Sick'ov it

this goes out to people telling me that the amendment was necessary for the overall bill to pass

abbyjean:

As usual, if you want to get anything done in America, step one is to sacrifice the mental and physical health of women by making it an Abortion Issue.  So although HR 218 passed about forty minutes ago, it passed with an amendment which prohibits any insurance company receiving federal funds from covering abortions.  This has the charming effect of probably killing insurance coverage for abortion altogether, notes NARAL:

The Stupak-Pitts amendment makes it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women. This would have the effect of denying women the right to use their own personal private funds to purchase an insurance plan with abortion coverage in the new health system — a radical departure from the status quo. Presently, more than 85 percent of private-insurance plans cover abortion services.

Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying to explain to you that this is really no big deal, look, they had to get the Republicans onboard SOMEHOW, this is just a battle but we won the war, etc etc.  It all makes me want to crawl back up across the border.  Why don’t these men ever notice that their go-to bargaining chip is women’s bodies?  And if they do notice, why doesn’t it bother them? (harpyness)

unburyingthelead:

“I just felt this strong connection with her—just this fundamental rightness,” he said. When the couple got off the bus, they went shopping for a set of silver-spiked brass knuckles. “Not to sound too crude—not to degrade the romantic aspect of it—but an engagement ring is what?” asked Mr. Cubitt, who was wearing frayed, fingerless gloves. “It’s essentially you peeing on your territory. It’s a way to mark your lover, to say she’s accounted for. What better way to ward off potential suitors than with brass knuckles?”

- Countdown to Bliss

I mean, YES.

This is a wonderful collision of worlds

“Gervais and Merchant return after making the second series of The office. All three of them are also just back from the Edinburgh festival where Pilkington produced a radio show with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.”

- rickygervaisshow.com talking about xfm over the years

Okay, so..

Ricky Gervais is on Spaced (circa 2000/2001) for half a second.
Stephen Merchant appears in Hot Fuzz and Fun, Fatboy, Run in scenes with Simon Pegg.
Karl co-hosted xfm with Simon and Nick Frost one day in 2002?? (stupid internet will not help me out with specifics)

I really hope that they are all pals since The Office/Spaced. :D

Ew. Ew ew ewwww.

“So does that mean that my struggle as a woman and a feminist less valid because I am white? Is it uptopian to think that women could unite on one front, that is being women! I was not raised to see the differences in people immediately, rather the similarities. Am I automatically going to be categorized as privileged and therefore the enemy, even though when I argue for “women’s rights” I don’t mean black women or white women, I mean WOMEN? Is my opinion forever tainted? How do I truly rectify this without becoming one of Hoffman’s white feminists who misguidedly “include” women of color? And how am I to truly understand the plight of someone else, when I am not them, and therefore their experience is subjective, regardless of whatever “group” they belong to. See, there we go with the groups again.

I have the best intentions here, but I truly feel that continuing to marginalize and categorize only furthers the problem. I don’t mean to diminish the experiences of women of color, but I realize that as a white woman I can never truly feel what she feels. But I can identify with her on our commonalities.

What I meant by laywoman was not in the slightest way meant to be derogatory or elitist, although I am sure that’s how it was perceived. It was simply a figure of speech used to describe a woman who has not taken upon herself or had the opportunity to engage in feminism.

I mean, at the end of the day, in the vacuum we all are WOMEN aren’t we?”

-commenter “powerandstilletos” at bitchmagazine.com

shut up.