Genie, Bottle, Stuffing Back Into, Impossibility of

1. What your "social conservatives" want. Southern Beale nails it:

   This is the difference between the phony “pro-lifers” of the Republican Party and the pro-choice side. The phony “pro-lifers” — the people we call “forced birthers” — are trying to roll back the clock to that time pre-Gloria Steinem when men could still decide these issues for women, when modern medical advances hadn’t wrested that control from their hands. When women’s sexuality was still something to be afraid of. They’re fighting stuff that’s already been decided by the culture and trying to pretend that the solutions modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry have created don’t exist. This strikes me not just as delusional but pathological.

   Have I been clear on not trusting, believing, or voting for libertarians?
2. It's a victory, but we'll still have to fight:

   That's what this fight was about. By pressuring Komen, anti-choicers were basically trying to make "women are people" the pariah position, and trying to make anyone who holds the "women are people" position without apology seem like they were out of the mainstream. Having people scrambling to disassociate themselves from you is a really great way to discredit you and your ideas, and that's why so many people with what I consider poor morals really love a witchhunt. So the fight was over who basically owns the mainstream: anti-feminists or feminists, people who think of women as expensive sex toys/gestation machines or people who think of women as people? That's why everyone was so upset. And that's why the feminist win was so meaningful.

   Pandagon. Incidentally, apparently the Komen foundation has done other skeevy things (one example). Culturally, we are slowly evolving out of the anti-feminist mindset. Hey, maybe that's why they're afraid of evolution! :-)