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U.S. Culture is so Deeply Patriarchal, We Can't Even Admit Overturning Roe is About Women

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Take out your tone words list while I pass out the article.

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Multiple Choice

Looking at the title and making our best guess, the author of this article is going to be

• asserting

• exploring

• arguing

• informing

What is "patriarchal?"

Patriarchy is a system of relationships, beliefs, and values embedded in political, social, and economic systems that structure gender inequality between men and women. Attributes seen as “feminine” or pertaining to women are undervalued, while attributes regarded as “masculine” or pertaining to men are privileged.​

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Paragraph One

​Diction

Let's look at the writer's diction to see if we can understand her attitude, in this paragraph, toward Joe Biden.

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Multiple Choice

With words and phrases like, "sleight of hand," "requisite solemnity," the author feels that President Joe Biden was

• very angry about the decision

• only pretending to be upset

• happy and not hiding it

Paragraphs 2 and 3

What is the purpose of these two paragraphs?

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What is the point of paragraph 2?

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What is the point of paragraph 3?​ Obergfell was the gay marriage act.

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Multiple Choice

The purpose of paragraphs 2 and 3 could be

• to list other decisions the Supreme Court could make

• to highlight other bad decisions made by the Supreme Court

• to show that many people's first reaction was to worry about other decisions being overturned

​Take out those tone words...

"But here’s the thing: Overturning Roe is actually about misogyny. Period, full stop.​"

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Open Ended

What is a good tone word for these two sentences?

How does this now look different from the other articles we read about Roe v. Wade?

Thesis????

​As of now, this seems to be her main idea:

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"And the fact that so many of us cannot talk about that, even people with supposedly progressive values, says a lot about how deep patriarchy runs in the veins of all red-blooded Americans.​"

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She is going to soften her tone a little bit now...

​She is acknowledging that the two other decisions people were worried about involved people of color and the LGBTQ+ community.

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​Don’t get me wrong—the people who will suffer the most are poor women and women of color. As Sung Yeon Choimorrow, Marcella Howell and Lupe M. Rodríguez wrote here in Ms., “People of color make up 60 percent of abortion recipients.” Also, I do understand that not just women get pregnant and that the gender-queer and trans community will suffer greatly from the overturning of Roe.

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Multiple Choice

Does anyone know what this is called? How she is acknowledging that her side is not the only side of the argument?

• concession

• refutation

• logos

• pathos

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​But let’s just focus on the fact that the multi-decade movement to overturn Roe is about hating women. In patriarchal cultures, the state controls pregnant people as a way of signaling to them that they are not in charge of their bodies. The point of overturning Roe and restricting access to abortion is to push women out of full citizenship. The state decides who is a citizen on the basis of race and nation of origin, but also on on the basis of gender and sexuality. This is what is known as sexual citizenship.

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Open Ended

In a few words, what is the main idea of that paragraph?

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How many of you agree with what she is saying about sexual citizenship?

• Yes

• No

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​For most of the history of nation states, women were not granted full sexual citizenship.

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Give me some examples of this....​

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​The way the state denies sexual citizenship to trans people is by denying trans people the right to access hormones or gender-affirming surgeries or to play sports or to change their state-issued documents.

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And...

​The way gay and lesbian people were long denied sexual citizenship was by not being able to serve in the military or be legally married.

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Multiple Choice

By making a list of these things, she is

• proving that America is a bad country

• proving that America has a history of denying rights to groups of people

• proving that the Supreme Court can vote for bad things

• proving that women have been denied rights before

It was odd to me that she forgot some key groups excluded in history

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Conclusion to her list

​The way the state denies women full sexual citizenship is by telling them they have no control over whether or not they give birth.

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Poll

Is this a logical conclusion based on the evidence she has provided?

• Yes

• No

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​And so, when as a culture we move on from the deeply misogynist impulse to force women to bear children against their will to other presumably more important rights, we reinforce the patriarchy. We refuse to witness the horror of it or by acting as if this particular form of state violence isn’t enough, but could really have terrible consequences for other, more important groups of people than women as a group.

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Open Ended

What are at least 4 key words for diction in this paragraph?

What is a good word for diction in this paragraph?

​So, did the tone change from the previous two paragraphs to this one? Why might she have "dialed it back" a bit?

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Final paragraph

​Let’s just sit with the fact that in the U.S. women are not full sexual citizens and therefore not fully human—even as we complicate it with which women will be the most likely to suffer the consequences of this Supreme Court explosion of misogyny and the fact that not all people who need abortions are women. Let’s not forget the patriarchal impulse at the heart of this decision to ask, “What’s next? Gay marriage?”

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Multiple Choice

Based on this paragraph, the author believes that the most important thing to know about the overturning about Roe v. Wade is

• that gay marriage could be next

• that women are not fully human

• that it can be complicated by which women will suffer the most

• that the people who need abortions are women

Multiple Choice

The author's purpose in this article was to

• show

• inform

• convince

• suggest