cognitivedissonance:

My contribution to Rep. Alan Dick’s Facebook page. He’s an Alaska representative who believes women should get permission slips to have an abortion.

Seriously. Via Mudflats:

“If you’re not fully convinced yet that Alaska is the next front in the GOP’s war on women, you just have to listen to State Rep. Alan Dick. He said that he doesn’t believe that when a woman is pregnant, it’s really “her pregnancy.” As a matter of fact, he would advocate for criminalizing women who have an abortion without the permission via written signature from the man who impregnated her. He stated, “If I thought that the man’s signature was required… required, in order for a woman to have an abortion, I’d have a little more peace about it…” He didn’t say whether a rapist would be able to send his signature by fax from prison, or not. But he’ll have “peace” and women will require a permission slip for their own bodies.

His page is full of inspiring posts to get your creative troll juices flowing. So let’s ask him a few question — it’s for clarification, since we uterused-Americans obviously can’t think for ourselves.

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Dear Rep. Dick,

As a woman cursed with the unfortunate condition of having a female brain and a reproductive system, I am apparently unable to comprehend your lofty logic. So I have a question for you. I know this is incredibly insolent of me to question your male authority, but here goes:

If I am in Alaska, attend a social function with alcohol unaccompanied by a man, get my drink spiked, am brutally gang-raped, and become pregnant as a result, would I need to get the signatures of ALL rapists before choosing to abort? Or could I get just one? Would getting a DNA test help? Or should I just choose to throw myself down the stairs a few times in hopes of inducing miscarriage like women in my grandmother’s generation did?

I KNOW this is unlikely to happen, BUT I wish to make sure all my bases are covered, regardless of which state I choose to visit or make my home. Thank you for clearing up this issue, and thank you for thinking for me and taking control of women’s bodies. IT’S JUST SO HARD, Y’KNOW? Thinking gives me the vapors!

Now, I must get back in the kitchen and make my husband a sandwich. Hope he doesn’t get me pregnant, since I’m currently barefoot! That’s how babies are made, right? I’m not sure since legislators like you took sex ed away when I was in high school.

And yes, I’m being sarcastic.

Cheers,
Meg Lanker-Simons

thepenguinpress:

Michael Pollan’s FOOD RULES in stop motion.

thedailywhat:

Pro-Choice Protest of the Day: Taking a page from the book of Virginia Democrat Janet Howell, pro-choice Oklahoma state Senator Constance Johnson (D) introduced an amendment to the Sooner State’s pro-life “personhood” bill (SB 1433) making masturbation illegal.

Oklahoma lawmakers are currently debating legislation that would make it mandatory for women to listen to their fetus’s heartbeat before being allowed to have an abortion.

To protest the bill, Sen. Johnson sought to have an amendment added that would make “any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina…an action against an unborn child.”

Having made her point, she later voted against her own amendment.

“As a woman and a 31-year veteran of the legislative process in Oklahoma, I am increasingly offended by state law trends that solely focus on the female’s role in the reproductive process,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian’s Comment is Free. “With Oklahoma’s new, never-before-experienced Republican majority, we are seeing enactment of more and more measures that adversely affect women and their rights to access safe medical procedures when making reproductive healthcare decisions.”

[fox23 / guardian / photo: cbok.]

livelaughawesome:

“I’m a Canadian.

We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy.

We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version of SOPA up here.

Only better*

Meet Bill-C11. Formerly Bill C-32. (I think they thought if they made the number lower people would care less about it?)

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But, as innocuous as it sounds, C-11 does a whole lot that SOPA did with a few extra twists you might not find in the Wikipedia write-up.

Like your PVR? You can’t keep it under C-11.

Like ripping CDs to your iPod? Say bye-bye.

Hey, do you want to be able to unlock your $500 smartphone and take it to a provider less dedicated to violating your wallet? That won’t be allowed either.

Did you get accused of internet piracy but no evidence has been presented and a trial date hasn’t even been set? Under C-11 your ISP will now be forced to terminate your internet access.

And people say that governments can’t be bought.

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There are only 14 days left people. Get active.”

Send a letter to your Member of Parliament now. The letters are prewritten, you just need to click send.

http://www.ccer.ca/success/

Come on non-Canadian people, please signal boost this for your Canadian friends.

shoutingatthewind:

Shocker.

What annoys me is that people buy into this ultra right-wing bullshit about trimming the budget without raising taxes. They go on the offensive, blaming ‘liberals’ and ‘socialists’, and then they elect these liars who will not only raise taxes, but cut funding to dozens of programs like homeless shelters, AIDS awareness programs and street cleaning. So it’s not even the status quo. It’s us paying more taxes for less services. 

Fuck anyone who votes Conservative in this Country. 

hilaroux:

I’d like to show this to everyone who tries to say that feminism “isn’t necessary these days because women have achieved equality”.