Because the media reacts like this when we’re less than perfect. Because our emotional range gets stunted and limited.
Because so many aspects of our culture normalize rape on a subconscious level.
"No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs."
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President Barack Obama
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"Corporations aren’t people. People are people."
— President Obama (via barackobama)
nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident:
If Obama’s evolved on gay rights, Romney’s devolved.
If Obama’s evolved on gay rights, Romney’s devolved.
Romney has devolved… into a pathological LIAR.
No administration has reduced aggregate government spending as a precentage of GDP as much as Obama’s in forty years. If you look at the full chart, back to George HW Bush, you reach an inescapable conclusion: the biggest spenders and borrowers are Republicans and the most fiscally conservative presidents have been Democrats. Given the last two decades, the Tea Party, if they really want to shrink government, should be voting for Obama. (via “Big Government” Obama? - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast)
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Meanwhile: Nearly every Senate Republican voted today to double interest rates on federal college loans for more than 7 million students.
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I shudder at the idea of what I would be doing had I been born into a different family, a different country, or at a different time. I’m a middle-class American at my dream college, the University of Minnesota. Life is good. I get good grades, I love being a Gopher, I’m…
^This girl and I could be best friends.
(via demnewswire)
