giving me life

a wonderful & incoherent collection of things that — for the moment — are giving me life

Shorter Susan G. Komen Foundation: “Sike, we was just playin!”

I hate to say that “I hate to say ‘I told you so’” so I won’t. I know you see it. It’s crazy how things work out but I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — don’t fuck with Planned Parenthood. 1 out of 5 American women have visited Planned Parenthood. I can’t understand why people who hate contraception, hate a woman’s right to choose what happens to her body, and most of all, hate what a woman in control of her sexuality means for their own place in society, continue to underestimate the importance of Planned Parenthood. I believe the late Heavy D said it best: “If you can’t see what I can see / you’re blind baby, you’re blind from the fact.”

Catch up on what went down:

Why Susan G. Komen Is Making You Choose Between Breast Cancer And Women’s Health - Let me tell you how the Komen mess is hurting women, especially low-income women, more than it’s hurting Planned Parenthood who is winning this “war” in the public arena.

Komen apologizes for ‘recent decisions,’ pledges to continue funding Planned Parenthood - Like I said, Komen took all of the hits on this one — losing donations, supporters and even its own executives. They HAD to tuck their tails and apologize. Oh, it’s also the right thing to do.

Planned Parenthood raised $400,000 in 24 hours - See?

Ultimately, the anti-choice bullies are still sitting around their fake dismembered fetus signs pouting and grumbling. Why? Shouldn’t they be happy that they pushed Komen to publicly shade Planned Parenthood? Some folks love misery and are never satisfied. Exhibit A: They think it’s all a conspiracy between Komen and Planned Parenthood! Let me tell you from experience… the good people who work at PP would have loved nothing more than to NOT have to work on this for about seven days straight. Conspiracies are too much work.