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Dear Government: Get the fuck off our bodies

The USDA has presented a woefully late-to-the-game revision of their eating guidelines for staying healthy. Those last several they gave us have been real winners! Unsurprisingly, there are a very few gems in their load of crap, but most of it is still a load of crap. Here is an extensive blog post by someone smarter than I am, who pretty much picks the whole thing apart, point by point.

People bitch all the time about government. People don't want the government in their health care. People don't want the goverment in their personal lives. People don't want the government telling them what to say. Why do those same people listen to the government's advice on what to put in their bodies? It makes no sense. None.

And while we're on the topic of government and bodies, everyone's aware of the horrors being proposed all over the place about investigating miscarriages, and putting ridiculous limits on abortion availability, right? It wasn't enough to try to destroy Planned Parenthood. So much for personal freedoms and small government, Republicans.

Admittedly batshit-insane Bobby Franklin proposes a law that would define a miscarriage as "prenatal murder" and put the bereaved mother at risk of the death penalty.

Yeah, you might think "this'll never pass," but people, we thought a lot of things couldn't happen. Like, you know, the reintroduction of public executions.

And a little (lot) closer to home--just a few hundred miles to the north of us here in Lawrence--Nebraska suggests a bill that would allow the "justifiable homicide" plea that Dr. Tiller's murderer was denied.

This shit is happening, people, and it's happening all over. Start fighting. Start writing. Start talking. I know, I know, I want to bury my head in the sand, too. I want that so bad. I can't. We can't.

Get your dander up and get active.

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When

pamelonian and

aki_dreaming and I were mere kittens, just within two years of being able to legally purchase alcohol, we predicted theocracy. We predicted George W. Bush. We said, "It's coming, it's starting to happen, it's happening." And everyone said we were nuts.

Silly girls! That's too unreasonable to ever actually happen.

I hate being right almost all the time.

You, however, are always right, and you're right again.

It's time to take to the streets. Signing internet petitions and sending form e-mail is simply not enough.

Edited 2011-02-26 16:38 (UTC)

Oh, the irony that there is no local Walk For Choice in Lawrence today. There aren't even any in the state of Kansas. Because I would participate, despite the weather.

Oh, wow... I had almost forgotten, I was very active in the Lawrence chapter of the Pro-Choice Action League when I was in my twenties. I even borrowed my band's guitarist's PA system for a rally in South Park one year. Barbara Ballard spoke into my very own Shure SM58!

I also attended a few NORML events...

I wonder if we can light a fire under some shit in this town again. Thing is, most young women think it's uncool to call one's self a feminist. It makes me sad.

"I'm not a feminist, but..."

Makes my head explode every time.

Every. fucking. TIME.

I mean, seriously -- being a feminist means you hate men?

Because I am fairly sure that neither you nor I hate men.

Just sayin'.

And being a lesbian means you must hate men?
Arghlllmmmmphhhhnon. This garbles me as much as excess snow in February.

Why do those same people listen to the government's advice on what to put in their bodies?

Yes, yes, this! Most people give more thought to what grade of gasoline they put in their cars.

And furthermore....
...or take out of their bodies.

GAHHHH.
It make me so crazy, frothing-at-the-mouth crazy, but unfortunately, that just makes me look like one of their rabid opponents, and I'd rather look .. you know, reasonable. I'm fucking torn by it all.

Luckily, it's possible to be angry and reasonable at the same time.

Not to say that screaming and frothing don't have a place. Just best to keep that shit behind doors. =D

Or on late-night lj

When it is snowing

FUCK YAH

Oh, and may I gank this icon? I love.

Yes! Definitely.

I'll admit it: I don't know exactly a feminist is anymore. My mom talks about bra-burning, but that was awhile ago. I can't say if *I* am a feminist, even.

What I do know is I am so firmly pro-choice (or anti-life, if you want to quibble), that my dander is fully up and needs a way to act. I need to start looking up some local activists, maybe? Then again, I'm in Kansas. Almost seems futile, like I should move to another state before I try to get on a soapbox.

feminism n (1895) 1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes 2 : organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests — feminist n or adj — feministic adj

Then again, I'm in Kansas

So am I. What state do you think would be better? My point is, this bullshit is happening all over. The mindset of "oh, it's already crap here, talking about it won't do any good" is what got us here in the first place. Did you know that Kansas was one of the first states to grant women sufferage? It passed in 1912. Eight years before the passing of the 19th amendment. So you're in Kansas. Congratulations!

After much reading, I gave thinking that the USDA and the FDA knew anything that they were talking about, they don't... however they do know who lines their pocket books. (I am doing the Lewis Black finger thing right now.) If you ever get a chance you should read Everything I want to do is illegal, by Joel Salatin.

I read that the whack jobs in the government and their proposed INSANE bills are normal when the whack jobs get control of whatever they have control of now. My wish is that people remember this crap come election time and stop voting the bastards in. But they won't Remember or Vote. They are to busy watching wife swap and eating their processed corn.

I also wish to have a chat with Mr. Franklin about murder and loss.

If you ever get a chance you should read Everything I want to do is illegal, by Joel Salatin.

I read Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do years and years ago. It made me the woman I am today. =D

Your second paragraph...spot on. I was trying to explain this to

mckitterick yesterday. He made the comment "Who ever thought The Handmaid's Tale wouldn't be so far-fetched."

I looked at him and raised my hand. Then explained to him that he'd just exhibited a perfect display of male privilege. It was a really awesome conversation.

I also wish to have a chat with Mr. Franklin about murder and loss.

I bet you do, hon. I would be there for it, you bet.

I don't see the two behaviors - listing to non-mandatory, government-provided nutrition advice, and being forced by law to prove your miscarriage wasn't intentional - as anywhere near the same thing.

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