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Melissa Harris-Perry has Margaret Cho on Her Show, and a Strange Thing Happens

Posted on March 12, 2012 | 6 Comments

Longtime Angry Black Readers know I am fond of Alan Rickman*.  What you may or may not also know is that Margaret Cho is one of my role models – I want to be her if and when I grow up.   When Zandar (@ZandarVTS on the Twitter Machine) tweeted to me that she had been on the Melissa Harris-Perry show…this morning?  Yesterday morning?  I don’t know.  I run on asiangrrlMN time.  OK, fine.  Sunday morning for those of you not running on asiangrrlMN time.

Anyway, when Zandar tweeted me saying I would be sad I missed it, I immediately scrambled to MSNBC and found the clip.  It started with Melissa, who, in and of herself is pretty damn amazing, talking about a YouTube thing of kids (I’m assuming mostly girls) posting vids asking if they are pretty or not.  Margaret responded as to why this is not a good idea and how women are still being judged on looks alone.  In a bit, Melissa brought on Jennifer Pozner, the founder of Women in Media and News.  The three women started talking about, yes, women in media, news, and how women are constricted in general, whittled away into nothing, while men are allowed to expand.

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Happy International Women’s Day, Lay-dees! The GOP War on Women Continues

Posted on March 8, 2012 | 7 Comments

I am this close to setting errrything on fire

It’s International Women’s Day, and I am fucking pissed.  I’m looking at you, Arizona, and you, Georgia, and you, the House of Representatives.  I am sure there are more reasons for me to be pissed, but these are the three I am aware of right now.  I will get to the reasons for my fury in a minute, but you know what else I am?

I’m tired, Angry Black Readers.  I’m tired of getting up every morning afternoon and reading what fresh hell the GOP has served up that day in the War on Women. I’m tired of reading how women are sluts and prostitutes for wanting affordable healthcare*, that we are too stupid to know what’s happening when we get pregnant, and that we should have to pay for the consequences of all our wanton, illicit, sybaritic sex.

7 of the last 10 posts I’ve written have been about women’s issues.  Every damn time I write one, I think, “I can’t do this again.”  I get so pissed off and infuriated by the bullshit**, I want to stab everyone I see with my rusty pitchfork™.  I’m tired of reading posts like this one by my esteemed colleague, Emily, on how many abortion laws the GOP have passed/want to pass/will pass.  Remember way back when the 2010 silly season was happening?  What did the GOP run on?  Jobs.  What did they do the minute they got into office?  They started sticking their hands up women’s uteri – and there is no sign they are backing down.

Backing down?  Fuck no.  They are ramping up the craziness in a desperate attempt to stave off their inevitable defeat.  Despite my pessimistic outlook overall, I do believe that we who believe in a women’s right to decide matters relating to her own health are on the right side of history.  However, we are at a crossroads, and if we don’t kick out all these assholes in the next election, we’re going to see many more ugly abortion bills/laws such as the three I’m about to highlight.
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In Minnesota, It’s Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

Posted on March 3, 2012 | 8 Comments

Shoot straight, from the hip y’all

I’ve been working on another post pertaining to the War on Women™, and I tweeted that I really did not want to be writing another post on women’s issues.  A few minutes later, I clicked on a link tweeted by @StarStormCat that sent me into instant incredulous rage.

In my state of Minnesota, Sen. Gretchen Hoffman (R – Jackholeville) sponsored the If It Moves in a Way I Don’t Like, I’m Going to Riddle It with Bullets bill, which expands on the Castle Doctrine to a point in rendering said doctrine meaningless*.  In talking about the bill, Sen. Hoffman said:

“If you are anywhere you can legally be, you can defend yourself against a criminal,” [Hoffman said.] “If I’m out on the street and I’m doing what I can legally do, and someone comes at me and I feel imminent danger of physical harm, I should be able to react with equal or greater force.”

It’s the cowboy mentality in effect, and it’s dangerous.  Someone approaching you on the street, and you think that person looks blah menacing?  Shoot him.  Someone jostles you as she walks by?  Blast her into smithereens!  Under this law,  you don’t have to retreat.  You can shoot somebody:

[6.25] to resist or prevent what the individual reasonably believes is an offense or attempted offense that imminently exposes the individual or another person to substantial bodily harm, great bodily harm, or death; or

[6.27] (3) to resist or prevent what the individual reasonably believes is the commission or imminent commission of a forcible felony.

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A Personhood Law Taken to the Logical and Grotesque Conclusion: A Short Story

Posted on February 24, 2012 | 28 Comments

This past week month year in ABLC land has been filled with uteri and vaginae-related news, mainly about the GOP’s War on Women™, to be precise.  On the front page alone, as I type this, we have a post by ABL, sending out a uterus-shaped symbol to all the Uterati so we can gather all the anti-women bills that are being considered/passed across the country in one place, a guest-post by @ThundarKitteh on all the anti-women dumbfuckery going on in her state of Indiana, a guest-post by @deaniemills on the outrageous state-sanctioned rape bill that has passed in her state of Texas, and another post by ABL on the postponement of the “Personhood” Bill in Virginia, due to the national outcry that has risen over it.  My own last post was on the flak the Girl Scouts have been receiving because of a perceived connection with the newest manufactured bogeyman of the right, Planned Parenthood.  Right beneath my last post is an excellent post by roadkillrefugee on the real reason Glenn Beck nailed himself to the Catholic Church cross over the whole birth control nontraversy.

By the way, I haven’t bought GS cookies in years.  Tonight, I changed that by buying 5 boxes of my personal favorite, Lesbian Cunnilingalongs (h/t @socratic on teh Twitter Machine.  Actual name, Tagalongs.  So. Damn. Delicious.  Peanut butter and chocolate go together like me and Margaret Cho*.  They make me want to listen do, err, listen to Melissa Ferrick all night long.) at a nearby supermarket just so I could support my local Lil Uterati (h/t, my angry black overlady).
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Mamas, Don't Let Your Girl Scouts Grow Up to Work at Planned Parenthood

Posted on February 22, 2012 | 12 Comments

My Angry Black Readers probably remember this post by ABL about the Satanic, lezzie, whore-making Girl Scouts as imagined by Indiana House Republican, Bob Morris (R-Jackholeville).

Well, I have some good news in the GSA department and some bad news – which would you like first?  Good news?  I would have asked for the bad news first so I could finish up with some good news, but I defer to the wishes of my readers.

The good news comes via Rachel Maddow Steve Benen on Rachel Maddow’s blog.  This crazed bullshit by Bob Morris about the Girl Scouts was not appreciated at all.  Even some of his fellow Republicans thought he went too far – including the Speaker of the House Brian Bosma.  Speaker Bosma told his House colleagues that he bought 278 cases of Girl Scout Cookies in a 48-hour period in response to Rep. Morris’s incredibly asinine statements.

Bosma, R-Indianapolis, pointedly offered Girl Scout cookies throughout the day and munched them as he presided over the House.[...]

And when time came for the House to adjourn, he asked all lawmakers who had been Girl Scouts – and seemingly every female legislator stood – to give the daily motion to adjourn.

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Shit! I Have to Tidy Up the Place for Yet Another GOP Herp-Derpbate! – Now with Bonus Chirpstory!

Posted on February 22, 2012 | 9 Comments

Update!!!  My esteemed colleague, Ian, has put together a chirpstory – the best tweets of the debate – for the GOP herp-derpbate, and I have embedded the code below, right before I begin live-blogging the debate.  Enjoy!

*yawn*   *shuffle, shuffle, stop*  *peers around and tightens robe*

What the fuck are you doing here?  The hell?  Another debate, you say?  It’s been so nice not having to listen to the GOP presidential candidates blather on and on and on and on and – do we have to do this again?!?  Oh fine.

*flounces to the computer and thunks down*

*drums fingertips on the keyboard, producing gibberish, which is still more intelligible than anything any of the GOP candidates might utter tonight*

The GOP herp-derpbate is taking place in Arizona tonight with CNN’s John King moderating.  He got clowned on by Newt Gingrich the last time he moderated, so expect King to get some of his own back tonight.

What will be on tap?  I have a hunch Romney will be asked about a certain local, hypocritical, blackmailing de-closeted sheriff.  Santorum will definitely be asked about his holier-than-God attitude in deciding who is a Christian and who is not.  By they way, Ricky, have you read Matthew 1: 1-5?  Fascinating scripture.  Really.  Or, as I like to say, don’t start none, won’t be none.  I have no idea what will be asked of Ron Paul, nor do I particularly care.  Is it just me, or has he fallen completely off the radar lately?  Couldn’t have happened to a nicer crank if you ask me.  As for Newt, the less said, the better!
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Am I "Awake" or Am I Just Dreaming?

Posted on February 20, 2012 | 13 Comments

I don’t watch any TV series for a variety of reasons.  If I turn on my TV, I’m either watching sports or cooking shows.  However, I read about a show that piqued my interest because 1) Jason Isaacs stars.  He’s hawt and talented and did I mention hawt? and 2) the premise sounded intriguing.

Jason Isaacs plays a detective who crashes his car with both his wife and his son in it.  He lives in two realities – one in which his wife survives the crash while his son dies and one in which his son survives the crash while his wife dies. The way it works is that each time he goes to sleep, he wakes up in the alternate reality. Since I have very realistic dreams and a shitty time sleeping, the premise immediately appealed to me.

The show is called Awake, and it’s on NBC.  They released the entire pilot episode, and I watched with a great deal of  trepidation.  As I said, I don’t watch much TV, and I was so hoping this show would be excellent, while at the same time, I feared it would suck.

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GOP Sez: You're a Slut. I Sez: Maybe So, But Not For You!

Posted on February 17, 2012 | 8 Comments

I’m thisclose to pulling a Lysistrata

Day-umn.  I went to bed in the year 2012 and woke up sometime in the 50s….the 1850s.  What with Darrell Issa holding his ‘no girls allowed’ panel on contraception* and Frothy Mix’s backer, Foster Friess’s advice on birth control, and I don’t care that he claims it was just a joke – hey, Foster.  You can have sex with the woman keeping her legs closed.  I’m just sayin’ – it’s not been a good week  for vaginae and uteri havers.  Let’s not even talk about VA and state-sanctioned rape because then I’ll have to go out and rusty pitchfork™ someone, and I’m not in the mood to put on clothes and leave the house.

By the way, what’s going on in VA is unconstitutional and will be challenged**.  In the meantime, countless women will have to endure having something forcibly shoved up their vaginae without their consent and for no reason at all except to slut-shame them/intimidate them into not having an abortion.  That’s rape, regardless of if it’s sanctioned by law or not, and there is seriously something wrong with the people who thinks this is perfectly OK.

Anyway, all this anti-woman bullshit is pissing me the fuck off so much, I am contemplating pulling a Lysistrata.  Oh, I can hear you protesting already.  You’re saying, “Hold up, asiangrrlMN.  Lysistrata organized the women of Greece to withhold sex with their husbands until they ended the Peloponnesian War.  What the hell does that have to do with this bullshit the GOP is doing?”
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Happy Valentine’s Day, Ladies of Virginia! Your GOP Hates You and Your Uteri

Posted on February 14, 2012 | 22 Comments

Hey!  Women of Virginia!  I bet you didn’t realize that on this Valentine’s Day, the GOP in your state have planned a special Valentine’s prezzie juuuuuuust for you.  It comes in the form of two very restrictive anti-abortion bills, and because they have a supermajority in the House, both bills passed in the House today!

The first bill says that a person is a person the minute a sperm and an egg collide, like two ships in the night.  In other words, a personhood bill, even though they don’t call it that.  The same kind of bill that, when put to the voters of Mississippi, it was soundly defeated.  It passed the House in VA, 66-32.

The second bill is the lovely, “Hey, we’re going to do a completely meaningless procedure before you’re allowed to have an abortion and stick something up your vagina at the same time” bill.  It passed the House in VA, 63-36.
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