Dan Savage is great.
This is totally off anything that I usually write about, but I just read something very interesting in SF Weekly (March 22-28 issue). One of my guilty pleasures is reading the weekly column "Savage Love", in the back of the paper where all the trannies and "massage" parlors advertise. Dan Savage answers emails from around the Bay Area about any, I mean ANY kind of sexual/S&M/kink situation that you can imagine! It can be hilarious at times and also extremly disgusting as well, but he keeps it real and to the point. Very entertaining, I must say.
In this one particular article, he wasn't responding to any reader's dillusional quirks and fantasies, but he reached a moment of rebellion, an itch of activism in the "straight" world which, I don't know if he even belongs to, but .... I digress:
"Staight Rights Update: Earlier this month Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week, the GOP-controlled state House of Representatives in Missouri voted to ban state funded family planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women", one Republican state representative told the Kansas City Star, "we're saying pormiscuity is okay."
On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine- a vaccine that will save lives of thousands of women every year- from being made available.
The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child support payments, gentlmen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have nice funeral slut.
What's it going to take to get the straight rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero-heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War breeders! The religious right hate heterosexuality just as much as it hates the homosexualality. Fight Back!"
- Dan Savage
I just wanted to take a minute to credit Mr. Savage for shinning a light on an issue that is often swept under a rug and collects dust. Hope it makes you think ... thanks.
HC
In this one particular article, he wasn't responding to any reader's dillusional quirks and fantasies, but he reached a moment of rebellion, an itch of activism in the "straight" world which, I don't know if he even belongs to, but .... I digress:
"Staight Rights Update: Earlier this month Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week, the GOP-controlled state House of Representatives in Missouri voted to ban state funded family planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women", one Republican state representative told the Kansas City Star, "we're saying pormiscuity is okay."
On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine- a vaccine that will save lives of thousands of women every year- from being made available.
The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're going to have those babies, ladies, and you're going to make those child support payments, gentlmen. And if you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have nice funeral slut.
What's it going to take to get the straight rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas is seeking to criminalize hetero-heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking Holy War breeders! The religious right hate heterosexuality just as much as it hates the homosexualality. Fight Back!"
- Dan Savage
I just wanted to take a minute to credit Mr. Savage for shinning a light on an issue that is often swept under a rug and collects dust. Hope it makes you think ... thanks.
HC
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