Ms Fifikins

I have been on a bit of a bent lately about social justice. Poor MIML™ has been copping it left, right and centre!

Lots of things have been angering me- a woman standing trial over an abortion, ongoing racism in South Africa (from both blacks and whites), footy club members being denied tickets to Grand Finals over corporate sponsors… Well maybe the last one isn’t that important in the scheme of things, but still…

But the thing that has been angering me the most is how people are getting away with what I term IQism, or perceived intellectual superiority. People think nothing of leaving facebook comments (for instance!) saying ‘dumb people shouldn’t be allowed to breed’ or ‘dumb people piss me off.’ But replace the dumb with black or white or Christian or Muslim or Athiest…

There has been some research on intelligence and genetics. Not every child will have the intelligence level of their parents. I know! Hard to believe, isn’t it! And it goes both ways.

Some people do make dumb decisions. And they need to have these decisions pointed out to them. But they don’t need to be ridiculed. They don’t need their children to be tarred with the same brush. They don’t need to be told they should be sterilised.

Interesting isn’t it that a woman can be charged with aborting an unwanted embryo or foetus because she made a decision that she was not ready to become a parent and is now facing trial, yet if she had not made that decision and brought an unwanted child into the world and not coped as a parent she would have been told she shouldn’t have bred.