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b_b  ·  3848 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Speaking up every. Fucking. Time

And unfortunately many of those gains are being rolled back slowly. I was disheartened to learn yesterday that my home state (MI) has the fewest women in its legislature that it has had for two decades. No wonder we pass laws like the recent 'Rape Insurance' travesty. Our society seems all too content to let things like this take place (apathetic is probably more correct). This law enjoys almost no popular support among the electorate, but it's a law nonetheless because the radical right seems to care a lot more than the 90% of reasonable people who make up the population.