Dear President Obama, THANK YOU

Dear Obama, 

According to ABC News, you are the first president of our amazing United States to say that you support same-sex marriage. Today in LGBT Seminar, I received a text from HRC giving me the breaking news. Cold chills sprang through my body from my toes all of the way up to my ears. During the break of our two and a half hour class, the majority of the class stayed in the room to watch the video of his interview, instead of going to the bathroom or to smoke. Many of us were speechless and amazed. Many of us looked at each other with tears in our eyes.

YOU ARE FUCKING AMAZING. I have to be honest, I've doubted you. I've had discussions with friends about how you are pretty moderate as a president. I've said that I'd rather have Hillary Clinton as president. I understand this topic is tough, I get it. But what our country doesn't understand is that you SHOULDN'T be VOTING on human rights. It's insane!

Thank you for all of your hard work. Thank you for admitting your weaknesses in assuming that civil unions were enough for gay people. Thank you for realizing that they aren't enough. Thank you for being amazing.

You will go down in history as the president who cared. You will be applauded 100 years from now for being the president who supported my friends, myself, my professors, my co-workers, the people I walk by on the street, the people who give me the thumbs-up on my bumper stickers. YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED AS AN AMAZING MAN.

Thank you for caring for women. Thank you for caring for students. Thank you for caring for the people who can't care for themselves. Thank you for caring for the LGBT community.

You have my vote.

xoxo
CORTNIE

John McCain said huh?

I had such a fabulous day today. When I got home I checked out one of my favorite websites, Jezebel, and they had an article about damn John McCain! He's saying that what the republican candidates are doing right now with fighting to revoke women's reproductive rights is a bad move. Well, um. No shit!

We are going through tough times in our country, my friends. In case you haven't noticed or anything. So many of us can't afford to live. I just had to move in with my mom for christ's sake because I couldn't afford to live alone anymore. I'm going to graduate in June and who knows if I'll find a job? Who knows? There are people overseas fighting in wars that aren't relevant anymore, or well, never really were. Soldiers are fighting for us, are going insane and killing innocent civilians because of the stresses of war and losing legs and feet and dealing with PTSD and shit.

But what are these presidential candidate hopefuls fighting over? WOMEN. UTERUSES. ABORTION. BIRTH CONTROL. WHAT THE HELL!?

Stop it. STOP. Just get over it. Instead maybe you should worry about the men and women that are serving our country in a war that many of them don't even support. Worry about all of the students who can't afford school anymore. Worry about the homeless people in our country. Worry about the children being abused. Worry about the adults being abused. Worry about the loving couples who can't get married because you call them sinners. Worry about people and CARE about them. Don't try and take their rights away. There will just end up being MORE people in the world that you won't care about, maybe that's what you want, huh?

Anyway. That's all.

Here's a kitty picture to make you feel better.

xoxo
CORTNIE

GET OUT OF MY VAGINA

Quick, quick, very quick update: Noticing some changes? I'll be doing more of these in the near future, let me know what you think! Email me or something (email link is up top)! Also, if you're interested in being interviewed and you are in the Cincinnati area OR would be okay with answering some questions via video/email OR if you'd like to guest blog, get up at me! 

Anyway. I'm having issues with getting online and seeing all of this GARBAGE about the extreme rightists trying to make laws to control my pussy. Hence the CORTingVAGINA. GET OUT. STOP IT. This is NOT your's. IT ISN'T. I think I'm channeling my inner Angry Vagina, over here.

Look at these pictures I found, just today.

WHAT THE HELL USA?! What are you doing?! Waging this stupid war on women? WE didn't do anything to you! What did we do? No, really. What was it? Was it that bad? I can't believe the extreme rightists aren't focusing on MONEY, but all in all, what do they focus on that isn't money? Women. Or the gays. There ya go.

ALSO, while Tumbling, look at what ELSE I found.





























UH. WHAT? Taking a stand for what you believe in is a bad thing? I just.. I.. I don't get it!

I'm sorry this post was a little.. whatever it was, but aren't you mad?!


xoxo
CORTnie


ps.

a post will happen soon explaining the idea behind CORTingFeminism along with the idea behind these new day-names. In case anyone was curious or something. Also, have you clicked on the WHY? link up top underneath the header? Go on, get it.

The Politics of Sex

Can you have sex with someone who has different politics as you? Can you even DISCUSS life events, situations, pop culture, inequalities, privileges or oppressions with someone that you love? Does it make sense that you feel like someone can love you for who you are but hate you for who you are at the same time? Can you ignore differences that are MAJOR and focus on a relationship when what you do with your life is unavoidably political? If someone is trying to prove their point and it makes you feel stupid, is it because you automatically assume that their opinion is wrong? Why do we think the way that we do?

How can people ignore politics when sex is involved? Why do people think when you are talking to them about something, that it is just because you want to TEACH them something or prove them wrong? When in all actuality, you used to be in their shoes and you know how much your own mind changed when you finally learned about the things that our schools don't bother to teach us?

I am proudly in support of equality in every aspect of the word. You cannot say that the people in our country have equal opportunity when there are about 20 empty houses per every homeless person here because of foreclosures. You cannot say we are equal when LGBTQ people do NOT have the same rights as straight people, or when women STILL do not make as much money as men when they have the same credentials. You cannot say that someone born homeless has the same opportunity as someone who is born into a mansion. This is NOT shaming the person that was born into the mansion, it's just recognizing that once you're at the bottom.. it's nearly impossible to be on an equal playing field with the rest of the country.. or world.

Do you want to have sex with me?


xoxo 
CORTNIE


ps here are some links for your viewing pleasure.

Lezbo KStew Wins My Heart

What do I love? I love procrastinating, apparently. Here are some of my favorite things this week.

Shit Mitt Says

This beautiful tattoo, maybe minus that tongue.

Lesbian KStew

Um, I'm not okay with ANYTHING about this video. NOTHING. Blackface? Really? And the black man acting 'white' is classy... WHAT.

That's all, ya'll. Love you.

xoxo
 CORTNIE

Things-I-Love // RANDOMS

Hey, ya'll.

Here are some things that I'm lovin' this week.

First of all, I'm NOT loving this stupid Susan G. Komen crap but I AM loving all of the outrage people are expressing about the Komen funds being taken away from Planned Parenthood. Here are some examples:

THIS IS WHY I LOVE TO WORK WITH SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM. LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO IN ONE DAY! Who HASN'T heard about this nonsense? Very few people that have internet access, I'm sure. Lets keep putting a good name to Planned Parenthood, WOOO!

I also love this because it's just fucking awesome:

AND I love this new Cincinnati video:

"Why do cops hate black people?"

Serious issue in our city that I'll talk about another day. :)

What are you loving this week?

xoxo
CORTNIE

Reproductive Rights

Look what I found on Tumblr this morning, ya'll! Oooof. I would say that there are no words, but you all know that I have plenty of words for this!

First of all, yes to the top half of the poster/flyer/whatever this is.

Second, um.. WHAT. Is this organization referring to my uterus as a plantation and are they referring to delivered babies as slaves?! I don't understand. Right in time for Black History Month, too, huh?

There are lots of other posters on the website, and I'll show just a few.

I really, really don't mean to sound heartless here. But, come on. Come on. The website actually says that this fetus picture is of a miscarriage, not an abortion, so they're screwing with peoples' perceptions. And.. yeah, you are a clump of cells. 

Many of the posters boast on and on about adoption, crossing off the 'b' and the 'r' in the word 'abortion'. I'd like to know how many of these people are actually adopting children. These fetuses could be carried to term and be born and not have a form of stability. They could not be taken care of because of lack of money, resources or even care. And being born and put into the foster system is going to help that? Not necessarily.

No words. 

What about the woman who constantly gets raped by her husband, weekly or daily, and gets pregnant? Do you want her to raise a child in that environment? What about the 13 year old that got raped and ended up catching STDs along with a pregnancy? What about people OTHER than yourselves, AHA? What about me? What about my friends? In a country that doesn't care for the poor, doesn't care about peoples' healthcare needs and seemingly doesn't care about sexism, racism and homophobia... you sure are fighting the good fight.

Is this a rip off of that one video that went viral a few weeks ago?

I love kids. I would love to be pregnant one day, either to have my own child or to be a surrogate. I would love to know what it's like to be pregnant. I would love to know what it's like to raise a child. But when I'm 23? No, thank you. Some people aren't ready. And the 'you know what you were risking by having sex, it's your problem and responsibility' argument? Yes, it's my responsibility, which is why I have the resources that I do. Also, you know what you're risking whenever you get into a car and drive to work, are we going to start blaming people for driving and getting into car accidents because they 'knew what they were getting into and they need to take responsibility for what happens to them'? Hm?

Just think about it. 

xoxo

CORTNIE

KIDS AS POLITICAL PROPS

Ohio is going through some tough times, my friends. If you don't know about it I'm here to tell you, in a nutshell, what it is. If passed, the Heartbeat Bill would in turn make Ohio have the most strict abortion laws in our nation, yay. If a heartbeat is detected an abortion would be illegal. So, there ya go. Well, yesterday, more people were arguing for the bill.. and this time guess what they did? Brought their kids!



What the
fuck
?! I saw this video from Rachel Maddow's blog, and watch around a minute and a half. A little boy is put up to the podium and he says, "My name is Noah, and I'm four, and I'm a heartbeat."

Really? Noah, you're also a little boy who can't vote. You're a little boy that was most likely born into a stable privileged family (considering the fact that you are at an Ohio Press Conference while 33 Senators watch you and you get on YouTube) and Noah, I'm glad you're alive. That's awesome that your mother didn't have to go through the gut-wrenching awful situation of thinking about having to abort you because she either couldn't raise you or because she wasn't ready for you. Congrats on that, little Noah.

At the end of the press conference, the children gave the Senators teddy bears with sound boxes in them. What? A sound box? Yes. A sound box that gave off the sound of a fetal heartbeat at 18 weeks. EIGHTEEN WEEKS. The Heartbeat Bill, as explained above, would make an abortion illegal at 5 or 7 weeks into a pregnancy. This is incredibly inaccurate and manipulative. 

What the
fuck
, Ohio? What? Guh.

xoxo
CORTNIE 

Fundraising for CANCER

Welcome to the brand new Tittie Tuesday! Today I'm going to talk about one topic that really REALLY bothers me.. specifically around October.



You want to know what REALLY irritates me?!

WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY ARE RAISING MONEY FOR BREAST CANCER.

It doesn't seem like people say this sort of thing for any other instance, AIDs Research for example. WHY ARE YOU SAYING you want to RAISE money FOR CANCER?! What the hell? And specifically breast cancer? It pisses me off to NO END!



STOP IT! STOP! Quit saying you're raising money FOR cancer! You want the cancer to GO AWAY! You don't want to FUND IT! You don't want to FUND CANCER you fucking idiot!



And why is Breast Cancer the only cancer that I notice this with? Honestly, you don't see people raising money for LUNG CANCER (research) or MOUTH CANCER (research), do you?! Why does this piss me off so much? I have no idea.



Ugh, whatever. Good day to ya'll. See you tomorrow! :)

xoxo
CORTNIE

Things-I-Love Thursday // Fantasy Gay Footballers, Tim Gunn & Republicans

Hello, hello. How's everyone doing? Hopefully you're fabulous, like me! On to the things that I love today!



Here's a picture from a GQ article (linked through the picture or right here) where someone interviewed Erin Andrews. Okay, I hate this picture because of all of these dirty men are gawking at this clean reporter (WOMAN). Women are never dirty, didn'tchaknowthat(?) and men ALWAYS are! I love this picture for one reason, and one reason only. I love this picture because when I first saw it, I thought.. statistically, it would make sense for at least one of these dudes to be gay.. so I thought about it and I think Mr. #76 up in the right is; I mean, look at the face he's making. He's either completely uninterested and thinking about rim-jobs or maybe that's his O-face. Who knows? Someone who's definitely interested? Mr. #46 to the left of Andrews. He's all, look at that ass!



SNAPE EARRINGS! Enough said.

I also love this thread with quote from Tim Gunn (even though he's been known to bash my girl Hillary's pantsuits):

"Have you seen most of the plus-size sections out there? It’s horrifying. Whoever’s designing for plus-size doesn’t get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can’t just take a size 8 and make it larger. In my travels, I’ve been an advocate for larger women. I’ve been talking to designers, but only a half-dozen make an effort. Most say, ‘I don’t want a woman who’s a size 10 or 11 wearing my clothes.’ Well, shame on you! It’s not realistic. We need to address real women with real needs."

The best part of the thread? This:



AND finally:



Good day to everyone!

XOXO
Cortnie

Awesome Womyn Things From 2011

Hey ya'll! So, for the second Time Tuesday I wanted to talk about how friggin' great women were in 2011. Is that okay with you? Do I care?! ;)

Sooo, do you feel like 2011 flew by? Do you feel like nothing happened? I kind of felt like that, too.. so here I am, proving both of us wrong! I found an article from the Huffington Post, The 50 Best Moments for Women in 2011, and damn(!), we did a lot! If you're lazy and you don't want to click that little link up there and go through allllll 50 things, then I'll pick my favorites out for ya.



First of all, we orgasmed. I'm sure there were tons of orgasms from women in 2011, and here's a video of your brain on orgasm! WHOA! Isn't that pretty? Look at all of the colors! Does your orgasm feel like that looks?

Second, Feminist Ryan Gosling began. THANK GOD. Feast your drooling little peepers on this:







Guess what else happened? KY Brand released their first lesbo ad! Yay for lezzies, yay for lube! Yay!



Rachel Maddow is the BOMB, okay? Mitt Romney said he supported the personhood amendments and he doesn't really even understand how birth control works. So.. here's a video of Rachel Maddow explaining how pregnancies happen and how birth control prevents pregnancies while in her 'man-cave'. Yes, it's a little degrading to men,
sorry guys,
but it's funny.. because these bigwig politicians are arguing about my uterus and don't even understand the concept of BIRTH CONTROL. Watch below, ya'll.





While all of that personhood crap happened last year, do you know what else happened? The Obama Administration declared that starting in 2013 all Health Insurance must cover the copays of birth control! That sounds awful nice, considering this year I will pay $312 for birth control! That's almost two car payments for me, or clothes, or I don't know, a PARKING PASS at school!?



This girl. This. This is one of the best things to happen for women in 2011 because sooner than we know it, this little girl will be a full grown woman and we NEED LITTLE GIRLS like this! I can watch this over and over again and never get bored with her. Get it, girl!



We also have this new ad for Always pads that doesn't make women seem like alien creatures with blue blood! Designed by a man, by the way. When you got your period did you think, wait a minute isn't this supposed to be blue?!

Welp, there ya have it. Those are the things I loved the most out of the 50. What were your favorites? 

xoxo
Cortnie 

Ron Paul

So, the other night I was at a friends house and the Republican Presidential Candidates came up in conversation. Blah, blah, okay. I am proudly Democrat. I get very defensive when it comes to politics, like many of the people in our country, because of how binary it is. It's either you're this, or you're THIS! One is good, one is evil; one is this, one is that. Blah. I say that I'm proudly Democrat because in my opinion, how could I be a gay, feminist woman in our country and label myself as a Republican... when the majority of the arguments that I hear from Republicans are for the rich getting richer and for capitalism and pushing to take away any reproductive rights that a woman has?

Anyway, Ron Paul came up in the discussion, and my friend said that he is okay with gays getting married. I'm all like, HUH? Really? Because I thought he was against equal marriage rights. This shows how misinformed someone can be, so I decided to do my research.

While researching this morning, I went to the source, Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign Website. There's a tab labeled The Issues, and under that are topics of interest like the economy, the second amendment, abortion, healthcare and... wait, what's missing? Gay marriage. Interesting isn't it? Equal rights for gays is a MAJOR topic in our culture and government right now, but Ron Paul's campaign decides to leave that off of The Issues section? Why do you think that is?

I Googled a bit more and decided, after some thought, to click on his Wikipedia page. Forgive me, I was having trouble finding a clear answer on the 'gay thing'. So, Ron Paul is known for being very conservative personally, but fighting against FEDERAL laws banning things; he'd rather leave those decisions up to the states to decide. In regards to DADT, Ron Paul has said that if something bad is happening because of a gay person then the specific person should be kicked out but otherwise be equally allowed to serve, and that if something bad happened with someone who was straight he would want them out of the military, as well.

In case you didn't know, I love Jezebel. They recently wrote an article about Ron Paul and said that he couldn't even shake a gay person's hand.. he was uncomfortable. So I went to the article that they cited as their source, naturally. This brought me to Right Wing News, yay. Eric Dondero writes that Ron isn't a bigot, isn't racist and could possibly be a homophobe. Wait, what?

Is Ron Paul a homo-phobe? Well, yes and no. He is not all bigoted towards homosexuals. He supports their rights to do whatever they please in their private lives. He is however, personally uncomfortable around homosexuals, no different from a lot of older folks of his era.

That last sentence is what really bothers me. 1) it's saying that all old people hate the gays, which isn't true and 2) if older folks are afraid of certain people who happen to be American then maybe just maybe they shouldn't be running for
fucking
office! Right?! Anyway..



He's explained that any person--fetus or .. person, should be entitled to equal rights. He says that it doesn't matter if someone is gay or straight, we should all have the same rights. Okay, I like that Ron, but.. I'm not with you on this abortion thing. In the video above, he explains that all life should be treasured, the classic anti-choice argument. What if I was 15, got pregnant and wanted to treasure MY OWN life? Your political party pushed to make it so that I'd have to have parental consent to get the morning after pill, or to even get an abortion. His argument is to persuade women to choose adoption, because you know there are so many children in America being adopted.

I'll give this to Ron Paul, though, he is a republican candidate that you don't see very often. But (!) this abortion, anti-choice, pro-life crap is what's irritating me the most. Also, Ron Paul, you are SUPER sneaky with your homophobic ideas, I read your little letter from 2004, and NOW I know your sneaky tactics. Screw you! Another thing I noticed about his website is that he doesn't have a death penalty or a war section. If human life is so sacred, where do you stand on those issues, Ron Paul?

ps: I'd like to add this:

‎"The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners…because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention and pity that comes with being sick." - Ron Paul

So, friend, no.. Ron Paul is pretty much just like all of the other closed-minded buttcheeses. I don't like you Ron Paul.