Bad Reputation (Open night owl thread)
Posted: July 11, 2013 Filed under: just because | Tags: dave grohl, feminism, foo fighters, joan jett 24 CommentsTwo things.
Thing one... Spending life not rattling my jewellry:
Joan Jett’s jacket. Notice the pins.“keep abortion legal”
“If she says no, it’s rape”
“Pro fucking choice”
This jacket is from about thirty years ago. These issues were big then. Thirty years later, these issues are still present. I was amazed to find these pins on the jacket, and realize this, because I would have thought, back then, if I was alive, that those issues would be solved by NOW.
But they aren’t. Joan Jett knew what was up.
Why can’t we take a minute and soak in her “bad reputation” and think about how in thirty years, abortion and rape culture STILL are huge issues.
Photos courtesy of EMP museum in Seattle, Washington.
Thing 2… I love Joan Jett and the Foo Fighters and so finding this video made my day (language Not-exactly-SFW unless you work in Congress or a state legislature, perhaps *wink*):
Alright, that’s all! Open thread, and enjoy your night.
peej
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Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
Sky Dancing 
Reblogged this on Let Them Listen.
So much for those sorry sumbitches and their concern for “protecting women’s health”! I wouldn’t vote for any of these right wing assholes if they poured gasoline on me and threatened to set me ablaze. Fuck ’em, each and every one!
bloomberg: Texas Threat to Abortion Clinics Dodged at Flea Markets
Like Sarah Slamen said, “you’ve radicalized us”
I sure hope that remains true through election cycles!
Well, me I was radicalized before Lol, so I sure hope so too
I’ve been radicalized for over 50 years now. Sometimes it never goes away, :-0
I was radicalized by the Civil Rights movement/MLK and the women’s movement in the mid-60s. It’s never gone away for me.
Me too…………my caring has always been real. Lady Liberty, you are so close, but yet far away.
Some of us get even more radical as we grow older!
I think I have!
Ditto, and you know, I am so glad that my family are becoming radical too.
Sadly these issues were huge way longer than 30 years ago. On April 6, 1967, Bill Baird was arrested at Boston University after giving a lecture and handing out a condom and a ed a famous demonstration in Boston, and was arrested for handing out a condom and some contraceptive foam. He appeared at many demonstrations in Boston after that. But his battle for women’s freedom and safety began in 1963.
http://prochoiceleague.org/history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Baird_(activist)
https://www.facebook.com/prochoice.Bill.Baird/timeline (see photos, newspaper stories)
1967 abortion legalized up to 28 weeks in UK
1970 abortion up to 24 weeks legalized (also Hawaii)
Roe v. Wade 1973.
In the late ’60s I knew a women who went all the way to England for an abortion–not uncommon. Late lots of women traveled to New York.
I still have all my letters of support for Roe. V. Wade, and the responses from congressmen and judges across this country……………Would you like me to post a couple?
Yes or? E-mail to the skydancingblog e-mail and I’ll frontpage them
wonk – I am heading out of town, but will get back with you.
too too long
For my generation and for my younger sister’s generation to be reblogging the Jett Joan jacket all over tumblr is indicative that something is brewing, and it’s brewing strong and deep
I hope so, Mona. I really hope so. And I do have a lot of hope for your generation too!
Agreed. These issues harken way back. But not all the way back. The nineteenth century marked the shift. The Founding Fathers, some might be surprised to learn, weren’t quite so conservative in their approach to abortion. ‘Cause they were… you know… empirical… enlightened even. Here’s a fair summary:
http://americancreation.blogspot.com/2012/04/founding-fathers-and-abortion-in.html
In my view, the radicalized Conservative-Libertarian wing in this country does nothing more than subvert the Founders at every turn. Abortion included. Too, the idea that the Constitution and our governing principles aren’t malleable… I’m all for much of what the Constitutional designers attempted to create, but I’m also convinced the Constitution doesn’t adequately meet our 21st century needs. I think keeping that notion in mind would greatly enhance our political discourse.
And may I just say, I’ve only just found Sky Dancing; but I sure wish I would have found it earlier. You are one outstanding outfit.
~peej
Welcome! That was a great article and I look forward to hearing a lot more from you here.
Unfortunately, founding foremothers and people of color weren’t let in the room, so there were limitations built-in… 😉 But at lease we can make it a more perfect union!
Welcome peej, thanks for stepping into the conversation here, hope you comment again.
Welcome peej, and please don’t be a stranger!
Thank you, Bostonboomer. Your Snowden posts are top notch – I thank you for all the effort I’m certain you exerted to put them together. Fine work. Well done.
Mona and RalphB,
Thank you for the kind welcome.
Mona – Limitations were built in that’s true – by the time more than anything else. Our own time tends to gloss over how the Enlightenment did begin to chip away at old world attitudes toward women. Paine, Franklin, Adams, and to some extent Jefferson were all fairly progressive in their approach toward women’s role in society. Our time also tends to neglect women of the era themselves – the Eliza Pinkneys and Mercy Otis Warrens go unremembered. Certainly women like Agent 355, one of the many women involved in the Culper Spy Ring go without accolades – their names entirely lost for all time – but that might be a better topic for a Snowden post…. 🙂
Indeed, we can and we should and we must make it a more perfect union. And we must do it much more quickly than the snail’s pace we’re going about it now. The regressive right won’t be decelerating any time soon. They’re following through on their 40 year plan outlined at the 2011 Tea Party Patriots American Policy Summit – to entirely subsume every aspect of American culture and governance from our educational institutions to our judiciary. Make no mistake this is a long term, multi-pronged strategy; it is bankrolled, and it is fueled by a sophisticated propaganda campaign. In my view, they’ve won themselves a decade jump – possibly even two from the redistricting sweep implemented after 2010. And there’s no cogent counter-plan emerging from the Left. I, for one, find the lack of a solid, empirical, bold Progressive plan for this country more disturbing and frightful than what the radical right is actually doing – the latter is predictable, easily gleaned – even in their legislative failures they lay the foundations for future success. The establishment Left only haphazardly scrambles – suffice it to say that’s a wider topic, so well, I’ll leave it at that. I’m prone to screeding, but at any rate, there it is. Apologies – I do tend to go on.