Rainbow After the Stormy

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I’d like to take a minute to discuss the concept of “your body, your choice”.

Okay, let’s talk about the basic idea of what it means to be pro-choice:

Being pro-choice means that you believe every individual should be allowed to do with their body as they please, because it’s THEIR body and they are the ones who have to live in it. It also means that you are an advocate of consent, and believe that one should ALWAYS obtain consent before dealing with another person’s body.

Many people think that pro-choice ideology is just about abortion,  but if you’re truly pro-choice that couldn’t be further from the truth. Pro-choice is about tattoos, piercings, scarification, all other forms of body alteration, medical procedures, medicine, illegal drugs, alcohol consumption, sex, lack of sex, who you choose to have sex with, BDSM,  informed consent, consent in general, and whether or not you choose to be and stay pregnant. Pro-choice people do not support forcing a person to do anything with their body. Sometimes they don’t agree with what others do it their bodies, but they believe that having a choice in what happens to your body is important.

I have noticed that many claim that they’re pro-choice but fail to expand it past the abortion issue. I was reading a pro-choice blog today and noticed that they posted and answered a question from one of their followers:

“Anonymous asked: Sorry I had to ask. Are there really people who oppose the HPV vaccine? Because that’s just mental. Over here (UK) its mandatory for all girls over 15 and under 19 on the NHS and is given to those older than that at request.

No idea!  Seems kind of outrageous to me.”

I read it and thought for a few minutes. Why does it even matter? Does this person seriously believe that it’s okay to force female bodied people to have a series of three needles shoved into their arms, injecting a substance that the individual might not even agree with? How is that so different from forcing female-bodied people to have a transvaginal ultrasound if they wish to have an abortion? And why is it okay to judge another person so harshly by calling them “mental” for opting out of vaccination? In the pro-choice community it’s not okay to call a person “mental” for wanting an abortion. And to top that off, the UK law is completely sexist in that it forces female bodied people to undergo a medical procedure that male bodied people don’t have to endure. Hell, in the US I have heard of the HPV vaccine being approved for males as well. Why don’t they force it on the men too? Have they failed to see the sexism in their country’s own laws?

It doesn’t matter what the person chooses to do with their body because it’s THEIR body. There are plenty of reasons besides people thinking the HPV vaccine encourages nymphomania for a person not to want that vaccination. I had several reasons for deciding against it, and I definitely wasn’t concerned that I’d suddenly would turn into a nymphomaniac. I’m not “mental” because I’m concerned about long term consequences, or because I have different spiritual beliefs concerning the way I should treat my body or the substances I put into my body. I’m an individual who is exercising her right to choose what happens to her body and I demand that my government and those around me respect my actions in regards to my body. I think it’s wrong to call groups of people names over a choice they made about THEIR body.

And anyone who attempts to force me, coerce me, or pressure me into doing something with my body that I don’t agree with is cordially invited to fuck off. All other humans should also expect the same kind of respect out of me.


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hahamagartconnect:

THE GLOWING HOMELESS

We could not say this better than ignantblog.com…the following is an excerpt from their piece on Fanny Allie’s, The Glowing Homeless

“It is this ghostlike existence, the state of being absent while being present, which is of interest to the French artist Fanny Allié. ‘The Glowing Homeless’ is an installation of neon tubes which represents the silhouette of a sleeping human. It precisely refers to the figure of a homeless person who chooses to perform the actually intimate act of sleeping amongst the park’s crowd but still stays excluded. He becomes a part of the surroundings of trees, benches and playgrounds and is thus almost invisible. Using the warm glow of the neon tubes, the artist creates an alluring object with the aim to bring light in to the darkness of New York’s parks and to change people’s attitude from avoidance into curiosity so they are drawn towards the figure on the bench. Thus Allié brought an object into being that represents the thousands of homeless that face social exclusion and the troubles of street life every day and night and, without becoming monumental, she also manages to aesthetically confront the difficulties of the ongoing art theoretical debate of the merge of private and public space.”

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And now for a slightly sarcastic rant….

We need to talk, Charles L. Worley:

Listen, darling, I think you need to look at the calendar and notice that the year is 2012. After that I highly suggest you switch to a channel other than FOX News and look at the world. Then after that, you should look at the people around you. In my personal opinion (which most would agree is a fact),  homophobes don’t understand the concept of love AND they truly believe that they don’t know a single queer person. I’ve got news for you: 10% of the population is queer. And not every queer individual is out of the closet. 

After you work on the queer concept, I think you can start working on the “love thy neighbor” thing by reading the chapters in the bible PAST Leviticus. I have faith that you and Jesus can work this love thing out.

Also, concentration camps are soooo 1940’s Nazi Germany. You need to get up to date. Yeah, I know some genocide still exists, but people who take a role in carrying out genocide are totally uncool.  Apparently the United Nations doesn’t think genocide is cool. I know, right? Lots of people are swinging that way with the genocide thing. Whodathunkit?

I have faith that you can begin to endorse the ten commandments with a little self work.

Toodles!

-Stormy

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