Reply #165: If that were true, small-f feminists like myself would give a rat's ass... [View All]

...about Monica giving head to Bill Clinton. I know an awful lot of small-"f"-ers, and we just yawned for months straight over that story.

However, you're onto something about the blend of theocracy, hypocrisy and sentiment that I think is at the root of the media frenzy surrounding this case.

Personally, I don't think Laci would be dead if she'd ascertained Scott's true feelings about starting a family before flushing her little pink pills. It's fairly obvious from the outcome that Scott was not ideal daddy material, and was not interested in having a baby. I'll bet Laci didn't really care what he thought, though, as long as she got herself a nice plump white baby, just like all her friends have. I also wonder how much she knew about Scott's affairs; we've seen that he's not the brightest criminal ever minted.

I'm a real unsentimental kind of gal, so I'll just speculate that Laci snapped her blinders on tight through the affairs and Scott's passive whining about not being ready to be a father. She wanted to be a SAHMommy like her peers, and nothing was going to stop her, not even reality. I don't believe she deserved to die, but truth be told, I don't really care, and I don't really care that we're down by one extra fetus this year as a result, either. As a feminist, I'm a big believer in women not being intentionally f*cking stupid. And Laci strikes me as someone who spent at least the final eight months of her life, if not longer, playing dumb so she could get her Barbie Dream Family for Christmas.

Laci's death also would have been utterly ignored by the news if she had not been pregnant, or if she had not been an attractive young woman. If Laci had been a toothless, barren, leathery, chain-smoking trailer slag, this whole story would barely have survived two nights on the local news.