\u00a0already\u00a0<\/em>lived, even if only one of his or her parents recognized it.<\/p>\n

Again I find myself in disbelief that Marcotte\u00a0needs something so blindingly obvious explained to her<\/a>; when Kevin Williamson\u00a0noted last week<\/a>\u00a0the “the reduction of human life to an accounting entry” implicit in her worldview, he couldn’t have been more right.<\/p>\n

Because of all this,\u00a0it\u2019s hard to shake the feeling that this \u201cmen regret abortion\u201d thing is less about \u201clife\u201d and more about reinforcing the idea that men should control women. Sometimes it\u2019s through feints of chivalry, and sometimes through outright emotional manipulation, but it always comes back to the same idea: that women are not to be trusted to make their own decisions, so men should do it for them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Don’t you love how she pretends she’s coming to this conclusion oh so reluctantly? As if she’d love to believe that not everyone who disagrees with her is part of a grand conspiracy to chain the nation’s women to their kitchens, but darn it, the facts just won’t let her? And that it’s apparently just a coincidence that\u00a0to her “it always comes back to” the sexual inquisition every time a pro-lifer says anything<\/a>?<\/p>\n

But then, perhaps Marcotte’s latest diatribes, so dripping with cruelty and spectacularly lacking in basic human empathy, hint at why this fiction persists: it’s hard to fathom that unborn children have souls when you’ve misplaced your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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