On a semi-related note, and also thanks to reading other things on the internet, am I OK to roll my eyes just a little at people who are angry when people use language that implies (e.g.) that the group of people with penises is the same as the group of men?

I realize the groups are not 100% congruent, but seriously? We can't talk about women's reproductive rights anymore?

Yep.

Awesome. I would have been so tempted to yell "MR. BEEBE! MATCHES!!" at him.

Happy Birthday askye!

but I find myself caring less and less about what dudes want respected on their bodies when it is clear that respect for what I want to do with my own body, as a woman, is steadily and ENTHUSIASTICALLY eroded legislatively.

Exactly this. Dudes, we get that your man-parts are sacred to you. Our woman-parts are equally sacred to us. Therefore comprehend that endangering my woman-parts gives me reason to endanger your man-parts.

I'm pretty sure I'd be okay with kicking rapists in the nuts even if reproductive health wasn't under legislative attack.

I'm pretty sure I'd be okay with kicking rapists in the nuts even if reproductive health wasn't under legislative attack.

Oh my, yes.

wrod.

Also if someone is trying violence against me, and I have no safe options for retreat - if I have gun I will totally use it. (I don't own a gun, and if I were going to get one I'd get permit and training and only carry it where it is legal. But I don't know why if someone uses violence against me, a gun is excluded for self-defense.)

But the seat of your persona isn't actually between your legs...

For this guy, it just might be.

I would have been so tempted to yell "MR. BEEBE! MATCHES!!" at him.

Heh. I watched Four Weddings and a Funeral a week or so ago, so I was more likely to go with, "It's Brigadoon!"

"You know, if you go to first grade, and bite someone every day for a week, some folks are gonna think of you as a biter." --Art Mullen