Have you seen this household object before?

I just discovered it at this Russian-speaking blog and I’m completely shocked.

Imagine: there were actually people who used it. Can you guess what its purpose was? (But don’t read the answers at the linked site because that’s no fun.)

I wish people who understand nothing about feminism didn’t try to educate others about it. See the following glaring example:

Support women’s bodily autonomy. On a political level, of course, one should fight pro-life initiatives, attempts to de-fund Planned Parenthood, forced sterilization efforts, etc. On a personal level, of course, it’s almost more important. If your partner gets pregnant, it’s up to her whether to have an abortion, give the child up for adoption, or raise the kid. Her body, her rules.

An abortion, of course. But adoption and raising a child? None of these things occur within a woman’s body. Treating a child as if it were a woman’s property or her toy that she can either choose to play with or hand over to somebody else is not in the best interests of any child. While a man has absolutely no business having any influence on anything that happens inside a woman’s body (unless that man is the woman’s physician), he sure as hell is entitled to participate in deciding what happens to his child once that child is born.

I see this incapacity to distinguish between a body part and an actual child often enough. The blogger I quoted fails to notice that this is precisely the attitude that fuels the angriest anti-abortion rants. This is also the kind of worldview that informs most instances of child abuse.