in the "you just can't win" category...

[acroyear]

"Women who choose abortion have their morality questioned. Women who choose to put a baby up for adoption have their maternal instincts questioned, and women who carry an unplanned pregnancy to full term when unmarried or financially insecure are often labeled irresponsible." -- Thomas R. Suozzi, Nassau County executive (and Democrat and Catholic)

Comments

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Just remember... Any woman who has sex before marriage is a slut, and any woman who doesn't is fridgid or a prude.

It is the role of every woman out there to remain celibate before marriage, and to only have sex to please her husband, and her only reason for wanting sex is to have children, and for no other reason.

However, if a man doesn't have sex out of wedlock, he is a wimp, but if a man has sex while unmarried, he's a stud. It is a matter of pride for many men to have multiple partners, in or out of marriage, while it is a matter of "shame" for many women, yet if she does not, she is labeled as cold and incapable of it.

Yeah, we get the short end of the stick no matter how you put it. As far as the religious right is concerned, women are bad if they have sex, and as far as the rest of the world is concerned, they're bad if they don't. At least for guys, they're only bad if they don't.

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Sorry, "bad" should have been in quotes.

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

I think you've pretty well outlined the idea that People have Stupid Ideas about Sex.

Doc