Happy Birthday askye!
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sheryl - Jun 16, 2012 3:04:18 pm PDT #10018 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Zenkitty - Jun 16, 2012 3:13:25 pm PDT #10019 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
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.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2012 3:14:32 pm PDT #10020 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm pretty sure I'd be okay with kicking rapists in the nuts even if reproductive health wasn't under legislative attack.
Nora Deirdre - Jun 16, 2012 3:22:09 pm PDT #10021 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
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.
erikaj - Jun 16, 2012 3:25:02 pm PDT #10022 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod.
Typo Boy - Jun 16, 2012 3:27:09 pm PDT #10023 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
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.)
aurelia - Jun 16, 2012 3:38:40 pm PDT #10024 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
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!"
erikaj - Jun 16, 2012 3:43:39 pm PDT #10025 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
"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
§ ita § - Jun 16, 2012 3:47:32 pm PDT #10026 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
why if someone uses violence against me, a gun is excluded for self-defense
Because some things are more important than losing the fight, worse than dying. And among those things? Is pride. If you have to stoop to levels to save your life, then how can you live with yourself afterwards? So you might as well die at his hands.
DavidS - Jun 16, 2012 3:50:02 pm PDT #10027 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Really, ita, I don't know if you need to say anything except: "Well, if you come after me I will be taking several shots at your nuts if you leave that guard down. If that's a deterrent then that's the point."