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tiffannu: ifitgivesyoujoy: A message from the birthday...

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:15:14 -0400

ifitgivesyoujoy:

A message from the birthday boy.

Top 10 Attacks on Women’s Rights This Year

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:11:18 -0400

Top 10 Attacks on Women’s Rights This Year:

The Right Wing decided it wanted to play Monday Morning Quarterback with my lady parts this year. It seems like an odd choice for a recreational activity, especially since there’s no legislative or medical reason to suddenly introduce radically restrictive and dangerous legislation on women’s health and bodies. Maybe someone should introduce them to Pinterest instead.

Here are our Top 10 Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Attacks on Women’s Rights (just in the last 6 months!)

The Blunt Amendment. Reasonable religious exemptions weren’t enough for Roy Blunt. This amendment would have allowed your employer – not your doctor - to decide what kind of health care you could get based on his or her own personal moral or religious convictions.

The All-Male Birth Control Panel, or the Man Panel. Congressman Darrell Issa convened a panel to discuss the coverage of birth control – but refused to include any women.

Susan G. Komen Foundation defunds Planned Parenthood. Komen opted to cut off funding to the largest provider of reproductive health services in the US because of their new VP’s objection to a mere 3% of their activities.

Rush Limbaugh Calls Sandra Fluke a Prostitute and a Slut. After Sandra Fluke stood up for women everywhere, Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves and called her a prostitute and a slut for speaking out in favor of birth control coverage. He also said she should have to put videos of her having sex online to compensate the taxpayers who “are going to pay for your contraceptives.” Classy.

Forced Trans-Vaginal Ultrasounds. Republican legislators in Virginia invited the commonwealth into the exam room when they proposed a bill that would require women seeking abortions to undergo an invasive, medically-unnecessary vaginal probe before their procedure.

Texas defunds Planned Parenthood. Under Governor Rick Perry, the state of Texas banned funding to Planned Parenthood because it provides abortion services. In the end, though, this fight has only served to hurt low-income women looking for breast cancer screenings, birth control and pap smears.

Women in the Military Should “Expect” to be Raped. Responding to a 64% increase in the reports of rape and violent sexual assaults in the military, Fox News pundit Liz Trotta responds, “What did they expect?” She goes on to say that there is a bureaucracy of people to support these women who are being “raped too much.”

Foster Friess Suggests Women Put Aspirin Between Their Knees. Rick Santorum supporter, Foster Friess, reminisced about back in his day when ladies put aspirin between their knees for birth control. Back in his day, people also died of polio.

Santorum wants to deny birth control coverage because he thinks it’s available and affordable. Despite the fact that most forms of birth control still require a prescription and 1 in 3 women have reported struggling to afford birth control. Santorum feels there is no barrier to access, so it shouldn’t be covered by insurance.

Mitt Romney doesn’t understand a woman’s reproductive system. Romney has publicly supported “personhood amendments,” which would ban abortion by declaring life begins at conception. When asked about how this affects birth control, Romney seemed to be completely unaware that hormonal forms of birth control stop implantation, not conception and would be banned under any personhood amendment.

And it’s only the middle of March.

There is something wrong with me, but I find him so very, very...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:35:09 -0500

There is something wrong with me, but I find him so very, very attractive.

digitalash: petrovyelyenaandme: AMAZING

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:22:33 -0500

digitalash:

petrovyelyenaandme:

AMAZING

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:06 -0500

werewolfbyday: brownley: Howl’s Moving Castle: Made entirely...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:41:19 -0500

werewolfbyday:

brownley:

Howl’s Moving Castle: Made entirely from paper.

RT @ZodiacFacts: #Taurus can be an ultimate force to be reckoned with and are absolutely fearless in...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:48:04 -0500

RT @ZodiacFacts: #Taurus can be an ultimate force to be reckoned with and are absolutely fearless in defense.

My bed is being shed on, I only have a quarter to sleep on, and I’m being used as a pillow....

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:58:30 -0500

My bed is being shed on, I only have a quarter to sleep on, and I’m being used as a pillow. Nearly all is as it should be in my world.

This weekend has had a lot of fabulous moments and a couple shitty ones. Brought into perspective...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:46:12 -0500

This weekend has had a lot of fabulous moments and a couple shitty ones. Brought into perspective how lucky I am in friends and family. <3

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! And if you don’t celebrate it, well have a fabulous day anyway.

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:04:06 -0500

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! And if you don’t celebrate it, well have a fabulous day anyway.

I’m gonna say it here where I can’t get the “you’re pathetic” face. I...

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:13:02 -0500

I’m gonna say it here where I can’t get the “you’re pathetic” face. I miss my dogs. It’s nice to have the bed to myself, though!

The dogs have been dropped off at the pet hotel. I didn’t cry, YOU cried.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:54:58 -0500

The dogs have been dropped off at the pet hotel. I didn’t cry, YOU cried.

RT @ZodiacFacts: A #Gemini woman is rather independent,so don’t try to control her activities...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:34:45 -0500

RT @ZodiacFacts: A #Gemini woman is rather independent,so don’t try to control her activities or restrict them, she’ll become quarrelsom …

I should apparently charge for my hugs due to their therapeutic qualities.

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:20:58 -0500

I should apparently charge for my hugs due to their therapeutic qualities.

It probably says something about me that I consider Hitman a romantic movie.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 01:29:21 -0500

It probably says something about me that I consider Hitman a romantic movie.

“Glam the fuck out of them!” may have just become my battle cry for the rest of forever.

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:49:47 -0500

“Glam the fuck out of them!” may have just become my battle cry for the rest of forever.

Bitch, you wish you had half the respect and affection I do. Keep trying. #passiveaggressivewut

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:28:03 -0500

Bitch, you wish you had half the respect and affection I do. Keep trying. #passiveaggressivewut

Honestly, @iburnsmallkids I don’t think that quote gets any better in context.

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:48:23 -0500

Honestly, @iburnsmallkids I don’t think that quote gets any better in context.

What the actual fuck

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:14:46 -0500

What the actual fuck

Made muffins for the animal shelter bake sale. My dog ate them.

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:06:34 -0500

Made muffins for the animal shelter bake sale. My dog ate them.