*NOTE: I have been informed that “HADJI” is a racist slur toward Arabs. That is NOT my intention, but, if the shoe fits …
Why do we think the freedom to murder our unborn children is a vaunted freedom, one worthy of a modern, educated, independent woman? Excuse me for thinking, but as an intelligent, independent-thinking woman, I resent the implication that I cannot control my own sexual appetites. WHO SAYS I am not able to control myself?
I am a strong, independent, educated woman, and it really irks me that people say sex is inevitable! BOLOGNA! I chose when, with whom, how often! MY CHOICE … with my partner! I value myself enough to be particular about those with whom I am intimate as any reasonably intelligent woman should be! If, however, I choose to be promiscuous, or play the player, I am still responsible enough to protect myself!
As a mother of three children, I made sure each of them also understood their personal value before they could barter themselves too cheaply. Yes, we see it everywhere. FREE SEX! On TV, in movies, all over magazines and the internet. Sex is everywhere, but who decided it was “prudish” to say NO? Who decided it was old-fashioned to have a high value on yourself? Who declared IRRESPONSIBILITY was the rule of sexual behavior? ANSWER: The ones who ARE unable to control themselves! The weak-willed ones, the followers. That is not ME!
No one else makes my decisions! I make my own. I decide who is my friend, who is my employer, who is my lover. No one else. No one decides for me if I will bear children or not (unless my body or my spouse’s is unable physically.) For years I have listened to sappy liberal women some of whom are genuinely educated, proclaim their “right to Choice!” AMEN, sister@! We do indeed have the right to choice whether to have sex, whether to have unprotected sex, whether to refrain, or whether to take the chance of becoming pregnant. THAT is my choice and yours! In this day and age there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for not being prepared, for not being in control of my passions, for being “taken advantage of” outside of rape!
Ladies, it is total crap to say you are for a woman’s choice if you never exercise your choice to say NO! THAT is our choice! THAT is our greatest empowerment!
Oh, and don’t give me the crap about incest rape or medical emergency either! Just about everyone is willing to make exceptions in those few instances, but they don’t even make up 1% of the total number of abortions done in the US!
GROW UP, girls! Be who you want to be, but BE RESPONSIBLE for your own choices. Don’t pass that off as someone else’s job!
blogsense-by-barb 
“Hadji” is a racist slur. Not all Arabs are the enemy.
True enough! I didn’t make the pic, but I did like the basic statement about women … Honestly, I was unaware it included a slur. My apologies!
Yea you
Grow up, Gramps.
No gramps here! He is a friend agreeing with what I have said here! 🙂
I was referring to the other guy (who presumably said I was the enemy…or something), not you. Thank you addressing that issue–I brought it up to you because I know you are always reasonable and fair.
I appreciate that, my friend. And again, my apologies! You taught me something and I am grateful!
Then is was just a misunderstanding. Have a good day. 🙂
This is something I have been saying for years. Yes we all are free to choose. It seems now that too many want to choose to pay for their protection with my money. When Ms. Fluke said before the Congressional Committee that without free birth control there would be more unwanted children and more abortions. That is the most ridiculous statement I think I have ever heard, since Planned Parenthood hands them like treats on Halloween, not to mention that $10 a month covers the cost.
Well, I will not attempt to impose my sense of morality on anyone, but … truth is truth! Our choice is in if and/or who we chose to be intimate with. THAT is our choice. Not whether to murder the fruit of our frivolity or not! Sex is great, but no unwanted child should be made to pay for an “oops!” There are thousands of people wanting children that cannot have their own. Share! 🙂
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As one who has daughters and grand daughters…thank you for this article Barb.
Thank you kindly! I am a NEW gramma for the 1st time, and I suppose that has unleashed my feelings even more than before@ haha Time for the pendulum to swing back toward the middle!
I’m glad to see a woman addressing the lack of self respect indicated in the free sex thing (I’m having a vocabulary problem here, bear with me).
To me as a guy, both the guys and the girls that spread it so thinly and widely, show a major lack of self respect. On the order of being about 8 years old; Grow up children, in the real world actions have consequenses.
For what it’s worth, I thought the same thing when I was 16.
Thanks, Dave! I’ve been seething with this for some time. Yesterday, I read a friend’s post that is anti-Santorum because he is vocal about moralality issues. She is a friend, but on this we do not agree. So, rather than argue with her, I posted this article! Lol Venting!
I’ve done that and probably will again, sometimes you just don’t feel like the argument that ensues.
And yes, this has been bothering me since this whole Fluke nonsense boiled up.
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AMEN!!!!!