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Opposition Report - 3/28/08

So yesterday, I had to take my sister to the library so she could work on a project with her classmates. I thought "Great, I love libraries! They're public repositories of knowledge, information and thought!" What's not to love? Naturally, you'd expect such a place to be filled with rational, intelligent, polite people. Not so! When I pull up, I park almost directly across from this:







Classy, isn't it? And that's just the back! The sides are also plastered with stickers and signs, and there were a few in the front as well.

My cameraphone kinda sucks, so you can't read them all, but some of those are pure gold. Enjoy!

Next:
Horton Hears A Who!

Apart from the "person's a person" line and the fact that the kangaroo villian is about as realistic as the typical strawman created by anti-abortion protestors and columnists, there is absolutely nothing pro-life about this movie. Phaedra Hears A WTF!

First of all, the Whos are people. While they may be tiny, they are sentient, thinking, feeling, unique individuals. They're not just potential people, they are an entire microcosm. Second of all: Where's the ******** woman, in this metaphor?! Horton's not the pregnant woman, because he's not the one facing a dillemma about the speck, he's the one protecting it from others who want to destroy it because they dislike his behavior about it. The kangaroo isn't either. She just wants to destroy the speck because she's a control freak and doesn't like that it has sparked so many questions about their own existence. Third: It's about A LOT of things! It's a story about people's delusions, about power and powerlessness, and about courage, and dreamers and visionaries. You could interpret parts of it as being pro-life, but it's not really about the abortion debate.

Also... it wasn't very funny. About the only part that was worth it was the anime parody. And the weird "Katie" creature wasn't funny, she was effin' spooky!

Discuss:
Fetusmobiles
Bumper Stickers
Horton Hears A Who!
Your own experiences being baffled by the other side.

*evil sncker*

You know, the 2008 Drivers' Handbook of my state says that you're only supposed to have specific-sized stickers in specific parts of the rear window. They were so specific that they may have been actual laws! I edited the license plate out of this pic, but I have it in the original, so I wonder if I could report them for it?

I've always wanted to plaster my bumper, too, but that's only if I got a crappy old car. Mine looks fairly nice, so I don't wanna put anything on it. I do need a license plate frame, though...

(Also, for the childfree:
Someone posted a pic of "breeder bingo" on this thread of a forum I visit.)

Would you be surprised if that owner of that car lived in a trailor, cause I sure as hell wouldn't be. Did you check the tires, there could have been more stickers there, maybe inside the tail pipe as well? /

you torched the car, right? I mean, after you were done laughing. I can see this in the future...

Lifer 1 "Frank, we have to stope that abortion! back out of this parking spot"
Lifer 2 "ok Linda...throught the 2 cm wide circle with no stickers, I think I can say we're safe to pull out..."

*18 wheeler smashes into car. Abortion goes succesfully. everyone is happy biggrin *

Personally I'd wait outiside to find out who the owner is just so I could ask them how many children they have adopted. If they say none, then I'd tell them to take the stickers down until they help some actual children.

It's sick that they fight for the bunch of cells but as soon as it's born they don't give a s**t about it.

I am going to take my cousins to here "horton hears a who" hopefully we won't get any pro-lifers there, most people in my area don't care about the subject as my friend says "your body, your business"

Wow...people with cars like that worry me. Any republican bumper stickers there too?


*like my new sig anyone?

Ha, that car is entertaining. Luckily in my college town there are cars that are plastered with pro-choice stickers. And a great question to ask alot of the people, such as the one who drives the sticker plastered car, is "if the fetus you save is gay, will you still fight for its rights?"...and i think we all know the answer to that