'pro-life,' 'pro-choice'
bugaboo.
i'm thinking about these two words tonight: pro-life. pro-choice.
i've decided, again, of course, that everything political rides on one side or the other of a fence, and the fence isn't truth. it's perspective and spin.
so what if there were yet another way to frame the discussion, let's say, in a more truthful way...
'your life, your choice'
so that each person who votes would be cajoled (by straight-forward honest language [gasp!]) into thinking that his or her vote is really about his or her own life and his or her own choice -- NOBODY else's.
it could even 'trickle up' and 'trickle down' and become...the thinking person's choice (gasp!)
how exciting.
sigh.
i'm thinking about these two words tonight: pro-life. pro-choice.
i've decided, again, of course, that everything political rides on one side or the other of a fence, and the fence isn't truth. it's perspective and spin.
so what if there were yet another way to frame the discussion, let's say, in a more truthful way...
'your life, your choice'
so that each person who votes would be cajoled (by straight-forward honest language [gasp!]) into thinking that his or her vote is really about his or her own life and his or her own choice -- NOBODY else's.
it could even 'trickle up' and 'trickle down' and become...the thinking person's choice (gasp!)
how exciting.
sigh.
posted by stacy muszynski at 1:53 AM
6 Comments:
"Your life, your choice" sounds pretty "pro-choice" to me. :)
how can 'pro-life' mean anything when life is as disregarded as it is outside of the 'abortion' issue?
Exactly! My main problem with the so-called pro-lifers is that they make such a big fuss about abortion, but they don't give a fucking damn about babies/children/grown ups who are alive and live in poverty etc. Pro-life my ass. At least they wouldn't sound hypocritical if they just called themselves "against-abortion."
they can't! they hide behind rhetoric. "politically correct" jargon. and what you can't see, you can't fight.
"Censorship always serves the status quo."
--david foster wallace
from TENSE PRESENT: Democracy, Usage and the wars over usage," Harpers magazine, http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557
that cupcake is ridiculous next to such important words.
Sometimes all one needs is a lovely cupcake. ;)
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