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

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

On that score, you seem to be right, despite this ruling that mitigates the disaster. But when we're forced to push everything to court to get our Constitutional rights affirmed, to say nothing of nebulous rights that have been argued for successfully at any time afterwards (like the right to privacy), we've lost. (http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/03/13/i-would-argue-this-is-no-different-than-taking-an-airplane/)

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Grrrr, yeah.

It's never been more apparent that some section of the right has determined that everything they see as a right can only be a privilege to people who aren't them and that only they can be the gatekeepers for it.

That they often are, simply by virtue of the institutionalization of privilege, don't help anything.