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The Only 3 Ways That Real Men Should Talk About Abortion
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Georgia and Ohio both just passed some pretty Draconian abortion laws—the kind which could essentially criminalize the passive fact of having a uterus with an “imperfect” cycle, at least according to the standards set forth by a bunch of dudes.
Wait—hold on—I’M a dude.
A cisgender dude, if we’re being technical—a syntactical usage that will very much satisfy some people for its factual accuracy, and very much piss-off some other folks for its, erm, acquiescence?
But here’s the thing: that distinction does matter. Because I don’t have ovaries or a uterus. There are plenty of other men in this country who—like me!—do not have uteruses. Nor do they know anything about uteruses. Or vaginas, quite frankly, or labia, or Fallopian tubes, or well, pretty much anything else relating to the typically-female-genitalia region. When it comes to those parts, sex education in America is an abysmal joke. (If this hasn’t dawned on you yet, then I’m sorry to break the news, but it’s true. If you had any sense of humility — if you listened to women and people with uteruses — you would also be appalled at just how little you know about them.)
