Previously known as natalyaowr. Most likely to appear here: Homestuck, Sherlock, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Supernatural, The Lorax, Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts,Hetalia, Ace Attorney, and various other things.
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You’re bad at this, Rush Limbaugh. You don’t even understand how babies are made, let alone how people can have sex without making a baby, and you would like the government to take over decision-making on these issues on your say-so. And you don’t get it. You biologically don’t get it. You just don’t understand it. You were absent that day. - Rachel Maddow
Oh Rachel, I love you for this segment.
This segment was flawless.
The only thing I wish she’d added at the end was the the reason he may be confused is because he thinks birth control pills have to be taken every time you have sex just like the prescription Viagra pills the he continues to be caught with.
I will reblog every bit of this as it happens…because its pretty ridiculous that grown people who are complaining about employers providing full coverage for their employees can reject them based on information on birth control a freshman could access with 10 keystokes. He’s uninformed and being paid obscene amounts of money to be so.
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° Watson is no longer the accomplished and decorated war hero and army doctor, two aspects of the character which have always, in some way or another, coloured the way the character behaves and the decisions they make. Not only does it change the character, but it sends a message that women aren’t capable of fighting for their country.
° Related to the above, Watson has no longer been invalided home from anywhere. Again, this is not only important to the character, but sends a message that war wounds are only sexy on men and that women are too weak to go through that.
° She’s a disgraced surgeon who’s lost her license. Oh. Not only has she had the military career erased, but she’s incompetent as well? Fabulous. There are so many other reasons for her to be able to be Jonny Lee Miller’s Boswell without also taking away the one thing that does make her successful. This is completely unnecessary, and once again sends the message that women can’t cope in fields that are predominately male-dominated.
°Joan Three Continents Watson will never fly. As much as I’d love to see this aspect remain intact, I strongly doubt it will. And I think this will be the biggest disappointment of the lot.
Poor reasons to be annoyed with CBS right now:
° Watson is a woman, so all the gay will be erased. What gay, exactly? The only Holmes I can ever recall as being canonically stated as gay was from the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and Watson was horrified to learn this. All other adaptations where homosexuality is mentioned have been rife with ‘lol they said “gay”’ jokes.
° Watson being a woman will kill the ship. Yes, because heterosexuals are so disgusting. Oh wait…
° I prefer to look at manmeat in my porn. … I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. I can’t even begin to articulate how ridiculous this is.
TL;DR: Yes. it is fine and dandy to be upset for CBS, but a lot of people are being upset for the WAY wrong reasons./THIS/ argument makes sense.
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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.
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Follow me down the rabbit hole for a second:
I’ve long wondered if this - that women don’t recognize the symptoms of a heart attack in themselves, and consequently don’t get the fast care that is vital for heart attack survival - is the reason heart disease is the #1 killer in women. Women statistically take better care of themselves health-wise, than men do. Women see doctors more frequently and are more likely to follow those doctors’ recommendations closely. Why would both men and women have the same most common cause of death?
Heart attack symptoms in men are well known. We all know what it means when a guy on TV clutches his chest or left arm and falls over. This scene is often followed by a rush to the emergency room in an ambulance, and a shirtless guy being shocked back to sinus rhythm with the electric paddles. “CLEAR!” Right? Everyone knows that’s what a heart attack looks like. Because of TV.
Except you can’t show a topless woman on TV - and you can’t defibrillate a woman in a bra. So victims of heart attacks on TV are *always* male. Did you know that a woman having a heart attack is more likely to have back or jaw pain than chest or left arm pain? I didn’t - because I’ve never seen a woman having a heart attack. I’ve been trained in CPR and Advanced First Aid by the Red Cross over 15 times in my life, the videos and booklets always have a guy and say the same thing about clutching his chest and/or bicep.
And people laugh when I tell them women are still invisible in this world.
Things I did not know, but should.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your “religious freedom.” If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs. - Barack Obama
oh, BO. You understand me.
Boom.
Saying what we’re all thinking.
((Oh so… people with values who don’t believe in using contraceptives or having sex before one’s married… just go to hell, all of you people with values and beliefs and religion. Because you churches have to PAY for this insurance whether you use it or not even though it goes against all of your morals and values. Because the government said FUCK YOU CHURCHES. And I was pretty sure the liberals were all uppity on “separation of church and state”…?
If you don’t like my opinion, I’m not sorry.))
You know…I heard this case the other day about a woman who wouldn’t let her have her learning disabled child who was raped have the pill when she became pregnant because she’d be sinning letting this child die. So she’ll be having this baby that she never wanted. She’ll have to care for this baby on her own. And the child will have to live it’s entire life knowing it was conceived this way.
So yeah. It’s cases like that make me think Obama has the right idea. The Church can afford to help people like this even if they don’t “believe it”. It’s not hurting anyone. It’s helping people. And isn’t that what Christianity should be expressing? Loving thy neighbour and helping each other and stuff? God…
Sometimes, America does ridiculous things that render me nearly speechless, and then Obama comes up and voices my opinion much better.
(Source: atheiststardust, via princesslizzyofathousandmuses)
Official Tumblr politics editor Ryking, talking about how me and my little loaf of bread were provoking men to say they wanted me “kneecapped and raped.” (via afternoonsnoozebutton)
I just wrote to Tumblr Support to ask “why is this man an editor of the politics tag?”
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