Zinnia Jones

sanctimonioussilentagony:

I’m going to keep this brief.

I’m sick to death of being told that wearing miniskirts or high heels or having nude photographs taken/posted on the internet is a sign of confidence. Don’t get me wrong - it does take a certain measure of confidence, or perhaps more accurately, thick skin, to do any…

And like traditional witch hunters, they have lurid imaginations, and project all their strange fantasies onto their targets, which is why abortion providers or even just pro-choice clinics have been accused of everything from running sex trafficking rings to instigating genocide to putting fetuses in food. And that’s on top of the lurid accusations flung at the kinds of women who might visit a Planned Parenthood, especially unmarried young women. Those women are accused of creating sex cults around Plan B, organizing orgies for the strange purpose of getting really colorful penises in the room, and of using abortion as “birth control”, i.e. preferring the no-doubt unequalled pleasures of a good uterus scraping to boring old pill use. I’ve definitely seen some medieval-style flights of fancy aimed at me personally, including a blogger putitng up a picture of me in a red sweater to make insinuations about the kind of woman who wears red. No, I’m serious. 

-Amanda Marcotte