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Title: The Republican Party Declares War On Women
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GUARDIAN UK
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentis ... res-war-on-women?newsfeed=true
Published: Mar 5, 2012
Author: Diane Roberts
Post Date: 2012-03-05 16:45:03 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 8651
Comments: 25
Republicans and their Tea Party shock troops say they want to "take America back". Progressives think they mean back to the 1950s, back to when men were men, women were ladies, and black folks only got into the White House by the back door. But Republicans are thinking big: they actually want to take us back to the Middle Ages, back to the "good old days" of sexual repression, regulation and punishment. Forget the economy: this election is becoming a referendum on women's bodies, since it's women (according to the Republicans' Book of Holy Misogyny) who like to have sex without wanting to get pregnant, and, if they do get pregnant, might want to have an abortion; women who demand, as former Senator Rick Santorum says, a "license to do things in the sexual realm that is [sic] counter to how things are supposed to be." You know, "sluts". Republicans in Congress have launched a dubious investigation of Planned Parenthood, the century-old women's health organization, and tried to take away its funding. The Senate narrowly defeated an amendment that would have allowed employers to deny insurance coverage for anything the employer found morally or religiously objectionable: contraception, certainly, but perhaps also lung cancer treatment ("you should have stopped smoking"), HIV/Aids testing ("homosexuality is an abomination"), and pre-natal care for single women ("nice girls get themselves a husband before they get themselves a baby"). With the notable exception of Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, a moderate who announced last week that she'd had enough of the ugliness and would not seek re-election, the Republican party has regressed to a pre-modern state, making war on any woman who, to borrow Rebecca West's words, "expresses any sentiment that might differentiate her from a doormat or a prostitute". Just the other week, an Indiana legislator pitched a hissy fit over the girl scouts, the US version of the girl guides, accusing them of promoting lesbianism and feminism and, worst of all, working hand in glove with Planned Parenthood. Republicans aren't bothering to be subtle. A couple of weeks ago, California Representative Darrell Issa convened an all-male panel on birth control. He claimed that the issue was not women's health, but "religious freedom" (Representative Nancy Pelosi sighed:"I may at some point be moved to explain biology to my colleagues"). Therefore, he refused to allow Sandra Fluke, a young law student and an admitted female, to speak (pdf). Democrats later held their own hearing at which Fluke testified that while Georgetown, the Roman Catholic-run university she attends, provides some health insurance, it does not include contraception – and the pill can cost $1,000 per year. Women take contraception for a variety of medical reasons, not only to prevent pregnancy: Fluke recounted the story of a friend, a fellow student, who needed the pill to treat cysts. She couldn't afford it, got sick and had to have an ovary removed. Fluke's reward for speaking truth to power? A public trashing. Rush Limbaugh – if not the de facto leader of the Republican party, then surely the clearest expression of its "id" – called her a prostitute and demanded that she post video of her sexual encounters on the internet. After several days of outrage and the loss of some important advertisers on his radio show, Limbaugh issued something approximating an apology. But the conservative blogosphere, the radio provocateurs and Fox News continue to attack Fluke as a Democratic "plant", a "FemiNazi" activist, and, of course, a harlot. Republican presidential candidates have not exactly covered themselves in glory, either, on Fluke. Indeed, they don't seem to realise that women actually vote. Frontrunner Mitt Romney said mildly of Limbaugh's insults, "it's not the language I would have used." Newt Gingrich (whose wife Callista said she was "giving up opinions" for Lent) blamed "the media" for exploiting the story and said there were far more important issues – Barack Obama's "war on religion", for example. As for Rick Santorum, the holier-than-everybody über-Catholic who thinks contraception is "dangerous" and leads to "libertinism", the most outrage he could manage on Fluke's behalf was to call Limbaugh's comments "absurd", the licensed remarks of an "entertainer". Along with Gingrich, Santorum supports "personhood" amendments, laws decreeing that a fertilized egg has the same rights under the United States constitution as those of us who happen to live outside the womb. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum all oppose the Obama administration's mandate that employers (except actual churches) cover contraception, but Santorum burns with a special zealotry. It's as if he's channeling one of those early Church Fathers who went overboard trying to justify celibacy: Tertullian, maybe, who said a woman was "a temple built over a sewer". Purity solves everything: remember, Santorum's millionaire supporter Foster Friess recommended women use aspirin to keep from getting pregnant: "The gals put it between their knees." The charitable view says he thinks he was attempting humor; but he wasn't joking about the regressive values. Santorum's vision of America is a hybrid Puritan and Catholic theocracy. He constantly rants against Obama's promotion of "secularism", and says the idea of an "absolute" separation of church and state makes him want to throw up. He should try being pregnant. His delicate stomach and weak understanding of the constitution notwithstanding, he knows that getting in bed with the anti-feminist evangelicals energizes social conservatives, helping him fight Romney to a delegate-count tie in the Michigan primary – a state Romney, who grew up there, should have won decisively. And Santorum now leads polls in Ohio, Tennessee and Oklahoma, ahead of Super Tuesday's primary elections. The lawsuit against the federal government over the contraception insurance mandate was filed by several Catholic institutions and individuals, but seven states – including Texas, South Carolina, Florida and Ohio, all of which have large numbers of evangelical voters – have also joined in. One of the lead plaintiffs in the suit, Ave Maria University, is Santorum's kind of place. Built by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan on the edge of a Florida swamp, and now run by George W Bush's former director of faith-based initiatives, the university insists that students "dress modestly" and pretty much refrain from doing anything that could be construed as fun. In 2008, when Obama was running for his first term, Santorum gave a speech at Ave Maria in which he warned that Satan was gunning for the "good, decent, powerful, influential" America – indeed, that the US is engaged in a "spiritual war". And what's that war about? Abortion, of course. Blame it on Eve, blame it on the deadly sin of luxuria. It all comes down to women's bodies, which are, as Tertullian reminds us, "the devil's doorway".
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
America needs more bare foot, pregnant women in the kitchen cleaning the plates after sup' for their menfolk as opposed to all this damned "modern humanistic crap." Lets get back to basics, NOW!
Should be; "The DEMONRAT partee and it's ministry of "truth" whores TRY to change the subject of THIS election from their messiah "king" obammy's abysmal FAILURE as president" This just in ... the messiah "king" obammy says dat dere's nuttin he kin do about dem nasty 'ol gasoline prices folks. But, he has set up an appointment wit de King of Saudi Arabia to kiss his feet, again, just in case. SSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ssssssss UUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuu CCCCCCCCCccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc ccccccccc KKKKKKKKKKkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk kkkkkkkk EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee RRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrr SSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssss
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Obama Tanks Economy, Women and Minorities hardest hit! These whores can't even afford contraception due to the O'bungler depression. Oh, the humanity!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
One little detail - the economy tanked before Obama became president - but never mind.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Seriously, this whole issue is for morons. Any female who does not know , to not allow sperm where sperm doesn't belong- is someone unfit for civilized society. There are about 17.5 million ways to enjoy life- without letting naked sperm into a ovulating uterus.
The ovaries ovulate, not the uterus.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Ovulation happens in the uterus as well. Feminist think with their vagina. Their lives are defined by what goes into and out of their vagina.
Ovulation: The phase of the female monthly cycle when a developed egg is released from the ovary into the fallopian tube for possible fertilization. ovulation: Etymology: L, ovum + atio, process expulsion of an ovum from the ovary on spontaneous rupture of a mature follicle as a result of cyclic ovarian and pituitary endocrine function. It usually occurs on or about the eleventh to the fourteenth day before the next menstrual period and may cause brief, sharp lower abdominal pain on the side of the ovulating ovary. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ovulation
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
Well then, what do you suggest...prisons, workhouses or camps (dare I suggest 'ovens')hmmmmm?
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'! How about no benefits from the government and your family deals with it?
:) No, nothing that mean. No ability to vote would be acceptable tho. Anyone who is that ignorant, should not be allowed to spend other people's money.
:) That is where it begins, but ovulation is a process in the whole reproductive system. Which includes the uterus. And Feminists can only thrive in a society where people are allowed to deny reality. Here is what we should tell feminists, (because the rest of us girls figure it out in 5th grade, on our own) If you have intercourse and allow someone to inject their sperm into your reproductive system- when you are not ovulating, then you will not have a baby in your uterus. If you are so out of control and can not prevent sperm in your reproductive system on the few days you are ovulating- grow up and learn to parent, because it is a reproductive system, and you may reproduce something- GET IT? It is a reality and mankind did not create a reproductive system to terrorize you. Get over it - and keep sperm away from your uterus. See? Simple. Simple. Any woman who does not understand that is not smart enough to drive a car.
If you are so out of control and can not prevent sperm in your reproductive system on the few days you are ovulating- grow up and learn to parent, because it is a reproductive system, and you may reproduce something- GET IT? It is a reality and mankind did not create a reproductive system to terrorize you. Get over it - and keep sperm away from your uterus. See? Simple. Simple. Simple! It's like I've always told my kids... Life is all about choices. Every day you'll be faced with many, many choices. Make the right choices and life is good, fun and easy. Make the wrong choices and life is hard, and can be brutal and deadly. Now which would you prefer?
LOL! Perfect.
And the people who worship in the religion called feminism- mess up our culture so much that little girls growing up do not ever hear HOW to figure out when they are ovulating, and if their mother is a feminist- or otherwise brain washed the little girl has little hope so she can help herself prevent pregnancy. Feminists want to control women's health too- so everyone can be a victim of their un-natural ideas. Look at- right here- the feminist is telling people that ovulation only happens in one little mysterious area- NO! If a woman is of right mind, she can tell when she is ovulating! Her whole system undergoes changes. Parents really need to navigate bizarre waters- to raise healthy kids. We have to tell them how to make right choices. So... Healthy choice one: Stay away from feminists.
Go Fluck yourself :-)
You forget feminist is not a gender specific label. I am very proud to be a feminist. many other men are too.
:) I fully realize that men can be feminists. Feminism is about female domination. Men have to want to be dominated. Male feminists are equally part of the problem. Men enable these women to rage against the system in a dysfunctional fight against power. The real problem is "THE SYSTEM" is something that is just is a reality. Women were designed to carry children in their uterus. Feminism is about a bunch of cry babies- who want their own way-EVEN when their own way is going against nature. It is perplexing to those of us who embrace nature and accept reality. But yes- women learn how to recognize and avoid feminist men- unless they are into dominating men. Women who are into dominating men learn to seduce and attract feminist men. We learn this stuff as little- little girls.
You're going to get hit and not know WTF happened. Out of a Stephen King novel you'll think your life is.
Just had a Lovely dinner with a lady who is just now dividing up the estate with a shell shocked hubby (my best friend;} who thought EXACTLY the above. 8D
oh and mike- I am not sure if you realize this, however, many- many feminists are lesbians. Then there are women who love power and love to use men. Many of those women are feminists. Every women I know complains that men are too passive and wishy washy, and easily dominated. It is very unlikely that you are going to find an emotionally healthy feminist man and an emotionally healthy feminist woman in a union together for a long time, with an emotional healthy family of children they have raised and an emotionally healthy sexual relationship. I actually have never seen it. If you are in one of those relationships, then great. More than likely you have two latent homosexuals who have a friendship and are enabling each other. Friendship is fine too- but lets not lie to ourselves or to the children in our society. That is really my issue with it. I like the truth.
I know lots of lesbians as they are quite common in Eugene, Oregon.I don't observe any situation you seem to engage in supposition about. Too bad you are so ignorant of people that you engage in slander that emminates from your bigotry of others. I feel sorry for you.
Oh no, no need to feel sorry for me. And the truth is not bigotry. Also what I posted is not slander. It is the truth. Feminism is about men and women who are into institutional and forced female domination. Even when it is against other people's free will. There is nothing at all equal or healthy about feminism.
That is just insane and I do not concur even slightly. The problem with much of the world is patriarchy. All too often women do not get the rights and respect they deserve in many cultures, including our own.
I have been a female all of my life. I have never been denied any of my rights as a US citizen. I know that I am blessed beyond belief to be an American. It is my experience, and the experience of other women I know that it is WOMEN who are more abusive than men. None of the women I associate with are feminists. In fact, we make fun of feminists. SO.. As far as a problem with patriarchy? Why is that? Why are you so anti-male? What in the world is equal about your stand? Just be honest, you don't want equality- you want to be dominated by a woman. That is your choice- however, not all men should be forced, against their will to be submissive to women- just because you like it. It is y'all who want to force people to be enslaved to things that are not of their choosing- just because you like it. We are equal. Feminism is about dominance.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
The Republican Party Declares War On Women
#3. To: Brian S, *Ron Paul for President* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
Obama Tanks Economy, Women and Minorities hardest hit!
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
#6. To: diva betsy ross (#5)
...without letting naked sperm into a ovulating uterus.
#7. To: lucysmom (#6)
#8. To: diva betsy ross (#7)
Ovulation happens in the uterus as well. Feminist think with their vagina. Their lives are defined by what goes into and out of their vagina.
#9. To: diva betsy ross (#5)
Any female who does not know , to not allow sperm where sperm doesn't belong- is someone unfit for civilized society.
#10. To: Brian S (#9)
Well then, what do you suggest...prisons, workhouses or camps (dare I suggest 'ovens')hmmmmm?
#11. To: Brian S (#9)
#12. To: lucysmom (#8)
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#13. To: diva betsy ross (#12)
If you have intercourse and allow someone to inject their sperm into your reproductive system- when you are not ovulating, then you will not have a baby in your uterus.
#14. To: diva betsy ross (#12)
It is a reality and mankind did not create a reproductive system to terrorize you.
#15. To: We The People (#13)
#16. To: Brian S (#0)
#17. To: diva betsy ross (#15)
#18. To: Ferret Mike (#17)
#19. To: hondo68 (#3)
#20. To: buckeroo (#1)
America needs more bare foot, pregnant women in the kitchen cleaning the plates after sup' for their menfolk as opposed to all this damned "modern humanistic crap." Lets get back to basics, NOW!
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#17)
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#22. To: diva betsy ross (#21)
#23. To: Ferret Mike (#22)
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#24. To: diva betsy ross (#23)
#25. To: Ferret Mike (#24)
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