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kellinator) wrote2006-09-14 12:27 pm
kellinator) wrote2006-09-14 12:27 pm
Because I know you've missed my political rants. And even if you haven't, here's one anyway.
Michigan debates law requiring girls to get HPV vaccinations, Religious Right throws fit that this will encourage promiscuity
This makes me so ill that I just want to break something.
For one thing, this argument defies logic. A middle-schooler gets a shot, and it causes her to go out and fuck everything in sight? Yeah right. There are lots of things that could lead to a middle-schooler acting out through sex -- sexual abuse, crappy parenting -- but a simple vaccination is not one of them. Hell, most kids can't remember what all they're being vaccinated for. They're kids. They shouldn't have to worry about that stuff. Hey, why are all these anti-sex types so convinced that all anyone ever thinks about is sex anyway? Could it be that they're ...projecting?
And stuff like this makes their true agenda of sexism all the more apparent. HPV is a woman's problem -- at least 80 percent of women will have it by the time they're 50. Sure, men get it too -- how do they think the women get it? -- but since they don't have a cervix to develop cervical cancer, no harm, no foul. Even if you buy in to these wackos' reprehensible line that the only women who deserve to be safe are the ones who save it all for their husband -- well, they can get it too, as hubby was not held to the same standards of purity. These people are convinced that sex is something women do on their own; I don't know what they call their own peccadilloes. What gives? Do these men not realize that if they kill all us sluts, they'll have to do each other? OH NOES TEH GAY!!!!
Well, at least there's something to be happy about: the bipartisan group of female lawmakers who came up with this bill. Now that's what I call true American heroines.
This makes me so ill that I just want to break something.
For one thing, this argument defies logic. A middle-schooler gets a shot, and it causes her to go out and fuck everything in sight? Yeah right. There are lots of things that could lead to a middle-schooler acting out through sex -- sexual abuse, crappy parenting -- but a simple vaccination is not one of them. Hell, most kids can't remember what all they're being vaccinated for. They're kids. They shouldn't have to worry about that stuff. Hey, why are all these anti-sex types so convinced that all anyone ever thinks about is sex anyway? Could it be that they're ...projecting?
And stuff like this makes their true agenda of sexism all the more apparent. HPV is a woman's problem -- at least 80 percent of women will have it by the time they're 50. Sure, men get it too -- how do they think the women get it? -- but since they don't have a cervix to develop cervical cancer, no harm, no foul. Even if you buy in to these wackos' reprehensible line that the only women who deserve to be safe are the ones who save it all for their husband -- well, they can get it too, as hubby was not held to the same standards of purity. These people are convinced that sex is something women do on their own; I don't know what they call their own peccadilloes. What gives? Do these men not realize that if they kill all us sluts, they'll have to do each other? OH NOES TEH GAY!!!!
Well, at least there's something to be happy about: the bipartisan group of female lawmakers who came up with this bill. Now that's what I call true American heroines.
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HOWEVER the so-called rightists believing such a vaccination would cause girls to be loose..that's utter bullshit. If that logic held water, then it is fair to say that when my 7th grade gym teacher gave all the girls in the class that litle "goodie bag" (you remember the ones Tampax used to donate), that it was encouraging girls to be fertile, therefore reproductive, therefore tramps.
IN all honesty, if somebody wants to do this country a favour, try handing out pocket-pussies to a few thousand politicians so they don't go planting their seeds anywhere else.
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I respect those rights too, because they are about subjective things that parents by and large want the option to pass on to their children on their own.
Vaccinations are, however, a health issue that affects everyone. The sad fact is that many "parents" are too lazy or too ignorant to do protective measures on their own. But vaccinations protect more than their children, they protect the rest of society as well. On the same argument, why should military contracts be for years at a time? Because without a tour of duty that is long enough for training and deployment and such the entire point of the military service is lost! You can't have people opting in and out at will, it negates the effectiveness. Allowing school-going children to opt out of vaccinations at will endangers everyone they attend school with because it isn't as simple as catching the measles and staying home a few days, it's about resistant strains being born and being communicated. With mass participation, the effectiveness is diluted.
But I like your idea about helping the politicians.
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