Here is a Hot One. Via the American Spectator, because they have a Keen Journalistic Eye.
Finally, over the weekend, Obama acolyte and 2008 campaign surrogate, "comedienne" Sarah Silverman posted online purported -- and later debunked -- pre- and post-abortion photos of herself. "Got a quickie aborsh in case R v W gets overturned," she wrote.
Silverman famously launched the "Great Schlep" in 2008 to encourage grandchildren and great grandchildren to persuade their elders to vote for Obama. The Obama campaign embraced the comedienne. In fact, First Lady Michelle Obama recently touted Silverman [sic] efforts on fundraising stops to garner support from voters 65 and over.
Golly!
The "purported -- and later debunked" is very wonderful.
Comedienne Sarah Silverman joined America's current War on Women yesterday after she tweeted a hoax before-and-after abortion photo.
Reigniting the women's rights movement via Twitter, the 41-year-old wrote: 'Got a quickie aborsh in case R v W gets overturned.'
The controversial comment captioned two photos of Miss Silverman made to look like she was pregnant before getting an abortion - and quickly divided opinion.
The Daily Mail piece, remarkably, is not utterly shit-for-brained. But the Key Point is that what SIlverman did was not a hoax. It was what is often in the jargon referred to as a joke.
The pictures are pre- and post- eating a burrito.
From a certain perspective, the one which is not loony, it's hard to see exactly why the Spectator would be so dead certain that they have Silverman and Obama dead cold to rights here. It's a joke!
But then, you reflect, and you realize that you can tell an awful lot about our contemporary debate about abortion in our very advanced nation that you're not supposed to joke about it. Even more so, then, well... almost anything.
"Got an aborsh" makes it seems like terminating a pregnancy is something a woman might legally choose to do and not have it totally shatter her... which makes it funny because it's true.
Go read the comments sections to any of the above links. Then let's discuss why no female character in movie decades has been allowed to terminate a pregnancy. You can't say that.
There is a powerful censorship effect regarding what can be "officially" or "politely" said about abortion, and good on Sarah Silverman for calling it out.
(There are other powerful censorship effects out there; you're not supposed to point out that The Troops in this brave new century never were fighting to Protect Our Freedom, for instance. Or that the Founders were assholes for, among other things, perpetrating the Senate.)
MAS. Oh, and there is also the thing about how Women Especially Mature Women Ought Not to Have Fun. Piss on that.