https://mobile.twitter.com/antipersonhood/status/1542924114909958145
I wanna publish zines and rage against machines
:I-was-saying:
The first 20 pages is literally trolly problem memes and twitter screenshots.
I flipped through a few pages and near the beginning it says only truly open minded people will read it all the way to the end. It's at least a 100 pages long.
https://mobile.twitter.com/antipersonhood/status/1542924114909958145
I copied it, but forgot to paste lol. They locked replies, but there's a ton of QTs.
So I love terrible zines, and I read this entire thing. I might write a longer review later, but I’ll summarize the argument as having three strands woven together mostly incoherently.
1 The author brings the full weight of philosophy 101 and out of context Latin to argue there such a thing as inherent human life/worth and a that zygote (not fetus, zygote) fulfills these qualification. Like all debate nerds, this person just assumes that everyone will agree with their poorly constructed syllogisms and declares her argument as objectively correct before moving on.
2 She points out abortion has historic ties to eugenicist movements, and therefore, it is anti black or ablest to support abortion rights. This conversation is better tackled by the reproductive justice movement which advocates for creating conditions where reproduction is truly a choice. In this zine, the author borderline conflates free abortion with forced sterilization.
3 A lot of magical wombmanhood thinking in which the author assumes that, because it’s natural, all women, would be happy and fulfilled by having a child in any circumstance as long as there is paid maternal leave and free childcare. This includes victims of rape and incest.
The author argues that capitalism wants women to get abortions, so they can continue working, which is true for a person’s immediate employer, but she forgets other forces which want to increase the number of “domestic infants” something Barrett even brought up in her concurrence. The writer is very tied to the idea that abortion is capitalism forcing women to never fulfill their dreams of motherhood and that women can’t give informed consent to abortion because they don’t fully understand their options. I think she’d be surprised to learn that the average abortion patient already has children and might be making that choice because they love their children and want to control how their family operates. She is also anti adoption, so it’s very much about believing in magical motherhood.
In essence, a lot of this feels like bizzaro world terfism where a gay femme for whom potentially procreative sex is most likely hypothetical wants to use woke buzzwords divorced from their material context to deny other people’s bodily autonomy.
I also feel like she might be into some weird pregnancy porn (not that there’s anything wrong with that). I just get that vibe.
She sees it as a like a crime against the cosmic need for women to be with their children. The only adoption she accepts is people adopting ivf zygotes for fertilization or whatever.
Yeah surely children being under thr care of the state is better than adoption jfc
this is an example of... something. maybe we have a term for it?
its like ultra-cope. the right wins a victory and some twisted fucks come round to torture the circumstances and terms into something resembling a "leftist" success.
other examples are cheering "free speech" being protected for fascists 'because that gives us voices too'. its denying solidarity to unions affiliated with a different party. quite possibly the most harmful tendency to cultivate in a left space, only the right won on roe and there is no amount of dressed up feminist lingo that can change that
also the author is just, not a leftist in any way lol
this is an example of… something. maybe we have a term for it?
New tagline
this is an example of… something
don't quote me on this, but i think it's just recuperation
its like this close but i'm not cynical enough to think ultras are purposely trying to? i think of recuperation as knowing co-opting from capital---and i feel like at least some leftist wackjobs are organic
literal baby brain shit, weird emphasis on "for profit", yeah i'm sure those abortion moguls are rolling in it, we sure owned these people that certainly exist by making abortion an even rarer and pricier commodity
the only thing "leftist" about this meme scrapbook is that they refrained from picturing the doctors that carry out abortions as jewish
anyway, the account was made june 2022, what an obvious op, etc, etc
Giving all the political power to people who want you in concentration camps.
what the hell is this lol, i refuse to look further but it seems that these are like 5 to 10 people all retweeting each other
This person could probably lay out their argument in like 10 pages instead of this, which is 114 pages of poorly organized memes, quotes, and instagram screencaps.
Zines are the modern day equivalent of Trotskyist newspapers. Hawking your stupid periodical achieves nothing
As I said in the other thread. It's pretty sus to be handing out 117 page full color zines.
I've known a lot of zine makers in my day and even the ones who did collections to defray the cost printed tiny-ass folds in black and white only using a few sheets per copy. That shit is expensive.
Also I know it's meant to be in color because some of those pages would be almost illegible in b/w.
