On a Blogroll…

Thanks to Dave Fiore for putting up a link to VI at his blog. Mr. Fiore writes some really fun and intelligent stuff about comics, literature, film, and early American Puritanism (and the connections therein) among other subjects. His Spider-Man blogging in particular has inspired me to try and dig out some of those 80’s reprints of the Lee/Ditko run that I think are stuffed in a box in my parents’ house. (I think the title was called Marvel Tales Starring Spider-Man or something like that…)

Also hereby added to the VI blogroll is Hugo Schwyzer, a “progressive, consistent-life ethic Anabaptist Democrat” (!) and gender-studies professor. Today Prof. Schwyzer puts the smackdown on a whiny group called Choice4Men who apparently object to being “forced” to be fathers when their wives/girlfriends/one-night-hookups/etc. fail to have an abortion:

Every man who ejaculates inside a woman, whether or not contraception is used, is signalling his willingness to become a father. If men are not ready and willing to raise a child conceived through an act of sex, they are morally responsible for refraining from sex. (I’ll let my sisters make a similar case for women. I’m in enough trouble on that side of the fence already). A man who opposes abortion ought to be certain of his partner’s feelings before he engages in sexual intercourse with her, lest she get pregnant and choose to abort the child that he may well wish to care for. A pro-life man whose girlfriend chooses abortion can hardly blame her for her “choice”. Similarly, a man who has no wish to become a father has no right to complain when biology works as nature intended.