animalstalkinginallcaps:

I AM SO TIRED.

TELL ME ABOUT IT. I AM LITERALLY JUST EXHAUSTED, YOU KNOW?

WORN RIGHT OUT.

POOPED. THAT’S WHAT I AM. JUST PLAIN POOPED.

I MUST HAVE LOOKED AT A HUNDRED THOUSAND AVENGERS GIFS IN THE LAST HOUR.

OH MY GOD, I KNOW. I CAN’T EVEN COUNT THE NUMBER OF GOTYE REMIXES I LISTENED TO TODAY.

THE INTERNET IS HARD.

IT TAKES SOMETHING OUT OF YOU. IT REALLY DOES.

tastefullyoffensive:

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Been there tried this…same result lol

defranco:

One of the problems with political debates and campaigns include that they are never about what really matters.  It seems politicians want to regulate what you do in your bedroom/who you marry/what happens in your body when they should be focusing on the economy and unregulated business.

Its like the plane is on fire plummeting towards the earth and rather than pulling up or trying to save the plane you’re screaming at Alec Baldwin to stop playing Words with Friends.

tastefullyoffensive:

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Truth.

dcwomenkickingass:

Given the years where I could only go to a Sonic drive-in when I was traveling down south, I hardly need a reason to occasionally pop in to the one that opened up in Massachusetts last year but now there is an even better reason (though their slushies are still the best reason). The restaurant is…

As if Sonic needed another reason for me to love them…..mmmm tots……

tastefullyoffensive:

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Yep

tastefullyoffensive:

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LMAO

minimalmac:

One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone…

laughingsquid:

Lesser Known Uses For Portals

I admit that in my younger college days I used to be very blasé when it came to politics in this country. It all sounded like a bunch of old men spewing non-sensical rhetoric that only appealed to the masses during elections and then faded away into oblivion never to be seen in the light of day again. It used to be that party lines didn’t matter much because regardless of the platform or affiliation most politicians just did whatever the hell they wanted to do once elected anyway so what was the point in trying to pick one non-existent “side” over another? I usually just latched onto a few key issues and that alone determined my party affiliation during each election.

Now that I’m older I try to pay closer attention to what’s going on in Washington…especially when it concerns the rights of women in this country (since, as a woman such legislation has a much more direct and immediate effect on my life as opposed to, let’s say, gun control or military spending). I know it’s a bit self-centered but it’s what I’m most concerned with…especially when it pertains to my rights and what I am allowed to choose for my own personal health and emotional/financial well-being.

Women have always had to fight for their rights in the US thanks to the misogynistic white male Christian beliefs that basically established our fate as second class citizens no more entitled to rights and privileges in this country than cattle or swine being sold at auction. We were a commodity that could essentially be bought and sold to a man for the sole purpose of becoming baby factories that served a male master without voice or complaint until our bodies gave out and we died. They could beat and rape us repeatedly and even slaughter us without consequence or legal ramifications because it was ALLOWED through the laws of marriage that stated we were the property of our husbands who could treat us however they saw fit. Luckily for me I was born in a different era and I have a life ripe with opportunity thanks to the sacrifices of so many women before me who fought tirelessly and faced horrific backlash in the name of equality for all women. Thanks to their efforts I have access to an education. I am my own person and belong to no one. I determine my own fate and I can vote to elect government officials who will protect my interests and shape new laws that govern me. I can make and manage my own money and I no longer have to tolerate sexual abuse, discrimination, hostile workplace conditions and/or gender bias. This makes me proud to be an American in a world where so many women internationally still struggle for equality and a voice amongst men.

That being said I see a dark season of change brewing in Washington and it really scares me. The only area of the law still up for debate that is exclusive to women because we are the only ones affected is the issue of sexual and reproductive rights. The debate used to center mostly around legalized abortion but recently a new issue is up for discussion regarding birth control access and whether or not insurance should be required to at least partially cover the cost of it. As a woman who has struggled reproductively since my early teens I could go through the point-by-point case for why access to affordable birth control is crucial for women’s health. I could write about the self-evident truth that birth control mitigates the risk of unintended pregnancies and, subsequently, abortions. I could cite all of the other various medical reasons why birth control is prescribed — from regulating menstrual cycles to preventing ovarian and uterine cysts. I could write endlessly about how anti-abortion Republicans, if they’re truly determined to reduce abortions, should be demanding free and universal healthcare for pregnant women who might otherwise need to terminate their pregnancies for financial reasons. I could also remind the Republicans that Americans who object to the use of birth control aren’t being forced to use it and that employers aren’t being forced to directly finance the purchasing of birth control for their employees. But why? It wouldn’t matter…

If you’re a woman with reproductive medical needs, you’re becoming increasingly unwelcome here. In fact, its very likely that you’ll be targeted as a potential murderer in red state America. Unless something happens to reverse this trend toward reproductive and sexual criminalization, America will indeed return to being “half free” with northern states maintaining affordable and accessible healthcare for women, while southern states will continue to subjugate women with archaic, misogynistic laws. Women within these states will have only two lifestyle options: they can either be celibate or they can be married and pregnant. This is wrong and it violates the constitutional rights that we have worked so hard to create in this country. Government has no place in my body or the decisions that govern it. Religion, race and to a certain extent sex and sexual orientation are all protected classifications in US and yet STILL there are laws and politicians trying to dictate how a woman approaches her own personal healthcare needs. For a country that has come so far in the race to provide equality and rights to all citizens we obviously have further to go and this saddens me. Are we reverting back to the days where women were told how to breed and when? Will I lose the right to chose my own family size and whether or not to even have one? Will I be forced to see an unwanted pregnancy to term even though the only person whose life and financial survivability lays on the line as a result of having that child is mine? The same Republicans who don’t support insurance for lower income women want to force them to have children they can’t even afford to deliver out of pocket much less support and raise without government assistance which they also oppose. As a gender we are being hung out to dry with an ever decreasing amount of reproductive options. Children are a massive financial responsibility so unless you want to foot the bill to pay for them don’t take away access to education and prevention to ward off unwanted pregnancies in the first place. If you don’t believe in birth control or abortion that’s your right…just as I have the right to support it. I won’t attack that belief and I expect the same courtesy and respect when it comes to my beliefs. There is no right or wrong answer here…all I’m saying is that options and access to reproductive care should be protected not criminalized so that every woman has the right to choose for herself what’s best for her body, her health, and her family.