will anything ever be as iconic and savage as when sally jackson, percy jackson’s mother, used the decapitated head of the medusa to turn her abusive husband to stone, and then sold him as a statue to an art gallery to critical acclaim and used the resulting funds to pay to attend college and start her dream life as a writer
like the whole question of women who protest abortion is a difficult paradox, right, because there really aren’t a whole lot of other instances of oppressed people rigorously advocating for their own oppression. but all available evidence tells us that large numbers of pro-life women do, in fact, access abortion care, and that they’re shamed and stigmatized for choosing to do so, and we also know that pro-life women who desperately need abortion care are routinely denied it or pressured to carry unwanted pregnancies to term. the women advocating against our position are the same women we’re advocating for. i can’t claim to know the best methods of effective outreach to these women but i do know that kicking them in the face ain’t it.
this seems obvious, like not even worth saying, but jsyk the full brokeback mountain short story is available for free at the new yorker and it really is worth (re)reading even apart from the movie, the prose is beautiful and there’s some backstory
