February 2012
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
Woman: My boyfriend isn't excited about sex anymore, because I lost my figure due to pregnancy. Will you pay for his erectile dysfunction pills?
Government: Yes.
[TW] RAPE IS MORE COMMON THAN SMOKING IN THE U.S. →
bossyfemme:
sssupercovennn:
msamberhazard:
catamite:
I want to graffiti that headline EVERYWHERE.
Sooooo money goes towards preventing and legislating against smoking but not rape prevention… I mean, how much fucking money goes into those worthless ads about quitting smoking? How much of that could go towards sexual education?
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DAMN IT.
feminist historian: Suit Says Obama Can’t Run In... →
fracturedrefuge:
abaldwin360:
Alaska-(ENEWSPF)- A man from Juneau, Alaska, has filed suit with the state’s Division of Elections to bar President Obama from appearing on that state’s ballot on the basis that the President is a “Mulatto”, and “the race of ‘Negro’ or ‘Mulatto’ had…
“If we had 51% women in Congress, do you think we’d be debating access to...”
– Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (via think-progress)
feminist historian: You don't actually think a... →
nessfraserloves:
abaldwin360:
religiousragings:
like-an-echo:
When you hear that a woman gets an abortion, you go nuts about the fetus having rights. You feel sorry for the poor baby. You feel angry because the baby was done injustice. It’s about the baby.
Taking the…
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via transformfeminism)
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
“We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe...”
– Jane Elliott (via borninflames82
)
“If I had the choice between wearing a burka and a playboy bunny symbol, I would...”
– Ariel Levy (writer of female chauvinist pigs)
I’m listening her talk live at my school and she definitely just inferred that wearing a burka is just as oppressive and objectifying an associating with playboy
(and of course that all playboy bunnies are oppressed)
oh, and apparently after i left...
