I noticed this video from the Center for Reproductive Rights on YouTube today, after seeing it posted by a few different people on Facebook and Google+:
What were they thinking?
There are so many things wrong with this video, it's hard to pick just a few to comment on:
- A black man. Seriously? Do they realize that abortions are performed disproportionately on the black population, and that those who dismiss this statistic's negative interpretation as evangelical fanaticism say it's a good thing because it helps black people in their struggle to overcome poverty and poor health care?
- A black man. Okay, so the video's already able to be construed as having some sort of racial overtones. As if that's bad enough, a man celebrating a "women's right to abortion" is about the most sexist and anti-feminine thing I can think of. The man is rightly happy (and strangely turned on—can you say creeper?) in the video because of the fact that he can have sex without consequences, with any woman he chooses, consequences-be-darned, because he knows women feel the pressure to use birth control—and when that fails, have abortions.
- A black man drinking. Is the man drinking because he knows there are higher risks of substance abuse for women who have abortions? Is he drinking as an in your face to the heroic women who choose to carry a baby to term, but sacrificially forego drinking and modify their diets to help their babies remain healthy?
It's like the Center for Reproductive Rights is run by sexist, racist white men! Again: what were they thinking? I'd be surprised if the video is not pulled offline at some point. It's already at 2.5k dislikes (with just 114 likes), and all the top comments are negative.