Two years ago today, Dr. George Tiller, one of only three practitioners providing late term abortions in the US, was viciously gunned down in church in front of his wife and other parishioners who tried to stop the shooter. He was an incredible man, who never intended to carry on his father’s practice after his parents, brother, and sister-in-law were killed in an aircraft accident. But when he moved home to Wichita to take care of his one year-old nephew, he found that his father had left behind a community of desperate women who needed services free of judgment. After one of these women died from a botched illegal abortion, Tiller took over his father’s clinic in 1970, and ran it for 39 years (in which time he was fire-bombed in 1986, and shot in his car 5 times in 1993).
In this article, various patients remember Dr. Tiller and how he affected their lives. I truly defy anyone, anti-choice or not, to read these stories and still be incapable of feeling any empathy for Dr. Tiller or his patients.
May 2012
46 posts
I am a bit anxious about it, to be honest. I know that if it doesn’t work out I’ll only have to stay for two months, give or take, after signing the contract. Two months - should be able to deal with that even if it turns out to be a complete disaster.
I feel a bit negative though, because - really - why wouldn’t it work out? I am a great person and odds are there are some awesome people working there. It’s just like me - it’s easier to deal with disappointment if you try to prepare for the worst.
I am going to try and look on the bright side of things. This job is something new. I’ll be able to make some money so I can travel and - above all - get a new pair of glasses, because the pair I have is falling apart! I’ll get to meet some new people and maybe make some good friends.
So. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for me and my awesome.
As a man, I have no problem with women generalizing men as rapists, misogynists, yada yada. Because I’ve seen men do some vile shit and had to stop even viler shit from happening. This is from the 3rd grade to now. Waayyy out of line touching, sick name-calling, physical…
At least for the summer. I might get it prolonged, depending on how everything goes, so YAY! A job. And money. I really like money!
Yay! Go you! What does the job involve?
I’ll be working with the social assistance branch of the Social Services. It involves a lot of administration, pay out and the like as well as, of course, enquiries to determine who qualifies for financial aid. Hopefully it will work out. I am not much for bureaucracy after all :)
At least for the summer. I might get it prolonged, depending on how everything goes, so YAY! A job. And money. I really like money!
TELL ME/US MORE
Congrats! (grattis?)
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? It’s within the Social Assistance. Financial aid, I suppose. It’s with the social services. Hopefully I’ll enjoy it :D It also means good things for August :)
And yes, grattis or gratulerar. You smart cookie, you.
At least for the summer. I might get it prolonged, depending on how everything goes, so YAY! A job. And money. I really like money!
… I’d be pretty damn thrilled right now, seeing as Sweden won.
I do like winning though, regardless of what it is.
- on tumblr: guys we need to have a serious discussion about the erasure of nonbinary trans* people
- in real life: ok, I guess I have to explain why "feminist" is not an insult
Tonight I was sitting at work and listening to several of my coworkers talking. One of them asked some of the married guys if they had asked their wife’s father’s permission to marry her. The younger guy, in his 30s, said he did not, and thought it was old-fashioned. Two older men, both in their…
(trigger warning: rape, rape jokes) Here is why I refuse to take rape jokes sitting down…
Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative estimate. Other sources double that number (pdf).
A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?
Rapists do.
They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.
Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.
If one in twenty guys (or more) is a real and true rapist, and you have any amount of social activity with other guys like yourself, then it is almost a statistical certainty that one time hanging out with friends and their friends, playing Halo with a bunch of guys online, in a WoW guild, in a pick-up game of basketball, at a bar, or elsewhere, you were talking to a rapist. Not your fault. You can’t tell a rapist apart any better than anyone else can. It’s not like they announce themselves.
But, here’s the thing. It’s very likely that in some of these interactions with these guys, at some point or another, someone told a rape joke. You, decent guy that you are, understood that they didn’t mean it, and it was just a joke. And so you laughed.
Or maybe you didn’t laugh. Maybe it just wasn’t a very funny joke. So maybe you just didn’t say anything at all.
And, decent guy who would never condone rape, who would step in and stop rape if he saw it, who understands that rape is awful and wrong and bad, when you laughed? When you were silent?
That rapist who was in the group with you, that rapist thought that you were on his side. That rapist knew that you were a rapist like him. And he felt validated, and he felt he was among his comrades.
You. The rapist’s comrade.
And if that doesn’t make you feel sick to your stomach, if that doesn’t make you want to throw up, if that doesn’t disturb you or bother you or make you feel like maybe you should at least consider not participating in that kind of humor anymore, not abiding it in your presence, not greeting it with silence…
Well, maybe you aren’t as opposed to rapists as you claim.
” —Why Rape Jokes Are Never “Ok” (via twofish)I mean, that’d be tedious enough, but I couldn’t even press play due to the incredulous rage I felt as a result of the discussion thread attached to it. Much of what I read before I had to close the page was along the lines of, “I’m a man, and therefore it’s my choice too. I helped make it! What…
A pet party? If you want, reply to or reblog this post with a picture of you hugging your pet, or your pet being sassy as fuck, OR BOTH.
This is Bisou. He sends love and cuddles your way.
I have this issue with Loki (in the movie version, seeing as I haven’t read the comic books) - or rather his back story. Because it’s all ‘He’s Laufey’s son, he’s Laufey’s son’, which he is - both in norse mythology in the Marvel universe, it seems. Now. My issue: Why is Laufey a man in the Marvel universe? Because as far as I know - from being Swedish and growing up with this mythology - Laufey is a woman. A giant, yes, but a woman, Loki’s mother. Why is Laufey a man in the movie/comics?
Now, there are a lot of things that the Marvel peeps decided not to steal, and things they sort of took, changed and/or adapted. But they did essentially steal Laufey and Loki, so why on earth couldn’t Laufey remain a woman? Hm? Why?
is your computer dying?
have you fallen asleep?
are you peeing?
Yes, no, yes.
I managed to pee twice during my computer’s recovery.
And make tea.
So there.
I also noticed you tweeted my orange/makeup thingy.
I come across as quite hilarious.
I SEE YOUR TYPING BUT NOTHING ARRIVES
or
perhaps you are still peeing
and it was a cat on your keyboard
You didn’t get my little ramble?
RUDE
“Yes, no, yes.
I managed to pee twice during my computer’s recovery.
And make tea.
So there.
I also noticed you tweeted my orange/makeup thingy.
I come across as quite hilarious.”
IS THAT YOU SIGRID?
OMG WHAT! ARE YOU NOT GETTING ANY OF THIS!?
I had a cup of tea. A wonderful cup of tea. Then The Brother and his Jaffa cakes happened. My tea almost died, because Jaffa cakes turns to mush in tea if you’re not super fast - and he wasn’t. But I saved it!
I love you, Tea.
my standards are unrealistically high for how unattractive i am
#plus the fact that I’m completely boring make for forever alone
Fact: I find you hilarious.
Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford (Slate)
Slate: One of the striking things about your more recent material is how you engage with questions of mental health in a way that’s serious and thoughtful as well as really funny. There’s…
When you get up all in my face about male sexual assault victims, I always wonder why you never seem to know very much about these men and boys. See, I used to investigate child abuse, and I don’t recall seeing very many men rallying to raise…
i solve my problems by blatantly ignoring them and going on the internet
Message 1: I really like cats. They smell great. unless they’re wet.
Message 2: Sorry about the cat thing. Its a weird day.
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+2 because this isn’t really offensive or anything, just… bizarre.
+3 because clearly he re-thought the cat…
I actually love the smell of my cats. I sniff them all the time. Not all over mind you, but there are select areas that are nice and soft and nicely cat-scented.
Last night I dreamt I coughed up mutant insects. One of them had a claw like an excavator.
Then I sort of chased it around the room (you know, the kind of chasing where you try to sneak up on something, it turns around and you run away screaming), trying to get rid of it without getting attacked by the gigantic claw.
Good times.
If your feminism isn’t intersectional then it’s bullshit.
And I don’t mean it just protects white cis lesbians who hate porn also. I don’t mean you just saying “Oh yeah I heard slutwalk’s bad for many POCs so I’ma use my hate of slutty things to like,…
Well, my assumtion was that they ought to have running water if they had a bathroom - seeing as I know they did have a bathroom, as well as a kitchen, since it’s stated in the book. But for me the issue was that a bathroom isn’t a bathroom without running water, hence the confusion as to why they had to walk to a tap to get water. The Aguamenti charm didn’t ven cross my mind, but that makes it even stranger. But, like you said, if the point of them walking to get water was for them to really experience the World Cup it put things in a different light. So that is a good point, thank you :)
April 2012
38 posts
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire they attend the Quidditch World Cup. They put up their tents, go inside and readers are told the main tent has three rooms, on of which is, I am assuming, a FULLY FUNCTIONING BATHROOM. Right. Two seconds later Mr. Weasley picks up the dusty teapot and declares ‘We need water’. Now… Harry, Ron and Hermione leave the tent to go find a tap to get water.
Question: Why not just go to the bathroom to get water? Because a ‘bathroom without running water’ is essentially a bucket in a room where you poop and pee. Therefore NOT a bathroom.
I am confused.
