Pick Your Favorite Passage

Earlier, I wrote about Dalton Conley’s newest column dreadful collection of stupefyingly daft apologia, noting that my favorite passage is:

Think of men’s inability to conceive as a disability that needs to be overcome by law where science is not able: nowhere is this brought into sharper focus than in the differences between female and male same sex couples. Someday there may be an artificial womb that will allow (gay) men to have kids by rushing off to the ova bank…

It’s near-perfect in its exemplification of his entire argument, really. For someone who’s whining so loudly about not having an equal say over the fate of a pregnancy, one would assume Conley would be the first in line for such a miraculous contraption as an artificial womb. But no—he’ll stay “disabled.” He doesn’t want control over child-bearing; he just wants control over women, because he’s annoyed that women have more control over something than he does.

LeMew, on the other hand, has another favorite:

Between its ev-pysch wankery and woe-is-men posturing his apologia is so catastrophically bad it's almost impossible to choose, but my favorite line is his argument that a fetus isn't really part of a woman's body: "This gets us back to the notion that a fetus is part of her body -- an argument that was more sustainable, I would say, before the advent of ultrasound and other technologies that let us 'see' into the womb." Indeed. Similarly, the argument that a woman's bones were part of her body was more sustainable before X-Ray technology allowed us to "see" beneath the skin. And for that matter, you can see a woman's nose and breasts without even an ultrasound, so they must really not be part of a woman's body! I think men should be able to go to court and order women to get nose jobs and silicone implants, because while it would be nice if partners could work things out it's tragically unfair that women alone are allowed to make choices about a woman's body, which is really collective property.

It occurred to me, reading LeMew’s piece, that the entirety of Conley’s argument is so terrible, so thoroughly lame-brained, not to mention cataclysmically insulting, that I could write a War and Peace-length response and still not have covered everything wrong with it, but perhaps together, we can make some headway. So how about it, Shakers? Which is your favorite part of Why My "Man’s Right to Choose" Abortion Argument is Made from a Feminist Perspective?