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Save Yourself

An excerpt from Radical Sanity

Save Yourself

Don’t expect some guy to save you. Do not sit around thinking that all would be perfect if only you had a boyfriend to catch your pained tears and hold a Kleenex around your nostrils while you blow your nose. Because, unfortunately, that is not how it works. The way it works is that the great guy of your dreams does not show up until things finally are perfect, until you yourself have tended to the delicate garden that is your life. (Forget perfect – just shoot for well and solid enough.) And this is a lucky thing, because when you are down in the dumps, the last thing you need is a man.

Most men who are sane and employed do not want to repair your broken pieces and make an even-keeled jigsaw puzzle out of you. (more…)

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 | Categories: Quote | Permalink | No Comments

Always a choice.

A bulletin, from someone on a message board. Don’t know who wrote it, but I like it, and today is a day to refresh anyone’s memories with it, or allow others to read it for the first time.

“I tend to be wordy so I will attempt to make this short and to the point.

1. How many pro lifers are attempting or have adopted an unwanted child. Not just a healthy white child but a minority drug addicted baby. They “talk the talk” but do they “walk the walk”?

2. All of the religious who put so much energy into guilting those who are pro choice could put that energy in creating volunteer programs in churches to provide parenting skills, daycare and support single mothersor low income unskilled parents. Where are they when the children are born? Maybe women would want to have babies if they felt they had support. What’s the point in working and paying 80% of your wages in daycare because you lack skills to make more than minimum? Where’s the community support then? The same people who want you to have the baby call you trash when you get government support to survive.

3. Many pro lifers are the same ones who bitch about the cost of public welfare. Make abortion illegal and I promise you welfare will explode. AND your taxes to pay for this will increase!!

4. Social Services is already overwhelmed with unwanted, neglected and abused children that have no love, support or social skills to succeed in the world. Yes some get lucky but that’s a small percentage compared to the ones that never get adopted and live forever in group homes and foster homes…and oh yeah your taxes pay for that too.

5. My relationship with God is mine and very personal. I answer to God and not you or your idea of God. Regardless of what you believe, God did not appoint you as a spokesperson for my life or choices. If life exists prior to birth then God will take that up with me. It’s not your job. The more you focus on what I am doing the less you focus on your own “sin”.

6.When you adopt a mentally or physically handicapped unwanted child, work with the local church and create supportive programs for no income or low income parent/s, support free access to birth control for all (including minors), volunteer your time and energy to helping the situation instead of judging me, playing God or standing on the corner with obscene pictures of bloody babies to guilt us then I will take your point of view seriously.

If you worked at the Department of Social Services and saw the amount of unwanted children that I have then you may think differently. It’s real easy to sit back and say things when you haven’t really experienced the sadness of unwanted life.

It should always remain a choice.”

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 | Categories: Quote | Permalink | 3 Comments

Feminism is Nonnegotiable

Margaret Cho, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Feminism is nonnegotiable.

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live.

Do you think you grew out of the ground? That the stork dropped you off? You fell from a tree? NO. You came out of a woman. And even if your mother was awful, abandoned you, abused you, ignored you, made you hate yourself, put you on a diet at age six so that, to this day, you still have a complex about your weight, molested you, competed with you, made you join a cult, was jealous of you, was nicer to your brother than you, sewed you matching outfits, made you eat liver or any other kind of organ meat (or, like my mom, dried fish!), gave you a Toni home perm, made you as crazy as she, did not love you – you still owe her your life. You would not be here if it were not for her. I’m not telling you that you have to do anything for your mom. I’m just saying we need to respect women for the fact that they are where the world begins. They are the reason we are still here, and will continue to be here. Forever.

So if you are not a feminist, kill yourself.

Normally, I do not advocate suicide, but this time you do not have a choice. You do not have the right to live on this planet, you need to kill yourself and go to your misogynist heaven, which is much like the Playboy Mansion, where you can read all sorts of men’s magazines like Maxim, FHM, Stuff, Hustler, Gear, and, of course, Playboy, except… there will be no women there. No real T & A, just paper cuts and those annoying subscription cards that fall out all over the place, because you did not appreciate the wonder of what T & A really is, and because you did not understand the importance of us being here, your exploitation of them makes you eligible for a hell where we are not there at all. Kind of like jail, but you do not get to make other inmates your bitch.

And then you have to read the articles. That is what I call Hades. Pussy, pussy, everywhere, but not a drop to…

What people need to understand is that the pussy is the Front Door of Life. Do you get that? Nobody really thinks about it like that up in the dusty ancient cabinet of old white men that think they know everything. Woman has the right to let someone in, or to tell them to come back another time, or even to have a sign that says NO SOLICITORS.

Woman has the right to be exalted, cherished and respected.

Woman has the right to choose, to choose for herself, for her own body, for her own life.

Feminism is nonnegotiable. Word to your mother.

Margaret Cho, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 | Categories: Quote | Permalink | 1 Comment

I ♥ Moby

homosexuality and abortion
Nov 24, 2005 - New York City

i really, really, really don’t know why so many churches and christians are so hung up on homosexuality and abortion.
remember when some bishops said that they wouldn’t give communion to pro-choice parishioners?
no pun intended, but what the hell?
christ didn’t mention homosexuality and/or abortion. we don’t know for sure what christ’s opinion would be on these two issues.
so why isn’t the church more hung up with divorce and materialism and violence and war and eliminating poverty and non-judgementalism and forgiveness and some of the things that christ actually DID talk about?
it’s just so odd, that these 2 issues are so central to so much contemporary theology, and christ never mentioned either one of them.
so you can be a rapacious businessman who believes in the death-penalty and who is pro-war and the church will make you feel right at home.
but if you’re a pacifist who happens to believe in gay rights the church will ostracize you.
to quote some of our hip-hop brethren(and sistren…), shit’s fucked up.
would it ever be asking too much for a christian place of worship to actually be centered on the teachings of christ and not on the seemingly arbitrary(and, let’s point out, secular)positions of the clergy and the religious hierarchy/beaurocracy?
-moby

Thursday, November 24th, 2005 | Categories: Quote | Permalink | 3 Comments

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