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[rocknload]

It seems like I missed all the abortion drama—the LJ stuff, I mean, I've been following the George Tiller stuff. Which is probably a good thing, I think everyone's said everything I would've, and I don't need to get more angry about stuff. Unfortunately, I haven't missed all the AM radio coverage of the abortion debate, which means I've been listening to a lot of men shouting at each other about the subject, and I have come to a conclusion! (Also I was thinking about this because of the post heytherenatalie made a few days ago.)

It'd be psycho of me to be all, "Men can't have an opinion about the subject!" Really psycho. But seriously? If you're a dude, you're totally oblivious to your male privilege and you refuse to acknowledge the fact that you will never be pregnant might be influencing you, here, and you insist on sharing your opinion anyway? Shut the fuck up. SHUT THE FUCK UP. Women don't need you to tell us what to do, and that's exactly what you're trying to do anyway, you fucking condescending assholes.

Like I said, I've been listening to a lot of talk radio, so this is directed at all of those wignuts. All the dudes on my flist except pretzelcoatl are awesome, obviously.

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[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

All the dudes on my flist are awesome, obviously.

Even when I contemplated answering the "What's your dream house?" question today with this?

My dream house would be like the following:

You walk in through the gates into a beautiful garden with a fountain, and the lovely smell of flowers wafts by as you stroll up to the sizeable porch with wicker furniture. You knock, and are allowed to enter into the entranceway. It is deceptively large on the inside, but yet the arrangement of furniture and artwork and the colors of the rugs and paint make the entire place warm and inviting. A warm breeze helps to make everything seem alive. There is a seat for you at the table with a plate of warm cookies. You sit, and take one and bite into it.

And then thousands of spiders pour out from the cookie down into your throat and cover your body, slowly devouring you alive.

And on my throne within my interdimensional cloister, I laugh.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

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[rocknload.livejournal.com]

No. Not you. Not anymore.

[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

You sure?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm sure, I--ALL HAIL THE HYPNOGOOSE

ANDY IS AWESOME

CLEARLY

[gaulish.livejournal.com]

L-lol Alex Jones.

But in all seriousness, I hope people from both sides can come together and say that's horrible. Well, at least I'm pretty sure they are. Everyone's entitled to their feelings on the matter, regardless, BUT violence and mutilated fetuses posters aren't helping. This also gives me a headache, because I am honestly SPLIT on abortion.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I'm a little conflicted, too. I think most people are, if they're honest about it. But to me the legal side of things is pretty clear cut—if you, say, desperately need my left kidney to live, nothing else will save you, the law still cannot compel me to give it to you. Even to save your life! So the thought of legally compelling a woman to remain pregnant against her will is sort of disgusting to me, and so where I fall on the issue is therefore pretty obvious. THUS I AM VEHEMENTLY PRO-CHOICE, even if I'm not entirely sure what I'd do, myself.

I'm open to debate about it! But I'm quickly leaning towards NO MEN NEED BOTHER THEMSELVES TALKING TO ME ABOUT THE SUBJECT >/ which is a shame, really, there's no reason why they shouldn't chime in—except for the fact that the majority of them make fucking asses out of themselves.

[unicorn]

I despise talk radio so much, at this point.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Even the people who aren't total assholes invite total assholes to talk to them. Unfortunately, it's really hard to fall asleep at two in the morning when you're listening to Bill O'Reily being very loudly righteously indignant, so that's what we do.

[unicorn]

I heard Rush Limbaugh say "Obama is leading the country into socialism and facism!" the other day. Really, Rush? Really?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Obama's doing apparently practically everything wrong, he's talented at sucking so much! And none of them are even acknowledging the stuff Obama is actually sucking at—like how he might be helping to cover up the torture our military did and how he might not be closing Guantanamo. You'd think that'd make the talk radio lunatics happy! I mean, they could be happy he's failing or happy because that's in line with with their politics, but EITHER WAY, WHERE IS THEIR HAPPINESS?

[unicorn]

THERE ARE VALID CRITICISMS TO BE MADE but honestly, I can't take anyone who throws around socialism and facism in the same sentence seriously. And I think that him being vaguely apologetic about the Guantanamo thing makes it not count?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

The apologetic thing makes me angry. I mean, I know he's a politician but he really seems to ACTUALLY BELIEVE that closing the place down is the RIGHT THING TO DO, and he's not going to do it? Fuck that. And the American public is overwhelmingly in favor of leaving it open, too, which makes me so goddamn angry.

THERE ARE PLENTY OF VALID CRITICISMS but those people are either idiots themselves, or they're even worse—they're manipulative assholes who are taking advantage of the idiots in their audience and going B. HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A MUSLIM FROM KENYA BE AFRAID OF HIM FREAK THE FUCK OUT ON MY SIGNAL. And some of them must be doing that. Which is terrifying, I think the whole Dr. Tiller thing sort of illustrates that. A guy on Alan Colmes' show was explaining how he's been praying for God to strike Obama down, now that God had already taken out Tiller.

[unicorn]

I'd rather see someone do what they actually think it's right whether people agree with them or not, though considering a few past presidencies, maybe that isn't a wise policy.

Yeah, just -- I'm pretty sure most of them are smarter than they sound to us, they're just trying to be deliberately inflammatory. Which is horrible, what the hell!

--aaauuuuugh.

[heytherenatalie.livejournal.com]

The opinions on that post were all so varied, but more importantly so valid. It's a passionate subject, but I wish people would understand that behind every opinion is a person, and to be respectful.

I'm torn on it myself.