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Colorado Kills Civil Unions Bill

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Colorado had a bill that would have legalized civil unions, thus giving rights to same sex marriage, but they killed it before it even reached the floor of the House.

It seems that Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty assigned the bill to the State and Veterans/Military Affairs Committee. This committee is dominated by conservative members and, according to Democrat House Minority Leader Mark Ferrandio, who happens to be sponsoring the bill, this committee has been called McNulty’s “kill committee.”

McNulty said the reason it was sent to this committee was to “… dispense with divisive issues as quickly as possible so we can get back to the business of creating jobs.” So, the rights of his people ranked that low on his list of things to do that day? Really? Because wow.

Despite the intensive focus on job creation, the state of Colorado is doing pretty well in the “creating jobs” area—their unemployment rate continues to go down. There’s progress being made. In light of that development, maybe McNulty could just continue with this strategy and add the whole “equal rights thing” to his calendar. You know, sometime. Maybe no one told him that it was part of his job to do more than one thing at a time. Furthermore how does giving people rights take away jobs? Or put a halt to creating jobs? It doesn’t make sense to me which is probably why I’m not in politics … I just don’t understand it.

Bottom line is that McNulty is Conservative and runs his state as such. It didn’t surprise me that he acted this way and tried to distract us from what he was actually doing in deflecting the backlash. What did surprise me, however, was GOP Rep. Don Coram. Coram has a homosexual son and he voted AGAINST the bill, saying, “I’m concerned that the gay community is being used as a political pawn.” So, by Corma’s logic, he’s denying the gay community their rights for their own well-being? He’s being cruel to be kind? What the heck is going on in Colorado?



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Bubba Carpenter’s Mississippi Abortion Law: “Let ‘Em Use Coat-Hangers”

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At first, I thought this was just a journalist poking fun. I thought it was a cheeky explanation of the video I was about to watch. Surely no one would really say “But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we’ve decided to do,” as a response to critics saying your new law to “literally [stopping] abortion in the state of Mississippi.” Because you do realize what’ll eventually happen, right? That it would bring the return of coat hanger abortions? And no one in their right mind would consider something like that, yes? Especially not a State Representative! … Right?

Wrong! That is exactly what Mississippi Republican State Representative Bubba Carpenter said. That was his actual response! All of this was caught on video and posted on YouTube, but if you try to view the video now it, of course, has been taken down by request. Me, I’m virtually speechless. I have no words to express how idiotic, loathsome, and just downright unfathomable this behavior is. Even those words don’t feel like enough.

His exact speech was:

“We have literally stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi. Three blocks from the Capitol sits the only abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi. A bill was drafted. It said, if you would perform an abortion in the state of Mississippi, you must be a certified OB/GYN and you must have admitting privileges to a hospital. Anybody here in the medical field knows how hard it is to get admitting privileges to a hospital. … It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to [deal with]  Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger.’ That’s what we’ve heard over and over and over. But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere, and that’s what we’ve decided to do. This became law and the governor signed it, and I think for one time, we were first in the nation in the state of Mississippi.”

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … your values do not have to be everyone else’s values, because, quite frankly, that is not part of the government’s job. If we’re speaking in generalizations, then I’m sorry, Mississippi, but you have no values and no morals. The only thing you have is an agenda and it’s a poor one, at that.



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The Lusty Lady, a Comprehensive Review on Closure

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Maybe I’ve gone to too many strip clubs, maybe I’ve known too many strippers … but this is one thing that I am not in support of and don’t even get me started on “Go-Go Dancers” (you are not classier because you don’t call yourself a stripper—just be a stripper already)!

When I read that The Lusty Lady, the nation’s only employee-owned, unionized strip club, is in financial trouble and in danger of closing down I thought “so what.” I don’t care and I don’t think it’s “feminist” and I don’t think it matters that it’s owned by women or that they make an effort to employ “diverse body types and ethnically diverse dancers”. Not even you, Dolores:

“We’re a San Francisco institution,” said Dolores, a dancer since 2005 who named herself for Mission Dolores Park. “If you can walk into a place, pay a dollar, see a beautiful nude girl and give her a wave, there’s something to be said for that.”

No, Dolores, there isn’t. Nothing good has ever come from a strip club and nothing good has ever brought someone to work in one. A strip club is a strip club is a strip club!

Just because stripping has become “mainstream” with pole-dancing exercise classes does not make it less degrading. I’m sorry, but I think stripping on a stage for dollar bills is degrading. Crawling on a filthy stage, sliding down a germ-filled pole (not every club wipes them down I’ve only seen two that actually have people go on and Clorox those poles), so that men can make you “dance for them” is just awful to me. And again, that’s my opinion. I know plenty of women who feel that stripping for cash “empowers” them, but that’s a debate for … well, for the comments section.

Before everyone jumps down my throat, I have no problem with stripping for your boyfriend. I have no problem with dressing up, and I have no problem with feeling empowered through your sexuality. I do, however, have a problem with girls who clearly have some underlying issues, be it daddy issues, or self-worth issues, who feel that their worth is somehow measured by the amount of dollar bills waved at them.

Like I said, maybe I’ve been to too many clubs, or known too many “dancers”; heard too many horror stories, and see too many “lap dances” in the “V.I.P” room. I’ve written several times in support of porn, and in support of whatever women want to do with their bodies. I even started a new feminist movement where it’s “whatever as long as no one gets hurt,” but I have never heard of a strip club experience where someone doesn’t get hurt. Whenever I walk into a strip club, it’s never an overwhelming sense of “this is a fine place to be” it’s always “this is a seedy, dark place to be.” There’s just a bad energy … and I’ve been to high-roller strip clubs.

Me? I’m very sorry The Lust Lady, but I don’t care that you’re going under. In fact, I’m okay with the fact that in a down economy, strip clubs are taking a hit, too. I feel sorry that some people will be out of a job, but maybe they’ll wake up and realize that they are so much more than just “lusty ladies.”



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Hairy Situation: To Shave or Not to Shave

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Emer O’Toole, a young woman from Dublin, decided to stop shaving 18 months ago when she came to the conclusion that too much pressure is put upon women to conform to ‘artificial gender norms’. She then went on a morning show in the UK and proudly lifted her arms to show the patch of hair she had grown, as well as the hair growth on her legs.

And she’s not the first woman to go “au natural”—Julia Roberts turned up at a premiere and revealed a quite hairy armpit, much to the dismay of the whole “civilized” world. There’s been an influx of celebrity “hairy” photos from Kate Upton’s mustache to Beyonce’s underarms, and it’s becoming more and more accepted, thankfully.

The issue I take with Emer, however, is that she says shaving is anti-feminist. Me, I beg to differ, Ms. O’Toole. Women have hair on our bodies because we needed to stay warm back in caveman days. It was our “fur”—everyone knows that. Now? Well, now we don’t need it all that much, so why would you really want to keep it? It’s not an “artificial gender norm” for a girl to be a girl. Girls are stereotypically soft and they smell sweet … boys are pegged to be rougher and smell musty. I don’t want that to change … I like smelling girl smell and I like smelling boy smell. I guess that makes me bi-smelling? I don’t know.

I’m Polish, Russian, and Sicilian, and that means for me, I have to shave every day. Every once in a blue moon I’ll let it go for a day, but I feel very uncomfortable, itchy, and worry that I smell. For me, there’s nothing better than having a hot shower, de-furring, putting nice-smelling lotion all over my body and sliding into crisp, clean sheets. Why is any of this anti-feminist?

I don’t shave to please men; I do it to please myself. We all know it does not matter how prickly the leg is—if you’re spreading them, the guy is willing. It’s all about what makes you feel good as a woman, so if shaving makes you feel good about yourself (like me) or if it doesn’t (like Emer) it’s all you. You just do you and quit worry about what everyone else is doing, you know?



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