Okay let’s consider a few things:
- The majority of pro-life material/propaganda/lunchable boxes that try to argue without a shred of ambiguity that abortion is and well never be anything but murder uses images of late term abortions and fetuses in the stages of development where late term abortions would occur so that our own emotions are easier to project onto those things
- Now as we all know the only instance where late term abortions are currently legal is if the person carrying that child is in risk of dying if that baby is carried to term (procedures which, it’s worth noting, a doctor in Kansas was murdered in the middle of a congregation by an anti-abortion activist for still providing three years ago)
- So then ostensibly most other abortions including those performed for reasons other than medical occur in earlier stages where it would be much more difficult to attach these sorts of emotions to because at that point it’s just a lump of stuff developing in the body of debatable sentience and autonomy
So my question after all this is if you’re pro-life to this particular degree, when’s the last time you clipped your toenailsOr hell, when’s the last time you popped a zit
Or how about (and this is more appropriate and a better equivalency) what are you thoughts on the procedure to remove tumours
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“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.”
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President Barack Obama
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Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.
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Mitt Romney Outed As Anti-Gay High School Bully | ThinkProgress
Really awful to hear about this and even more awful to hear Romney laugh and call it a “prank”. Pinning a kid down who you think is gay and cutting his hair off is not a PRANK it’s fucking BULLYING, HARASSMENT, and HOMOPHOBIA.
Fuck Romney. Fuck the whole GOP, really.
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This grinds my gears.
taylor swift and the perpetual facepalm
basically it’s things like this that have made me dislike taylor swift
Looks like the comment I made on this got a fair number of likes. Proud of 104 people right now <3
A comment definitely worthy of 104 thumbs. (and thank you for the support!)
i will not *respect* anti-gay bigotry because it is part of someone’s “beliefs”. if someone is a hateful asshole, they don’t get my respect. period.
sorry, not sorry.
- I’m not racist, some of my best friends are bl-
- I don’t hate the LGBTQ community, but I feel like marriage is betw-
- I’m pro-life because it’s wrong to kill a ba-
- I’ll start showing women respect when they act-
- If your people want equality, they have to-
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here is why I think MarcusButlerTV’s new video, ‘How To Be A Slut’, is awful:
- it’s slut-shaming, as you can probably tell from the title. it implies that women who ‘sleep around’ (i.e. enjoy having sex and therefore have a lot of it) are in some way lesser. ‘to be a slut you have to sleep with as many people as you can, try to catch as many STIs as possible’.
- it associates things like fake tan, wearing lots of make-up etc with being a ‘slut’, as if this is somehow any measure of a woman’s sexual activity, which is nobody else’s business in the first place.
- it implies that if you show any skin, or cleavage, you’re a slut. hey kids, don’t ever be proud of your bodies or want to show them off, that makes you a slut!
apparently this was all a ‘joke’, although there’s nothing particularly funny about reinforcing horrible, harmful stereotypes held by many, many people. he then ends the joke portion of the video, and says that on a ‘serious note’;
- nobody’s going to ‘respect’ a girl if she does these things, which is a total piece of shit. how somebody dresses, how much makeup they wear, how sexual they are; none of these thing should be a measure of your respect for them as a person.
- he also states that ‘guys don’t like these things’, implying that girls should listen to him as a representative of the male voice because the way women dress is to please guys, rather than themselves. fantastic!
- girls in the comments are agreeing. they’re saying ‘I HATE SLUTS TOO, THIS IS HILARIOUS’. Marcus has asked for his audience, mostly female, to share what they hate about ‘sluts’, encouraging more attacks on the way some women choose to present themselves. even if Marcus is joking, as he claims to be, even while he’s being ‘serious’ he’s reinforcing all of these ideas to hundreds/thousands of young men and women.
I don’t think that Marcus intended to be sexist and slut-shaming, but that’s what his video is. he’s stated his opinion on the matter through that video, and now I’ve stated mine.
No justice, no peace.
Oh, Senator Boxer. I am so glad I voted for you.
My store got two books in today. Both survival guides. Both feature strong images on the front. Promising survival techniques for ‘boys only’ and ‘girls only’. Let’s look at the boys, shall we?
How to Survive Anything: Boys Only!
Featuring articles such as “How to Survive a Shark Attack”, “How to Survive if You’re in a Plane Crash”, “How to Survive a Flash Flood”, and many articles along that line. Some are silly, like surviving a t-rex attack, some are more helpful for a real life emergency, like a freak blizzard white out. Everything is action packed, life or death situations. High energy! Boys do dangerous things! Rawr! Go GO GO!
It’s mostly funny, but hey, some things, like surviving a snake bite might come in handy.
Now lets look at the girls, shall we?
How to Survive Anything: Girls Only!
Look at that girl on the cover! She is on the go! She is doing action packed stuff! She is rough and tumble! Let’s look at what she needs to learn to survive.
“How to Survive a BFF Fight”, “How to Take the Perfect School Photo”, “How to Handle Sudden Stardom”, “How to Turn a No into a Yes” (I guess I should be thankful that’s in the girls’ book, it’s just slightly less rapey if it were in the boys’ book). Of course there is such insight as “How to Survive a Crush” and “How to Survive a Fashion Disaster”.
Yes, just about everything in the girls’ book is about looking pretty, getting dates, looking pretty, looking pretty, and looking pretty.
The ONE and only ONE redeeming factor for the girls’ book was “How to Beat Bullies”. The advice there is pretty standard, but at least it is addressed.
The Lesson Here?
Boys are meant to have adventures, girls are meant to shut up and look pretty. The two shall never, ever meet.
Scholastic should hang their heads in some pretty weighty shame right now.
I think it is also interesting that girls can survive “almost” anything but guys can survive anything.
*dies, crushed beneath the weight of the perfect school photo.*
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