Justice Kennedy

Dear SCOTUS: If you haven't had one, then you need to STFU.

Three things to make note of before we start wading into this blog entry together, folks...

First,this is the Salon story that triggered this blog entry: http://tinyurl.com/24shpw

Second, this blog entry was originally intended to be an 8-paragraph comment to a diary on dKos dealing with the above story. My plan was to use paragraph 7 to summarize what turned out to be the rest of this blog entry as efficiently as I had the ones above it, then wrap it up succinctly & pithily in paragraph 8.

Third, apparently the material in this blog entry was something that I needed to write for a long time and finally found a voice for. So much for keeping it to 8 paragraphs on dKos. You get the whole thing here instead.

But you know what? For those in the audience who've been wondering WTF a guy like me is doing posting to feminist blogs, this is a significant chunk of the backstory for that. So make of it what you will.

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One of the things that really, really chaps my ass is what a small percentage of the people bloviating away about abortions, on both the right and the left sides of the fence, actually have any first-hand experience with them.

I'm sorry, SCOTUS. And I'm sorry, Fux News Channel. But... if you ain't been there done that, then you can't know. You just can't fucking know.

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hmmm. i received this email from NARAL today. i'm not sure i like it much. there's just enough ignorance in it to piss me off. i mean, what century are we in that "latinos" and black women are the *only* women of color? what happened to asian, arabs and native women? and the three "pillars" that are being organized around, community control, holistic health, and positive motherhood, sound like they have been re-written by some over anxious white dude who doesn't want to piss off the white women who support NARAL (established women of color org's *do* organize around these things, it just sounds like the fierce women of color language has been co-opted). and the email title is as follows: " It's time to Recognize! the reproductive health needs of women of color". ummm, is it really time? forty years after women of color started organizing on their own because white women couldn't bear to make us a part of the movement, it is *finally* time?
grrr.