If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament
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It is an old political maxim “divide and rule.” The Pro-Choice/Pro-Life debate is a canard, a faux issue. It is a cleaver way to divide men and women. I am an “absolutist” on a woman’s right to choose. As a male, it would be the height of arrogance to embrace any other view. I know as sure as the sun is coming up tomorrow, that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. Men wouldn’t tolerate any restriction on their rights if it directly effected them. Everyone of my brothers out there knows the truth of what I have just said. I dare any of you to deny it! The joke is on men because women know this about us.
Every major religion is under the absolute control of men. Denying women reproductive freedom is how men keep women subjugated. Does anybody seriously believe that if women had had a modicum of power in the Catholic church that they would have silently stood by or would have aided and abetted the child molestation by those priests?
It is easy to engage in Jesuitical casuistries as a male. It is easy when pregnancy is an abstraction. Men, it’s too patronizing to march out our genuine concern for our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters because they might have an unwanted pregnancy. The fact is men don’t get pregnant! Women, it’s easy to wax philosophic after the fact about the sentimental memories. To all of us, it’s quite another matter when “being late” is an anguish, a particular woman, can just not afford to have to endure. She is entitled to have her reproductive freedom completely intact. As a full citizen, she has an inalienable right to all the help the society can provide. I am a Republican for Choice and as pro-life as any other. I challenge anyone to dispute that the two positions are not fully compatible. It is a statistical fact that more women die each year from a wanted pregnancy than the termination of an unwanted pregnancy. It stands to reason that being pro-life means protecting the life of a woman. Or are we now saying pro-life refers to all except, pregnant females?
Please, don’t mistake my passion for anger. Any feedback is welcome. I love to dispute the passage, but let’s try to do so, with civility and grace.
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The g2g love song list
Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley – from Well Kept Secrets #24 & 58.
Melanie C “Sporty Spice” & Lisa “Left Eye TLC” Lopes #25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqSYUBY-dc
http://www.imeem.com/atheoma/music/UENdV_qs/laura_nyro_labelle_desiree/
http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1951040&albumid=8098867
4. Gloria by Patti Smith – released November 1975
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBN5aaApg9Q
5. High School Confidential by Carole Pope and Rough Trade – released 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euqNbgL8YP8&feature=related - 1986 concert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJHtzdvfKg - 2006
with Peaches – Montreal 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rsoGPnW7I&feature=related
6. Valerie by Quarterflash – released 1981
http://www.imeem.com/people/Dj6uIF/music/vnHHMhn2/quarterflash_valerie/
7. Crimson & Clover by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdhonK8NMm8
8. When you were mine by Cyndi Lauper released 1983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQVme1njDM&feature=related
& a separate cover by Tegan and Sara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgtw5ZWOgr0
9. I Kissed a Girl by Jill Sobule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgQf0evv10 - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs11BwErZJQ&feature=related - live with Melissa Ferrick & Jill Sobule
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eov1HpN7f_Y&feature=related - Beavis & Butthead version with samples of the original 1995 video
10. Shenandoah by Anais Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmBufHhxOY
11. Peggy Gordon by Sinead O’Connor & a cover by Andrea Corr & The Corrs.
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=12937318&type=track
N.B. second link - youtoube cover by nikiarrowsmith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBQL3IRml5o
12. Me & Mrs. Jones by Sarah Jane Morris – banned by the BBC, in 1995, presently, at least, three versions and separately covered by Joan Crowe.
http://www.imeem.com/wednesdaypt/music/ZoZM90GJ/sarah_jane_morris_me_and_mrs_jones/
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=15903710&type=track
13. If It Isn’t Her by Ani DiFranco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHF7nwmNxA
14. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins & in a duet with Melissa Etheridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhOqE217X0U
15. Maggie May/Mae by Melissa Etheridge
http://www.imeem.com/femmeflower/music/i4PJLXXk/melissa-etheridge-maggie-may/
16. Angels Never Call by Aimee Mann & ’Til Tuesday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYUVD08d__g
17. Woman to Woman by Fem 2 Fem
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=143288673
18. Tonight’s the Night by Janet Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLznjDg3BA
19. Show Me Love by T.A.T.U.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGC7pYVpbEQ
20. All The things She Said (Ya Soshla S Uma) by T.A.T.U.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJaDZA-_Bk
21. She’s So lovely by The Butchies
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=13118789&type=track
22. Drive by Melissa Ferrick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsG-eN96fVc
23. I Don’t Cry Anymore by Catie Curtis cover by peacetonight7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPbmoHZ4PM
24. Girl from the North Country by Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley – Definitive version of a traditional song from Well Kept Secrets & a separate cover by Katy Davidson - Dear Nora & a youtube cover by Kaymmill – now defunct.
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=14042711&type=track
http://www.last.fm/music/Lisa+Moscatiello+and+Rosie+Shipley/_/Girl+From+the+North+Country
http://www.last.fm/music/Dear+Nora/_/Girl+From+The+North+Country
25. Never Be The Same Again by Melanie C “Sporty Spice” and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2FtZ3Eth-4 video duet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC9t83xJTXs live duet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqivsm6pYU&feature=related live duet mix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6ns0dKEQY&feature=related live duet MTV 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLfPUd0-kj8&feature=related live duet -TOP of Pops – song touted as number 1
26. Squeezebox Days by The Murmurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijjpcAKDkkQ&feature=related
27. Shameless by Ani DiFranco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjizt4Ixt6E
28. Tell Me by God-Des and She
http://www.imeem.com/bigmama04inc/music/NJ4jTxFh/goddes_and_she_tell_me/
29. Leah by Rachael Sage
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16755865&type=track
30. The Whole Night by Ani DiFranco great you tube cover by kayenne1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YBmTcOeQXs
31. All You Got by Tegan and Sara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7J_1wRTyqE
32. Valerie by Amy Winehouse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqSKVv6YO8g
33. Alison by Janas Hoyt & the Mary Janes
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=16201717&type=track
34. Wenn die beste Freundin (When my best Friend) by Marlene Dietrich and Margot Lion “…which became the theme song of lesbians in late 1920s Berlin.” A sample in English of the Ute Lemper cover (2nd link below) “When The Special Girlfriend” is in the movie Kissing Jessica Stein.
http://www.last.fm/music/Marlene+Dietrich/_/Wenn+die+beste+Freundin
35. Girl I told Ya by Valeria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suX47IDIVdo
36. I kissed a girl by Katy Perry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAp9BKosZXs
37. You Can Sleep While I Drive by Melissa Etheridge. In a duet with Jewel and a duet with Amy Grant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVBYYJ73MsM
38. Send Me You by The Butchies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxuMSwEZaE
39. Let’s Get This Party Started by Pink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGe0GvtQZGQ&feature=related - full length
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Na44-wSYnE&feature=related - sample
40. Gotta Get Over Greta by The Nields (preview link) “Two skinny tomboys on our bikes – Riding forever into the summer night. There is no marriage more sublime. There is no divorce more final.”
http://www.nields.com/greta.html
41. The Weakness In Me by Joan Armatrading a cover by Melissa Etherridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61l43q3dJE&feature=related
42. Tangled up in Blue by The Indigo Girls
http://www.last.fm/music/Indigo+Girls/_/Tangled+Up+in+Blue
& Redacted version – youtube cover by ehburns2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlWoFrRvT0A
43. She’s A Lady by Patricia Barber
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=13890120&type=track
44. Beauty*2 by Ladytron - mibblet – youtube cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duy55RwlM6A
brujales – youtube cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBP7-DJzUX8
45. Crazy by Alanis Morissette – Five star cover of a brilliant song by Seal. Alanis is in excellent voice, ingeniously weaving an intriguing storyline containing love triangles, bisexuality, dyke drama – wow!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=769245065
http://www.videosbr.info/video/28839/Clipe-Alanis-Morissette-Crazy.html
46. Oh My God by Pink & Peaches youtube cover blakenndoll82
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtj6pH5WaXA
youtube cover jamessouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZUGVkBcrwI
youtubecover terminite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XWDc99KNgM&feature=related
47. I Like Girls by Axe Girl you tube cover GINGERQUEEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z435nyaLlU
48. Kissing by Bliss N.B. Piper Perabo, as a baby-dyke, presaging her role as Rachel in Imagine Me & You – youtube cover – juneseventeen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fLEaN31bro&feature=related
49. Hush Sweet Lover by Kd Lang
http://noolmusic.com/music_video/kd_lang_-_hush_sweet_lover.php
50. The Road by Leslie Leone
http://www.indabamusic.com/songs/show/134671
http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=86497
51. Why Couldn’t It Have Been Me? by Ari Fox Lauren
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20510032
52. Sex (I’m a lesbian) by The Butchies
53. For My Lover by Tracy Chapman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn01zVMX6Q0
54. I Don’t Wanna Talk About It by the Indigo Girls. “…I certainly never thought we’d record a song that Rod Stewart had done. E.S.” (Rarities – liner notes)
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=19603262&type=track
55. Not A Love Song by Uh Huh Her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9iPPfOMvM
56. Ballad in Plain D by the Indigo Girls – youtube cover KDANTEATER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHzIREBi_lA
57. Venus by Anais Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBK3PVgYAcc&feature=related
58. Here’s a Health to All True Lovers by Lisa Moscatiello & Rosie Shipley from their album Well Kept Secrets
http://free.napster.com/player/?play_id=14042700&type=track
Contrasting the same-sex emphasis supra is this version by Scottish traditional singer, Belle Stewart
http://www.last.fm/music/Belle+Stewart
59. Halo by Bethany Joy Lenz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn4fG6UxxxE&feature=channel_page
60. Spanish Harlem by Janet Seidel & a separate cover by Rebecca Pidgeon
http://www.imeem.com/people/eiGcPB/music/HL_3bdtw/janet_seidel_spanish_harlem/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmpVDeh1jf0
61. Black Magic Woman by Patricia Barber
http://www.last.fm/music/Patricia+Barber/_/Black+Magic+Woman
62. Prove It on Me Blues by Ma Rainey released 1928 “Went out last night with a pile of my friends. They must have been women cause I don’t like no men.”
http://www.last.fm/music/Ma+Rainey/_/Prove+It+on+Me+Blues
63. B. D. Woman’s Blues by Lucille Bogan released 1935 (B. D. aka Bull Dyke) “…they can lay their jive just like a natural man.”
64. Walk The Dog & Light The Light The Light by Laura Nyro, released 1993.
http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1951040&albumid=8105971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_R4eyjQnEg&feature=channel_page youtube cover vj denknee
65. Sweet Woman by Cris Williamson released 1977
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ncS4V6ka8A
66. You Had Time by Ani Difranco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclUbgdtMXg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tDXjyTBKs8
67. Softcore by Dusty Springfield with Carole Pope at the Rough Trade 1986 Farewell Concert – Montreal. Carole to Dusty “You like to be on top?” Check out Anti Diva by Pope. She and Dusty were lovers.
68. Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter by Phranc http://www.rhapsody.com/phranc/goofyfoot
69. Come Over Here by Sarah Bettens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej0d2__zl_s&feature=related
70. If You Go Away by Dusty Springfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCVxPEPx5Y&feature=related
71. Viens, Malika – Lakme by Maddy Mesple and Danielle Millet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph0RPXcpDes&feature=channel_page - VJ starrynight003
72. Shy by Ani DiFranco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIrSoCkdzk
73. Sally Go Round The Roses by Fanny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pHGXIh9Cg&feature=related
74. Te Amo by Rihanna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VODDpR0HAd0&feature=related
75. Just Like A Woman by Barbara Higbie, Teresa Trull, Vicki Randle, et al
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJHkWELiuYc&feature=related
76. Take me or leave me by Idina Menzel & Tracie Thomas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlNzpl3vz5Y&feature=related
77. Come To My Window And Inevitable by Shakira & Melissa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q67RoF0Q1cE&feature=fvw
78. I Hate your ex-girlfriend by God-des & She
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuxzG7KQ8Ws&feature=related
79. Cute For a Girl by Alix Olson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYS2TXviOFQ&feature=related
80. One More Hour by Sleater-Kinney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koskizxFmOM&feature=related
81. Perfect by Doria Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z343A35o18&feature=related
82. These Boots Were Made For Walkin’ by Two Nice Gilrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4lEwkMTPF8
To make the list: the singer must be a woman; the love lyrics must be obvious; and the love object must be unmistakably a woman. Not friendship love, but undisguised sensuality, an open expression of same-sex attraction.
Please feel free to circulate the list and offer suggestions.
About
I’m not gay, but I am queer. I love to dispute the passage, but I try to do it with civility and grace.
More Lezbollah and less Hezbollah
At a ruin on the border of Iraq/Iran, a woman wearing a burka is drawing water from a well. Two sleazy, Al-Qaeda types suddenly appear and move in to ambush the woman. It is clear their intentions are vile and murderous. At the last moment, the woman realizing their presence, deftly dodges and wards off the first attacker. She smashes the second in the head with the water bag. As the two men regroup to renew their onslaught, they both become aware of another person. It is a nomadic figure dressed in desert regalia, with a full beard and sun glasses. Speaking in Farsi, the older man says, “Is this your wife?” The younger man excitedly utters, “We didn’t violate her.” The older man contemptuously spouts, “The law says you must produce four witnesses.” The Nomad draws a pistol, shoots both men dead, and fires an extra round into each body, derisively saying “The law does not say that, but there are my four witnesses.” Abruptly, the Nomad says, “Suman bring the water. They should have been here by now.”
As the two move around to the other side of the ruins, they see three American Humvees approaching. Two of the Humvees flank the lead vehicle. As they pull up and stop a half dozen GIs get out of each flanking vehicle. The heavily armed soldiers fan out to secure the immediate area. The lead vehicle stops and a full bird Army Colonel alights. He walks up to the couple while brandishing his side arm.
Then the Nomad, speaking in a woman’s voice in an English accent says reproachfully, “you’re late.” Next with one hand she pulls off her head gear and with the other scrapes off the beard. She barks at the Colonel, “Don’t ask!” The Colonel replies, “Don’t tell.” She continues to strip off the costume. The woman’s name is Oshnadel. She is Egyptian, swarthy, a butch hottie.
It quickly becomes apparent that both women are spies and are wearing jump suits under their disguises
Suman is stripping off the burka and pulls out a pair of sunglasses from her coveralls and puts them on. She is from the west coast of India. She is very black with shoulder length hair, tomboy femme. In a Hindlish accent, but cursing like an educated, American woman, she says, “That thing was so damn hot. Only some mindless idiot of a man would make his wife endure it. Men can be such jerks.”
Oshnadel, angrily says, “Suman, will you give it a rest?”
“Go jam it!” spits Suman, while giving Oshnadel, the finger.
The Colonel speaking into the Humvee says, “Mr. Richards, your team has arrived.”
Richards in an almost exasperated voice, says, “Please get them in out of that God awful sun.”
Suman enters the Humvee, followed by Oshnadel. The Colonel surveys the area and orders, “Gentlemen mount up, we’re pulling out.” He enters the Humvee closing the door behind him. The vehicles start to move.
Once inside, Suman hands Richards a wallet sized, laminated photo, of Osama bin Laden. She points to the picture saying, “The micro dot is on the broach.” Richards replies, “Excellent!” He adds, “Do you know what’s on it?” Suman says, “It’s a report confirming that the uranium being refined is weapons grade or close to it.” Richards replies, “Washington will want to know right away.” Oshnadel says, “I don’t want to be around when Tel Aviv finds out.” The Colonel as a matter of fact utters, “Finds out! The agent who smuggled you the report is probably working for the Israelis.”
At this point, Oshnadel leans back and brushes Suman’s cheek and softly comments. “You have dirt on your face, Sumi. Why are you pouting?” Sumi clutches Oshnadel to her side and just smiles, looking longingly into Oshnadel’s eyes and purrs back, “I’m fine, Ozzie.”
It is now apparent to all the men in the Humvee that their female passengers are lesbian Mata Haris.
The driver of the Humvee, in an aside to the soldier riding shot gun next to him, whispers, “What the world needs is a little more Lezbollah and a lot less Hezbollah.”
The Colonel says, “What was that Sergeant?” The Sergeant replies, “Nothing, Colonel” “Then keep it moving!” “Yes Sir!”
Emmie, Pop’s first lesbian love song
I trust these links will be interesting and enjoyed
Emmie - Pop’s first lesbian love song
http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Emmie_%28Laura_Nyro_song%29 – LGBT article
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYIKBH9z7SU - Timer – graziemillione
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqSYUBY-dc - Emmie – sylvette323
