# Reluctantly — Fuck Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289 "2021-02-19T14:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/401 "2021-09-03T13:28:45Z")
This headline on the CNN website looks at first like the title of a new superhero movie or comic, concerned with current issues: **Bumble and Match pledge to help people affected by Texas abortion law** I see Bumble as a somewhat chubby, yellow-and-black costumed male superhero with the proportionate powers of a bumblebee, while Match can start fires wherever she wants. They’re vigilantes taking on Texas Law Enforcement, defying the new statute > **[Bumble and Match pledge to help people affected by Texas abortion law | CNN...](https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/tech/match-bumble-texas-abortion-law/index.html)** > > Bumble and the CEO of rival dating platform Match Group are creating relief funds for people affected by a Texas law that bans abortion from as early as six weeks into pregnancy. And in doing so they kicked off a corporate reaction to the legislation... ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/402 "2021-09-03T16:13:00Z")
This has been my line of thinking as well, Republicans don’t get to talk out of both sides of their mouths any longer and martyr themselves on a cross of defiance to save the unborn without having to deal with the ramifications of a ban. Other GOP congressmen and governors now have to pick a side about Texas and that will no be pretty come the next election cycle, either for the primary if they do nothing or the general if they do. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/403 "2021-09-03T16:17:50Z")
Well, hell, I could use $10,000. Could someone let me know if there’s some poor Uber driver somewhere I can sue? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/404 "2021-09-03T16:21:56Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Could someone let me know if there’s some poor Uber driver somewhere I can sue? Maybe go for an _unfortunate_ Uber driver, rather than a _poor_ Uber driver. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/405 "2021-09-03T16:23:17Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Maybe go for an _unfortunate_ Uber driver, rather than a _poor_ Uber driver. Maybe I could sue Uber itself. Maybe I could sue the hospital that assisted in the birth of the abortion enabler. The possibilities are endless. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/406 "2021-09-03T16:30:00Z")
Yeah, democracy’s a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/407 "2021-09-03T16:34:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I see Bumble as a somewhat chubby, yellow-and-black costumed male superhero with the proportionate powers of a bumblebee, while Match can start fires wherever she wants. They’re vigilantes taking on Texas Law Enforcement, defying the new statute I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to have your Kickstarter info. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/408 "2021-09-03T16:51:32Z")
Maybe set up camp outside an abortion clinic and call in the plates of women with Trump stickers on their cars. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/409 "2021-09-03T17:14:52Z")
My wife does substitute teaching and as she is bi-lingual often teaches in heavily Hispanic classes. Going into the last election she had several instances of kids saying Joe biden was going to mandate the killling of babies. These kids were of an age where they presumably would have picked up the opinions at home, and whoes parents were people Trump would have described as rapists and bad people, and economically had no benefit in voting for trump, if they could vote. Yes an anecdote but Abortion legislation is a massive issue in hispanic communities. ---
**Author:** ![lesh17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9fc348/32.png) [@lesh17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lesh17)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/410 "2021-09-03T18:42:02Z")
As one who was born in Texas, lived most of my life there, and still am a current resident, I don’t have the slightest bit of reluctance in saying, “Fuck Texas”. This state needs to feel the pain that it is owed from its brazen cruelty and stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/411 "2021-09-03T18:47:30Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Abortion legislation is a massive issue in hispanic communities. Despite the fact that [abortion rates as a percentage of all pregnancies are substantially higher among Hispanics than among whites.](https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/usa_abortion_by_race.html) In general, Catholics make up about 22% of the US population and [about 24% of abortion patients](https://www.guttmacher.org/report/characteristics-us-abortion-patients-2014) (judging by reported religious affiliation). ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/412 "2021-09-03T19:08:52Z")
Hipocracy from religious people, never would I have believed it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/413 "2021-09-03T19:16:21Z")
How can you “reluctantly fuck” anything? Both the physical act and the invective require at least a modicum of passion and, to be honest, it’s usually quite a bit more than a “modicum”. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/414 "2021-09-03T20:44:48Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Assuming, of course, these pissed off voters aren’t already gerrymandered into solid blue districts, Hell, they’re gerrymandered into red districts. Texas is conservative enough the idea is to have a bunch of barely red districts around every city. Check congressional district 2. It’s a gigantic C-shaped district. Driving directly from one end of the C to the other takes more than an hour, assuming it’s not rush hour. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/415 "2021-09-04T00:02:54Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > > [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > > > Abortion legislation is a massive issue in hispanic communities. > > Despite the fact that [abortion rates as a percentage of all pregnancies are substantially higher among Hispanics than among whites.](https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/usa_abortion_by_race.html) > > In general, Catholics make up about 22% of the US population and [about 24% of abortion patients](https://www.guttmacher.org/report/characteristics-us-abortion-patients-2014) (judging by reported religious affiliation). > [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > Hipocracy from religious people, never would I have believed it. I suspect Catholic prohibitions on many forms of birth control might figure into the “ooops - abort or not?” phenomena. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/416 "2021-09-04T06:32:46Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > > > So, Texas passed & signed “The Fugitive Woman Act”…? Will fat white guys with shotguns and packs of hounds be chasing them across the fields as they try to flee their “owners”? > > > > Will other states allow them refuge? > > > > (I’m more than willing to hide “fugitive women” at my house until we can figure out a safe route to get them across the border and into Canada.) > > I seriously wondered about the logistics and dangers of setting up some sort of modern Underground Railroad to smuggle women out of Texas. I’m willing to establish a stop on that Railroad, if needed. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/417 "2021-09-04T14:42:32Z")
I’m just waiting for one of the Texas legislators or one of their partners to have a miscarriage. Drag them into court and make them prove that they didn’t take an abortion pill. Make them have to pay for a doctor to come and testify that they lost the baby “naturally”. Lord help them if they need a D&C for any “valid” reason. Again, drag them into court and make them show why they needed it. Go into detail about their disfunctional bleeding and again make them prove that it wasn’t done to terminate a pregnancy. That may be the only way to demonstrate how invasive such questioning can be, especially when someone is dealing with stressful situation. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/418 "2021-09-04T15:10:35Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > How can you “reluctantly fuck” anything? Both the physical act and the invective require at least a modicum of passion and, to be honest, it’s usually quite a bit more than a “modicum”. LOL I disagree. Melania Trump is my Exhibit A. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/419 "2021-09-04T19:07:54Z")
I wholeheartedly agree with this strategy. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/420 "2021-09-04T19:29:46Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > > [@Jasmine](#): > > > > How can you “reluctantly fuck” anything? Both the physical act and the invective require at least a modicum of passion and, to be honest, it’s usually quite a bit more than a “modicum”. LOL > > I disagree. Melania Trump is my Exhibit A. - I want the “Like” button back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=22)