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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuote:Valedictorian Paxton Smith
I have dreams and hopes and ambitions. Every girl graduating today does, and we have spent our entire lives working toward our future. And without our input, and without our consent, our control over that future has been stripped away from us. I am terrified that if my contraceptives fail, I am terrified that if I am raped, then my hopes and aspirations and dreams and efforts for my future will no longer matter.
I hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is. I hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is to have the autonomy over your own body takenaway from you And I cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights, a war on the rights of your mothers, a war on the rights of your sisters, a war on the rights of your daughters. We cannot stay silent. Thank you.
I hope that you can feel how gut-wrenching that is. I hope you can feel how dehumanizing it is to have the autonomy over your own body takenaway from you And I cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights, a war on the rights of your mothers, a war on the rights of your sisters, a war on the rights of your daughters. We cannot stay silent. Thank you.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/valedictorian-paxton-smith-ditches-approved-commencement-speech-to-slam-texas-abortion-law/
Thank you, Paxton. It is time to break the chain.
This is my body, my bodys holy
No more excuses, no more abuses
We are mothers, we are teachers,
We are beautiful, beautiful creatures
I dance cause I love
Dance cause I dream
Dance cause Ive had enough
Dance to stop the screams
Dance to break the rules
Dance to stop the pain
Dance to turn it upside down
Its time to break the chain, oh yeah
Break the Chain, oh yeah
Break the Chain
https://www.onebillionrising.org/44782/we-have-an-anthem-break-the-chain/
It is OUR BODY. What about that do you not understand? Our Body Ourselves. We can not and will not remain silent.
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Quote:Valedictorian Paxton Smith (Original Post)
sheshe2
Jun 2021
OP
Isn't it so sad, though, that one of our first thoughts at seeing that valor has to be worry for
Scrivener7
Jun 2021
#4
Between Paxton and Thunberg, I'm not as much a nihilist about the future as I have been.
LanternWaste
Jun 2021
#5
Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
Brother Buzz
Jun 2021
#10
Scrivener7
(51,010 posts)1. That kid has a lot of guts. I hope she is safe. She's my new hero.
sheshe2
(83,901 posts)2. I feel the same way, Scrivener.
She is my hero as well. I love her for breaking the rules.
Scrivener7
(51,010 posts)4. Isn't it so sad, though, that one of our first thoughts at seeing that valor has to be worry for
her safety?
sheshe2
(83,901 posts)6. I know, just like we have to worry about Greta, all our young women and girls.
It should not have to be this way.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)3. +1,000!
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)5. Between Paxton and Thunberg, I'm not as much a nihilist about the future as I have been.
(nihilism in the informal and general, rather than the classical sense)
housecat
(3,121 posts)7. Yes the young generation will save us from ourselves
Response to sheshe2 (Original post)
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sheshe2
(83,901 posts)9. Answering 'name removed'
I saw your post before you were TKOed .
"sheshe you pathetic fucking hypocrite insufferable twat."
You are upset about an experimental vaccine that may have caused a few deaths yet saved thousands of lives. You compare it to a woman's right to her body? LOL...we have been forced by asshole politicians for 100's of years to their so called legislation over our bodies. You are a fool to believe it is one and the same. Please give me the written law that says you MUST BE VACCINATED. There isn't one. Not one. You want COVID, go for it. Pass it along to your friends and family, there is not one law that prevents you from doing so.
However I hope that a law is passed that will hold YOU responsible for all the costs of your treatment whether or not you survive.
Ps. Even your dumb ass president who is a pathetic excuse for a human for pretending it was a hoax got the shot. He did it in secret. He lied to you.
Sleep tight darlin'...
Brother Buzz
(36,466 posts)10. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.