Fuck these people.
I have (or at least I think I have) avoided coming right out and stating that Republicans hate women. It seemed to be such a gross and unfair generalization.
But with each passing day, as they attempt to redefine “rape” and “rape victim”; as they attempt to pass legislation that permits Dr. Conscientious Objector to refuse to perform emergency abortion services and to also not require hospitals to transfer women to a facility that will provide such services (thus, quite literally, leaving women to die); as they attempt to redefine justifiable homicide such that the murder of any person threatening the life of a fetus becomes justified (does this include the murder of the mother herself? Can a scorned boyfriend or husband decide to murder his girlfriend or wife because he suspects that she intends to make a choice about her body and whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term?), it becomes more and more difficult for me to avoid stating the obvious:
REPUBLICANS.HATE.WOMEN.
That any person could stand on the House floor and claim that women are out there fuckin’ and abortin’ for sport is positively primitive. I’m not particularly shocked that some Republican asshole (Chris Smith, Asshole-NJ) said such dumbheaded shit. I am shocked that only Jackie Speier (D-Cal.) stood up for the rights of women in this country. What the fuck is the deal with these Republican women? It is beyond the pale.1
So yeah, I’m saying it. Republicans hate women.
And to those who would say it’s unfair to paint all Republicans with such a broad brush, I say this: If you’re a right-leaning individual and you still self-identify as a Republican, there’s something fucking wrong with you. Full stop.
Republicans hate women.
Certainly, there are plenty socially conscious Republicans Whatevers out there. I am friends with some of them. But this GOP — this steaming pile of human entrails — is so repugnant to everything that I believe in and stand for, both intellectually and as a matter of politics, that I am no longer mincing words.
Republicans hate women.
If you don’t believe me, watch this video of Jackie Speier’s remarks during the House vote to defund Planned Parenthood. Yes, that Planned Parenthood. The one that performs a whole host of family planning and lady bits services. The one that performs pap smears, and mammograms, and cancer screenings, and STD testing and services, and ::gasp:: abortions (none of which, as Tom Levenson points out, are funded by taxpayer dollars):
If you self-identify as a Republican, you listen to what Jackie Speier said, and then go find your mother, your wife, your sister, your aunt, and you tell her– tell her to her face — that you stand with the party that thinks so little of women that it has voted to strip funding from an organization that has saved the lives of countless women.
You’re a bunch of assholes.
[cross-posted here at Balloon Juice]
1 Apparently Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) also spoke out against this measure. I haven’t slept in a while, so you’ll have to forgive the error.
Jackie Speier can teach these fucking GOPers a thing or two about bravery. Here’s an excerpt from her Wikipedia bio for those who don’t know her life story:
Speier served as a congressional staffer for Congressman Leo Ryan. Speier was part of the November 1978 fact-finding mission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by the Reverend Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple followers, almost all of whom were American citizens who had moved to Jonestown with Jones in 1977 and 1978. Speier was one of only two members of the mission who were concerned enough about potential violence to make out a will before traveling to Jonestown. Several Peoples Temple members ambushed the investigative team and others boarding the plane to leave Jonestown on November 18. Five people died, including Congressman Ryan. While attempting to shield herself from rifle and shotgun fire behind small airplane wheels with the other members of the team, Speier was shot five times and waited 22 hours before help arrived.
tell it.
Dear Angry Black Lady… Here is another angry lady WHO LOVES YOU!!
This Angry White Lady says, “Right on.” For every asinine Republican who opens his mouth, we need a voice of reason to counter. And if reason ain’t working, shout it!
This just makes me want to cry. How do old, rich, white men who support themselves on government salaries, pensions and government health care, men who are set for the rest of their life, how can they tell a woman what to do with her body? How do MEN get away with making laws for WOMEN? How is Viagra always dispensed, no questions asked. How is Viagra always reimbursed by insurance companies, but when a woman wants birth control pills, well then, there is a “conscience clause” involved. We need to elect more women to office.
I have for many years advocated taking away men’s right to vote. As a man (and voter) I think I have standing for this. After all, we enjoyed centuries (millennia) of women not voting, so shouldn’t it be our turn to kick back for a while and let the li’l ladies do the heavy lifting when it comes to political decisions?
Why is there such a lack of conviction to support planned parenthood in congress? Don’t say it’s a male thing because there are plenty more women in congress than just Jackie Speier. Even Jackie Speier’s speach, while bold enough to reveal her own very personal experiences with abortion, seems to lack conviction otherwise. Just wondering why this is.