http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog blog Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:55:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/when-the-president-stands-nobody-sits/ http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/when-the-president-stands-nobody-sits/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:55:05 +0000 monky http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/?p=7013 West Wing –
The Midterms.

Fuck you,
you smug,
self-centred BITCH.









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If you find yourself pregnant when you don’t want to be and live in the state of Virginia, a proposed bill will mean that you will need to have an ultrasound before you undergo a termination. The purported purpose of this is to determine foetal age and make sure that the woman terminating the pregnancy can be “fully” informed before making any decision.

In the United States, most (91.5%) abortions carried out are done during the first twelve weeks of a pregnancy, when the standard ultrasound approach of running a wand around the lower abdominal area of the body is not effective.

The trans-vaginal route means that an ultrasound wand in the shape of a dildo is inserted into the woman’s vagina; this ensures that a clearer picture can be attained than would be found externally. In the bill, it is proposed that the woman will be asked to look at a monitor displaying the foetus and also asked to listen to the heartbeat of the foetus, and whether or not she looks and listens will be recorded in her medical notes. Again, this is to ensure that the woman makes an “informed” decision.

So, what’s the medical need for the ultrasound before the termination?

There isn’t one.

What’s the medical need for the doctor to “obtain written certification from the woman that the opportunity was offered and whether the woman availed herself of the opportunity to see the ultrasound image or hear the foetal heartbeat”?

There is no medical need.

If I seek an abortion, being in an abortion clinic is a pretty clear sign that I know what i’m there to get. It’s not like I could have blundered into the clinic after mistaking it for oh, I dunno, a nail salon?

If I consent to an abortion, it’s because the medical need is to remove something that’s not entirely my own DNA, and I understand that as part of the abortion procedure i’ll need to take medication or have the contents of my uterus sucked and/or scraped out to remove the “products of conception” as they are so delightfully called. There is a need for all of those things, there is a *medical* need.

Just because I consented to being penetrated before does not mean that I give consent for anything and everything else to happen. I consent to sex, I consent to an abortion, I am informed as to what is involved. I do not consent to anything crossing my bodily integrity when it does not serve a purpose; approved purposes include for personal (pleasure) or medical needs. *Anything* crossing my bodily integrity needs my consent. Specificity is required. If there is no consent, then that’s rape.

How about when the doctor is carrying out a prostate examination he or she reaches around, grabs the man’s cock and masturbates him. That would be wrong, right, because it’s a violation of bodily integrity and not medically necessary…? Nooooooo…….?

The United States of America. Land of the free.

Wikipedia – Sic semper tyrannis
Slate – Virginia’s Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination Dahlia Lithwick
Guttmacher Institute – excellent resource on sexual health in the US. ]]> http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/thus-always-to-tyrants/feed/ 0 http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/she-can-say-she-can-say-she-can-say/ http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/she-can-say-she-can-say-she-can-say/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:09:07 +0000 monky http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/?p=6961 Odessa
Caribou
from Swim (2010)

Earworm of the day courtesy of Lauren Laverne








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What am I doing?

Watching episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

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(originally from 1977)
Bruce Springsteen
from The Promise (2010)











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Back from a lovely week in Pittsburgh with Coppell and Meathead; my week in the ‘burgh is probably the last time i’ll go there as Coppell moves to the UK in just over a month, and after that it’s India and Australia… I like the place, and it’s a bit of a shame I won’t be returning- it’s a city with character. However, at the moment I figure it’s great just to be in the vicinity of Coppell, wherever that happens to be.

It was *so* good to spend time with him. We didn’t do very much of note during the week, skipping the sightseeing of my last visit; instead, we passed the time running errands, wandered about, met up with one of his friends, watched films (saw The Artist), ate out and generally soaked up each other’s company. We piled up upon each other like puppies and I was very happy being happy. I got a couple of new bottles of nail varnish and there was even a pleasing amount of snow. Hurrah :)

I got my first ever Valentine’s card which was rather exciting (even if I did then forget to bring it back), and for the actual day itself Coppell cooked rib eye and chips with salad which is one of my faaaavourite combinations. Mmmmmmmmmeat :) We didn’t go out nor spend a lot of money, which is how I think the day should be spent.

I spent a lot of time playing with Meathead, as it will be a *very* long time before I see her again, if indeed Coppell and me make it that far. I hope so, because time spent with him is hugely exciting yet simultaneously calming. We’ve only spent twenty days in each other’s company, but there’d be a hell of a hole left if he wasn’t in my life, and that’s even though we’re separated by an ocean.

I am very sad that Meathead isn’t making the trip across that ocean, but I am super, super looking forward to Coppell being in the same country, same town as me… there are sooo many things I want to show him, do with him. It is all very exciting. Squeee :) ]]> http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/back-to-pittsburgh/feed/ 0 http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/late-night-nails/ http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/late-night-nails/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:54:14 +0000 monky http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/?p=6877 Continue reading →]]> http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/late-night-nails/feed/ 0 http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/lhr-iad-pit/ http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/2012/02/lhr-iad-pit/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:49:22 +0000 monky http://www.nopokemeo.org/blog/?p=6868 Continue reading →]]>
Packing, shaving and nail varnishing to do this evening, along with a lot of washing up :)

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I now realise that I should have got shot of my form three years ago; at the very first inkling of trouble I should not have persevered but asked to change forms straight away. All the effort I put in, strategies I try is for naught, because nothing will work until the girls mature into young adults and away from the childish, bitchy attitude that many of them currently display.

As part of the system, management ask the kids a variety of questions about their school life, including what they think of their form tutor. Only half of my form think I care about them. This really saddens me. I have no idea what if anything I can do about it, though perhaps they might prefer me if I was an always happy automaton, for that is the only way I can think of being that might be what the kids and management like- all shallow restraint, feelings set aside.

I’m fed up of school. I ponder my options with regards leaving my school or leaving the profession entirely but know that what with the economic situation i’m unlikely to find anything. When I feel down about work I feel down about where I live and how I seem to be unable to be unable to escape to something with more space, privacy and peace and fucking quiet. To live somewhere i’m not embarrassed by would be lovely, and that is even less likely to happen if I change career.

I like helping people and think i’m good at it, but outside of education I don’t have any idea of what I could do. I’ve always hankered to open a small, non-sleazy sex shop or do some gallery or museum educational outreach, but I have no capital, back up plan or ability with maths (:D) to make any of these ideas reality.

I can’t care less about the situation at school (care less as in prune my feelings), so it’s finding a way to keep going without becoming hugely down about things, as when i’m fed up i’m caustic, saying before thinking, and that is not a positive way to be. Perhaps I need to find something art-related to get my teeth into, maybe see if I can do an evening class or something?

I’m tired and can’t wait for tomorrow to just be OVER.

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