| Oh. My. God. |
[Dec. 15th, 200904:04 pm] |
Just fucking wow. I'll admit that I've never considered this issue, because I've never heard anyone speak about it. I literally had my hands clasped over my mouth, which was hanging wide open, reading this:
From a remove of two years, Amy now sees the sex that resulted in her pregnancy as rape: something that may have qualified her for an on-base (though self-funded) abortion. However, at the time, because the rape wasn’t brutally violent, and because she had seen fellow servicewomen be ostracized for “crying rape” in the past, she imagined nothing but trouble would come of making a complaint.
Instead, using herbal abortifacient supplements ordered online Amy self-aborted. Unable to find a coat hanger she used her sanitized rifle cleaning rod and a laundry pin to manually dislodge the fetus while lying on a towel on the bathroom floor. It was a procedure she attempted twice, each time hemorrhaging profusely. Amy lost so much blood on the first attempt that her skin blanched and her ears rang. She continued working for five weeks, despite increasing sickness, until she realized she was still pregnant.
The military doesn't deserve these women. The fact that they ~allow~ women to serve only to treat them like they're subhuman while they risk their lives is disgusting. It's criminal, and I will never get over the fact that we live in a world where male members of congress can sit in their cushy chairs back home and prevent women from exercising bodily autonomy and receiving the healthcare they are legally and ethically entitled to because of their own fucked-up misogynistic "religious beliefs" while those women are fighting the government's war.
Oh, and I've been listening to healthcare discussion all day and getting to hear about even more of our lovely congresspeople - our lovely right-wing "get government out of my life" congresspeople who are supposedly against ~government takeover of healthcare~ - trying to put even more anti-woman bullshit in our reform bills. Fuckers. |
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| God damn it. |
[Dec. 13th, 200908:40 pm] |
What the fucking fffuuuuck is going on with this Islamophobic bullshit in Europe lately? Banning minarets in Switzerland? A mosque getting desecrated by neo-Nazis in France?
Let me repeat this: neo-Nazis in France.
Seriously, fuck the world. |
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| Question time. |
[Dec. 13th, 200903:06 pm] |
So did anybody formerly (or currently) read a lot of Harry/Draco fic? I'm trying to remember the name of something I read a long time ago. It was a really popular story, probably novel-length, in which Harry and Draco were somehow magically dependent on each other or something (I believe they were inseparable), and I seem to recall that a significant part of it took place in the hospital wing.
I don't know why, but it's really been bugging me. |
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| The more you know~ |
[Dec. 12th, 200912:20 am] |
Okay, since it's the holidays now and I've started seeing those red buckets around again, I just want to point out that the Salvation Army is a heavily evangelical organization that refuses to hire homosexuals and threatened to close all soup kitchens in New York City when the city government proposed legislation that would require all organizations doing business with it to provide equal benefits to unmarried domestic partners. They're not a charity; they're people who provide aid with ulterior motives. So please, save up your change and buy a toy for a poor child or give to one of the many upstanding charities out there that display real, unconditional compassion for people in need. |
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| A conundrum. |
[Dec. 9th, 200912:21 am] |
Better performance: Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain or Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight?
There is no right answer. |
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| In Soviet Mordor, Boromir simply walks into YOU. |
[Dec. 8th, 200909:03 pm] |
Official GRE scores came back. 720/800 verbal (98th percentile), 770/800 quantitative (87th percentile), 5.5/6 analytical writing (92nd percentile). I wonder if I could've gotten a six on that last bit if I'd had time to edit; as it was I wrote until time ran out on both essays. The whole percentile thing in that case is strange to me since it goes in half point increments so there aren't a whole lot of possible scores, but okay. And man, that fucking verbal section. English is one of my biggest strengths and it still kicked my ass. There was at least one word on there I don't think I'd ever heard before. In the end, I guess I'm happy. But I'll still do better next time; if I study a little, I'm sure I can break 1500 and really improve that quantitative score. 87th is the lowest percentile I've ever gotten on a standardized test. Disappointment. ._.
Today I found out that Figwit is in Flight of the Conchords. My mind was blown. |
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