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[wook77]

I'm getting really tired of men. Like seriously tired of mansplaining and why doesn't anyone care about the man's feelings. Dude, STFU.

On a post on the Huffington Post, I've been mansplained to all freaking weekend about how women need to get a sense of humor and that it's juvenile teasing to tell another man to go buy a bra and get a manicure (hey, Kings of Leon? I'm not going to buy your music ever again, fyi). It's just harmless fun to use female-centric insults for teasing. Besides, the guy telling me this is a feminist male so he would know what feminism is!

Then there's THIS. Hey, you men, STFU. You do not get to decide when a woman has been raped. You don't. A WOMAN gets to decide if she's been raped. A woman gets to decide what to do with her body.

Personally, I'm anti-abortion. Politically, however, I'm pro-choice because I do not have the ability to tell someone else what to do with their body. It is their decision. I'm really really sick of hypocritical Evangelicals trying to legislate other people's morality all while preaching that they hate big government. What the fuck do you think this is?! What do you think telling someone who they can and cannot marry is? And you're pissed that the US government wants to expand social programs already in place? Oh fuck you.

The other part that pisses me off about this is the hypocriticalness of the anti-abortion position. From the article:

A 1994/95 survey of nearly 10,000 abortion patients showed 18% of women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians. Many of these women are likely anti-choice. The survey also showed that Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women. A Planned Parenthood handbook on abortion notes that nearly half of all abortions are for women who describe themselves as born-again Christian, Evangelical Christian, or Catholic.

So, gee, it's good for you but it's not good enough for those slutty, awful, other women?

My problem isn't with these women having abortions. They can. It's with the fact that some of them go right back out onto the picket lines and try their slut shaming. How do they live with themselves?

Don't like abortion? Invent an artificial womb. Until then, deal with the fact that each woman has free choice of what to do with her body and she has to live with the ramifications of her decision.

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[maple-mahogany.livejournal.com]

I wish there were a *like* button.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

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[midnight-birth.livejournal.com]

I'm very with you with the abortion rant.

I don't keep up with entertainment news, so out of curiosity I went to the link you left and read what happened... And if I'm understanding this right, what happened was Kings of Leon refused to let Glee use their music, at which point the creator of Glee got butt-hurt and publicly called them out, calling them assholes, accusing them of striking out against arts education, and telling them to go fuck themselves? Because that makes him look like a self-entitled douchebag. Personally, I hate Glee and think it has ruined most music it touched, and while I know there are tons of people out there who don't either, and tons of people who really do, it's a personal opinion. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Kings of Leon not wanting to get involved. It doesn't make them assholes, or against music education, it is their music and their right, and I would probably feel uncomfortable anyone remixing my songs if I was a musician too, for which I would not expect to be drugged through the mud publicly because "HOW CAN YOU NOT WANT TO BE IN GLEE OMG ETC." :/

Of course, that doesn't, to me, make what Followill said in response either right or justified. I see why it would be considered both misogynistic or homophobic, and it is most certainly not humorous in any way, shape, or form. People whose words reach the world have a responsibility to think before they say it, and the fact that he followed it up with "Oh, I didn't mean it like THAT" is not excusable because he Twitted it. It's not like it escaped his mouth in the heat of the moment. He WROTE it. Could have re-read it.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, basically, the creator of Glee got all butt hurt and then Followill thought it would be a lark to insult him using female-centric insults. There were plenty of other insults he could've used that didn't require misogynistic statements. "Talentless hack living pipedreams through others that actually have talent" wouldn't have been insulting to women or gays.

I don't watch Glee but I also won't be buying Kings of Leon, either. There's no need to insult a large part of your audience by deriding them.

And what I especially don't need to see is a bunch of men telling women to get a sense of humor about the insults and that he didn't mean anything bad by it. Besides, why is it insulting to women that men don't want to throw like girls? They shouldn't want to throw like girls! Nevermind the implication that throwing like a girl, crying like a girl is always a bad awful evil thing that no one should ever want to be.

[starlitshore.livejournal.com]

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

REDEFINING RAPE?

ADKFJASD;LFKJAS;LDKFJKFS ASSHOLES.

I'm pro-choice because, like you, I believe in a woman's right to do as she will with her own body. I personally wouldn't get one unless my life was in grave danger or I'd somehow ended up pregnant when I was way too young to provide properly for a child, but I don't begrudge other women who get them. (Unless, of course, they like to get them as a form of birth control, which I totally disagree with.)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yep. Forget rohypnol. That ain't rape cause it ain't by physical force!

And yeah - if I was in danger or if the child wasn't going to live, I would probably make that tough choice. But it's not my place to insert my own morality on other women. In the end, they're the ones that have to make peace with that decision.

Maybe we could take a bit of the money used to research male pattern baldness and erectile dysfunction and put it into creating artificial wombs. But then the menfolk and holier than thou folk wouldn't be able to lecture those loose wimmens on how they're evil, immoral WHORES.

[starlitshore.livejournal.com]

There are times when I want to rip certain men's penises right off so that they can never ever use them. This is one of those times.

Random, but in connection with your comment about men making anti-woman jokes ... In university they always have a dodgeball tournament for the first years in residence. The first year I was a residence don, two of the boys on my floor ordered their shirts so that their names were "Rohy" and "Pnol". I nearly murdered them I was so angry. :|

Exactly. Especially since a lot of these people in the anti-choice movement are speaking from a very personal, very religious point of view. I have a major issue with the way the US treats "separation of church and state". Which is to say, not at all. *sigh*

HA. Baldness. I can't believe money goes into CURING BALDNESS wtf. It's just goddamn HAIR.

Those holier than thou folk can all go shove it up their asses. If I were a woman who'd had an abortion, I'd just tell them that I was taking preventative measures to ensure that the child didn't have to suffer through the pain of living in a world with bigots like them.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Even worse than ripping their collective dicks off, I want them to have to be women for a week. Just a week, to see how it is.

Those two dudes would've been booted off any team I was in charge of, let me tell you. They also would've been forced to go to a rape counsel center to see what it's like. JESUS GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH PPL?!

That's what gets me. There's so much research into male pattern baldness but whenever anyone wants to fund stuff that would benefit women, well, then. Forget that shit.

I'm really really tired of the holier than thou ppl. If one more person does that "tweet if you agree that the abortion holocaust is worse than the Holocaust" I will fucking go off. Stop with the Godwin's on the abortion issues. Just stop.

I get that you weep for the babies that are dying but how about doing something about it that doesn't punish the woman? How about working towards making an artificial womb? How about making it so that men carry the kids when women don't want to and/or can't? How about educating women, especially, on alternative forms of birth control? How about working on creating a world where rape doesn't happen?

But oh, no. It's easier to just say those slutty awful murdering whores and leave the world as is.

[starlitshore.livejournal.com]

I kind of wish ALL MEN had to live as women for a week.

RIGHT? And the worst part was the the girls on my floor found it funny. *weeps*

Yeah, no kidding. Who cares about cervical cancer or ovarian cysts? Pfft. Baldness affects their self esteem.

Okay 1) I wish people would stop with the Godwin's in general and 2) do they even understand the purpose behind the extermination of all those people during the Holocaust? IGNORANT PPL IHU.

The problem is that the more they label rape victims are sluts, the more acceptable rape becomes.
"She was wearing a skirt. She was asking for it."
"She was wearing tight jeans. He couldn't have gotten those off without her help."
"There was no tearing, so she must've been aroused."
"She shouldn't have been walking alone in the dark if she didn't want to be raped."

Message being sent to men: Rape is just a word women throw around to get you in trouble because the don't want a bad reputation. All women want you to have sex with them, even the ones saying "no".

[anathema91.livejournal.com]

So I read your post, and the articles you've linked to and now I'm feeling all angry. Seriously, there is way too much fail in this world.

I need to go listen to some happy music for a while to cheer myself back up.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, rage. Up and down the sides of my face all weekend over these. I just finally blew and had to let it out.

I went and listened to some awesome pro-women music. It made me feel better.

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[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Bahhhhhh. *pissed* The abortion thing makes me particularly angry, because that's a topic I feel very, very strongly about. I use two methods of birth control religiously because I really don't want kids, but if somehow both those methods failed, you can bet I'd want that option as a last resort. Every other woman should have that option too, especially if there were any doubt whatsoever about her ability to consent. *fists of rage*

[wook77.livejournal.com]

<3 It really really annoys me that this is the priority for the Republicans, especially. They get elected because of the promise to downsize government and create jobs - so how does this become a priority? This doesn't create jobs.

Then again, the CBO has also said that eliminating the Health Care Reform Act would stifle jobs creation too so I guess I shouldn't expect much brains out of the Right.

It's all just victim blaming and limiting the decisions that women can make for themselves. It's like they're so afraid that women might make informed decisions on their own without male-input that they've decided to limit it, legally, instead. The list of women that can't get the care they're legally allowed is ridiculous.

So much rage.

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

Fuck. I love their music too. Assholes. I'm starting to hate social networking and want to go back to the 80s where I didn't know jack shit about talent and could just enjoy their work w/o knowing what raging assholes they are.

I have my own major issues with Murphy, but that comment was a steaming pile of shit.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Me too. I thought they were egotistical twats before but the nastiness of those comments and the heidipology were just too much for me. If I were supporting them, financially, at this point, IDK how I'd justify it to myself. IDK which is worse - the homophobia or the misogyny in his statements. I get that the Glee guy was acting like a spoiled little baby but I do not see where he deserved the homophobia/misogyny. Instead, Followill could easily have said that Murphy was a talentless hack that was living his own pipedreams through the actual and real talents of others. There's an insult that doesn't insult women, as well.

IDK if I'd want to not know or not. Like - I liked Orson Scott Card but I'm glad I know he's a homophobic dickweed so that I don't financially support his homophobia.