Reply #221: Why? Because people get !!emotional!! about "Babies". Easy. Simplistic.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

In comparison, to the mental stereotypes of Mass Consciousness (even in many women's minds), "Women" are some group of objects, often seen as sexualized commodities, objects acted upon by men, useful as caretakers of baser physical functions like Sex, Babymaking, and Cleaning Toilets--or as Victims. We are represented to ourselves as such in the imagery and language that surrounds us.

But we are not represented as quite human and rarely identified with, rarely conceptualized or imagined as interesting, heroic, compelling, worthy individuals, deserving of life, honor or dignity outside of those roles in Society's mind.