Arguments against marriage equality are pretty familiar after all.
Coming off of that last post about how abortion can’t be compared to slavery: this comic, on the other hand, is an OK way to point out a parallel between a past race-based issue and a not-race-related present issue. Just a few decades ago, our country wouldn’t let two consenting adults get married because their skin color was different; now they won’t let two consenting adults get married because their gender ISN’T different. Those two scenarios are pretty similar. But comparing terminating a pregnancy to slavery? Not similar. At all.
-Jess
Okay, seriously, fuck you Nikosnature. Abortion is not comparable to slavery in any way. AT ALL. For you to compare them makes you a bigoted, ignorant asshole.
I’ve been trying to avoid this nikosnature person who keeps popping up on my dash, but apparently they insist upon enraging me. Slavery? The systematic enslavement of born, human children and adults? Is in no way comparable to abortion.
What is it pro-lifers don’t understand about the difference between an embryo and an adult human? This is why we need more comprehensive sex ed. Fuck’s sake.
-Jess
I wonder how long STFUConservatives and the rest of the majority of the leftist and feminist Tumblrs are going to ignore Texas and the rest of “fly over country.”
Seriously, how do y’all just ignore it like that and the freak out when the same (and in the case of the Personhood bill in Oklahoma not even as bad) thing happens in a coastal state there is a big hoopla?
I’m singling out STFUConservatives for a reason too, I remember when Perry was still in the race and some of the crap they said about Texas. This just in, most of us hate this shit too, but we need support, not mocking.
There are women here that want to have health care too. You can’t just say “oh it’s Texas (or Oklahoma or whatever) and just ignore us.
Wow, ok, sending me an Ask would have cleared this up, but throwing shade works too. I mentioned the Oklahoma bill here and here and the Texas sonogram law here. And I didn’t write about Virginia because it was a coastal state. I wrote about it because they had an especially invasive and uncalled for provision of the law and it was getting a lot of media attention. And then today that part was struck down, which is pretty newsworthy.
I looked up posts about Perry and Texas on my blog and found this one about how his economic policy is not as great as he claimed. I’ve also written about Texas’ controversial license plates, the woman who shot her kids after being denied welfare, I wrote about the state’s rising poverty rate, I mentioned this article about how Big Government created all the jobs Perry was bragging about and Perry’s porn investments. Oh, and I helped the Texas College Democrats get more Likes than Rick Perry got votes in a primary.
So exactly what crap did I say about Perry and Texas that makes you think I don’t care about women in your state? Where did I mock you and say your state was unworthy of my attention? This just in: maybe google some shit before accusing me of completely ignoring your state and not caring about women in any part of America, including “flyover country” which just so happens to include my home state.
-Jess
The Republicans don’t have any ideas, so the only way they can win is to cheat.
+5 to Wisconsin
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[TRIGGER WARNING: Blood, gore, dead bodies, aborted fetuses, pro-life jackassery]
Today, a group calling themselves the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP for short, as in, there’s a GAP in their brains where logic should go) set up a huge display or graphic and disturbing images in the middle of the Florida State University campus, right on the common green in front of our library.
They came prepared with fliers of false information, “documentation” of abortion statistics, and worst of all, giant billboards that compared abortion in America to the genocides in Rwanda, the lynchings of African Americans in the decades before and after the civil war, and the Holocaust, complete with pictures of victims of these mass murders.
Already we’re off to a wonderful start, disregarding anyone who lives on our campus. There are dorms right next to that green. They held no respect for people who may have been triggered by these images.
Here are some of the things I heard today:
“Abortion is genocide!”
No, actually, Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The common denominator between abortions is that all of the “victims” are unborn. Thus, this would be a genocide against the unborn, or as some put it, simply very, very young. However, when a woman gets an abortion, she does not look down at her body, go “this thing is unborn or young, I will destroy it because of that.” Therefore, it is not a genocide, because the common linking factor is NOT the cause or reason of the abortion.
Also there are quite a few Jewish friends of mine who would like to have a word with you about your comparison.
“I work as an ultrasound tech, I know what i’m talking about, ive seen thousands of pregnancies!”
This does not make you a doctor. An ultrasound technician, although you must have knowledge of ailments that often happen to pregnant women and an understanding of the medical procedures they will have to go through, is not a biologist. As a matter of fact, biology is not even a base requirement. You have not learned everything there is to know about the human body. You run a machine.
“Life begins at conception! Here, look at these article snippets!”
I was then handed pamphlet with snippets of medical journals. However, all of the quotes simply stated that human development begins at conception, which no one is arguing. The word “life” was mentioned once, and that particular quote only stated that conception was the first stage in creating life, not the start of it. When I pointed this out I was met with:
“Human development and life are the same thing!”
No, no they are not. Life is a philosophical concept, human development is scientific. When I pointed out that life was a philosophical concept, I was met with this:
“No it’s not! Life and conception are one in the same”
However, when I began to argue that a fetus is not a sentient thinking being, I was met with:
“Don’t get into philosophy, only science! Life begins at conception!”
So clearly, the man I was talking to (who seemed to be the ring leader) had gotten it into this head that my definition of life was philosophical, however his definition of life was scientific fact.
Their billboards were also riddled with inaccuracy. The man I was speaking to held up a poster of an aborted fetus that claimed it was 22 weeks. However, a different angle of the same fetus on their larger billboards, claimed that it was 24. When I pointed out the inaccuracy to one of his female partners (the ultrasound tech) she initially tried to deny it. When I pointed out that the fetus has the same blood smears, the same umbilical cord placing, and the blanket it was placed on had the exact same blood pattern, she then took back her words and said that:
“When we judge when a woman gets pregnant we go by last period date, however it’s often more like two weeks after. That’s why that’s different.”
When I pointed out that it was still an inaccuracy and two weeks could make a difference between legal and illegal, she had no response for me.
The man continued on his rant, and at one point asked me this:
“As a woman, can you look at this picture? It should tear at your heart strings! It should make you want to cry!”
Which I found particularly offensive. Simply because i’m a woman does not mean I have a motherly instinct, or can’t look at a fetus without bursting into sobs. I also got this little gem before I left:
“If you had seen this picture 100 years ago, you would have wanted to know who did this! You would have wanted to string them up on a flag pole! Think about if you saw this 100 years ago!”
At which point I was just done. How am I supposed to know what I would have thought 100 years ago? I’m not a vampire. I’m not a time lord. I don’t know anything about 100 years ago besides the fact that I would have had no rights at all.
But then again, they all want it that way, don’t they?
These people make their way to schools all over the country, so if you see them coming your way, set up a counter protest with actual information, and try to record their idiocy for all to see. This is the second year they came to FSU, last year they were sponsored by the College Republicans, this year they came on their own. I called the Student Relations office to have them removed, however Landis Green is a free-speech zone, and he told me straight up that they couldn’t remove them no matter how much they wanted to, because then the GAP would go to the news and they would get even more attention, and none of the staff wants that. Some of the things that came out of these people’s mouths were so inaccurate I almost cried. They also come with a bus with pictures of aborted fetuses on them that drives around for the two days in which they stay.
If you see them, just try to ignore them. Arguing science will do nothing, as they have grown such thick skulls they can no longer accept words that do not agree with their own. Their arguments are childish and illogical, and they back it up with no scientific fact.
If you are around the Florida state University campus tomorrow, Friday the 24th, stop by Landis green and support the counter-protest. Here is the facebook group, they will probably be out there from around 10 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon if weather permits.
Pro-choice truth bombs!
nachtflix asked: Considering how dire the economy is, I can’t believe there’s not more outrage over the fact that tax dollars are being wasted on bills that everyone KNOWS will fail when brought to the courts. Whether you agree with abortion or not, can’t we all agree that this is a gross misuse of tax dollars and, maybe, our elected officials should focus more on making actualized lives better before focusing on potential lives?
I’ve been saying this for years.
All of these pro-life bills are doing is wasting money, stripping NECESSARY rights away from people who have already been granted them by the constitution, and wasting time. That’s the whole point. The GOP is purposefully trying to waste time. They know that if they tie up the majority of the legislation up with bills that have no chance in hell of passing either because the senate won’t pass them or the president will veto them they will successfully push off legislation that could help people and put president Obama in a good light.
They are, literally, using reproductive rights as their hostage to try and oust president Obama out of a job (because they think the American people are dumb enough to not realize that the reason nothing is getting done is because of THEM and not president Obama), or, at the very least, use all of this horrifying pro-life, anti-contraceptive legislation to leverage for the Bush tax cuts extension….again.
Honestly, I’d just like to thank all of the GOP candidates for their outstanding work on re-electing president Obama. And I’d like to congratulate President Obama on his second term right now. It’s clear that anyone who takes a stance that is vehemently against hormonal birth control will not win this election.
Love,
Rabble
Oh for fuck’s sake, if people don’t stop using the word ‘Caucasian’ when referring to white people I’m going to rename my blog Caucasiandoesnotfuckingmeanwhite.
‘Caucasian’ is a (racist) term incorrectly applied to white people when white people found actual Caucasian skulls (in, you know, Caucasia) which were perfectly shaped and assumed that they belonged to white people when, in fact, they didn’t.
jfc I’m getting tired of explaining this to people.
Thank you.
To me that is the c-word and it is never used by me. According to Wikipedia, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (a German anthropologist) came up with the term and wrote:
I have taken the name of this variety from Mount Caucasus, both because its neighborhood, and especially its southern slope, produces the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgian; and because all physiological reasons converge to this, that in that region, if anywhere, it seems we ought with the greatest probability to place the autochthones (birth place) of mankind.
No. Ya’ll are not the most beautiful race. Wrong answer. But that’s what Caucasian means.
^^ I legit did not know this. Service-y!
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Mild mannered blogger by day, but fierce, sexy, super empowered crime fighter by night!
Western Superhero comics: Am I doing it right?
My butt cheeks and breasts are the exact same size and shape, so yes, you are doing it right.
thesexcauldron submitted: “My compliments to The Monster Book of Manga series, which teaches young artists how to draw the female body ‘properly’.”
More drawings of me as a super-empowered lady superhero!!! -Jess
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kwidda submitted: “I felt slightly uncomfortable and awkward drawing this, but I still had damn fun!”
How many jobs did Mitt Romney help create during his time as a corporate buyout specialist? Even he can’t get his story straight. Click through for a larger image.
Texas has decided to violate federal policies concerning the Women’s Health Program of Medicaid, and has lost $40 million of federal funding towards reproductive health care in the process. Way to go Texas! Now you’ve produced Rick Perry, W, and THIS abomination of legislation.
Click through to see what this means for reproductive rights in Texas, and to donate to Planned Parenthood.
Hmm … basically has the same deleterious effects as passing a law depriving people of health care … +5 to Texas.
Oh my god.
There is a Tumblr awarding points to states in the “race to the stone age”.
This is absolutely beautiful. TUMBLR FIND OF THE DAY.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is organizing a Democratic Steering and Policy Committee event on Thursday to allow Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who tried to testify at last week’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, a chance to talk about the issue.
Pelosi aides say the House recording studio has denied a request to broadcast the event, “apparently” at the behest of the Republican-controlled Committee on House Administration.
Men silencing women? Color me surprised.
(Source: theriotmag)
