Aside from social norms that tend to stereotype
women, society is also putting limits on the woman's choice when it comes to
child birth. People who tend to slut women about birth control are the ones
who would rather see a person suffer from a mistaken conception.
Pregnancy is not to be taken lightly, as it has severe impacts and
changes on a woman's health.
We can see that while it may seem that
reproductive issues should be considered solely by the woman, it is not the
case in our modern society. The
generic discussion on whether abortion is right or wrong has been debated for
years. It must take a deep understanding
of the psychology of the topic to see that banning abortion is but another
vehicle of oppression on women.
According to an online article, Fifty
Years After the Pill: Still a Long Way to Go, the birth control pill was
the first reliable contraceptive that allowed women to have control over their
own reproductive system. The pill
allowed women to express the erotic without having fear of pregnancy. The article states, “This
perspective requires a tremendous leap in social development, which can be
achieved only through sweeping away capitalist rule on a global basis and
replacing it with a rational, democratically planned economy.” This statement advocates that a social
revolution is necessary for a women’s liberation. A social revolution is not an act of
violence, but instead a spread of awareness in which we can allow women to
express their erotic safely and hopefully without the backlash women receive today.
The film, The
Pill, discusses reproductive rights from the point of view of middle class
women. In the film, the women who had
access to birth control were more motivated to achieve educational degrees and
have top level jobs. This exemplifies
the points made above regarding how the birth control pill and its ability to
allow women to express their erotic safely.
As humans, we all have sexual tendencies and if we can have control over
the reproductive system why does society slut shame women who choose to be on
the pill? The shaming of women has led
to violence and rape against women. In
Valenti’s reading The Blame(and Shame)
Game, we get insight on how rape is overlooked by our judicial system and
in turn rape and violence are overlooked as a whole in society. If we can spread the awareness of the staggering
number of rape cases that go by without anyone noticing, we can enforce harsher
rules on these horrific crimes. The
female autonomy is meant to attract the opposite gender(men), but this is no excuse
to force oneself upon a woman unwillingly.
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It seems that women’s equality will not be achieved until society starts
educating the fact that the female autonomy is a conscious, living, and thinking
human body. It is not a mere object of
sexual endeavor but instead contains a human spirit that should be able to
express its creativity and freedom in choice.
The Pill (BBC Presentations). BBC, n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2016.
"Fifty Years After the Pill: Still a Long Way to Go." Fifty Years After the Pill: Still a Long Way to Go. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2016.
Valenti, Jessica. Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters. Emeryville, CA: Seal, 2007. Print.
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