Comments on: Violence Against Women Act May Be Stripped of LGBT Protections Because of Awful Republicans

By: Egbert

Egbert — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:35:03 +0000

I heard about this on NPR, and I literally had to pace heatedly around my kitchen, flapping my arms angrily, and shouting, “WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY ARE YOU ALL SUCH TERRIBLE PEOPLE? WHY DO YOU THINK IT’S OK FOR LGBT PEOPLE AND UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE AMERICANS TO GET RAPED AND ABUSED? SERIOUSLY, ARE YOU DOING THIS JUST TO MAKE ME ANGRY?? BECAUSE I THINK YOU MIGHT BE.”

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:09:23 +0000

I had to do the same thing. I felt like my organs were boiling with rage and nothing to do except furiously type my response!

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:48:23 +0000

If it’s so freakin’ necessary, why not pass it with the queer protections in? People who vote against it due to its underinclusiveness are monsters now, but the people who would not pass it in its previous form because it protected people they dislike get to claim the moral high ground? Grr… Temper tantrum replete with ineffectual squeaking and short-arc fist-shaking coming on…

By: Willis

Willis — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:47:37 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. I’m currently living in Morocco so calling is not an option for me, but I just finished writing an e-mail to my state representative. I cannot fathom how they can possibly respond to real people explaining how this legislation hurts them in a way that isn’t just completely ludicrous. I have to hope that it can make a difference.

By: Tali

Tali — Fri, 04 May 2012 23:02:53 +0000

if you feel up to it, call your state representatives. I just called one of mine, and will call the other one when I can pull myself together. I had to leave a message, and I hope it is comprehensible because I was mostly crying, but seriously. If we call state reps, and they hear real personal stories about how this legislation effects Real lives, I have to hope that maybe, just maybe, they’ll realize how horrible they’re being.

By: Bhan

Bhan — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:57:09 +0000

“Dilutes the focus”….

What can you even say?

By: Randahl

Randahl — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:44:31 +0000

I appreciate the clackity expression of rage, and feel it as my own.

By: lilyv

lilyv — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:22:19 +0000

you know that feeling after you eat lots of yummy pineapple and then your mouth and tongue sting all over from getting fiber cuts?
yeah, this is how my brain feels like now. it just stings from republican ignorance being forced into it’s soft fatty tissue

By: Mariah

Mariah — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:26:46 +0000

I can’t even.

By: Randahl

Randahl — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:00:46 +0000

I wish the Republican party would split already. The normal Republicans can stay in the Republican party, and the crazies can go off to the Capitalists for Jesus party. Think of how much simpler voting would become!

By: milo

milo — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:36:41 +0000

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k, think that sums up all my feelings on this

By: Laura R.

Laura R. — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:24:38 +0000

I was curious to see how they could POSSIBLY defend this/talk about this without sounding like complete assholes, and apparently (quoted at http://www.shakesville.com/2012/03/quote-of-day_15.html):

Republicans say the measure, under the cloak of battered women, unnecessarily expands immigration avenues by creating new definitions for immigrant victims to claim battery. More important, they say, it fails to put in safeguards to ensure that domestic violence grants are being well spent. It also dilutes the focus on domestic violence by expanding protections to new groups, like same-sex couples, they say.

“Protect the sanctity of traditional domestic violence!”—The GOP.

So they are literally DEFINING domestic violence as violence within a heterosexual marriage, I guess?!
I can’t even.