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FREE BRISTOL PALIN!
By Dr. Shoeshine | September 8, 2008
Good afternoon, everyone. We here at American Heresy have been faced with a moment of opportunity that will be taking us away from our more general activities here at the Newsblog. For the time being, we are focusing our efforts on organizing FreeBristolPalin.com.
We’d like to say a few words about our involvement there. First, we’re not thunderstruck by the GOP nominating a woman for VP. The Right has pioneered the use of self-hating token minorities. We are, however, quite concerned that this aggressively anti-woman woman is being labeled a feminist. We are certainly not interested in exploiting Bristol Palin, the girl. However, she has already become a powerful symbol of the severity of the McCain/Palin/Fundamentalist war against women. Bristol Palin’s much-discussed “choice” has been the subject of much humorous pointing-and-laughing by the Left, but what gets ignored is consideration of what the actual likelihood was that Bristol was able to act of her own free will: given the context and timing of her pregnancy, can anyone imagine what pressure she must be under? She’ll be married off before she can even vote to a boy whose Myspace page declares he “doesn’t want kids.”
Don’t we have laws about this sort of thing? Acknowledging that minors, under certain circumstances, really can’t freely make their personal decisions because the pressure from significantly older adults clouds their reasoning? Oh yes, they’re called statutory rape laws. Perhaps our would-be Vice President has unwittingly made the case for statutory marriage assault laws.
However, around the world, an unplanned pregnancy and subsequent forced marriage would hardly be news. This, truly, is our point. In the same week that McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, the world heard of the horrific “honor killings” of three teenage girls in Pakistan. They were shot and then buried alive. Their crime? Attempting to marry the men of their choice.
Bristol Palin, because she is an American, will not be stoned, torn apart by dogs, or gang-raped by local militia members. Her punishment here in America is an entirely American one: she will be forced into a legal contract that will, most likely, cost her money, time, and public humiliation to extract herself from later. Even if young Bristol thinks her shotgun wedding is a great idea, the coercive pressure of her situation makes it impossible to imagine that her so-called choices have been particularly freely made.
In Bristol’s case, we can only speculate, and we’re not here to dig up dirt on “the first identifiable victim of the U.S. election.” We’re concerned with a new rhetoric of “choice” that elides the fact that, should Sarah Palin and other fundamentalists have their way, anyone in Bristol’s position will have no choice at all. We find it sickening that the same proponents of “the sanctity of marriage” would use marriage as such a blunt object of retaliatory force in demonstrating the ideological obedience of America’s newest Hester Prynne. And we cannot, in good conscience, fail to see the links between American fundamentalists’ program of repression and violence against women, and the horrific violence happening to women, once again in the name of God, in the very countries that our country claims are evil. All around the world, we see women and girls under coercive pressure: to work as prostitutes, to bear unwanted children, to marry against their will, to have their genitalia mutilated, to submit to unwanted medical procedures, and to refrain from public activity. The circumstances may not be the same as Bristol’s, but the pressure - and the illusion of choice - are all too common.
It is our intent, then, to call the ritualized brutalization of women’s bodies and minds what it is: the longest-running and most widespread form of terrorism in the world. We hope to use FreeBristolPalin.com to cut through the hysteria and distraction of Republican campaign games to examine the most extreme terrorist threat to the American homeland: Sarah Palin, John McCain, and the Religious Right.
Women’s issues are American issues. We hope you will join us in insisting on this simple fact.
Topics: Administrative, American Conservatives, Battle for the White House, Fundagelicals |
September 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
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