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“Trolling Politicians’ Facebook Pages With Vaginal News is Hot New Trend”

It started with a single post to Virginia Delegate Ryan McDougle’s facebook wall. Now, it’s become a trend that’s sweeping the nation, like Silly Bandz or Brazilian waxes, and there’s no sign of it letting up: women are flooding the Facebook walls of politicians who have attempted to legislate their way into women’s health issues with graphically detailed descriptions of their genital maladies. Think period problems, concerns about strange bumps, requests for fertility advice, pregnancy scares, and more.

People are mad about this, and understandably so. Some women are so angry that they’ve taken to the Rick Perry for President facebook page to give the self-appointed women’s health expert an outpouring he’ll never forget. Among the TMI-laced posts:

“I’m at work and am experiencing the most uncomfortable itch you know where. I know I’m being punished for having a job and not being a wife and mother, but will you still take care of me? I’d like to stop by during my lunch hour.”

“Dr. Rick Perry, I had thyroid cancer and had to take a radioactive iodine pill back in August. They told me I would probably have irregular periods for a while, but I should go back to normal after 6 months or so. I’m really worried because I can feel the cramps like I’m going to get my period, but nothing has come out for a couple of months. I haven’t had sex in a really long time either, so I know I couldn’t be pregnant because we used a condom and I’m on birth control (originally prescribe to help control my PCOS symptoms of irregular periods.) Am I ever going to have a regular period again? Is it bad for those clots to not come out for so long? I’m worried because I want to have a baby some day when I get married, but I’m not ready for that yet. I want to be established financial with my husband before we have kids so that we can provide proper care. What do you think? Should I be worried about my period? It’s really scary and I’m starting to hurt really bad sometimes…. =/”

So far, no comment from Dr. Governor Perry. But millions of women eagerly await his expert diagnoses!

Sorry, Poor People: Going to College Might Ruin Your Chance to Get Married

“According to personal finance experts and many colorful charts, attending college can significantly increase one’s lifetime earning potential. Unfortunately, if you’re poor and get yourself a fancy degree, you’ll be too highfalutin for your poor peers and smell too much of the servant caste to be accepted by your wealthy classmates. And you’ll never find love and die alone face down with your face in a New Yorker and your ringless hand in a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

Research conducted at Cornell University reveals the awkward position Poors find themselves in after breaking ranks with their parents and cohorts by attending college. Researchers followed 3,200 subjects from youth into adulthood and tracked their marital fates. They found that while college attendance significantly increases wealthy people’s chances of getting married (wealthy men who attend college are 31% more likely to marry than wealthy men who don’t; wealthy women up their chances by 8%), lower income students who attend college actually decrease their chances of getting married. Women from an economically disadvantaged background who decide to attend college decrease their chances of marrying by 22%; for poorer men, their odds drop 31%. And the poorer you were as a kid, the more college attendance decreased the likelihood you’d marry.

So what gives? The Cornell brigade thinks that lower income students struggle to socially assimilate to their wealthier peers because they’re “caught between two worlds.” Their education differentiates them from people from similar socioeconomic backgrounds, but their socioeconomic background alienates them from their schoolmates. They don’t want to settle with someone from back home and “marry down,” but they aren’t able to “marry up.” They’re the matrimonial equivalent of a fish with legs who can’t swim anymore but can’t run around with the rodents and deer. Or Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back. Or a jewel encrusted Carhart jacket…”

How do we alter the notion that a woman who stands up for herself, her loved ones, or her beliefs is the one who’s causing trouble? By accepting once and for all that legitimate female anger isn’t the hallmark of a bitch, cunt, ballbuster, or drama queen. We’re nearly 52% of the population— it’s time for more men to understand our behavior isn’t aberrant, and for more women not to feel “guilty” for not staying in the narrow range of traditionally accepted emotional responses. Women are multi-faceted humans with a full range of ambitions and emotional needs. Guys, sometimes we disagree with you, but sometimes we disagree with each other. Which is how it should be.

Litsa Dremousis

Can You Tell The Difference Between A Men’s Magazine And A Rapist?

Well, this is upsetting. According to a new study, people can’t tell the difference between quotes from British “lad mags” and interviews with convicted rapists. And given the choice, men are actually more likely to agree with the rapists.

“There is a fundamental concern that the content of such magazines normalises the treatment of women as sexual objects. We are not killjoys or prudes who think that there should be no sexual information and media for young people. But are teenage boys and young men best prepared for fulfilling love and sex when they normalise views about women that are disturbingly close to those mirrored in the language of sexual offenders?”

Once And For All, It’s Time To Stop Blaming Rape On Women’s Drinking

‎”If someone cuts a bungee jumper’s cord and the jumper gets hurt, do we cluck our tongues about how people should stop being so stupid as to bungee jump? No: blame the person who sabotaged the cord (and make sure the jumper gets medical care!). So maybe we should spend more time equipping ourselves to decide which risks are right for us personally, and no time at all judging other people’s choices.”

Hypocrisy at Its Best: Anti-Gay Politician Secretly Donates Sperm To Lesbian Couples

“With all the time they spend bashing homosexuals, you might think that conservative lawmakers hate gays in real life. However, as Newt Gingrich has shown us, it’s entirely possible to treat your lesbian sister like everyone else in the family while advocating for policies that discriminate against her — if you’re a raging hypocrite, that is. Alabama politician Bill Johnson has now joined the long list of Republican politicians who publicly attack gays even though privately they have no problem them (or perhaps are homosexual themselves). ”

Think women have achieved equality? Think again.

No Such Place as ‘Post-Racial’ America

“‘Post-racial’ is a mythical idea that should be as painful to the mind’s ear as fingernails on the chalkboard are to the outer ear. It’s an intellectual Loch Ness monster. It is indeed a monster because it’s dangerous. What people seem to mean by “post-racial” is: nowadays race no longer matters and anyone can accomplish anything because racism is behind us. All of that is false…”