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Re: Re: Rochester's Anti-Racist Movement Visits WHAM

"How is it erroneous to claim that everyone in society is better off when unmarried teenagers are not having intercourse and getting pregnant?"

I'm going to try to unpack this a little bit. It sounds like you're saying you think having sex means someone is going to get pregnant. If I'm wrong, please tell me. Of course, having sex gives a chance of getting pregnant, but wearing condoms, and using hormonal birth control make it much less likely. Yes, these girls would not be getting pregnant if they were not having sex, but lots of people have sex without getting pregnant. So, the problem isn't unmarried teenagers having intercourse. On top of that, there is an assumption that all of these women chose to have sex, which is factually incorrect.

I don't think you're going to find anybody arguing that during high school is not the most choice time to get pregnant. However, to shame women who are getting pregnant, (I didn't hear him say one word about the men behind the pregnancy, mind you), by telling them to keep their legs closed, and continuing with far worse statements, is not the same as saying "It would be better for people if they did not get pregnant in high school." I think if he made that statement, there wouldn't be a call for his firing.

"I didn't know that it was classist to believe that young girls should be able to become adults without being used and impreganated by an older man who has no intention of fulfilling his responsibility to care for his own children."

I really think you're being fooled by Lonsberry if that's what you're hearing from him. He never mentioned men's responsibility. He doesn't care about holding men accountable, he cares about shaming women. And let me tell you, from what I understand, there is at least one case of a woman who was raped, decided to keep the child, and continued high school through it all. And he is putting her down for not keeping her legs closed. He doesn't know these girls! He doesn't know their stories! He is making assumptions and talking about things he has no knowledge of.

Finally, people keep mentioning freedom of speech. He has a right to say whatever he wants, true. He doesn't have a 'right' to be on the radio. That's a choice a company is making: they're choosing to hire him, and they can choose to fire him. Please don't confuse this as someone saying he doesn't have the right to speak his mind. We're just exercising our right to speak our minds, and moreso, to make it so people's racist, classist, and sexist assumptions are not validated over the airwaves. And we will continue to work until it happens.
 
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