August 2012
“Seeing (white male) comedian say the best way to react to oppression is with humor? Yeah, fuck you. Sometimes the oppressed will react with grace and dignity and humour. Sometimes it will be with shrill words and fists and masses of rage. It’s not up to any group of oppressed of people to make communicating about and responding to bigotry and sexism more comfortable for you. This ain’t about you, kid.”
—flannery-culp (via feministsbakecupcakestoo)
“[TRIGGER WARNING] “This is a traumatic thing — she’s, shall we say, she’s uptight. She is frightened, tight, and so on. And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize. The tubes are spastic.”
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Dr. John C. Willke, a general practitioner with obstetric training and a former president of the National Right to Life Committee explaining how a rape victim prevents a pregnancy.
(h/t @JamilSmith)
Never trust a pro-life doctor. They lie, and get paid to do it.
(via justjasper)
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Republicans only bother to acknowledge women when they’re reasserting our status as second class citizens. Sure, they occasionally feign outrage over supposed attacks on stay-at-home moms (while nary a word of paid parental leave is spoken) and they trot out their wives to assure us how much their hubby respects women. But we know the truth - that this “respect” is conditional. It’s not based on a belief that women are deserving of human rights, but on a very specific set of rules and roles we are expected to adhere by.
Republicans can spin all they like, but what they don’t understand is that women can recognize dehumanization from a mile away. We live it every day. We know what it is to talk to a person and suddenly realize they believe us stupid because of our gender. We listen while people mansplain topics we’re experts in. We watch media that presents us as little more than masturbation fodder and walk down the street feeling lecherous stares on our back. We know what you mean when you say “legitimate” rape. We know exactly what you’re thinking when you pretend to give a shit.
” —My latest at The Nation, Fantasy Women of the GOP (via jessicavalenti)
Men Defining Rape: A History | Mother Jones →
motherjones.com
Men have been in the business of deciding when it is okay and when it is not okay to rape women for thousands of years. If Missouri Rep. Todd Akin’s claim that women’s bodies magically fend off rapist sperm or the GOP’s meditation on what’s really rape sound medieval to you, that’s because they are. Check out our timeline of the male notions and common-law statutes that have defined rape over time, and see for yourself which eras the GOP’s views on rape line up with
“One woman I spoke to broke down crying when I told her the nearest clinic was ten hours away. I informed her that there was another group who could help arrange travel, and yet another group that existed soley to provide lodgings. It didn’t matter. She couldn’t take that time off work. The call ended with her saying she would find another way. She didn’t mean she would go to a CPC and they would magically help her carry to term (cause they never do, the “help” stops the moment you are too far along for an abortion). She meant she was going to risk her life and her health. She was going to seek out a back-alley abortion, because legislators had systematically taken away all of the clinics she could have gone to in her area a few years ago. I keep hoping this woman calls us back.”
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This is an incredible and important post about abortion funds, restrictive legislation on abortion, and the harsh realities of living in the USA right now.
[NB: more people than just cis women want and need access to abortion care.]
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
This is how the woman who died wound up at Gosnell’s. There was no one near her that performed abortions, got too far along for the reputable guys, and wound up coming all the up to Philly from Maryland to see Gosnell. And then she died.
Had she had access to good, affordable reproductive care, she would still be alive. And Gosnell never would have had a practice.
(via blueandbluer)
“Everyone wants to save the Muslim woman. Some want to put the hijab on me and save me; some want to take hijab off me and save me; some want to bomb us and save me. Just give me a break man! I can save myself! I don’t need Western imperialism to save me or Western feminism riding on the coattails of Western imperialism to save me. I can save myself.”
—Pakistani activist Uzma Shakir (via aaliasstate0fmind)
