Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

THE REVIEWER OBVIOUSLY DOESN’T HAVE ANY CLUE WHAT A COUNTRY WITH NO LEGAL ABORTION IS LIKE:  I do. I grew up in one. And while it was a dystopia in some ways, it wasn’t because of that.  What abortion being illegal achieved, is that only the truly desperate would pay nurses/doctors to do it, and that doctors were very, very careful to make sure it didn’t go wrong, and they weren’t caught.  You could say it made it safe and rare. Yes, of course there were problems, but there are problems (many) with the current system too.  However apparently some people swallowed whole the coat hanger canards and can’t imagine anything worse than a world without Kermit Gosnells and baby parts a-go-go.  So this nonsense feels eerily real to people who couldn’t find “real” with two hands and a seeing eye dog.  ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real.

KIM DU TOIT IS HAVING:  Fun With Art.

AT WAR WITH REALITY: NHS to Offer Biological Men Cervical Cancer Smear to Avoid ‘Triggering Gender Dysphoria’.  Last time I went to a new Primary Care Facility and filled their questionnaire I had to answer their question on whether I did a regular testicular exam before they’d see me.  They said they don’t discriminate and some women have testicles. (No, I won’t be seeing them again. Medical care is a bad place to indulge in fantasy.)

OUR EARS, OUR SENSE AND OUR TRUST IN PROCESS:  Cory Booker hurts.