Twiss Butler
Oh my. I think I'm in love. There's one "Twiss Butler" posting comments over at Broadsides - check out the Abortion thread and the Porn thread - and, man oh man, does s/he cut through the bull to get to the shit.
What happened to Feminists that we became afraid to say, flat out to politicians during election campaigns, "Put up or shut up. You either believe in reproductive freedom for women or you don't. And if you believe in it - say so. Then make sure that women everywhere in Canada have access to publicly funded abortion services and tell the people who want to enslave women to the State to go fuck themselves."
I mean, c'mon. Where the hell was the Prime Minister yesterday on the 20th anniversary of the most important decision to affect the freedom of women in this country since we got the right to vote? Why are we allowing our politicians to play this card at all, that the reproductive freedom of women isn't something of which they should be unequivocally supportive?
Enough already. Like Twiss Butler says, why the hell are we constantly having to fight the good fight? Why is it that all our Prime Ministers and Premiers can turn a blind eye to the very real erosion of our hard won fight - 20 YEARS AGO!!! - to have abortion removed from the Criminal Code.
Abortion is a medical procedure. All women everywhere in Canada MUST have access to publicly funded abortion services - without interference from the many people and politicians who would enslave us as birth vessels for the State - NOW!
Those fucking Prime Ministers and gawddamned Premiers of ours are cowardly shits who are NOT according women rights equal to men.
Furthermore, why is it okay that our Prime Ministers and Premiers belong to religions that openly and actively discriminate against women and homosexuals? Why is it okay that their governments fund religious education that teaches against reproductive freedom for women and actively admonishes against same sex marriage? Why is it acceptable that women who need abortions can't go to a hospital in their town and get one?
Because what's wrong isn't me, Dear Reader - it's them. The people who believe discrimination is still okay, that women aren't people equal to men, that the state and religion shouldn't be so completely separate that I shouldn't have to give a rat's ass what some Imam or Priest or Rabbi thinks - they are what's wrong. And what is going on in our society today - as it has been since forever - is unconscionably undemocratic because I DO have to care what those pricks with their completely undemocratic and authoritarian/totalitarian agendas think because they have influence with our politicians Feminists could only DREAM of having.
We know better than this.
Why do religious leaders, unelected chauvinist pigs, have any say on anything that will affect my life?
Why do we still elect politicians whose first allegiance is to patriarchal institutions instead of to half the population of the country?
Where women's rights come first - EVERYBODY'S rights come first. That's the message we should be taking to the streets until the people elected to govern our country are people worthy of the honour.
Thanks, Twiss Butler. You reminded me of the importance of not giving a shit what anybody thinks - put Feminism first and the rest will follow.
