I Don’t Hate Men, But I Often Feel Despised By Them
Weighing in on the conversation started by SC and Argumentative Penguin
I can still vividly remember how I felt the day that the Dobbs decision was finally handed down — the United States Supreme Court case that essentially dismantled Roe v. Wade. We all knew it was coming, but I was unprepared for just how gut-punched I would feel once I knew that it was now the law. “I live in a country that hates me, and hates people like me,” I said to my husband James, “and it just feels awful!”
James was upset as well that day, but not on the visceral level that I was. It’s physically impossible for me to get pregnant anymore, but that isn’t the point. My government had just decreed that people like me don’t get to make our own medical decisions or have ultimate autonomy over our bodies. What we care about or need doesn’t matter. I’ve felt like a second-class citizen plenty of times in my life, but never as deeply or as pervasively as that and I’ve never felt so despised on such an institutional level. It was wrenching.
There are women, even women in our government, who worked hard to get that ruling to go the way that it did. But the fact of the matter remains, 1 in 4 women will have an abortion, and a large percentage of those women are Republicans. And, overturning…
