My friend Tracey came up with the title for this diary. She posted this declaration on one of the Gyno Governors' walls, and I was enchanted.
What, exactly, is the fascination that fundamentalists have with our lady parts? Why do they want to vicariously rape us through state-mandated transvaginal ultrasounds? And take away our right to choose? Are they slobbering and drooling at the very thought of an eight-inch wand being inserted into our tender, blushing lady parts? Probably. Or, vis-a-vis Terry England, they just think of us as livestock. Which leads directly to Dominionism:
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'"
I noticed that most of the "pro-lifers" that attacked me on Facebook had many things in common: their pages were public, they mostly had only a high-school education, and they were single, fat, and ugly MEN. I thought that one was halfway decent-looking in his profile picture, but a recent picture of him (with none other than Rick Perry) showed him to be fat and ugly. Chillingly, several had expressed their deep yearning for children of their own on their pages. But, alas, they had no woman of their very own to impregnate and control. Hence, I thought, their rage that some women would choose to abort a precious fetus, and deny a man just like them the chance to be a patriarch. But that wasn't the whole story.
I wondered why Rick Perry was such a hero to these ugly misogynists. Was it because he had great hair and was handsome? Mmmm...nah, that sounds gay, and these are REAL men. No, the reason Rick Perry is a hero to these uneducated, disenfranchised, wifeless, childless assholes is because he doesn't take shit from women. Or the government. He got rid of that "evil" Planned Parenthood, which helped women prevent pregnancy and thus avoid having to marry one of these jerks in a shotgun wedding. Who cares that he destroyed the entire Women's Health Program and lost $35 million in federal funding? Not these idiots. It's a MAN'S job to take care of the little woman, even as she is dying of cancer that could have been caught by a screening at Planned Parenthood.
I decided to change the focus of this diary somewhat halfway through, because in the course of my extensive laundry-avoiding research, I discovered many diaries about Dominionism right here on Daily Kos. To my embarrassment. But if you would like to read more about it, there is an excellent series of articles here. This is the fourth section, with links to the previous sections.
And that is the explanation for these ranting pro-life assholes, both Facebook weenies and legislators. They believe that GOD wants them to have control over women. They believe that women should be submissive to them. This is also why Rick Perry blocked us from his page--we weren't submissive. We challenged him and ridiculed him.
As long as we have reproductive freedom, and can control when and how many children we have, if any, we can also control our careers and our lives. We must vote these Dominionist assholes OUT OF OFFICE in 2012 and 2014, and take back our freedoms.
My mother caused quite a stir in 1960 when she had the word "obey" removed from her vows. And my parents stayed happily and solidly married until death did them part, when my father died in the summer of 2009. And he was a strong and remarkable man, a giant in many ways. He loved my mother dearly, and respected her tremendously. I look at these wusses in the legislature, and I am disgusted. They are cowards, fearful of women, puppets of ALEC, and only just now finding out that we are, indeed, a force. And there are men who love us, just as we are, who will vote to protect us.
In closing: "Thou may attempt to shame us with the shaming wand, but we will shame thee; we shall rise up against thee in force, and we will berate thee for thy arrogance. We shall prevail, for we are smart and thou art a stupid ALEC puppet." Fallopians 6:2 (TM)
I just made that up :-) And here are some more of mine:
"Thou may attempt to shame us with the shaming wands, but thou wilt be saddled with lasting ridicule and loss of of dignity as thy legacy. Let "Vaginal Probe McDonnell" be a lesson to thee." Falllopians 9:14 (TM)
"We will not quietly suffer elephantitus of the uterus, nor go quietly into the night. We will not obey. We will postify, and we will plague thee, for we are many and we are angry." Fallopians 12:16 (TM)
"Thou shalt not interfere with our doctors or our medical care. If we get sick, our spouses will have to do the dishes and laundry, and they will be displeased. They will rise up against you, in pink clothing, for men do not separate the colors." Fallopians 7:12 (TM)