The Life Zone: If Saw and Human Centipede had a baby
The glow of pregnancy
Three young women wake up, confused and terrified, in a room that looks like a cross between a normal hospital room and the creepy underground lair of some mad scientist from a horror movie. A video screen flickers on and a creepy older man, looking a bit like Academy-award-nominee Robert Loggia, appears on it, telling the women that he’s their “jailer.” The women, you see, had all been getting abortions when their jailer’s shadowy accomplices kidnapped them and brought them to this strange prison, where they will be forced to live for the next seven months until they gave birth. “You were all on the operating table, all ready to commit murder,” announces a mysterious doctor. “Your babies will be given life just as God planned.”
This is the premise of a new horror film called The Life Zone, which recently had its world premiere at the prestigious, er, Hoboken International Film Festival, a festival that was, perhaps not coincidentally, founded and chaired by the film’s writer and producer, Kenneth del Vecchio. In case you think I’m making all this up, here’s the film’s trailer, which makes The Life Zone look a bit like an equal-parts mixture of Saw, Human Centipede, and The Handmaid’s Tale, with Robert Loggia in the role of Jigsaw/Dr. Heiter/The Commander:
Now, if you thought that something seemed really … off about that trailer, well, you’re not alone. For the film is not, as you might have assumed from my description, a warning against the fanatical misogyny of many in the anti-abortion movement.
No, the film – produced by a pro-life former judge, crime thriller author, and Republican New Jersey state senate candidate – is meant as pro-life propaganda. As the offical press release for the film’s premiere put it:
The film, which appears to cut right down the middle [of the abortion debate], examining the topic from both sides, offers a powerful, anti-abortion climactic twist. Del Vecchio and the cast invite pro-lifers to come to this historic event.
During the months the three women are held in captivity, you see, they are exposed to a barrage of films and books intended to, er, educate them about abortion –what their attending obstetrician Dr. Wise describes as “an abortion think tank.” Two of the captive women do indeed convert to the pro-life side; apparently we in the audience are supposed to develop Stockholm Syndrome along with them. The third, as we see in the trailer, tries to induce a miscarriage, which doesn’t go quite as planned.
And this sets us up for the final twist, which I’m just going to go ahead and reveal: once all three women have given birth, Dr. Wise tells them she’s going to sew them all, mouth-to-vagina, into a Human Abortion-pede!
Actually no: the twist is that the “life zone” the three women in has actually been … purgatory! All three “captives,” you see, had died on the operating table while getting their abortions. (Apparently they went to the world’s worst abortion clinic, as first-trimester abortions don’t involve anything more surgically invasive than the insertion of a suction tube; the risk of death from a legal surgical abortion is 0.0006%, one in 160,000 cases, making the procedure many times safer than childbirth itself.) Their time in the “life zone” was a test: the two women who changed their minds were whisked up to heaven, while their miscarriage-attempting, stubbornly pro-choice companion is sent straight to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks. Dr. Wise, despite being on the right side of the abortion question, also goes to hell for committing suicide. And, oh yeah, their jailer – Loggia – was Satan. Why Satan and a hell-bound doctor were the ones trying to convert the abortion ladies to the pro-life side I can’t tell you; del Vecchio’s theology is evidently more sophisticated than I am.
The real twist here? As Jersey Journal writer Alan Robb notes:
The Life Zone went viral across the internet [last] Friday after blogs The Frisky and Talking Points Memo picked up on the film’s trailer. … But despite garnering more than 20,000 hits on YouTube in the last four days, only fifty people – including the film’s cast and producers – attended this weekend’s screening, and even those who starred in the movie didn’t know how to interpret its twist ending.
It’s impossible to tell from the trailer if the film is bad in a so-bad-it’s-good way, or if it’s just plain awful. I will try to get hold of it when it hits video, and will report back with my results.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for a good horror film set in a creepy hospital, try renting Infection, a Japanese film from 2005. Or, if you’ve got a longer attention span, try Lars Von Trier’s supernatural soap opera The Kingdom, a darkly comic miniseries which takes place in what one might call, paraphrasing Bill Murray’s character in Tootsie, “one nutty hospital.” Both are conveniently available on Netflix instant watch, so you don’t even have to leave your pregnancy dungeon to see them.
EDITED: Added some info on the minimal dangers of abortion procedures.
Posted on June 8, 2011, in creepy, evil women, misogyny, patriarchy, reactionary bullshit, vaginas. Bookmark the permalink. 1,066 Comments.
Also, I think the movie could serve quite well as Saw #[whatever they're up to, eight maybe?]
“Hello Jennifer. I want to play a game. Inside your body, there is a living organism. Living… and growing. Eventually it will grow too big for your body, and force its way out through a very… heh, heh, personal area. You cannot leave this room. You cannot stop it. How much blood will you shed to stay alive?”
LifeZone 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO!
The twist should have been that she was actually God or something xD
Last debunk of the night. All of you murderous swine seem to need this one, as you lamely tried to dismiss my questions. Your answers centered around you wouldn’t be dead because you never existed.
Well if they never “existed” than why was there an abortion? How can you abort something that never existed? Why even get an abortion at all for something that doesn’t exist?
or the baby is Luke Skywalker!
…wait, that was almost the actual plot of that third prequel, wasn’t it?
Well if they never “existed” than why was there an abortion? How can you abort something that never existed? Why even get an abortion at all for something that doesn’t exist?
I am writhing in the grasp of his crushing logic.
I’m also writhing from the inability to take a dump, since poop is not a sentient being, it does not exist, and thus I CANNOT POOP!
debunk that you murderous swine
NWO:
Because you are a complete imbecile, sorry for the offense to imbeciles, and you think that abortion=killing a person. An abortion is not killing a person, and abortion is a procedure that removes fetal tissue from the uterus to prevent pregnancy, or summat. A FETUS IS NOT A PERSON. So a person doesn’t need to exist for an abortion to take place.
Why even get an abortion at all for something that doesn’t exist?
Fetuses exist. They have a presence in space-time and a measurable mass.
They do not, however, exist as people.
Easy way to fix this
NWO what do you think ppl meant when they said “I never would have existed?” Be specific… cuz I think we’re using the same word for 2 different meanings xD
Somehow I suspect he doesn’t want to do the easy way to fix this xD
Amnesia – I suspect (having not seen the movie) that Dr. Wise had nothing to do with those three particular abortions, but committed suicide over a different abortion.
Well if they never “existed” than why was there an abortion? How can you abort something that never existed? Why even get an abortion at all for something that doesn’t exist?
Slaver is a moron. I could swear the difference between a child and a fetus has been pointed out several times. The idea of consciousness is probably a bit too complex though.
Sometimes I think Slaver doesn’t exist either, he’s just a Turing experiment that got loose. It mimics the form of an argument, but still can’t handle the content.
NWO – a zygote, or a fetus would have existed. I do not identify with that fetus as ME.
An early precursor to me, sure. But not me. Not a person.
@zombie rotten mcdonald crap…. you just reminded me *goes off to check on program she wrote 10 years ago to run on it’s own*
oh…
my…
god…
WHO PLUGGED THAT MODEM CABLE IN!?
-_-
Guys, I’m so sorry… this is my fault
First of all, let me answer your questions NWO:
No, if I were successfully aborted I wouldn’t be posting here. I would never have existed.
No, if I were successfully aborted I wouldn’t be dead. I would never have existed.
You may not be more than cells and a few electrical impulses but I am. I am a sentient being with a physical body. I have a brain. There’s little wonder that you are unable to tell the difference.
So, in the event of an unplanned pregnancy shared custody should be strictly enforced and, in your view, this will eliminate the need for child support rulings or assistance from the state. Is this your position? What if the father is in prison? What if the mother is in prison? Are the grandparents then, automatically on the hook for enforced custody? What if they can’t afford it? Does enforced custody then pass to aunts and uncles? First and second cousins?
How will shared custody be enforced if one of the biological parents is physically, mentally, or financially incapable of sharing custody?
As far as the state helping support children who live at or below the poverty line, you do know that some of those children do have married parents who do not, as a couple, have the funds to support all their needs. Are you suggesting that the state should not help with the medical care of children whose parents cannot afford it?
Really?
Are you suggesting that a child born to parents who are impovershed should die of cancer if their parents cannot afford it?
1) If a sentient child dies as a result of inadequate medical care are they really dead?
2)Would they be posting here?
+ Eleventybillion Internets to Ami!!!
Dr. Wise experiences flashbacks to the dissolution of her marriage which fell apart when she learned she couldn’t bear children. Her parents cursed her for not taking better care of her body, a poor diet, too much work, while her husband – The Karate Kid’s bad sensei Martin Kove – divorces her, leaving her for a woman capable of having his children, a moment that pushes Dr. Wise to desperate measures.
So yeah. Never even mind abortion–she had to die because of the sin of being infertile.
You fool, Ami! What have you done? Now you know what happens when you try to play cybernetic God! Now we’ll have to send you to hell, where you’ll be forced to type code into a little box and have it delete itself upon running for the rest of eternity!
If my parents had never met, I would cease to exist also. That doesn’t make their egg and sperm “my existence” or the egg “half my existence” and the sperm “the other half my existence” or the act that led to things that led to my conception “the early part of my existence” either >_>;;
Tho maybe it should! :D
Ami Angelwings: she exists in everything, everybody and everywhere and everywhen! >:3
Okay, I’m back. I think that a man who does not want to be a part of his child’s life, then, if he makes it clear at the beginning of pregnancy, should not be denigrated for being a “deadbeat dad”. He should still pay child support in regards to what he personally can afford, however, he is not to be attacked morally for his lack of emotional support. It’s his life.
The problem with this is that a “paper abortion” does not actually prevent a child from coming into the world. What it does is bring a child into the world without the full support that child needs to survive and thrive. It’s a bad idea, full stop.
I love it when people bring up the old saw, “Gosh wouldn’t you hate it if your mom aborted you?!?” Obviously not because I wouldn’t exist. But in my case, it’s a bit more interesting than that. See, I actually owe my life to an abortion. My father, when he was 18, got his 17-year-old then girlfriend pregnant. She had an abortion. If she hadn’t, I know my dad, and I know he would not have left his hometown to go to the college, which is where he met my mother. If abortion hadn’t been legal at the time, I probably wouldn’t exist and neither would my brother and sister. What now, huh? Huh?
WRT imprisoning women who get abortions – in 2008, 1.2 million women got abortions.The total number of inmates in the USA is about 2.4 million. If we started locking up women who get abortions, even assuming we only catch a fraction of them, it would only take a few years to double the prison population. And America already has the highest rate of incarcerated citizens IN THE WORLD. Yes, we beat out Russia some years ago.
NWOaf’s comments merely reinforce my previous conclusion about Christians, conservatives, and anti-choicers: the basis of their ideology is a failure to think things all the way through. Those that DO think things through inevitably reveal the depth of their utter hatred for women, or gays, or people of color, or whatever the Other du jour is.
Dr. Wise experiences flashbacks to the dissolution of her marriage which fell apart when she learned she couldn’t bear children. Her parents cursed her for not taking better care of her body, a poor diet, too much work, while her husband – The Karate Kid’s bad sensei Martin Kove – divorces her, leaving her for a woman capable of having his children, a moment that pushes Dr. Wise to desperate measures.
Dude obviously does not know anything about women’s reproductive system. They very rarely shut down because of a poor diet and too much work, unless she’s on the verge of starvation already.
And in a world where adoption is a possibility, along with surrogacy and IVF (which, as a women’s doctor, she certainly would have been aware of), she decides to kill herself?
So not only should women be forced to carry to term every time they get impregnated, they also shouldn’t be ambitious or even want a career more stressful than, oh, I don’t know, second assistant caterer. Because then they’ll be infertile and will get divorced and, without a husband or baby, will have nothing left in their lives and no recourse except suicide. Only suicide is a sin! So keep those expectations low, ladies, and never forget your role as Sperm Incubator!
sarahejones, I’m pretty sure Slavey was replying to me, not you. His replies make sense to my stuff. But, Slavey? Don’t call me sweetheart either.
If I had been aborted I would never have existed in the first place. Duh.
And the movie should be named Revenge of the Sluts. And should actually be about promiscuity women taking their revenge on the rest of society by having lots of happy, unapologetic, kinky, consensual sex.
MRAL – I agree with you, then. A guy who pays up may not be the ideal dad, but he’s not a deadbeat either, and since we can hardly force emotional involvement, that should be a reasonable option.
OH MY GOD THIS THREAD IS MOVING WAY TO FAST I’M JUST GOING TO ABORT SOME BABIES OVER HERE BY MYSELF BECAUSE I’M NEVER GOING TO CATCH UP
he is not to be attacked morally for his lack of emotional support.
Are we at least allowed to think he’s kind of a dipshit? I mean, in the privacy of our own heads? I think the Lyndon LaRouche folks are also kind of dipshits, too.
NWO are you really unable to tell the difference between a zygote and/or fetus and a living, breathing, learning child? Really? I know other posters have corrected you on your belief that newborns don’t have intelligence. Newborns are actually learning at an incredible rate.
But seriously, are you this fucking stupid?
Well I guess that explains why you believe that abortion is murder but, hey, a kid born to parents to poor to pay for chemotherapy should just go fuck its self, right? No Medicaid with your tax dollars!
You don’t have kids do you? I bet you two fat men that you’ve never been married and you don’t have any children and it chaps your ass.
You’re allowed to think what you want (again, this is not a feminist fascist Hitler thought police state), but if you do I also think you’re kind of a dipshit.
@MRAL – yes, I agree that a father (or a mother) shouldn’t be ostracized for not taking care of their child, if they are contributing what they can (same for the reverse.) That is a cultural narrative we could do without.
MRAL, when you say he shouldn’t be attacked morally, what do you mean? Are we stoning fathers who don’t emotionally support their children, somewhere?
Once more NWOslave, a pregnancy can be aborted not a fetus, and certainly not a person. The pregnancy existed and that is what is aborted in an abortion. I am unsure of how to make that any clearer should you still fail to comprehend it.
The culture is stock full of hatred for dads who skip out on their “child rearing responsibilities”. Fuck that. The child is not entitled to two parents. I did fine with just my mom.
I’m kind of getting a kick out of imagining myself at the head of a vast army of goose-stepping fascist feminists.
See, MRAL, when you run with MRAs, NWOaf is the kind of person you run with. Fascist totalitarian who wants to double the prison population of the most incarceration-happy country in the world. He’s also into torture. Is that the sort of ally you’re really looking for?
and look how well you turned out…
“What it does is bring a child into the world without the full support that child needs to survive and thrive. It’s a bad idea, full stop.”
But who’s to say that father is actually going to contribute, or if he’s going to be a deadbeat? There’s no guarantee that child will receive the necessary financial support (if that’s how we’re defining it). And I’d argue that a reluctant father is likely to contribute toward a child’s support. Again, I would solve this with state funding–let’s redirect some away from our ridiculously exorbitant military budget!-but that’s just me.
MRAL there are few if any consequences for men who support their children financially but withhold emotional support and do not actively parent. Don’t worry your head. A few errant tongue clucks and the uncharitable thoughts of their child’s mother aren’t really hardships.
I mean, you know all about hardships right?
clarification – in the situation where this is decided early in the pregnancy…although really, I think that not having one of your parents around is probably better then a bad parent? will have to think about this more.
I never got to go to DisneyWorld, therefore nobody should. Shut it down!
Now you just sound like a kid throwing a tantrum. Obviously your mom did okay, but imagine if you’d also had a supportive dad! Perhaps you’d be a tad less miserable.
Edit: I meant less likely in my last post.
To be honest, as someone who had one good parent and one horrible one, I’m with MRAL–if someone doesn’t want to be involved, sometimes staying away is the best thing they can do for the kid. It’s not the best thing, but honestly, if they’re still giving financial support and not doing anything to screw with the kid and custodial parent, sometimes it’s not the worst thing.
Science is not the right wing anti-choice movement’s strong point.
Well, I certainly thinking having one good parent is better then having one good and one bad, I’m still going to think poorly of someone who skips out on their kids. I don’t care what MRAL says, it’s just poor form.
I think I turned out pretty well morally, intellectually and physically, to the extent that was possible given my many disadvantages granted genetically by an asshole God.
Oh, look I caught up after all and I didn’t even have to kill any babies to do it.
And, MRAL, I’m still confused on what feminism and Hitler have to do with one another.
Is that guy’s kid entitled to think that his or her emotionally unavailable father is a dipshit? I also think emotionally unavailable mothers are dipshits, too.
And that’s okay if you think I’m a dipshit, MRAL. I think things way worse about you. And, in fact, if dipshits think that I’m a bad person, I’m probably actually doing something right.
A child is entitled to whatever is in their best interests, which sometimes means no parents and foster care.
“To be honest, as someone who had one good parent and one horrible one, I’m with MRAL–if someone doesn’t want to be involved, sometimes staying away is the best thing they can do for the kid. It’s not the best thing, but honestly, if they’re still giving financial support and not doing anything to screw with the kid and custodial parent, sometimes it’s not the worst thing.”
Yes. That. I think that having one bad parent and one good parent has far more potential to do damage than just one good parent.
But again, the moral of the story is really contraception contraception contraception.
“I think I turned out pretty well morally, intellectually and physically, to the extent that was possible given my many disadvantages granted genetically by an asshole God.”
What are they? Honestly. You are of average height. You claim to be of above average intelligence. YOUR EYE LOOKS FINE!
Pray-tell, what sucks so bad about your life? A chronic pain disorder? Severe Autism? Please! Elucidate me on your many genetic disadvantages!
Feminism is alike to the Nazis in that they are two movements, two widespread (at one point) movements that advocate an essentially fascist wordview and seek to make everyone alike (Nazis physically, feminists mentally). They both also want thought police. That’s all.
theLaplaceDemon, Sometimes contraception fails! This is important to keep in mind.
You know that invoking Nazism also invokes the murder of millions if people, mostly Jews? You are aware of that, right? And comparing things to Nazis that aren’t on par with genocide is pretty gross. You are aware, right? Right?
QFT
With the corollary that a fetus, being incapable of surviving without continual donations of blood, organs, and nutrients from its mother, is entitled to exactly as much blood, organs, and nutrients as the mother is willing to give.
Also, communication communication communication! Contraception does fail sometimes, so if you’re really determined to be a deadbeat dad, or morally opposed to abortion, or whatever it is, you should communicate that to your partner so she can make an informed choice about who she’s fucking.
MRAL…
You keep using this word, “fascist.” I do not think it means what you think it means.
MRAL – All I’m getting there is that Nazis were a movement that wanted to change some stuff and feminists are a movement that wants to change some stuff. I, uh, yeah.
I actually (apologies for shameless self-promotion) wrote a thing about “feminism wants everyone to be alike”: http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2011/03/gray-coveralls.html
Feminism is alike to the Nazis in that they are two movements, two widespread (at one point) movements that advocate an essentially fascist wordview and seek to make everyone alike (Nazis physically, feminists mentally). They both also want thought police. That’s all.
Citation needed.
I think most people who post on this blog are going to agree that one good parent is better than having one good parent and one bad parent. I’m not arguing against that. But, honestly, there are a lot of lazy fucking people -mothers and fathers- who’d rather just write the check and pretend their child doesn’t exist. And when you run into them out in the world it’s hard not to feel like you need a shower after dealing with them.
And please understand, I’m not talking about people who are doing the best they can and don’t deserve to be judged for not being able to live in close proximity or afford to pay lots of money. And there are absolutely people who are being prevented from being as much a part of their child’s life as they’d like to by an intractable custodial parent. I’ve seen that as well.
But saying “I turned out fine” is similar to saying “I got over this traumatic thing, everyone should be able to.”
My man’s father wrote a check and ignored him for his entire childhood. His mother was an amazing and hard working woman and heaven knows he’s one of the most well-adjusted people I’ve ever known. His optimism is downright sexy. But when he first opened up to me about what that was like for him…
It’s very difficult for me to deal with his father.
Genetic Disadvantages
– Eye (also, I may add, reached an adult age JUST as 3-D was becoming popular, soon everything will be in 3-D and I’ll hardly be able to function normally. It’s already bad, give it 10 years. Another way for the asshfuck Powers That Be to laugh at me).
– Height (5’8.75 is morning height, 5’8.25 is my height right before bed. That is significantly below average in a country where the average man’s height is 5’10.5. All the men, and some of the women, in my family are taller than me. Nothing creates a good old-fashioned inferiority complex like height in an explicitly heightist world).
– Short fingers. Related to the height thing, obviously, but I have shortish. It makes me feel like not really fully grown. Also, I’m a guitarist (hobby, not a major thing), and my short fingers make it more difficult to play.
– Teeth. I have weird teeth. I take care of them but the front ones are different in length and don’t really show when I smile (which isn’t often, granted, but part of the reason is I don’t like my smile). Also, the left front one kind of hurts sometimes. It’s weird, not a cavity (I practice exceptional hygiene), discussed it with the dentist, we don’t know why.
– Alpha Family. May be a BIT of an exaggeration, but my family is more alpha than most. Most men are good looking, successful, my brother looks like a model despite being a complete FUCK and doing NOTHING TO DESERVE IT. I WORK HARDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE IN MY FAMILY ONLY TO BE FUCKED SLIGHTLY LESS HARD BY MY INFERIORITY.
To recap- awkward standing up (height), awkward sitting down (eye), can’t play most sports as well (height and eye), can’t be musical (fingers), ugly (self-explanatory), member of an alpha family (makes everything worse).
Fuck you, God.
Feminists are all about corporate ownership of government? Since when?
SHUT UP MRAL YOU ARE GIVING AWAY OUR PLAN
Nobinayamu, I feel you. My sweetheart is in a similar boat with his dad. Plus, the man started another family and kept it secret from him and the rest of his family for about eight years. His father will provide financial support still at times, but he always uses it as a sort of extortion/blackmail thing, even coercing StrangeBoyfriend into lying to the rest of his father’s family once!
Nobinayamu – See, I’m on the opposite side of that, because I was raised by two parents, and wished to God I wasn’t. My mother was extremely present–and also manipulative, undermining, cruel, and sometimes physically violent. My dad was loving and wonderful . They didn’t separate, unfortunately, until I was an adult.
I would have loved for my mom to have gone off somewhere and just written checks.
(Obviously it would be better if she’d been a great mother and stuck around, but I’m just saying, running away and writing checks is often the second worst option, not the worst.)
fascist
you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
fascism, if I remember from sophomore year of high school, means “for the good of all”. It’s a community thing that ignores the individual and paints in absurdly broad strokes. Seem to describe FUCKING FEMINISM to a fucking tee.
MRAL – You sound… ordinary. Not cursed by God, not blessed, but given a pretty average set of strengths and weaknesses. (I’m 5 foot freaking 1 and don’t call myself cursed, geez.) You don’t have a body that lets you lay back and say “I’ve got it made,” but you also don’t have a body that truly disables you, either. You’re where most people are.
MRAL, honestly. You’re 20. You aren’t fully grown. Also, morning height and evening height? What the fuck man? Who actually measures that? That’s an unhealthy obsession. And 2 inches is not a significant difference. It really isn’t. It just… it really isn’t. I know men who are less then 5 feet tall. That’s short.
And you can too play an instrument with short fingers. I totally have stubby fingers and small hands, and I’ve been playing the Viola since I was 9, and I’m pretty good at it too. It just takes a lot of time and dedication. Music isn’t easy. (Seriously. I am 6 feet tall, broad shoulders, huge feet, and I have child sized hands. I wear small gloves! It’s so weird.)
I hate 3-D movies and never go to them. Plus your compliment is really weird. How does your eyes interfere?
And I am betting your teeth are like your eyes, barely noticeable.
Man. Seriously. This list of grievances is… paltry. Some people are actually born with real genetic disorders. Your bitching is… silly.
Find a therapist and work on your self esteem, please!
Dude, you don’t need to remember things from your sophomore year. You have the entire Internet at your disposal. (Also, I think you may be remembering Communism, not that I expect you to realize a distinction.)
Webster’s defines “fascism” as “a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.”
Feminism is all about the individual!
If an individual wants to have sex, they can and not be judged; if they don’t, they can have that right respected.
If an individual wants to have a baby, they can and find social support for raising that child; if they don’t, they have access to contraception and abortion.
If an individual wants to act feminine or masculine, if they want to raise children or work, if they want to go to school or join the military… they’ll find support for their choice in feminism.
Height doesn’t matter so much for teh wimminz.
I hate my brother. I don’t think that’s normal. But he’s a lazy pothead retard and does shit, while God has given him everything.
FUCKING FEMINISM
Actually most of us are just regular feminists.