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seagull:

“Really, conservatives just hate women. They resent the fact that we work, go to school, vote, everything. Their entire stance on birth control, abortions and social programs is a thinly veiled attempt to take us back to a time when we had less rights. Take away our birth control and we get pregnant. Take away our abortions and we have to keep the baby (in their minds, anyway). Take away certain social programs to help support ourselves (mainly food stamps, WIC and housing assistance) and they think that will force us to get married to a man who can support us. Take away other social programs like daycare subsidies and then we have no choice but to stay at home and take care of the kids because the cost of daycare eats into any additional income. Men who have always relied on their male privilege to get them through life cannot handle seeing a women succeed, or even exist, without them. They figure if you keep kicking them back down, they’ll eventually give up and settle for some loser who doesn’t deserve them but has been given all the opportunities in the world to succeed because he possesses a penis.”

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hunnichild (via brienne—of—tarth)

(via unknowablewoman)

Beautiful.

(via imanassspankme)

Spot on.

(via someauthorgirl)

I couldn’t disagree more. I don’t think conservatives actively hate women, I think conservatives (both men AND women) use the Bible and their Christianity as the basis for their beliefs on birth control, abortions, and social programs. The same reason Obama gives for his stance against gay marriage. Why is it okay for Obama to use religion as a reason to take a stand against gay marriage, but it’s not okay for conservatives to use religion to take a stand against abortion? It doesn’t make any of it right, mind you, but to say it’s because conservatives hate women is completely off base. As someone who grew up in an extremely conservative state, I saw first hand the equal amount of women against abortion as men. Is it so hard to believe that they believe in their heart that God and Jesus and the Bible tells them that abortion is wrong, and thus that’s what they believe? What happened to freedom of religion? Let them believe what they want to believe. Abortions are still legal, and the numbers who are truly pro-life are dwindling instead of surging. Church attendance is at an all time low. The fact that a Personhood Amendment (which would have banned abortion from the moment of conception and severely limited birth control) failed to pass in Mississippi, one of the most conservative states in the country, is telling. We’re constantly evolving in this country, and more and more “conservatives” and traditionalists are becoming accepting of things like abortion and gay rights.

The biggest problem is we still have people in power who are using religion as a basis for their stance on different policies. Some Republican senators are still trying to cripple Planned Parenthood, and the President himself uses religion as the reason why he believes marriage should be between a man and a women. I say we get rid of them all. 

(via thatfrenchman)

I can’t recall any liberal who doesn’t roll their eyes at Obama’s stance on gay marriage.  That’s a red herring anyway.

Okay, so you say it’s just conservatives believing in their Bible that causes them to act like bigots.  But why do they fight so hard to eliminate programs that help the poor, elderly, or disabled when the Bible preaches about how those are the true members of the Kingdom and the people with whom Jesus surrounded himself?  They focus on that one issue, abortion, and act like they’re being soldiers for God while shunning those who truly need their help.  It’s bullshit and why so many have turned against the hypocrisy of the Christian religion. Their bigotry is to blame for church attendance getting low.  Mississippi advocates for fetuses and not real people are still working on another bill regarding personhood along with many other states.  They will never give this up, and the original quote is why. 

And there are many women who are on the pro-life side because they want their own position in life to be justified. They don’t like the idea of other women doing things besides raising a family and staying at home because that makes their own choices seem less valid.  

I don’t think it’s reaching to assume that many conservative men just do not respect women and don’t see them as their equals.  After working at the capitol for a number of years, my view on that has only solidified. 

Christianity perpetuates misogyny. It’s common and reeeally easy for a cis white male to justify misogyny and the oppression and hatred of women or other minority groups from such a blindly privileged stance in this society. To excuse it via religion — excusing the reason why you and millions of others like you support endless sneaky and blatant oppressive things that keep OTHER people down because hey, it doesn’t personally affect you in any negative way, amirite — is the worst thing a human being on planet earth can do to a fellow human being.

If you don’t know what it’s like to be a woman in this society; if you aren’t living day-to-day as a woman, I suggest you STFU and rather than argue in support of both sneaking and blatant oppression and misogyny — in support of things that women say are TERRIBLE HORRIBLE THINGS — you listen, and you figure out how to be an ally. 

Keep in mind, women can be misogynists too. It’s the conditioned norm; there are far more social rewards than punishments in being a female misogynist (see: misogynist men and women relentlessly arguing with feminists on the Internet rather than like, “hey, fellow human beings, I hear you. How can I help?”) But that is a choice. It’s there. All the time! Aren’t you embarrassed that you choose to argue and oppress instead?