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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.

Comments

[maple-mahogany.livejournal.com]

I wish there were a *like* button.

[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.

[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.)

[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.

[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*

[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.