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[bakadragon]

Okay, so I used to actively run from anything political (comes from having grandparents who nearly physically fought over it, so dad didn't allow it in the house). However, civic responsibility, blah blah, and people post it on the fb, so I've been keeping up on some of the douchebaggery (and signing lots of petitions. At least I can do that

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[professor]

Yes, I have been in full-on angry feminist mode this whole fucking week because of this epic asshattery. FUCK THE PATRIARCHY. And fuck those cultural standards that say that women are supposed to protest things calmly and politely and not rock the boat. FUCK THEM ALL.

[bradhicks]

Three things.

1) "Aspirin between her knees," not penicillin. The implication being that if her knees are clamped together tight enough that an aspirin, clamped between them, can't fall, then she can't get pregnant. (Which isn't even true, for what it's worth.) What he meant, no, really, what he meant, was: "If you don't want (more) babies, don't fuck. No, not even your husband. You're supposed to get pregnant every time you fuck."

2) I have been warning people for over thirty years now that Roe v Wade is the logical, inescapable, direct and fully accurately legally reasoned result of Griswold v Connecticut, the Supreme Court decision that struck down state and federal anti-contraception laws. I have been warning people since the 1980s that if they ever succeed in outlawing abortion, at least half of the states in the union will also outlaw contraception. Most people thought I was exaggerating