There are any number of health issues that can surface as women enter the bio reproductive stage of maturity.
Birth control is a tool that serves as an aid to many women on a number of fronts.
Denying millions of women access to it because folks don’t get science is whack.
I’ve seen women curled up on the floors, calling out of work, sitting in the clinic at school experiencing pain I could never imagine FOR A WEEK OUT OF EVERY MONTH.
And it’s different for every woman, because that’s how bodies work.
Maybe we should mind our business???
To be clear, I’m not some holier than thou feminist whose got it all figured out.
There are times where I automatically think “it can’t be THAT bad”
But that’s a goofy thought because: 1) I don’t have a uterus & will never know 2) people have died from doctors thinking that way
What is, and will continue to be, ignorant at best and inhumane at worst is that we would suggest to the word that our religion requires other people to suffer because we don’t understand how a friggen uterus works.
My absolute favorite part about putting all of Kirk’s racist comments about Black abilities & qualifications in the context of “merit” is that, at its root, it forces you to confront the fact that racists are also inescapably unsmart. And that’s being charitable.
The idea that affirmative action and DEI are about giving unqualified, minority dummies positions a qualified white man would’ve performed better is… stupid.
Which can be forgiven. The other, less charitable option is being disingenuous. Which is actually evil in this case.
2/6
In the grand scheme, affirmative action & DEI initiatives are a VERY low bar to clear for the injustices this nation has committed.
“Hey, maybe we stop ONLY looking for white dudes for these jobs? You know? Other people can do them too…”
One of the Black conservatives Amanda Seals was debating on that Jubilee show was a dude in a dashiki & antebellum facial hair named John-Samuel.
He said he was running for congress.
…as a Black Republican.
I had to see if he knew the rules.
Beloved… he knows the rules.
There are Black conservatives/Republicans who are married to Black people and other minorities.
But they don’t be runnin for office. Cuz they everyone knows if you are not white, want to be married, and want Republicans to vote for you… you better marry somebody white.
Clarence Thomas ain’t even in electoral politics and played it safe.
Left his Black wife and his son Jamal in the rearview.
Most sensible countries create new constitutions after such a clear failures.
But we did not. We threw duct tape on a constitution that was faulty enough to leave basic questions like “who are the citizens this constitution governs?” unanswered. 2/6
Now, under normal circumstances, I’d be all in favor of scrapping the constitution entirely and creating one that doesn’t suck.
But we’re not exactly under normal circumstances right now. 3/6
One of the reasons that I am so adamant about the idea that there is no Christianity, there are Christianities is that without that clarification, I’d be forced to answer “yes” when people in my context ask me if Christianity is “the white man’s religion.”
Let’s rap. 🧵1/15
The other day, I shot this tweet off.
A white evangelical man decided this was evidence of racism (because they’ve often struggled to produce serious thinkers).
And then he proceeded to devolve into a hot ghetto mess in response.
My observation was, in part, a reaction to a baptist leader using Greek to call another man soft (or gay depending on who you ask) and then hiding behind a lexicon instead of standing on his square to insult someone in a language we all speak.
Aight, this bout to be a long thread that’s less about Patriarchy Hannah (or whoever is behind this account) and more about what the existence of this account and the drama surrounding its exposure (and White People Business in general) tells us about ourselves as a society. 1/15
First things first… whoever is behind that account straight up said “I was lyin” (which should have gone without saying. folks are severely lacking in discernment) and the response from some was “keep the account and turn it into parody.”
Beloved…. 2/15
It has been parody the whole time. It just wasn’t funny. And it will not be in the future either.
The reason the (far) right struggles with humor is that humor comes from the part of your soul that you injure by deliberately presenting as a fundamentally bad person. 3/15