If the forced-birth cult wins... [View all]
...they will not like what they win, ultimately.
The problem is, most of them are not old enough to remember what that form of slavery cost last time.
They were not young nurses working in hospitals watching other young women die.
They were not teachers finding the empty desks in their classrooms.
They were not grieving parents attending their daughters' funerals.
They did not see that quiet holocaust.
I'm old enough to remember.
And I remember the Litany of the Unnamed that I heard again and again, from other women. The haunted eyes while they told the stories in soft, anguished voices.
I remember finding out that my devout Catholic grandmother was not part of the cult. She had her own Litany of the Unnamed. There were parts of it she wouldn't tell me about.
Many years later, I recognized that same shut-down, refuse-to-talk-about it response from veterans who'd come back from a combat zone with PTSD.
Back then, there were far more levers of control to keep the conspiracy of silence and to keep the holocaust under wraps.
There were far more conscienceless cult members in positions of power who were willing to lie on death certificates and push alternative explanations for those deaths.
There was a robust infrastructure of institutions that absorbed despairing and vulnerable young women and coldly forced them to carry pregnancies to term while abusing them, shaming them, silencing them. And then taking their babies from them.
There was a mainstream media-wide collaboration with the silence and the shame and the coercion.
There were laws defining who had control over women, and it was not the women.
Banks did not allow women to open their own accounts or apply for credit. There were few avenues of escape or independence.
And a misogynist patriarchy on one hand treated their female chattels like disposable sex toys, and on the other, punished them brutally with forced birth when, with almost nonexistent access to birth control, the inevitable happened.
But that bottle has been shattered into millions of pieces and not even the most dedicated forced-birth cultists can stuff the genie back in.
Women will not stand for it.
If the holocaust starts up again, it will not be quiet this time.
They are sowing the wind.
grimly,
Bright
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