{"id":2289,"date":"2012-03-15T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:11:37","slug":"violence-against-women-act-meets-opposition-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/03\/15\/violence-against-women-act-meets-opposition-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence Against Women Act meets opposition in the Senate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/15\/us\/politics\/violence-against-women-act-divides-senate.html\">The New York Times<\/a> says that, among other reasons, Republicans do not want to support this anti-domestic violence legislation because &quot;&#8230;it also dilutes the focus on domestic violence by expanding protections to new groups, like same-sex couples, they say.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What is the implication here&#8230;that there are no same-sex couples with women in them? That queer couples don&#39;t experience domestic violence? Both of these are patently false assumptions. I don&#39;t understand why more domestic violence prevention would be a BAD thing.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the Republicans just don&#39;t like people who aren&#39;t straight, cis, white, able-bodied, rich men. More than that, they actively want to kill them. It&#39;s a frightening world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times says that, among other reasons, Republicans do not want to support this anti-domestic violence legislation because &quot;&#8230;it also dilutes the focus on domestic violence by expanding protections to new groups, like same-sex couples, they say.&quot; What is the implication here&#8230;that there are no same-sex couples with women in them? That queer&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/03\/15\/violence-against-women-act-meets-opposition-in-the-senate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Violence Against Women Act meets opposition in the Senate.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reproductive-rights-and-rape-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}