Well Wendy Davis (D. TX) said something that is making conservatives' heads explode:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Davis, a Texas state senator, can be seen discussing how some Republicans want to change their rhetoric on issues like immigration in a video taken at a Human Rights Campaign PAC fundraiser in Austin on Friday.
“They’re talking about whether they should soften their language on immigration, but we all know where they are because they’ve been talking about it on the airwaves for the last couple of months,” Davis said.
“And we know what they really believe and think about people who don’t look like them or come from where they come from,” she added.
Davis's comments come in light of the Texas GOP hardening its stance on immigration in its new platform. That same platform also advocates for gay conversion therapy, a concept that has no basis in scientific research. - Huffington Post, 6/9/14
Well some times the truth hurts pretty badly. This has been a pretty brutal campaign and the GOP has been taking some pretty disgusting moves to take down Davis. Like this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
A couple weeks ago, Wendy Davis, the Texas gubernatorial candidate known for her 11-hour filibuster supporting women's reproductive rights, arrived at a Los Angeles fundraiser to be greeted by a disturbing and puzzling poster titled "Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis." The image portrays a doll with Wendy Davis's face, and the doll's open torso reveals a fetus doll inside. Next to the adult figure sits a pair of scissors and another baby doll of another (browner) race. The confusing image needs to be considered historically to understand why it is particularly shocking and discomfiting.
Dolls may seem like innocent toys for children, but they have been consistently connected to larger political moments. For example, dolls helped illustrate the injustice of racial segregation in the landmark 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education case. Psychological tests run by Mamie Clark and Kenneth Clark played an important role in the trial. These tests showed that children internalized America's racial hierarchy when black children selected pink dolls over brown ones by a wide margin, suggesting the detrimental impact of "separate but equal." Dolls have served as tools for instruction for young girls throughout American history, ostensibly preparing children for motherhood and domestic labor. More recently, they have been used for sex education. Culturally, dolls embody everything from a fantasy of ideal womanhood (Barbie, Strawberry Shortcake, Polly Pocket) to terror and evil (Chucky, or the dolls featured in Poltergeist, Twilight Zone, and Saw).
This poster is particularly pernicious because it draws from ideals of passive womanhood and the notion of a threatening, empowered female. The fact that a doll seemed to be the most effective way for this conservative group to criticize Wendy Davis's platform on abortion speaks to a larger context of dolls, race, and women's bodies. Aside from the misleading depiction of abortion - associating crude tools such as scissors with the procedure and showing a full term baby inside the adult doll, just to name two - Wendy Davis herself is depicted as a doll. This diminishes her real, human, adult qualities. Here she is made into a toy to be played with, undressed and displayed. This poster takes an adult political figure and strips her of her clothing, literally exposing "her" insides.
This image also conflates child's play with abortion by taking agency away from the woman and making her a passive victim of the scissors that come with the doll. The image of sharp scissors next to a naked plastic body brings attention to an ignorant construction of abortion that links it explicitly with violence. The fact that this is supposedly an image of a child's toy makes the scissors all the more menacing. - Huffington Post, 6/9/14
By the way, meet the douche bag behind the Abortion Barbie poster:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Glenn Beck seemed all too happy to introduce his viewers to Los Angeles' staunchly conservative street artist, Sabo. "Pretty shocking," Beck mused while standing amongst Sabo's inflammatory portraits of politicians like Ted Cruz, Wendy Davis and President Obama. "I couldn't believe it when I saw [the artwork], that it was, like, on our side."
As Beck points out during a segment that aired on TheBlaze TV this week, Sabo is "the guy who did the Wendy Davis Barbie doll art, the Hillary Clinton flying monkeys and all the things you’ve seen about the drones.” The life-sized posters of Davis portray the Texas gubernatorial candidate as a Barbie with an exposed fetus, adorned with the words "Hollywood welcomes Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis."
The pseudonymous artist Sabo shielded his face from view during the interview with Beck, but didn't shy away from explaining that he makes art to combat what he feels is a leftist, liberal "monopoly" over the realms of education and entertainment.
"I am the fasted censored street artist in the city of Los Angeles," Sabo, under the Twitter handle unsavoryagents, exclaims to his followers. "I am not a Left-WIng-Zombie-Artist. I am on the edge, the only true rebel artist in LA." - Huffington Post, 6/10/14
If I was Sabo, I'd cover my face too. Out of embarrassment of course for being such an asshole. But Davis is still campaigning on and we need to stick with her. Click here to donate and get involved with Davis' campaign:
http://www.wendydavistexas.com/