Day at the Beach
(via fer1972)
Source: mydarkenedeyes
Source: vaginagateMeet Permission Girl.
Permission Girl doesn’t take anyone’s shit. Permission Girl doesn’t need anyone’s permission to do what she wants to with her own body. PG, as we will call her for space’s sake, is a birth control taking, period having, sexy time loving, Girl Scout cookie eating, short skirt wearing, slutty mcslut. And only because she chooses to be.
Women, chicks, girls, and ladies of all ages! Hear hear!
The Republican candidates have spoken and they want to know alllllll about our lady business so that they can control it and legislate it. So, what should we do?
We should give them gruesome and painstakingly detailed play-by-plays of each day of our periods of course!
OBVIOUSLY THEY WANT TO KNOW, RIGHT? I mean, if they want to stick an ultrasound thingy up there, then clearly CLEARLY they want to know about heavy flow days and the details of using the bathroom during these days. Right?
HELLS YEAH THEY DO.
So let’s do this!
1.) Go to the Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook page of any Republican nominee (Rick Santorum obviously wants to know these details more than the others, though, amirite??)
2.) Tell them the thing you hate/love most about your period, ex: smells, sore boobs, eating everything, heavy flow days, crying about those Sarah McLachlan commercials, etc. Get as gross as you feel comfortable!
3.) Tag your post with #vaginagate2012
NOW GO FORTH LADIES AND TROLL ALL THE THINGS!
Truth. Scary, scary truth.
Sometimes I look around at all the shit going wrong and all the people ignoring it and trying to pretend like everything is okay and…I just want to give up.
In some ways, I already feel like I have given up.
My life in particular is pretty damn good, though. I’m not complaining about my own personal lot in life as I have everything any girl could ever ask for.
I’m lucky and privileged/sheltered as hell and I am well aware of that fact.
At the same time I am painfully aware that most people aren’t so lucky. I can feel the suffering going on all around me and I am constantly upset by the ignorance of those who either inflict or allow such suffering.
I feel such a maddening sense of inability to fix everything. I don’t know where to start or how to get people to listen to me. There are so many things that I cannot control.
And yet here I sit. Whining on the internet. As if that will somehow bring me answers.
Contact the White House in any way you can tomorrow and tell Obama to veto this bill and all of its horrific implications. Our already endangered right to free speech and dissent is being severely threatened.
Also, FYI, the House and Senate voted almost unanimously for this bill and I had to dig to find any media coverage about it. While we are being distracted with inane election year shenanigans, these assholes who are supposed to be representing our interests are getting away with murder.
What really turns my stomach is the fact that I am not surprised by this in the least. What have we become, America?