Letters to the Editor
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Opps....his bad!
One poster here rushes to Brother Pete's defense, saying "What's the big deal? People mistake satire for serious all the time. We've all done it...not everyone knows about the Onion. The pro-life blogger isn't stupid for not knowing about the Onion...it was an honest mistake."
Realllllly? A simple google search for "The Onion" offers this description in the very first entry: "Satirical weekly newspaper poking fun at and culture jamming popular news stories."
Apparently for *some people* source checking is a mind numbing endeavor.
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hey "anonymous" who missed the point...
Really. Try reading Professor Singer of Princeton, who has proposed a period of time as much as six months after birth in which parents can choose to kill their "defective" children. This thinking is more widespread than you think.
So are you suggesting that the woman he talked to in the story from his second post was, in fact, a woman who'd given birth in the last six months and wanted to kill her defective child?
Yeah, and what were the consequences of that "choice"? Yeah, we can freely choose, and then we pay the piper.
Free will. Sounds like a decent deal to me.
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What So-Called Christians REALLY Think
Someone that assumes the best of everyone -- assumes that everyone they meet is a decent person -- would have read the onion article with a very skeptical eye. And being skeptical they would have researched it carefully. That is, of course, they assumed that humanity was basically good and decent to begin with. Or at least assumed most WOMEN were good and decent to begin with.
But this person, like many foaming at the mouth raving moralists, does not assume people are basically "good." And assumes women in particular are basically "sluts" waiting to be revealed.
That's why whenever they hear ANYTHING negative they just assume it's true.
If you begin with the idea that women (and sexual intercourse in general) is "sick" and "evil" then of course you'll instantly believe every single negative remark you hear no matter how obviously false it seems to more resonable people.
Remember John Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans?
Every word, every single accusation they made against John Kerry's service in Vietnam was decisivly proven to be un-true -- but for all those people that already assumed John Kerry was Satan himself they instantly accepted all negative remarks about him without any need for "proof" and rejected all positive remarks about him no matter how overwhelmingly "true" they were. All "evil" is automatically accepted as self-evident regardless of "prof" or 'reality" and all positive aspects are rejected as "lies."
Women are "evil" according to the viewpoints of almost all pro-lifers. So of course they thought the Onion article was real!
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Lots of women
get off on getting an abortion.
it is EMPOWERING.
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Nice job, Rebecca!
What a fine piece by Rebecca Traister. The guy got his due comeuppance, but he was fairly, and even sympathetically portrayed. Good journalism.
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It's not limited to the Onion
Otherwise smart people fall for hoax web sites all the time. Remember psychoexgirlfriend? Mahir? Hoaxes. I'm convinced Peter Pan Guy, Mary Romantic, and 10K4awife were hoaxes. People get off on fake "grotesques" on the Web the same as they did in literature. People are all too willing to believe fake "grotesques" because they like having someone to feel superior to. A few years ago, there was an Onion story about a car full of mannequins which suddenly inflated and took off out the sunroof of a car or something, and a car behind it thought it was the Rapture. Plenty of otherwise smart people failed to smell the Onion as that one got passed around.
A hoax of mine went all over the Internet and is still making the rounds. When 900 mhz cordless phones came out, I posted a list of their frequencies (for the benefit of scanner buffs) based on the color of the phone. I made up silly phone colors like "banana" and "shocking pink." I had no idea people would take it literally. Google "900 mhz" and "shocking pink" -- 13 years later that list of phone frequencies based on the phone's color is all over the place!
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RE: It's not limited to the Onion
"A few years ago, there was an Onion story about a car full of mannequins which suddenly inflated and took off out the sunroof of a car or something, and a car behind it thought it was the Rapture."
Um, actually, this was the intro to an episode of "Six Feet Under".
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Nice to see the baby killers are getting a kick out of this.
What's the number? 30 million dead? 40 million dead? Yeah, pick on the 1 overenthusiastic wacko and watch the world ignore the babies we've killed!
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Whackaloons
These "pro-lifers" are the same hard core Bushistas that get their rocks off blowing up Moslem children- as in actual children, not theoretical embryonic cell clusters. Scribe, pharisees, and hypocrites, the same lot the Lord made a point of condemning. Odd that He missed those gay couples.
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Anyone who doesn't know the Onion is satire...
... has obviously been living in a cave.
And anyone who thinks abortions are fun and easy and something that women just love to do, can kiss my ass.
Abortion: never an easy choice, sometimes the best choice, always a woman's choice.
A pre-emptive note to everyone who's going to call me a babykiller: OK, so how many AIDS babies and crack babies and fetal alcohol syndrome babies have YOU signed up to adopt once they're born, then?
*waits*
*sound of crickets chirping*
*waits some more*
That's what I thought.
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I see this time and time again...
Dear Pete,
Not all married women want to be pregnant.
Love,
Reality
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Pete, you Anti-Choice people are the psychotics
I have yet to see any woman 'psyched out' and planning and after termination party. That is pure fantasy on your and 'The Onion' part. You tried to use a fake article to push your agenda, and you got busted and ridiculed doing so. Instead of owning up to it, you try to justify it.
The idea of forcing women to be perpetually pregnant is sickening.
Not all married women want to get pregnant.
Most abortions are due to failed birth control, something else Anti-Choice groups are trying to interfere with. But only for women. The same 'moral objectors' at pharmacies who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control for women, have no problem selling condoms to men. Do you see the double standard there?
This "Love the embryo/fetus, hate the child" dogma that you and other Anti-Choice people push is truly psychotic.
Not all religions believe a blastocyte is a 'human being'. Potential for life, yes. Life, no. You have no right imposing your dogma on anyone. You don't want an abortion, then don't have one. You don't want to use birth control, fine. That is your Choice.
And clue up...Pro Choice people do not go around thinking EVERYONE MUST ABORT! That is your spin on Pro-Choice.