I'm often struck by the ludicrousness of my fellow man. It sure feels like we are sinking into some deep, dark abyss reminiscent of "the good old days," more commonly known as the Dark Ages.
The Righteous are firmly exerting their control with deep grasping handfuls of our humanity, without regard for humanity. Pull out your old battered copy of The Handmaids Tale, ladies because the assault is full on. Big bad Congress and our newest crop of Governators are working hard to bring on the next Inquisition.
The tragic result of fanaticism, unspeakable pain such as the Deaver family experienced in Nebraska. 15 minutes of the most horrifying thing I can imagine, watching your child die.
Texas is working on the latest punishment for those floozies who find themselves in the family way, forcing them to have a sonogram, describe what they see and listen to the heartbeat. That'll cure those little hussies. Seriously, the Viagra-pumped sex fiend is never involved.
Okay, for real and more seriously, human sexuality is so freaking complex and the relationship diversity and disparity in just our "western" culture is staggering. Do a handful of old, fat, white dudes (generally) get to decide what is best for all of us? They've never been coerced to give in to the varsity football star. They've never yearned for love and attention so much that they freely and frequently get it the only way they know how. They've never been taken advantage of with the help of drugs or alcohol. They've never been told that they will submit to their husband, that he has rights and that he will not be denied. They've never been told to keep their mouth shut or something bad will happen. They've never felt the panic of realizing that their birth control failed them.
Just one more bitty rant on the above topic, it kills me every time I hear some high-on-their-horse person talking about how some chicks just use abortion as birth control. Yeah, because there aren't cheaper, less invasive versions available. I can't wait until I hear someone say, "the pill makes me fat so every time I get pregnant I'm just going to spread my legs in some doctors office that I have to drive miles to get to, because the Righteous ones have made damn sure that there isn't one in this county, let him dilate my cervix, insert tools and vacuum me out, after I pay an arm and a leg, and then to top it all off I can't have sex again for weeks afterward because of the risk of infection, which really cramps my style because I'm a real slut, you know. But, really, this is the best form of birth control for me because I can afford it financially and mentally."
Then there's the downright crazy, elected officials who want to send New Hampshire's "crazy people" to Siberia.
The reactionary fall out of the midterms is out of control scary. Voting, it's a right and a responsibility.
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I was so impressed with U.S. Rep. Speier for coming out and calling out those assholes. As if a painful, emotionally terrible, expensive (I'm guessing) thing like abortion is something people just do for kicks. Sexist motherfuckers.
Looked it up:
"In general, though, women getting an abortion between six and ten weeks' gestation can expect to pay about $350 at an abortion clinic and $500 at a physician's office. Providing abortions later in pregnancy is somewhat more complicated, and is usually more expensive. For example, at 16 weeks gestation, abortion clinics generally charge around $650 and physicians' offices generally charge around $700. After the 20th week, the cost rises to above $1,000.2
Other costs might result if care is not available locally. These might include travel costs, costs for overnight stays, or lost wages in states requiring waiting periods between pre-abortion counseling and the abortion itself."
From: http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/economics.html
There are a great many people in this world who feel totally entitled. And they feel most entitled to subjugate women because of religion. I really don't give a fuck about why they believe or why. And the Texas Sonogram--- is a vaginal sonogram. And idea they got from Oklahoma last year. So they are shoving a nice hard plastic wand up your vagina. In my world that is rape by instrumentation. But then anything you make a woman do with her reproductive parts against her will whether it be coerced or forced is Rape. Period. --As for the straw man argument about women who use it for birth control--Well who the fuck cares? Some people drive drunk and kill other people-and yet we allow everyone to apply for a license and drive a car. Some people go nuts with their guns and shoot people and yet we still allow people to own firearms with few exceptions. Some people commit suicide using OTC drugs and yet they are still OTC drugs. That argument is just a means to make excuses in order to force religious hegemony on the rest of us via Institutional sex discrimination. The same hegemony imposed on gay folks and on folks that weren't white at one time or Christian. And that is a violation of our First Amendment rights and our right to privacy, and it is a form of sexual harassment too because their stance operates on the assumption that women who use birth control, get family planning assistance or education or who seek an abortion are somehow sexually impure and therefore not entitled to equal protection or service under our laws.
It just occured to me that the reason that Republicans tried to redefine rape was to try and legally prohibit women from suing the state for coerced rape by instrumentation due to these insane laws. Why didn't I see that before?
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