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Friday, January 20

Welcome to Friday, kids! It's the end of week 6. I have 4 more weeks, plus a final or 2 (maybe I'll voluntarily take the Sociology Final...) Yep, that's right, folks: I graduate in just over 4 weeks!

Here's the scoop. In my math class, I've been earning a rather solid B. Woo-hoo! Also, I've written a 1 page paper for the Sociology class (Contemporary Social Issues) - got an A+! I'm randomly studying Queer Theory in my spare time. I love college. I have access to so much information!

Here's something I was not-so-randomly thinking about during soc class today, in regards to a brewing pro-choice vs. pro-life war on campus:

Should Voices (the reproductive rights group) and feminists in general take the position of anti-death penalty?

• Many "pro-lifers" are also pro-death penalty.
• During "Sanctity of Life Week", should we illuminate a roundabout way of "combating" their pro-life stance?

Should Voices allow themselves to be a politically active and politically-identified group?

• As part of the feminist identity movement, some exclusion is necessary, or identity is moot.
• What kind of "politically-active" are we talking about?
• Can we, as a college group, exclude certain people, or encourage a politically-charged environment that might be hostile to certain people?
• There are pro-choice people who are also pro-death penalty. To take an
  anti-death penalty stance may risk excluding some pro-choicers. Can we
  afford to lose membership?

Should Voices take a stand, in order to stand FOR something, or should it just be a support group for men's and women's reproductive rights?

• When can support be construed as action?
• When can being politically inactive be construed as a lack of support?
• By attempting to please everyone, you please no one. Shouldn't we at least please some of the feminists/pro-choicers rather than attempting (and failing) to please every single one of the feminists/pro-choicers?
• At what point, who gets to judge who's a better feminist or a "more qualified" pro-choicer?
• At what point, who is in a position of authority to judge for inclusion/exclusion other feminists?

This is where "over-compensation" comes out to play.

• Why not just keep it simple? Just fight for information, facts, and let people make up their own minds. Isn't that what Choice is for?
• Choosing to make up your own mind, and not deciding for others that they need to be pro-choice.
• To (weirdly) quote Fox News: We report, You decide.

I wonder what life, choice, and information will be like in the year 3000...

Kim 8:28 PM |