(Editor’s note:  Originally posted at fellow Hellions site, http://stateofthelinds.wordpress.com/ Over half of Team Hellions are women, and chances are probably half the readers are women as well.  I am a man and I don’t understand how these people can hate women so much.  (The people mentioned in the article below that is.)  My fiance is strong, my mother is strong, the women I am lucky enough to be good friends are all strong.  There isn’t a one of them that I think is ignorant, uneducated, or *gasp* a whore.  If I believe that certain things are acceptible for men then I must also believe that the equal or comparable is acceptable for women.  Try this:  instead of reading any story in the press that is anti women, replace women with black.  Really.  Read an article as “black men’s needs shouldn’t be covered because they’re all sluts”.  It sounds horrific doesn’t it?  So why is it any different to think that about a woman?  Please RT, share, repost, spread this article in any way you like.)

 

There has been a lot of “slut-shaming” going on lately.  Between irate Conservatives in Congress complaining about birth control and Rush Limbaugh calling all women on birth control “sluts” and “prostitutes”, I can barely contain my anger, and sometime my laughter.

I mean, really?  Call me a slut, go right ahead.  I have been called worse by better people.

Cause frankly, Conservatives are entirely too worried what is going on in everyone else’s bedrooms (and uterus-es), while many are doing EXACTLY THE SAME in theirs.

According to Rush, I take Birth Control because I can barely contain my animalistic desires.  I CAN’T HELP BUT FUCK.  Beware people, I AM A VIXEN.  I will entrance you with my whoreish ways.  I will lead these poor moral men to a life of depravity within my unclean body.  Why should I bother working THREE JOBS when I could just tattoo an “open for business” sign on my pubis.  Wow, I mean, since I have taken Birth Control it has been this MAGIC PILL where I have men KNOCKING DOWN MY DOORS just to experience the devil’s delights between my thighs!!!  All men are holy virgins until confronted with the horrific UNMARRIED WOMEN ON BIRTH CONTROL.

If, being a slut means that I enjoy sex, then call me a slut.  If being a slut means that I take LEGAL medicine no only to prevent pregnancy but also to help my abdomen wrenching, laying on the floor crying, pain, then PLEASE, CALL ME A SLUT.

But you CAN’T and WON’T SHAME ME.

You can’t shame me for doing what men have been doing for THOUSANDS OF YEARS.  EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT.  Whether I have slept with 1 or 1,000,000 people, it is none of your damn business. YOU WILL NOT SHAME ME.  Your morals?  WILL NOT SHAME ME. Your Religion?  WILL NOT SHAME ME.  Your archaic, misogynistic, and patronizing views?  WILL NOT SHAME ME.

And as for the issue of insurance companies paying for birth control?  They damn well should.  If my premiums go to pay for your addiction to vicodin, your open heart surgery because you can’t stay off the donuts and on the treadmill, YOUR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION PILLS then you can damn well pay for my birth control.  And you say, hey just go down to Planned Parenthood and get it for free?  Well first off, it isn’t free there, and secondly YOU’RE TRYING TO DE-FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD.   My birth control (without insurance, and luckily it is covered, but I still have an out-of-pocket cost) is $60 a month, and while you, Rush, and you’re other 1%, you can easily afford that, I can’t.  I know, I know, if I would just get off my back, close my legs, and teach at two colleges, work a retail job, and freelance, well then I could afford them.  Oh wait, I already work three jobs and freelance.  My bad.  I am such a SLUT.

Silly me, for thinking that I should get the pills that allow me to pursue my career as a college professor, as a professional artist, as a professional woman, at the same price as you do to cure your lack of boner.  Silly me, for thinking that as a sexually mature and intelligent individual that I can make these important choices for myself.  We don’t get to pick and choose what our premiums help cover in other people.  Deal with it.  The rest of us do.  EVEN US SLUTS.

I REFUSE TO LET YOU SHAME ME FOR DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR ME.