1/06 SF feminists fall into trap set by rightwingers

Redstaters come to San Francisco, famous center of free speech,
to voice their ugly opinions.
Bluestaters, led by feminists, try to stop their march,
saying "those outsiders can't demonstrate in OUR town."


[ For SF Chronicle report, please see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/22/BAG5QGRAKC1.DTL ]


What's wrong with this picture?

It's a trap for unwary progressives and feminists ---
cleverly designed to make the right-wing marchers
look like victims.

( Of course, the REAL victims are babies who are born without being planned nor wanted;
often to a single teen girl who can't improve her own future nor theirs;
often of low birth-weight;
possibly with brain damage caused by pre-natal exposure to alcohol, nicotine, etc.;
usually without any pre-natal care; and so forth ---
often socially and medically handicapped from birth,
whose bad start may have life-long results.
But their multi-year problems can't be videotaped
in sixty seconds. )


In past decades,
the anti-abortion crowd looked like bullies on TV,
screaming at frightened girls
outside abortion clinics.


Now they sneakily attempt to reverse the field of perception --
at least for those unfortunate voters who depend on commercial television for news
( those citizens who think they're "watching the news",
without realizing that TV "news" is mere entertainment
designed to make them watch the real content --
the commercials).

In the new televised mirage,
the rightwing marchers will try to remain silent,
trying to look like past nonviolent marchers for better causes.
They'll encourage gullible progressives to scream at them;
thus trying to make progressives look like bullies
who seemingly oppose the right to demonstrate.


Some abortion-rights activists have figured out
this slick trick;
so they have (quietly) stopped counter-demonstrating.


Others are fooled,
and flock to the Embarcadero
like mice to a super-glue trap,
to jeer and taunt the mostly-silent marchers.


Wanna march on the same day
as anti-choice demonstrators?
Okay -- but march AWAY from the right-wingers,
NOT toward them!


Better yet, instead of marching,
hold a pro-choice and pro-feminist musical concert
in Golden Gate Park, or perhaps in Dolores Park.


-- queer feminist progressive,
Sunday, 22 January 2006

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