Random comment to see if I’m a grey or if I got grandfathered (grandmothered?) into this version of Kinja.

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Many a woman married to a powerful, wealthy man has blamed his “dalliances” on the “other women” being filthy sluts who led a good man astray. It’s all about that money.

It’s okay, Bernie Sanders is still an honorary woman to me.

Hey, thanks. I do appreciate the sentiment and I hope that other clinic escorts read this and take it to heart that what we do matters and the community sees it.

In my experience the terror campaign has always been the norm at clinics, and the organization I was affiliated with has formal records of this dating to our earliest days (in the 80’s). “New” was not the right word.

In areas where general sentiment doesn’t encompass the medical reality that women need safe access to abortion services, hiring the police while they are off-duty can be a very powerful incentive to maintain their attention while they’re on-duty. Which is depressing and crooked as three left turns but hey, welcome to…

OP is actually Sarah Connor.

It amazes me that the threat of this kind of terror has become the new normal for clinics. It is simply not covered in the news. The most frequent time for people to become aware of the insane protesters outside the clinic is for them to arrive requiring services and be confronted by a screaming mob. Yet this is every…

I worked for several years as a volunteer “clinic guard” at a clinic which provided abortion services. This type of situation was always our worst case scenario and my heart goes out to the patients, staff and security whose lives have been forever changed because one of “the antis” finally took their bloody rhetoric…

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This is such a magical story. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks! I’ve had it for years. Picked it up on LJ back in the early 2000’s and it was never attributed to an artist.

I was about to come into this thread to make this comment, verbatim, right down to “pull the other one it’s got brass bells.”

This story is so relevant to my interests that it is kind of baffling. Rock on Margee!

The drinks are good but I’ve heard there’s no atmosphere.

Of all the hazards of space happy hour, you’d really do a service by also mentioning the general lack of oxygen.

BRB GOING TO SPACE.

I actually don’t think the textual nature of Frank’s gender is that cut and dry. Obviously today “transvestite” means cis man who wears feminine garb, but in the early 1970’s the terms for non-binary gender weren’t as diverse or as standardized; thoughtful application of pronouns was rare. Other parts of the text…

Izzard would have been an AWESOME choice in his heyday.