The end has come and found us here with our toys scattered all around us here

This is a very interesting article. It's not really an abortion rights discussion, as much as a differently-abled rights discussion. Or maybe it's both. I don't think it's pro- or con- abortion in general, though. What it is NOT is a rant. No ranting here, d00ds. I'm just curious.

I think the subject resonates for me because after all this time of thinking I was just an odd-person-out sort of 'normal', I find um, yeah. I actually do have a learning difference (I hesitate to say disability, because I think ADHD gives as much as it takes, if not more). And I really, really like being alive, and I think I've actually done some good in the world, and all. Not to mention that my closest friend growing up was pretty severely disabled.

So, what d'y'all think about the article?


Also, GIP! Thanks to my geek!child croosa.

it was worth it, feeling abandoned; makes one hardened, but what has happened to love?

from cluegirl. And yes, it's important.

A lot has been said about how to prevent rape.

Women should learn self-defence. Women should lock themselves in their houses after dark. Women shouldn't have long hair and women shouldn't wear short skirts. Women shouldn't leave drinks unattended. Fuck, they shouldn't dare to get drunk at all.

Um, no. Here's the deal:



if a woman is drunk, don't rape her.
if a woman is walking alone at night, don't rape her.
if a women is drugged and unconscious, don't rape her.
if a woman is wearing a short skirt, don't rape her.
if a woman is jogging in a park at 5 am, don't rape her.
if a woman looks like your ex-girlfriend you're still hung up on, don't rape her.
if a woman is asleep in her bed, don't rape her.
if a woman is asleep in your bed, don't rape her.
if a woman is doing her laundry, don't rape her.
if a woman is in a coma, don't rape her.
if a woman changes her mind in the middle of or about a particular activity, don't rape her.
if a woman has repeatedly refused a certain activity, don't rape her.
if a woman is not yet a woman, but a child, don't rape her.
if your girlfriend or wife is not in the mood, don't rape her.
if your step-daughter is watching tv, don't rape her.
if you break into a house and find a woman there, don't rape her.
if your friend thinks it's okay to rape someone, tell him it's not, and that he's not your friend.
if your "friend" tells you he raped someone, report him to the police.
if your frat-brother or another guy at the party tells you there's an unconscious woman upstairs and it's your turn, don't rape her, call the police and tell the guy he's a rapist.

tell your sons, godsons, nephews, grandsons, sons of friends that it's NOT okay to rape someone.

don't tell your women friends how to be safe and avoid rape.
don't imply that she could have avoided it if she'd only done/not done x.
don't imply that it's in any way her fault.
don't let silence imply agreement when someone tells you he "got some" with the drunk girl.
don't perpetuate a culture that tells you that you have no control over or responsibility for your actions. You can, too, help yourself.


If you agree, repost it. It's that important.

And, gods damn it, acknowledge that it happens to men, too.