votes for women, chastity for men

The current gnarl in the US Congress right now is unbelievable - and yet I more than believe in it. This is the consequence of rights that are legal alone, of rights that stand unprotected by social backing of any kind - eventually they stop looking like rights, and start looking expendable. The fact that Republicans can hold the entire rutting government hostage to their crusade against women's sexual and bodily autonomy says a lot about the current place of women's rights in our national rhetoric - they're not afraid to say it, they don't think it'll have negative consequences or get them ousted, because women right who cares about those bitches?

Am advocating a return to feminist militancy, I think. If they're not going to play nice, I don't see why we should. Shit like this is why I still read/support aspects of second wave feminist theory. Like Nancy Pelosi says, this is war.