NYT’s Mara Gay: ‘Sex Is Fun,’ So Abortion ‘Essential’ to Thwarting ‘White Supremacy’

New York TimesMember of the editorial board Mara Gay saw the funny side of the turn of events. Roe v. Wade in her signed editorial Tuesday, “The Republican Crusade Against Sex,” penning an eye roll of a rant evaded the issue. In it, she pretended that those who think abortion is murder are just anti-sex prudes, while ignoring that Europe, including supposedly oh-la-la France, which had tighter restrictions on abortion until the high court’s ruling in the Dobbs case.

That said, it began with a case of TMI — too much information (click “expand”):

In the future, I want to be a mother. However, for the moment I just enjoy having sex. I find sex fun.

For the puritanical tyrants seeking to control our bodies, that’s a problem. This radical minority, including the right-wing faction on the Supreme Court, probably won’t stop at banning abortion. If we take Justice Clarence Thomas at his word — and there’s no reason not to — the right to contraception could be the next to fall. Why? Why? Because so many people in this movement want to punish women who sex freely and on their terms.

J.D. Vance, G.O.P. nominee for Senate in Ohio, who apparently thinks women like me belong at home, not writing opinions in national newspapers: “If your worldview tells you that it’s bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at The New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you’ve been had,” Mr. Vance wrote recently on Twitter.

Gay totally avoided Vance’s point with the irony of anti-corporate liberal feminists embracing the freedom of being just another drone in the business world, while dismissing the potential joys of being the entire world to a child.

My American family taught me that my life was more important than the ability to have children. I had nothing to shame about my sexuality.

After we learn that “the power of the erotic” lies within “each of us as women,” (huh?) Her boast was that she saw “Reproductive rights It is essential that we fight white supremacy, its insidious attempts at controlling the bodies and lives of Black people….”

Black babies are aborted at three times the rate of white babies. Gay views this as a win for African Americans.

She treasured her sophomoric, tacky memories from college. They sounded like raunchy teenage movies.

….Every year the school held a safe-sex fair, handing out condoms and prescriptions for Plan B. The students built a huge replica of the vulva that was tall enough for them to walk through. There is also a bell working at the top, where they would place the clitoris.. This was once a memorable moment for me. Now I am reminded of how I was granted more rights over a decade ago than what I enjoy today.

Was she really trying to say something here? You have the inalienable rights to pass through giant vulvae. She continued:

This has made the country’s women second-class citizens. We were stripped of our autonomy and control over our bodies and denied us essential health care. The people who created it believe that we will feel helpless and paralyzed, thus allowing them the freedom to continue their suppressed vision of America.

For someone so concerned about bodily autonomy for women, Gay was certainly gung-ho in favor of vaccine mandates, spouting in a signed editorial that “Personal decisions carry consequences. With freedom comes responsibility.”

That evidently doesn’t include sexual freedom, which comes with no responsibility at all.

She even called out old boyfriends, who benefited from the lack of sexual responsibility in the sheets, imploring them to take to the streets: “They’re good men, and I’m happy for them. I’d also like to ask:Are you available to join me for the next demonstration? Join us.”