Women are awesome, sexism is lame.

[lodessa]

1)Apparently I totally missed the boat on the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (2 days ago). However, I wanted to say that there is no issue that gets me as stirred up as that of a Woman's Right to Choose. I've always felt strongly about it and I feel like I've chronicled that elsewhere in this journal but it can never be strongly enough or too often. I ma probably going to do a more thinky post on the subject in the near future but I just wanted to take a minute and mark the occasion and say that I hope 35 years from now the jugement will still stand and that finally somewhere in there people will stop trying to undermine and tear it down. I hope 35 years shows me a better world for everyone but especially for women.


2) At Jeremy's suggestion.... we have put everything Eliza Dushku is in that is available on Nextflix at the top of our queue (yes even the bad horror movies). The first thing to arrive though, was Tru Calling and I have really been enjoying constant Eliza on my screen. The last two nights Jeremy has raided on WoW and I have sat like a foot from the TV screen and basked in the glory. Oh Eliza Dushku, I love you and your pretty hair and shiny lips and utter hotness.

Comments

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

Is Tru Calling good enough to watch? I'm considering giving it a try, maybe in the summer.

I was raised pro-life but these days I'm pretty much pro-choice, if with certain objections concerning when a line should be drawn - and I don't think I would personally ever abort unless the pregnancy endangered my life.

I've watched season 1 of 30 Rock, by the way. The first episodes weren't very impressive, but it got so much better with time!

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Tru Calling is decent. Not an amazing show but totally worth watching for Eliza who is glowing and gets to actually play a three dimensional character as well as fill my screen with sexy. Her boss is adorably pathetic and her brother has grown on me (still not sure about the sister or the best friend). If you like Eliza half as much as me you'll really enjoy it though.

I definitely feel that Pro-Choice means supporting a woman's decision not to abort just as much as to. I really feel that it is a decision every woman has to make for herself and one that no one can know the answer to until they are faced with it themselves. I feel like better access and less taboo would help the situation instead of pushing women into later term abortions because of the hoops they have to jump through. Abortion is something I obviously would hope for anyone to not have to go through, but unwanted motherhood to me is a far more frightening prospect, for the child as well as the mother.

30 Rock definitely grows on you. It's like it builds up in your system or something.

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

I have been thinking about Tru Calling. What with hearing about Eliza Dushku having a new series (with Joss Whedon) I have been thinking about the last one, and I only ever saw the first season, I lost track of it when it came back for a second season, and to be honest I am not sure I ever finished season 1.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I've been really enjoying it. It's not a masterpiece but it is good enough for me not to cringe at Eliza being in it.

[silver-fic.livejournal.com]

I so cannot wait for Dollhouse (or whatever they end up calling it), just seeing Joss and Eliza doing something again is exciting,, and if it turns out to be great, all the better ^__^

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Me too.

I can't imagine that they'd make something bad.

[mojotastic.livejournal.com]

Eliza!! Man I miss her on my TV screen so bad. I'm so sad that the writers strike is messing up getting Dollhouse on my screen faster. A series with Joss and Dushku is sure to be a thing of beauty.

Word to Roe vs Wade. I'm always afraid that the decision will be overturned and it really, really needs to not be. Women should have the right to choose, no matter what that choice is. :)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I know. That is actually the thing that upsets me most about the strike. I am trying to mitigate it with all the dvd watching but it is not the same.

I am too. Seriously the idea frightens me to no end. Worse than war and poverty.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

raises a toast to Roe v. Wade. The day it gets overturned (and let's hope to hell it doesn't) is the day I start up a modern-day underground railroad.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I second that... heartily.

[girlupnorth]

Yay for your laws!

Unfortunately, women in Poland have it often made impossible for them to make a choice; even if they want to abort for reasons covered by law (their health, the child's health, rape), not many doctors will carry out the procedure (in the cases of which I've heard/read, they usually cite their religion and conscience).

I hope it changes one day; in less than 35 years would be great.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Here we do have a lot of issues (like supposed clinics that really use scare tactics and even lie to women telling them they are not pregnant to keep them from seeking an abortion until it is too late) but at least in theory we have rights.