[Image description: Two young white women with brown hair and white t-shirts stand in front of a stone and iron fence. They are holding professional-quality orange and white signs. The woman on the left’s sign reads, “Without the right to life” and the woman on the right’s sign reads, “All other rights are meaningless.”]
Which is why I’m pro-life
What about the right to food? The right to shelter? The right to not have your freedom restricted to pad the dividends of the Prison-Industrial Complex? The right to make informed choices about contraception, pregnancy, and birth without being subject to domestic terrorism? The right to opt out of parenthood if you know you are unprepared, unfit, dangerous, or simply not ready? The right to an education that nurtures your particular strengths and skills? The right to safe, clean, legal abortion?
These people aren’t advocating for “life.” They are advocating a political strategy that stigmatizes a legal medical procedure in order to punish those they see as sexually transgressive with either death or the financial instability that follows from a lack of reproductive choice. This will never be about life and it will always be about a longing for despotic control of people’s lives by starving them of reproductive freedom.
JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR.
Garland Grey, everybody. *stands up, claps slowly*
Because, as we all know, “life” is equivalent to gestating and being born. Life does not consist of anything beyond that moment. Being loved, being wanted, being cared for, being cherished, being safe, being healthy, being hopeful, none of that has anything to do with life.
Pro-life: where the entirety of existence is reduced to your time spent in someone else’s uterus.
ugh, these idiots are in Ireland. that photo is outside our Houses of Parliament (the Dáil). Ireland, which, if I may remind you, already outlaws abortion at a Constitutional level, and which has had a Supreme Court judgment dangling for TWENTY YEARS to allow an Irish doctor perform an abortion in case of threat to the mother, but hasn’t gotten around to codifying that.
and yet some fuckwits still think we require a Pro-Life Campaign group here. makes me sick to the stomach.
In 1997, 17-year-old Zooey Deschanel wrote to Vogue: http://twitpic.com/9ra1aw
(via @LettersofNote)
women don’t have to:
- be thin
- have a vagina
- give birth
- cook for you
- have long hair
- wear makeup
- have sex with you
- be feminine
- be graceful
- shave
- be white
- diet
- be fashionable
- wear pink
- love men
- be the media’s idea of perfection
- listen to your bullshit
women kind of have to have a vagina though don’t they?
Nah, people with Gender Dysphoria may find themselves born unfortunately ‘male’. (Those fucking Y chromosomes, maan)
We’re brought up to believe that a vaginoplasty is the norm, because so many trans* people who speak out on TV have the procedure and in many countries the procedure is required to legally change one’s gender but there is pressure to change that law, especially since the opposite procedure (peneplasty) is kinda gross and unsafe.
Most medical insurance doesn’t cover this kind of procedure either so you’d have to fund the operation yourself. Overall just ‘cause society tells us trans* people should dump their birthgender sexual organs, bottom line is it ain’t that simple.
(Although I still find MPREG inherently fucked up. Why would you want to have a baby and ugh yeah I guess you have to live it to understand it)
Let’s Talk About Binding!
BINDING: for trans*folk, genderbenders, cosplaying, drag, whathaveyou!
Bandages VS. Binders
Bandages:
- Don’t bind with bandages! Ever!
- Using bandages to bind is harmful and may cause: shortness of breath, bruising, broken ribs, fluid build-up in lungs, long term health effects, etc! Yuck!
- You have other options! Bandages are not one of them!
Binders:
- Bind responsibly!
- Proper binders are sold through the ‘Net with all the great effects of binding with (fewer to) no side effects!
- Wear longer! More breathability!
- Binders can be purchased relatively cheap; new, used, or through a big brother program!
- Never wear a binder that is too small!
Caution:
- Never bind for more than 8 to 12 hours at a time!
- Never sleep in a binder!
- If you feel sick or out of breath, take off your binder!
Let’s be honest, as I’ve spoken about before, I am sick and tired of seeing people glorifying Ace bandages as a method of binding. Be it through art, literature, photography, videography, or otherwise, it’s not uncommon to see trans*folk bound via bandages. Time to raise awareness on this matter is long overdue, and I’m hoping to spread the word.
Don’t use bandages to bind, Ace or medical or otherwise! It does not matter how stretchy they are, it does not matter if they were advised to you through a “professional”, they are not safe.
Stop glorifying Ace bandages to bind!
If you cannot afford a real binder, look into used sales or big brother programs, there are dozens around tumblr that are eager to help! You always have options!
Spread the awareness, spread the facts, bandages are harmful to bind with!
Many of you BGC readers have asked me about Binders, either for regular or short-term wear, and I didn’t have any thorough sort of info on the subject. Hopefully this will answer the majority of questions and clear up some misinformation.
Drunk Man Tries Walking Up Hill.
JESUS FUCKIUNG CHRIST
This is tragic, clearly intoxicated in broad daylight and people find it amusing?
I found an interesting Tumblr the other day called Advice For a Generation of Men. The blog is full of earnest advice on how to be a real man’s man. You know, the kind of stuff today’s panty-waisted betas need to be told because it doesn’t come naturally to them like it does to us.
For the most part, the blog is spot-on, but some of his advice just seems a little too subtle. So I’ve gone through some of his posts and added my own clarifications in bold red text to better illuminate AFAGOM’s subtext.
I still use the UK Police Force phonetic alphabet.
Indigo > India
It’s not about reason.
or simply ‘chosing to be happy’
“THROUGH A RAPIST’S EYES”
”THROUGH A RAPIST’S EYES” (PLS TAKE TIME TO READ THIS. it may save a life.) Reblog this!
It seems that alot of attackers use some tactic to get away with violence. Not many people know how to take care of themselves when faced with such a
situation. Everyone should read this especially each n every girl in this world. THOUGHT THIS WAS GOOD INFO TO PASS ALONG…
FYI - Through a rapist’s eyes! A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:
(list after the read more)
tl;stillread
basically : How to stop being a victim/prey
and do what rapists tell you will stop [them] rapists from raping (Committing a depraved act).
When what we ought to be doing is finding a way to instil in rapists to stop being predators.
because remember girls “‘Helping hands are better than Praying Lips’ – give us your helping hand”
but teaching rapists not to rape is even better.
You went through a phase where every film you were in you were taking your clothes off.Your efforts are greatly appreciated, sir.
