Here's something not about video games

[trinityvixen]

The whole fight over contraception has exposed a lot of ugly bullshit, which is actually great. Because sunlight is a great disinfectant, and too long have the same resentments and misogynist undertones been circling without full exposure. It's hard to take a lot of the time, especially when legislatures controlled by a) men and b) Republicans get to change laws that no one asked or wanted them to change. But I have to remember that this sort of thing exposes them for the ignorant assholes they are.

To whit: Responsible women shouldn't be having sex. No really, that's what some asshole in North Carolina said to justify turning down funds for family planning. Because sluts, you know:

Chairman Ted Davis said he thought it was a sad day when "taxpayers are asked to pay money for contraceptives" for women having sex without planning responsibly.

Call me a sex-crazed feminazi (thank you!), but I thought taking contraceptives was planning for responsibly for women having sex. There's a better quote where someone else says something to the effect of lamenting all the sex these women are having (presumably not within ten feet of him, seeing as he's a lady-boner-killer), but the one I've highlighted above was the most hilarious to me.

Someone on Bill Maher's show suggested that women do exactly what these men want--women should just stop having sex with them, Lysistrata-style until they back the fuck off. I know it would hurt some women not to be able to get their itches scratched (except the lesbians and bi-ladies; they can go to town). I think, therefore, we should mandate taxpayer-funded vibrators for all women until such time as we stop fighting the battles of yesteryear for women's rights.

Comments

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Taxpayer-funded vibrators?! Haven't you heard? Women aren't supposed to enjoy anything! And...and...vibrators are the same as sex! to...you know...those guys who don't know how it all works. Because what's worse than women having sex?! Women pleasuring themselves! BAD.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's funny because vibrators, despite what they did, used to be not considered a sexual object. It was a medical device used, in all seriousness, as such. The sexual pleasure aspect was realized realllllly late, given that the doctors using them on female patients were basically acknowledging that the females were having orgasms.

Just goes to show men have always been a little clueless when it comes to women's bits.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Also if we let women have vibrators, they'll just use EVEN MORE birth control. Because obviously it's one pill per sexual activity... or something...