Blogcritics Comments on Women have no control over their genitals, according to Georgia lawmakers.

Comment by TDG

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:18:04 EST

^.^ Actually, if you ignore idiot politicians the south isnt bad (hence the fact that they didnt manage to actually Clear that law) and theres a large community of people who are into mods, rennies, gamers scifi and fantasy fanatics..all kinds down here, if you know where to look. Its jsut,a s with any group, the loudest, most ignorant, and most embarissing amoung us always somehow end up representing us to the public

Comment by Sandra Smallson

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:26:50 EST

:):) Lomu. You are keen in discernment..you are without a doubt unrivalled on blogcritics.

Comment by Shark

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:07:03 EST

Lomu, you ever have a point?

Comment by sheri

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:58:01 EST

| | = arms / \ = legs 0 = face 8= torso the rest, well, I'm shy ;0)

Comment by Paleoliberal

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:30:11 EST

The south has been exported to Washington, and Washington is now busily exporting the South to the rest of the country. In four years, losing the right to have your genitals pierced will seem like the heady days of liberty- no pun intended.

Comment by Lomu

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:28:27 EST

Shark ma boy you try too hard.

Comment by Shark

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:13:57 EST

Sheri: face down, rear end up... Whoa! ~ JPGS! ~ JPGS!

Comment by sheri

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:07:09 EST

MsTek, I never thought you were trying to go out of your way to bash the south :0) Jumping to conclusions has a tendency to land me face down, rear end up, so I try not to.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:18:00 EST

Where have I seen this before? Oh, I know:

LANCE: I just hope I still have it. Whaddya think of Trudi? She ain't got a boyfriend, wanna hang out an' get high? VINCENT: Which one's Trudi? The one with all the shit in her face? LANCE: No, that's Jody. That's my wife.

Comment by CW Fisher

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:00:19 EST

Great post. Someday I'm gonna get up the nerve to have my head pierced. You know. For sexual pleasure. It could be my knocker, for when people say to me, "Hello? Anybody home?" which they are prone to do, frankly, which is why I never go out anymore. Mabe a nice ring through the forehead, coming out the back. Then would I be popular? Tek, you're not pierced all over, are you? I'd think if you were, you'd have more typos.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:48:57 EST

Don't thank me, thank Courtney Love for her recent PSA on "America's Sweetheart" on having "pills for my cootchie when it gets sore". While politicians can draft any law they want, I wonder how they intend to enforce it? Will there be metal scanner checks at the airports? (Okay, it's a cucumber wrapped in tinfoil, happy?). I can understand laws about public health (which is case with the ban on tats in NYC, a response to a hepatitis outbreak), but the creeping extension of laws just makes a mockery of the relevance of the rule of law. As for disliking Georgia, everything I know, I learned from Harry Crews.

Comment by Ms. Tek

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:26:21 EST

Thank you Jim! I know I can always count on you when spell check fails me. It has been corrected!

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:18:57 EST

let's have another lesion in "alternative lifestyles and culture" with Tek I hear they have an ointment for that now. And you don't need a prescription. And in the future, use a condom.

Comment by Roland

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:51:31 EST

I think what Ms. Tek is complaining about is the unfortunate tendency of our people to elect rednecks, scoundrels, and demagogues.

Comment by Ms. Tek

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:21:41 EST

Did I ever say that "you are a bunch of drooling rednecks" or are you jumping on the new "make up stuff Tek said" trend now? I hear its the new "in" thing to do this year.

Comment by Franco Castalone

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:19:38 EST

This is in keeping with the general tendency, most pronounced in Southern states, to ban anything weird. Witness the various state statutes banning sex toys.

Comment by Shark

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:18:18 EST

re: Austin- One of these days I'll have to visit. The thing is one city out of a whole part of the country? (shark doing voice of "Liar Guy" from old Sat. Night Live) Um, yeah..that's it... uh huh... yeah... um... yeah one city out of a whooooole part... yeah ...uh huh..." Kerrville (best singer/songwriter festival on earth) Denton (Univ. N. Tx; best music school on earth) Georgetown (SW U. - one of the best univ. on earth) San Marcos - SWS - ditto San Antonio (best place in the world to be Hispanic) And there's Molly Ivins & Jim Hightower, two of the fiestiest liberal asskickers in Umerica; Bill Moyers, smarter and more articulate than anybody north of the Red River. The list goes on and on, but... um... nevermind... And then there's ME! Okay, so we're all just a bunch of drooling rednecks. Yeah, that's it.

Comment by Ms. Tek

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:06:03 EST

Athens! Thank you. =)

Comment by sheri

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:49:14 EST

REM- Athens, Georgia, home of UGA, and the best lil coffee house around..., Jittery Joes !

Comment by Ms. Tek

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:44:22 EST

Do you have a genital piercing? I could never get that drunk. I can make a judgment that I don't like the South because really wacky, behind the times stuff that keeps spewing from there. Been to Michigan, Chicago, or New Jersey lately? But there are enough down there that I know that a woman of my background and interests would be a) miserable and b)unwelcome. Visit Austin, probably the coolest city in America. (You'll fit right in.) [winky] 1. If someone will pierce or tattoo you when you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol, they are irrepituable. No one who takes their art seriously will work on a person who is under drugs or alcohol. 2. Come now, the whole of the US has no more claim to the KKK or white supremacy than any other part of the USA much less the world. White power is a hobby of many people, worldwide. The Nazis didn't come from New Jersey and Klansman were started by the Scottish. The example does not work. BTW... I don't need to visit Chicago. I live there. ;) 3. Austin- One of these days I'll have to visit. The thing is one city out of a whole part of the country? I forgot where REM is from. That is supposed to be a laid back, "cool" southern city as well. Perhaps New Orleans as well... Hard to say as that when I was in New Orleans, I was mostly drunk, 22, and hanging out on Bourbon Street like a little idiot. Ah.. the folly of youth- wouldn't trade it for the world. ;) As for post 31: It is understandable that the idea of mutating the genitals of a child is abhorrent. Which actually further proves my case. It is illegal for you to take a child down to the butcher and have one of its fingers cut off. There are no specific laws on the books as far as I know, "YOU SHALL GO TO JAIL IF YOU POKE A CHILD'S EYE OUT". That is why this ruling is made even more absurd. Personally, I think circumcision is cruel. I don't think that anyone who is under the age of 18 should be allowed to get a tattoo. I think you need to be 16 with parents consent to get anything pierced (non-genital) other than your ears pierced. (If you are doing genital piercings on people under 18, you have an issue.) Genital Piercings are only for 18 and up. That being said, I cannot think personally of any piercer I know, here in the US or Abroad that if you brought in your 2 year old daughter and said "Hey, I want you to cut her clitoris off" would actually go do this. Moreover, I think most people would go to the back and call cops. So who is performing these "operations"? And just because they are now illegal, what is to stop them? Are we now going to inspect the genitals of every female in the state of Georgia?!

Comment by JR

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:41:50 EST

"Welcome to Texas - Now Go Home!" Hold on, I'm not sure that's indigenous to Texas; we used that line in California at least 25 years ago. (I always loved that sticker.) The truth is probably that some print shop in Tijuana has been making one for each state for years.

Comment by Shark

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:45:08 EST

whoops, it's worse: "ensuing 30 years..." ...my how time flys...

Comment by Shark

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:43:32 EST

JR, you're right; 1974-ish "gas crisis" period. BTW, aren't you glad we solved THAT PROBLEM in the ensuing 20 years! re: bumper stickers - some others indigenous to our liberal state: "Welcome to Texas - Now Go Home!" "Keep honking while I reload"

Comment by Shark

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:29:07 EST

From the "Damned If Ya Do -- Damned If Ya Don't" category: More on the GA. Bill: "The bill's main purpose is to make female genital mutilation, practiced in many African and Middle Eastern countries, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. � Fortunate Adem contends that in 2001, her husband took their then 2-year-old daughter, Amirah, away from their home and circumcised her in a traditional African way that has been condemned by the United Nations. � The father, a 28-year-old Ethiopian immigrant who denies any wrongdoing, is accused of using a pair of scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris. The practice, commonly known in many African nations as female genital mutilation, is designed to suppress the sexual desires of girls so that they may be pure when they get married. � "It is a horrible act," Adem said. "It is painful, traumatizing and degrading." � Now divorced from her husband, Adem lobbied legislators to outlaw the practice and in February the Senate passed the Amirah Joyce Adem Act. � Nationally, the federal Prohibition of Female Mutilation Act was enacted in 1995 to prohibit the removal of certain sexual organs on girls under age 18 unless it is medically necessary and only then if performed by a licensed medical practitioner. � "I knew in general that this was an abuse," said Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur), a lawyer who represented Adem in her divorce case. "But as an Episcopalian from Druid Hills, this is not something that I knew a lot about." � Worldwide, about 130 million women have experienced some form of genital mutilation. The act is somewhat common in 28 African countries and scattered spots in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. But in 1997, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control an Prevention estimated that 168,000 females living in the United States have had the procedure done. It is not known how many were done in the United States." === end of article excerpt ===

Comment by sheri

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:24:06 EST

I also understand that at one time California, Florida, Maryland, and New Jersey have considered piercing laws. It's suppose to also still be a "gray legal area" in Massachusetts. Unless things have changed since 1997.