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Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Would Force Women To Report Their Miscarriages To Police

abaldwin360:

If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that’s what would have happened if a bill introduced by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain (R) had become law. And yet, the […]

*sigh*

Somewhere between 10% and 25% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. 1 in 4 people who can get pregnant will experience a miscarriage. A miscarriage is a completely normal, natural process that happens surprisingly frequently. Why on earth should it be reported to law enforcement, and how on earth does this not constitute gross government overreach into people’s private lives?

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Over the last decade, as companies chased after an effective chemical, there was fretting within the drug industry: what if, in trials, a medicine proved too effective? More than one adviser to the industry told me that companies worried about the prospect that their study results would be too strong, that the F.D.A. would reject an application out of concern that a chemical would lead to female excesses, crazed binges of infidelity, societal splintering.

“You want your effects to be good but not too good,” Andrew Goldstein, who is conducting the study in Washington, told me. “There was a lot of discussion about it by the experts in the room,” he said, recalling his involvement with the development of Flibanserin, “the need to show that you’re not turning women into nymphomaniacs.” He was still a bit stunned by the entrenched mores that lay within what he’d heard. “There’s a bias against — a fear of creating the sexually aggressive woman.”

“Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That.”—NYT

Gee, you ever think that might be part of the problem? That there’s a societally acceptable level of lady-boning?

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“good but not too good”

Yeah, go fuck yourself, dude.

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This article gave me fits for many reasons.

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i am so fucking angry at this

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let me tell you how fucking angry this makes me as a woman who has been struggling with therapy for issues regarding my ability to enjoy sex. there could be something out there that would work for me, but maybe I can’t get it because some repressed, asshole fucking dudes decided that women enjoying and taking control of their libido’s and sexual needs would hurt society???

FUCK. YOU.

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fearof-theunknown:

The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell

There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.

It’s called the the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animals—like the typical Paleolithic horses and bisons—but some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.

A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.

In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophistication—some even have three-dimensional relief—that is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.

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Feminism was built on the blood of women and children. It was necessary because a large number of men abuse and dehumanise women by assuming superiority over us, curtailing our choices in life, and by committing the most appalling acts of sadistic violence upon our bodies and souls.

Note to apologetic feminists: not enough has changed yet to let them come to the party.

Note to men: if you are decent you will stop colluding in the actions of those feminists you consider the palatable ones, and will heed the words of those of us who still have your number. If and/or when you become the type of men who would point blank refuse to be given pride of place in our movement against your abusive behaviour; if you stop taking every statement about rape and violence as a personal vendetta against you, and when you know you would feel it was totally inappropriate if a woman thanked you for being a ‘good man’ just because you behave like a decent human being, I would be perfectly happy to count you as my ally.

Until then, to answer ‘what about the men?’ – don’t you have work to do?

http://radicalhubarchives.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/guest-post-julie-bindel/ (via evilfeminist)

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put a number in my ask

1. What is your middle name?
2. Are you wearing makeup?
3. What colour is your toothbrush?
4. Approximately how many posters are hung up in your room?
5. What does your hair product smell like?
6. Where would rather be right now?
7. What is the temperature outside?
8. Have you ever dyed your hair? If so what colour?
9. What is the funniest word you know?
10. Name your favourite band starting with the letter 'M'
11. What is your favourite pick up line? And has anyone ever used it on you?
12. Describe your first icon using only verbs
13. What is the most expensive thing you have ever bought with your own money?
14. State your favourite letter of the alphabet
15. What is your favourite accent?
16. How did you celebrate the new year?
17. What do you call a brown fizzy drink that usually comes in a can?
18. Do you like fish?
19. What is your most used tag?
20. Would you rather ask someone out or be asked out?
21. What is your favourite Olympic sport to watch?
22. Have you ever dumped anyone?
23. What do you want to be when you grow up?
24. Have you ever been to the United States? If so, where?
25. What instrument have you always wanted to play?
26. Describe your dream partner's eye colour
27. What do you order at diners?
28. Coffee or espressos?
29. What is the most annoying song on the radio at the moment?
30. How many contacts do you have on your phone?
31. What type of music player do you own?
32. Describe your favourite painting
33. What was the best present you have ever received?
34. Spring or Fall? Why?
35. What was the last text you received? Who was it from?
36. Would you ever paint your room pink?
37. What colour is your underwear?
38. Favourite perfume scent?
39. What celebrity do you think needs to drop off a cliff?
40. Do blue eyes turn you on?
41. What meat do you prefer in a sandwich?
42. Would you ever wear a sweater to school?
43. What is the name of your current ringtone?
44. Glasses or contacts?
45. What shoes do you normally wear to school?
46. Where is your nearest television?
47. What is your favourite vegetable?
48. When was the last time you drank milk?
49. What was your lowest grade in school?
50. Are you using Google chrome?

waywardvictorianconfessions:

A few friends and I have an EAxBatman AU in which Maggots is Harley Quinn, VeVa is Poison Ivy, and EA is the Joker. ♥

xoxojaimelannister:

the-unpopular-opinions:

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to understand or sympathize with people who self-harm.

A couple of years ago, I would have had the same opinion. It’s hard to understand why people self-harm if you haven’t been through it.

I won’t speak for all self-harmers, but I don’t need sympathy, and I don’t need someone to “understand” me. I just need support as I try to beat it, and the only thing you should understand is that sometimes, it’s the only option I see.

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waywardvictorianconfessions:

Time for Tea is plaigarized. It’s a Longfellow poem, and she gives him no credit whatsoever. she changed three words THREE WORDS to make the verses match her theme, that’s it. with as much as she cries copycat she could have at least given credit to the author of the poem she used in the liner notes.

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waywardvictorianconfessions:

Most fans can’t see the real fucking meaning of FLAG. it’s not about hating men or punching them in the balls. it’s a fucking feminist anthem that says ”US, WOMEN, CAN ALSO FIGHT. WE ARE NOT WEAK.” but you fucking idiots only think about EA’s rape and EA’s mental illness and shit like that, she’s not gonna be writing songs about that misery anymore. FLAG as an album isn’t what Opheliac was, but was Opheliac what Enchant was? Shut your nasty ungrateful mouths PLEASE.

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Darling please

She tried but failed miserably.

God I love the admins.