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Grr, argh.
Today we're coming back from one of my classes and we're going to campus center to eat the way we usually do, but there's a mob in front of the fountain there. We were immediately assaulted by a handful of really DISTRESSED-looking people handing out flyers protesting a protest.
I completely sympathize with them, and still have all their flyers. Here's one.
Exploiting the Holocaust and racism is no way to win hearts or minds. Prepare to be horrified -- please read this before you proceed [onto the podium]. The display now in front of the Campus Center uses huge billboards filled with pictures of enlarged fetuses and fetal parts, photos of black men hanging and holocaust victims, and many other deeply upsetting images to force upon all passers-by an emotional reaction intended to turn people against abortion.
Concerned students at the University at Albany, together with concerned members of the community, want to express our outrage and anger at the viscious emotional manipulation and exploitation represented by the Genocide Awareness Project's billboard campaign. GAP exploits the victims of genocide for political purposes. This is not a social justice movement as they claim -- it's the worst kind of political sensationalism and opportunism. GAP offers no answers, no direction, no approach to reducing the need for abortion.
Giant pictures that focus on the fetus are intended to take our attention away from the woman, her reality, her value in the world, and her value to herself. In the real world, unintended pregnancy occurs within the complicated context of real people's lives. GAP ignores women -- apparently, women are merely the insignificant carriers of "unborn children".
Also: The Genocide Awareness Project believes it can exploit whatever human horror or stuggle it chooses and manipulate people's emotions in order to get their point across. Their goal is to stir up confrontation and anger.
All I have to say is: They've succeeded. Fuck YOU, Genocide Awareness Project. I shouldn't have to see that shit every time I go to the campus center. I almost wish I hated myself enough to run out and get pregnant right now so that I could have an abortion. However, my being female is currently putting me through enough pain without any help from men, so I'll settle for avoiding the displays of brutal executions and regimes of terror being compared to a woman's right to choose what to do with her body.
On a somewhat lighter note, Alicia's response to the displays after the initial anger (I'm the most angry out of all of us) was "Mmm, babies."
I said, "Yeah, them baby parts look damn tasty. They shouldn't have those pictures out there if they don't have any actual babies for us to eat now that we're hungry. It's CRUEL."
I completely sympathize with them, and still have all their flyers. Here's one.
Exploiting the Holocaust and racism is no way to win hearts or minds. Prepare to be horrified -- please read this before you proceed [onto the podium]. The display now in front of the Campus Center uses huge billboards filled with pictures of enlarged fetuses and fetal parts, photos of black men hanging and holocaust victims, and many other deeply upsetting images to force upon all passers-by an emotional reaction intended to turn people against abortion.
Concerned students at the University at Albany, together with concerned members of the community, want to express our outrage and anger at the viscious emotional manipulation and exploitation represented by the Genocide Awareness Project's billboard campaign. GAP exploits the victims of genocide for political purposes. This is not a social justice movement as they claim -- it's the worst kind of political sensationalism and opportunism. GAP offers no answers, no direction, no approach to reducing the need for abortion.
Giant pictures that focus on the fetus are intended to take our attention away from the woman, her reality, her value in the world, and her value to herself. In the real world, unintended pregnancy occurs within the complicated context of real people's lives. GAP ignores women -- apparently, women are merely the insignificant carriers of "unborn children".
Also: The Genocide Awareness Project believes it can exploit whatever human horror or stuggle it chooses and manipulate people's emotions in order to get their point across. Their goal is to stir up confrontation and anger.
All I have to say is: They've succeeded. Fuck YOU, Genocide Awareness Project. I shouldn't have to see that shit every time I go to the campus center. I almost wish I hated myself enough to run out and get pregnant right now so that I could have an abortion. However, my being female is currently putting me through enough pain without any help from men, so I'll settle for avoiding the displays of brutal executions and regimes of terror being compared to a woman's right to choose what to do with her body.
On a somewhat lighter note, Alicia's response to the displays after the initial anger (I'm the most angry out of all of us) was "Mmm, babies."
I said, "Yeah, them baby parts look damn tasty. They shouldn't have those pictures out there if they don't have any actual babies for us to eat now that we're hungry. It's CRUEL."
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Fuckers.