A Red Head in Austin

keepyourbsoutofmyuterus:

rabbleprochoice:

keepyourbsoutofmyuterus:

Mitt Romney’s senior campaign adviser, Eric Fehrnstrom, on Sunday said that social issues important to women, like contraception coverage and abortion rights, were “shiny objects” that were being used to distract voters. […]

“Mitt Romney is pro-life,” the senior adviser admitted to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “He’ll govern as a pro-life president, but you’re going to see the Democrats use all sorts of shiny objects to distract people’s attention from the Obama performance on the economy. This is not a social issue election.”

Look. I’ve said this before. There have been plenty of moments in the last 3.5 years where I thought Obama could have done better - much better, in fact - on reproductive rights and reproductive justice.

But the things I have problems with when it comes to Obama are NOT going to be fixed by electing Romney. No way.

Obama 2012

[NB: “Women’s issues” affect more people than just cis women.]

I disagree about this  not being a social issue election because the social issues facing this country directly affect the economy. 

We need more funding for education because a more educated population will help increase employment. Not to mention that if you increase education funding, more teachers can be hired.

People who say social issues don’t matter when it comes to the presidential election have the luxury of saying that because social issues don’t affect them.

For example, cis men who say that this “war on women*” thing is just a way for Obama to get votes have the luxury of saying that because THEIR major form of birth control isn’t the one Romney has explicitly supported making illegal.

Fuck Off Romney.

Love,

Rabble

Emphasis of Rabble’s awesome commentary are mine.

(via feminist-space)

In social justice, there’s this absurd meme (that I’ve been guilty of myself) is that we are the “voice for the voiceless,” but that’s not right. The oppressed are not voiceless – they’re just not being listened to.

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Dianna Anderson, of Be the Change, at Rachel Held Evans’ “Ask a Feminist” (via emm-in-sem)

Wooo, I like this. 

(via iamateenagefeminist)

(via feminist-space)