I was going to post something light and airy today, something fun and gratitude-filled. But I found this on Facebook this morning.
Every time one of you fuckers asks what’s under attack, read it. And don’t get all namby-pamby and innocent and ask incredulously are women really under attack? and say things like it’s not so bad and nothing’s being taken away and any more of your condescending, male-entitled bullshit. If you are walking around with a dick between your legs and think that you have any clue whatsoever, you don’t. Just shut up when needed and when it’s time to speak use it well to support your wives, daughters, mothers, sisters, and grandmothers. CAPICHE?
If you came here from somewhere else and you think I’m in the She-Woman Man Hater’s Club, you don’t know me well. But I can kinda see where you might get that idea. On the contrary, I love you guys, but like Erin O’Brien says: get out of our vaginas unless you are invited in.
Okay, so Madonna doesn’t have anything to do with this post and I don’t even care much for her. But she really knows how to give the finger and her name is Madonna and this post is about women. So there.
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Many years ago, on a beautiful Saturday morning at about 11 a.m., my wife walked up to the side entrance of the Planned Parenthood in west Colorado Springs (C.S. is ground zero for the theocracy, but that’s another story) by her usual route, when a SWAT team guy with an automatic weapon jumps out of the bushes and shouts “how did you get here?” I guess she had unknowingly pierced their defenses. The clinic was closed because of a bomb threat. So the 120 mile round trip was wasted. The more we think things change, the more they stay the same. And by the same, I mean like during the Inquisition or Salem Witch Trials.
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Twinkly, I’m back from locking the chickens in, and have thought about the full weight of your response, and you are certainly entitled to your feelings. I just want to add that I think what’s between your ears counts for as much as what’s between your legs, and that there have been some good men who stood beside their sisters in the struggle, and some women who have been traitors to their kind as well.
I know that some of my sentences up there are a. rude and b. potentially offensive. I was pretty fired up when writing them.
I know there may be as many women as men who oppose reproductive rights, access to health care, abortion rights, contraception, education, and more. And many good men who are doing good work and standing up for what is right for women. Most of the men I know are such men.
I wish this were a world in which women had full control of everything related to their sexual and reproductive health and that men could be left out of the equation. I know that may sound offensive, too, and it is not particularly realistic.
Erin O’Brien over at her blog posted about this issue yesterday and she got 72 comments. I love that.
I want my readers to take me to task and to be honest, so thank you Ray!
I am not too good with political matters in many ways. My emotions get the better of me, which is not an excuse, but my blog is exactly the place I have chosen to let them have their due, for better and worse.
The woman whose post I linked to has written a much clearer article about the whole thing. It’s excellent and it deserves to be widely read. Mine, maybe not so much!
K