ok but it cracks me up that john boyega clearly wasn’t content with just producing the pacific rim sequel he must have been like “listen if i put my money into this i’d better get to play the son of the coolest character in the movie” like he is out there living a mary sue self insert fanfic and i am so happy for him
I always assumed that the vampirism in Twilight was a metaphor for Christianity. Like, regular vampires/Christians have special power, but the Cullen cult of non-people-eating vampirism was extra special mormonism, which gives you extra power and makes you actually superspecialspecial. Mind you, I only made it 1/3 of the way through the first book before bailing because GAH I did not CARE how hot edward cullen was, and that seemed to be 90% of the content of the book.
I personally compare it to how, as a child, I was taught that magic was evil and demonic, but was encouraged to read the Chronicles of Narnia, because there were important hidden Christian messages despite all magic that would be unsuitable content in any other context.
lots of feminists with little experience of the academic meaning of emotional labor mischaracterize what it means. emotional labor isn’t negative; it’s not something women ought to stop doing. when feminist scholars and the like speak of emotional labor the main point of outlining it is that women are socialized to do it *and* also accept that they do not deserve any reciprocation or similar mutual activity/appreciation in the relationship (this relationship does not have to be romantic - see the relationship between black women in the civil rights/black liberation movements and how black men eclipse and do not reciprocate their contributions). we don’t recognize that some of the ways women are expected to serve humanity can be a form of exploitation, being that society expects service of women while maintaining patriarchal/reproductive/economic control over them. and under capitalism women’s work in the domestic sphere is devalued despite the fact that society cannot function without it. the term emotional labor shouldn’t be used in a way that is synonymous with “showing empathy/care is bad,” but we have to recognize the ways that women’s emotional labor is devalued and how men aren’t expected to do similar acts of empathy/care in the same capacity. anywhom read the emotional labor pdf :3
I tell you, I follow this tumblr, and a lot of it I relate to, and a lot of it... thank GOD I've made it to middle age. I'm not yet quite where I want to be, but thank god I've gotten as far away from some of this shit as I have.
so i went to plaid pantry and i got my grape soda and whipped cream and i was on my way back when i saw a dog across the street from me. i looked over and another dog walked up to it and i was like “nice, double dog”.
i kept walking and a minute later i saw a third dog and i thought wow these dogs look like big foxes. oh wait they’re coyotes. but no one else on the street was acknowledging it? so i figured i was just Too High.
Then a couple minutes later, a big truck full of kids pulls up beside me and starts waving at me so i take my earbuds out and someone says “dude, you know there’s a pack of coyotes following you?”
if being hunted by coyotes in downtown portland on the way back from getting munchies isn’t Northwest Gothic idk what is
Mandy Patinkin on The Late Show, December 18, 2015
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare for…the compassion and empathy that was never shown to you, but might one day save humanity as we know it.
One day Mandy Patinkin decided to stand up and be my hero, and he hasn’t stopped since.
I mean, if Dubya didn't teach the lesson well enough, what makes you think Trump's going to wake anybody up?
Sure yeah let’s let the poor and disabled and undocumented starve, end up homeless, die… all so MAYBE you fuckers “wake up”. As if us starving and dying and ending up homeless NOW has ever done any fucking good.
If you don’t like that Bernie or Hillary gets picked and you decide to vote for TRUMP instead because you want to “teach a lesson”? Fuck you. You’re okay with seeing us DIE. You’re okay sacrificing the lives of human beings to throw a goddamn TANTRUM over not getting your candidate in.
would like to point out that the rest of that quote is relevant:
“and I watch my daughters — two beautiful black young women — head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the president of the United States.”
I wonder how many people missed the point she was trying to make. That we have come far from having slaves to having a black president.
“[…] and I watch my daughters — two beautiful black young women — head off to school, waving goodbye to their father, the president of the United States.”
So far the "pivot to the general election" half of this cycle is turning out to be "the 90's bitchslap the 80's forever" and I'm really enjoying it.
All Hillary Clinton has to do now is get Donald Trump's blather out there. Her latest ad does nothing more than recount his own words, followed by the reactions of those in his own party. It kicks off with Jake Tapper posing this question from his weekend interview with Trump: "If you are saying he can't do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?"
Trump: "No, I don't think so at all."
Of course he doesn't. Next comes the GOP response. Not nearly strong enough, frankly, but for the Clinton camp's purposes, all they need to do is point out the fact that Trump is indefensible, even within his own party. Nick Gass has the details:
"[E]ven other Republicans are offended," the on-screen text reads, before cutting to video of Ana Navarro, a CNN contributor and former Jeb Bush surrogate, sharply denouncing Trump for his comments.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is shown on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday telling Chuck Todd, "I couldn't disagree more with a statement like that." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's remarks on "Fox News Sunday" are next, in which he called it "one of the worst mistakes Trump has made" and "inexcusable."
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who has been supportive of Trump's candidacy, told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he does "not condone the comments," while House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is heard next saying, "I completely disagree with the thinking behind that."
This is good stuff, conveniently teed up by a hopelessly flawed and ignorant egomaniac of a candidate. Just keep the cameras rolling, please. You can check out the video below ...
just wanna remind everyone it’s canon that Lisa is queer
just wanna remind everyone it’s canon that Lisa is queer
A lesbian. Lesbian. LESBIAN. Thanx
THIS ^^^^ LESBIAN NOT QU*ER TYVM. STOP THIS LESBIAN ERASURE.
… She likes men as well though. She marries Millhouse and dates other men as well (after this image, I know many lesbians have past relationships with men). She’s also polyamorous- the following year she has two girlfriends.
She’s queer. She dates men and women. And is poly.
So…….queer erasure it is then!
in todays issue of ‘monosexuals claiming the very existence of bi people is gay erasure’
[picture is of a Simpsons couch gag, the one where they show shots from the future and Lisa is on the couch with her college girlfriend]
This is also the most direct individual example I’ve seen of this phenomenon.
The more I think about who uses “queer”, the clearer it is that it’s a ton of people under the bi umbrella - especially because there’s so little bi visibility that MOST bi people are afraid to claim “the B word” - and, especially, a ton of trans people. IIRC, one survey had a majority of trans people identifying their sexual orientation specifically as “queer”.
This is undoubtedly also partly because there’s such a huge overlap between bi and trans people, and because our communities have always been allies.
The more I look at who opposes the word, the more restricted it is to the various branches of the radical feminist communities telling everybody not to use this terrible slur. People outside that community pick it up because it sounds important, when you say something is a slur. Or because they personally hate the word. But that’s where it seems like it originates.
So, it’s coming primarily from a community that’s known for having an extremely anti-trans branch. And which has an overall philosophy that’s toxic to bisexuals, genderqueer/nonbinary people, and aces/aros. And which also has a pattern of wrapping abusive acts in faux-social-justice terminology - pretending that trans people invade women’s spaces, labeling any terms people use for calling them out as “slurs”, etc.
And the “q slur” meme spreads, because it sounds social-justice-y. It makes it seem like the larger community has rejected the term, instead of a subculture of a subculture being very very vocal about…
how we should ban a term that is primarily used by bi/trans people…
that is the only word many people feel safe using to describe themselves, thanks to rampant bi erasure and bi demonizing and to the pressure to fit your sexual orientation into a binary…
and that is the only word any of us has that lets us identify people like us in history without a ton of “but they didn’t have that identity back then”…
or to identify what we all, including aces/aros, have in common today, the essence of what is wonderful about all our different flavors of queerness as well as what the rest of the world…
It’s the only word we have that can build that community and hold it together, without all this infighting about terminology. (All right, I know that people can fight about any term. It’s the one that doesn’t explicitly exclude anybody that it shouldn’t.)
It’s also a word that a huge number of bi people use to identify themselves. A minority of gay and lesbian people prefer it over “gay” or “lesbian”. But in the bi community, it’s a HUGE thing for people to call themselves “queer” instead of “bisexual”. It’s so common that it’s one of the things people include when the spell out what “bi+” includes.
It’s also a word that almost 25% of trans people use to label their sexual orientation (with 52% of trans people identifying as some flavor of “bi+” including this “queer” 25%). (It’s in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which surveyed almost 2,000 trans people.)
It has seemed to me for a while that the effort to go back to the “queer’s a slur” fight of the fucking 1980s is an unconscious attempt to center things around “same-gender attraction” and push issues that are specific to being intersex, trans, ace/aro, and bi+ out to the margins. Or, anyway, farther out to the margins. Just the same as the tendency to label everything “the gay rights movement” does, or the pattern of referring to “gay and trans” issues and leaving everything else out.
Ruby Bridges was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis in 1960.
This movie made me cry, I was so heart broken by how Ruby Bridges was treated! She was only 6, but was so strong. She is a very brave girl and she did not care what the white folks called her.
People are simply disgusting to minimize people by skin color!
Ruby you might not think you’re a hero… But to other people you are! You are A HERO and you are A PERSON WHO MADE AMERICA CHANGE!
this is white culture, this is their history, this is their legacy…being enraged at a damn baby just because she’s black.
she’s still alive by the way
Ruby Bridges in 2010
“As Bridges describes it, “Driving up I could see the crowd, but living in New Orleans, I actually thought it was Mardi Gras. There was a large crowd of people outside of the school. They were throwing things and shouting, and that sort of goes on in New Orleans at Mardi Gras." Former United States Deputy Marshal Charles Burks later recalled, "She showed a lot of courage. She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier, and we’re all very very proud of her."
U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to and from school
As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class.”
Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, allowed Ruby to eat only the food that she brought from home.
Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges Hall has said “scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us.” At her mother’s suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.”
THIS SHIT WAS ONLY 56 YEARS AGO. PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS RACIST TERRORISM AND ACTS LIKE IT ARE STILL ALIVE, AND THEIR KIDS ARE IN THEIR 40′S AND 50′S.
DON’T LET RACISM APOLOGISTS GET AWAY WITH “WHY ARE YOU LIVING IN THE PAST,” BULLSHIT ARGUMENTS. WE ARE LITERALLY STILL DEALING WITH THE FAMILIES THAT FORMED HATE MOBS OVER BLACK CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL WITH WHITE KIDS.
Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?
The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969.
It probably couldn’t air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”
It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.
Something that I’ve learnt from my many years of struggling with depression is that it’s never really gone. Even at times when I feel good and healthy, I’m still always at risk of relapse. So far, I’ve experienced relapses every couple of years and one of the many reasons that happened is that I didn’t take my depression seriously enough. No one likes being mentally ill, so once depression doesn’t feel too present, I tend to ignore it. I quickly put myself under a lot of pressure, because everyone else does too, and since my depression isn’t acting up in that particular moment, I don’t feel like I have an excuse to take things easy. I feel like a liar and very disrespectful of other people’s hard work, so I push myself all the time to keep up with everyone. I don’t want to cause trouble because of something no one can see. While every single time seems still manageable to me, those situations keep stacking, until I can’t deal with the amount of stress anymore. Then I fall apart. This is a reminder to me and everyone else who’s in a similar situation: by accepting your depression and keeping it in mind, you’ll be able to live a healthier life in the long run. It’s difficult to miss out on certain things or to say “no” to friends because of something that isn’t an immediate problem. But every time you decide to take care of your needs, you will keep depression away a bit longer.
As a depression sufferer myself I appreciate this and it reminds me of Mr Johnson’s Cat
So cuttlefish have some kind of rudimentary(?) language that has a gestural component. Or, if you don’t want to call it language, they communicate with each other, in part, through gesturing with their arms. (Not sure how a consistent system of signs isn’t a language but I’m not a linguist).
Anyway, there is a tank of cuttlefish at the New England aquarium. Usually, the animals totally ignore the visitors. Once when I was there with a friend, the cuttlefish were signing to each other. My friend held his hand up to the glass and began to imitate their gestures with his fingers, and then made a sequence of random signs.
The cuttlefish became extremely agitated and signed furiously at him and rapidly flashed different colors, and we will never know what he accidentally said to them.
The moral of this story is actually that it’s fucked up how we keep sentient and sensitive beings in a weird little fish jail.
After knowing a few different swan families for two years, we learned some of the sign language they use for “Hello friend! (You know me)” and “Sorry.” Their vocalizations are a little difficult to mimic, but “Hello friend!” and “sorry” are gestures done with the head. There’s also “Hey! Hey! (come start a fight)” which, in a human, involves hands and arms.
You can actually get into a feedback loop saying “Hello friend” to friendly swans that actually know you, where you say it and then they get excited and say it back, and then you say it again and they feel like they have to respond. And if you meet a strange swan and they behave aggressively towards you, you can get them to calm down and even say “sorry” by telling them that you know them. This is often easy to lie to them about, since swans think all humans look very similar.
Anyway! It is extremely funny because when humans walking outside encounter a swan, the humans often say “Hey! Hey!” in Swan, and when the swan puffs up and says “Excuse me?” the human says “Come start a fight!” and the swan, particularly if it’s defending a nest, is like “Fine. Okay. I’ll end this.”
And then the human complains that swans are awfully Hostile and Aggressive.
/linguist mode on/ sticking my nose in briefly to say that a consistent system of signs used for communication is definitely a language /linguist mode off/
gather round tumblr it’s time for a story about why you shouldn’t solicit conversation with a stranger with a put down about their generation
i sat down about 30 minutes ago in the lobby of a very nice hotel, intending to do some writing. i have my laptop and my cellphone. as i settled, i checked some stuff on my phone, then turned to my laptop. because there aren’t many plugs, i’m sitting in a cluster of couches and instead of being by myself there’s an he’s an older gentleman across from me, polo shirt, salt and pepper hair. was very polite when i asked if he minded if i tucked myself in the corner of the couch
but apparently
apparently
he thinks computers are full of satan or something
because no sooner have i opened up goddamn word when he goes, “you kids and your electronics.”
ah, excellent, unsolicited conversation with a perfect stranger that comes with a critique of modern communication. fight me, bro, you got no idea who you’re tangling with. so naturally i push up my metaphorical sleeves (metaphorical because i’m in a goddamn resort and pavement is melting; i’m wearing a very nice goddamn dress and i’d look like a fucking soccer mom named helen if i had blonde hair) and very politely, i smash his face into the floor with “i’m sorry?” in an utterly flabbergasted tone because dude wtf and no one delivers slick put downs when they’re caught off guard
“i’m here reading my newspaper and after this my wife and i are going on a hike” (lol good luck with that dude the pavement is melting and you want to hike in the mountains) “and we’re going to interact with each other.” he gives my computer a v pointed look
naturally, i have the perfect response to this. it is pithy and eloquent and will surely put him in his place: “i… like to write, and it’s easier on a laptop?”
“it seems to me” (HERE WE GO) “that your generation” (OH GOOD) “is losing the ability to interact with other people.” (O OK) “my grandchildren never take their eyes off their cellphones anymore!”
and here he pauses and looks at me. as if he expects me to agree.
so i say “you were born in the 50s, right?” he says he was born in 59. “well, it seems to me that your generation is really fond of adultery, embezzlement, and corporate fraud, among other things, and i’m really enjoying paying for your retirement.”
i admit: i had this line canned after a little snarl i had with my mom the other night.
he stares at me. i stare back.
“you also realize,” i say, quickly typing socrates kids these days quote into google, “that people have been saying kids these days since socrates said, and i quote, children now love luxury. they have bad manners. contempt for authority. they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” i look up at him. he’s staring at me still.
i’m shaking because man fuck confrontation but also how hilarious is this because i literally had a fight with my mom about this twelve hours ago. i literally have a cranky tweet about it. “so it seems to me that making sweeping generalizations about people based on pretty arbitrary age groupings is kind of ridiculous since i’m pretty sure you’re not cheating on your wife or stealing from your company.”
he goes beat red because now i’m embarrassed him, and i feel really fucking bad because i didn’t mean to embarrass him, but also hey dude fuck you
SO OF COURSE he says “did your parents teach you any manners?”
and there goes the last of my embarrassment because hey fuck you dude the only person who can insult my parents is fucking me. and i say, without even thinking because this is when you have the snappiest rejoinders, “well they did teach me not to open unsolicited conversation with a stranger by insulting them so.”
at this point the dude’s wife shows up and they leave, and the waiter asks me if i want anything to drink and i’m like “yes please give me all your vodka” but instead i say “ice water” because the pavement is melting and if i puke from nerves after that, i don’t want to snort alcohol out my nose
[Image text: “#autismawareness How would you feel if your parents were raising money to research how to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?”]
Cancerwareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Cysticfibrosisawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Taysachsawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Maybe your fucking parents care about the troubles and issues you’ve suffered and hope another child doesn’t have to suffer you absolute morons.
You’re making a common but very dangerous mistake by comparing autism to cancer and chronic illnesses. Unlike cancer, autism is a fundamental part of how our brains are built, which means that autism cannot be separated from who we are as people. Autism isn’t an illness, it’s a neurotype - it’s something we are, not something separate like cancer that is happening to us and which is inherently negative. When you want to remove or cure our autism, you’re saying that you want to cure or remove a central part of who we are, a defining part of our personalities and how we experience the world, and that’s a very dangerous sentiment to have towards your child.
The suffering associated with cancer is caused by cancer.
The suffering associated with autism is not caused by autism, but by how society treats autistic people.
Stop comparing them.
If you don’t want an autistic person to suffer, just stop making them suffer.
So this is what went through my head after I read about the “Captain America is Hydra!” gimmick. (No pairings.)
“They did what?” Sam shouts.
Bucky rubs a hand over his face. “You’ve got to be shitting me.”
Sam is shaking. He doesn’t think he’s ever been so angry in his life. “We’re gonna stop them. They can’t do this. They can’t publish this bullshit. This isn’t right!”
Natasha picks her fingernails with her knife and says nothing, but her eyes are flat and utterly void of emotion.
At the other end of the table, Steve sits with the comic in front of him, hands flat on either side of it. He hasn’t said a word since he finished reading it five minutes ago, and that five minutes has been more than enough time for Sam to work himself into a frothing rage.
“I’m flying over there right now,” he declares. “We’re going to have a conversation.”
Natasha grabs his sleeve before he can make a move.
“Tony,” Steve says softly.
Tony pushes himself off the wall where he’s been leaning. “Yeah, buddy?”
“Do you have the number of a good lawyer?”
Tony pulls his phone out and starts dialing. “I’ve got five.”
Steve nods once, and doesn’t say anything else.
Sam doesn’t believe it. “What are you–why aren’t you saying anything?”
Steve just looks up at him. He’s paler than Sam’s ever seen, he’s pressed his lips into a thin white line, and there’s a glint in his eyes Sam hasn’t seen there before.
Bucky takes one look at him, jumps out of his chair, and grabs Sam. “Come on, we’re heading down to the kitchen for a bit. Steve, you know where we are if you need us.”
“What the–” Sam doesn’t even get the protest out before Bucky’s hauled him out of the room. “What are you doing?”
“Steve’s my best friend,” Bucky says. “I’ve known him for years. And I know that look means the safest place to be is somewhere very, very far away.”
Sam frowns at him. “You think he’s going to do something?”
Bucky nods. “You’ll see.”
***
The next day, the top headline is that of Steve Rogers suing the comic company for defamation of character.
Two weeks later, the company settles for an undisclosed sum. The comics are pulled and the rest of the run won’t be published.
Within the next month, every single top executive resigns, along with the writer of the comic, citing a desire to “spend more time with family.” They’re replaced by a group of people the press release calls “forward-thinking” and that Tony calls “considerably less assholish than the others.”
Steve quietly donates his entire settlement to Jewish charities and nonprofits.
The single comic at the Avengers Tower is burned, and Natasha gleefully roasts marshmallows over the fire.
Sam sits next to Bucky and gestures his beer bottle at Steve, who is talking to Tony and T’Challa on the other side of the room. “I am never getting on his bad side.”
Bucky clinks his own bottle to Sam’s. “I’ll drink to that.”
If you want to know what you can do to help, check out this post right here. It has a lot of links for both education and for action.
Just a few of the stories my great aunt told me about women in the 60s:
1) A woman she worked with at the hospital who had a baby with one of the ambulance drivers. When work found out they fired her (he kept his job). She tried to self-abort with a knitting needle.
2) The sister of one of her neighbours who wasn’t able to rent a room because she was a ‘fallen woman’.
3) A girl who got sent to a convent house and scrubbed floors until the day she gave birth. Her baby was given up for adoption without her consent.
4) Girls who had babies with priests.
5) Women who were on their fifth, sixth, seventh child, who had been pregnant for the best part of a decade, begging for sterilisation because their husbands wouldn’t wear a condom.
Banning abortion has never ever stopped it from happening. It’s just meant more stigma, more prejudice, more risks and more deaths.
In 1962, my mother was going thru a divorce, got pregnant and knew this fact would be used to deny her divorce (they used to do that, in case you didn’t know).
My mother was given a “shot”; she lived 3 blocks from the doctor. He never told her what it was, likely an “overdose” of progesterone, which is how they used to “induce menstruation” in a hurry (i.e. abortion off the books). She was about 7-8 weeks by her estimation. He said, GO STRAIGHT HOME, go to bed and stay there. She walked fast, but nearly collapsed at the curb and my grandmother went out to guide her into the house. She went to bed, stayed there and bled steadily and heavily for 3-4 days. She said it was like being very very sick, headaches, nausea, vomiting… and then, gone.
She never let me forget this and took me to my first NARAL meeting when I was 15 yrs old. And here I am today, in my 50s–and I still remember my grandmother’s scary account; my mother swaying, literally, at the curb, and nearly falling, under the strength of that one shot.
How did she get the doctor to do it? She told him, “If you don’t, I will do it myself”–and if you knew my mother, you knew she meant it. She would have. After all, lots of women she knew had.
This is what they want to take us all back to, the fucking middle ages. Please remember.
The cost of denying women abortions is women’s lives. Nothing “Pro life” about it.
