I can't even think past the incandescent rage that this inspires. Here in Illinois, they're reviewing abortion bills in the agriculture committee, because it's the only place they can find enough woman-haters. (And this is even one of the few places where sexual assault laws aren't amazingly retrofuck to the nth degree, in that we actually explicitly legislated that if you're kissing somebody and you say no to further things, and they ignore it, it is rape. Unlike, say, North Carolina, which has explicitly ruled the opposite.)
I grew up knowing it was my right to control my own body. My mother made sure I knew that, and she made damn sure I had the tools for it. And now I look around at this world I live in and I wonder what the hell I ever did to them to provoke this kind of hate, because it stuns me.
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Date: 2012-03-20 04:00 am (UTC)I grew up knowing it was my right to control my own body. My mother made sure I knew that, and she made damn sure I had the tools for it. And now I look around at this world I live in and I wonder what the hell I ever did to them to provoke this kind of hate, because it stuns me.