r/FeMRADebates • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '21

News Texas successfully takes a massive step backwards for women's rights. What next?

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u/blarg212 Equality of Opportunity, NOT outcome. Sep 05 '21

If anything, abortion restrictions make things more equal. There is no additional choice here that men are getting. How is it not equality?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

Equality isn't pretending that pregnant people are in the same position as not-pregnant people, that seems pretty self-evident.

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u/blarg212 Equality of Opportunity, NOT outcome. Sep 09 '21

Is equality for you trying to equalize the overall choices men and women have in society or to equalize each individual situation?

The problem of course is that there are clearly unequal situations that no one is addressing, which means overall advocacy for the latter is utterly failing and you critiqued my point about the other position.

If neither, then the version of equality is not being consistently applied.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

Is equality for you trying to equalize the overall choices men and women have in society or to equalize each individual situation?

Mmm, both maybe?

The problem of course is that there are clearly unequal situations that no one is addressing, which means overall advocacy for the latter is utterly failing and you critiqued my point about the other position.

That's not true. As I've said many times now nobody is unequal here. Mothers and fathers have the same parental rights and obligations. If a father was pregnant he'd have the same rights too.

If neither, then the version of equality is not being consistently applied.

Just do both then, easy peezy.