From Twitter 01-29-2011

• 08:27:07: RT @evandorkin: We have diversity in comics. More so now than ever before. What we don't have is meaningful support of diversity. Or a m ...
  
• 08:30:50: Morning... slept terribly, but it's time to go to work and wrangle Magic the Gathering players all day. Giant pre-release event. SO TIRED.
  
• 09:29:35: Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?
  
• 14:24:40: A Magic player just leaned on a full shelf of manga and broke it, sending manga to the floor. The fixture is broken. Elin SMASH.
  
• 17:06:16: RT @Confessions123: U.S. government wants power to shut down Internet, just like Egypt. Fight back: http://t.co/Qpz9mXe via @demandprogress
  
• 17:07:44: I truly love these news stories out of Japan, of anonymous donations to orphans in the names of anime characters. http://tinyurl.com/4dt9u4n
  
• 17:44:17: Oh, Cute Overload, you make everything better. I Hear You Knockin'...: http://t.co/Of3JDmt
  

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Very Not Cool

The House GOP's Plan to Re-Define Rape.

This is very upsetting. I don't think abortions should be handed out like cupcakes, but to seek to deny them to victims of rape or incest is just horrible and wrong. The quote that upset me the most: "‎Other types of rapes that would no longer be covered by the exemption include rapes in which the woman was drugged or given excessive amounts of alcohol, rapes of women with limited mental capacity, and many date rapes."

Sooooo, like most rapes that occur on college campuses then? Girls that were given roofies should be forced to have those babies? And mentally retarded women should be forced to have babies, when they were coerced into having sex? I don't even want to get into the incest part of it, because most victims of incest are not violently forced to have sex with their abusers. I'm guessing the drunken girls should be forced to have the babies, because it's punishment for getting drunk and partying. Even though it shouldn't be her fault if some frat dudes decide that they should pork her while she's passed out (which hey, is rape, because there's NO CONSENT. Also? Having sex with someone who is asleep? Also rape!). GRRR, ANGRY.

Of course, if the incest/rape victim is wealthy, the unwanted baby won't be a problem, since they can just pay any amount to get it removed and it won't matter if insurance won't cover it. But screw you middle class, working class, poor, or indigent women who get raped or abused by family members- you'd better have those rape babies! What kind of life would the child who is the product of rape or incest even have? I can't imagine it would go well for them.

This is infuriating and horrible.

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

I watched this whole documentary tonight on YouTube, and it was totally FASCINATING. Could not look away! So much glitz! So much makeup! Such skanky outfits! (Some on the mothers-of-the-brides!)

I'm always fascinated by the Rom/Traveller culture anyway, so it was must-see TV as soon as I heard about this show. Those dresses weigh something like 200-300 pounds. CRAZY. But AMAZING.

Honestly, I feel bad for the girls, having to get married in their teens, living with such strict societal pressures, etc. But that's probably why their weddings are such an enormous deal. It's their one big blowout before they have to start being homemakers and mothers.