Oh, fuck this:
This woman is out of her fucking skull. How DARE she? Democrats are scaring women to drum up votes? Is she serious? Let’s take a little walk down GOP Fuckery Lane, shall we?
- Republicans are trying to shove foreign objects into our vaginas.
- Republicans are comparing us to fucking farm animals.
- Republicans are trying to force us to carry DEAD FETUSES in our wombs because hey — pigs and cows do it!
- Republicans want to tax us if we choose to get an abortion.
- Republicans are forcing doctors to flat-out lie to us about abortions increasing the risk of breast cancer.
- Republicans tried (and nearly succeeded) in denying us access to any preventive health care whatsoever, if it offends somebody’s twisted theological sense of morality.
- Republicans are trying to force us to watch an abortion before having one.
- Republicans are trying to force us to get permission from the man (Father? Rapist? Who cares!) before getting an abortion.
- Republicans are trying to force us to tell employers whether we’re using the pill for birth control.
- Republicans think that a baby conceived by rape is a gift from God.
- Republicans think that we gals don’t need contraception — we should just hold an aspirin between our knees.
- Republicans think that “rape” is a figment of our imagination. Is it really rape or are you just being a cranky-pants?
- Republicans think we’re sluts for wanting insurance coverage for contraception — whether for birth control or otherwise — all the while demonstrating how utterly devoid of brain activity they are by suggesting that the doctor-recommended use for birth control is “a-pill-per-screw,” and that maybe we could pay for our ovarian cyst treatment if we’d just stop drinking so many fucking soy lattes.
Republicans want us to lie back and take it. They want us to just “close our eyes” while they shame us and guilt us and emotionally traumatize us and out us to the public for making a choice about our bodies that has absolutely fuck-all to do with them. And they’re doing this under the guise of “education” and “life-affirmation”; attaching quaint and pithy names to horrific bills which violate our rights as humans. Names like “Ultrasound Opportunity” or “Right to Know and See.” Don’t worry. It’s all about knowledge.
Knowledge is power, you see, and frankly ladies, you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing. You think you’re incubating baby iguanas in your wombs while storks slingshot babies through open windows in the dead of night. No, no, silly one. This here probe will give you all the knowledge about the birds and the bees that you need, and conveniently, since you’re pregnant in the first place, you’ve already consented to be vaginally probed by our metal knowledge stick. Hooray!
Oh yeah — and let’s not forget that we’re getting fucking FIREBOMBED for daring to believe that a woman’s uterus is hers. Not her husband’s. Not her boyfriend’s. Not her father’s or uncle’s or brother’s. And certainly not some fucking politician who does not now nor has he ever owned a uterus, or the feckless Republican women who fall in line behind these misogynist assholes.
And you can fuck right off with that “oh, the firebomber was just a crazy homeless dude” crap. As Melissa MacEwan at Shakesville so eloquently put it:
Guess who else is “crazy”? Anyone who sees a pattern of anti-progressive violence—and, very specifically, misogynist and/or homophobic and/or racist violence—and has the unmitigated temerity to suggest that, hey, maybe this shit isn’t happening in a void.
All of this is to say the following–
Cathy McMorris-Rodgers? Jump up your own uterus, lady. You don’t speak for me. You don’t speak for thousands of women who don’t have the distinct privilege of standing on the Capitol steps spewing bullshit in order to protect the misogynist necks of the Republican men to whom you’ve sold your soul, your dignity, your humanity, your personal freedom, and, indeed your life; all the while knowing that should you or your daughter Grace require birth control or an abortion or any of the women’s health services that you and your ilk are viciously stripping from us, you will be able to get them. After all, as a member of Congress, you have some of the best health insurance in the country! And we all know that the rules which you seek to apply to millions of women — many of them poor women of color — don’t apply to the daughters of deluded state politicians from the Pacific Northwest. (Dontcha know.)
So, Cathy, you want to give up your reproductive rights? Or the reproductive rights of your daughter? Fine. Go right ahead.
But back the fuck up off of mine.
And the notion that Democrats are scaring women by shining a light on the horrific human rights injustices that you Republicans seek to impose on us is patently absurd. Democrats aren’t scaring women, Cathy. Republicans are scaring women.
Stop it.
*** Rant written from an unabashedly cisgendered perspective. I’m working on figuring out ways not to do that all the time.
[cross-posted at Balloon-Juice]
Thank you for saying what I would of loved to of said to this women. She is a disgrace.
I live in Washington state and I thank my lucky stars that this poor excuse for a woman doesn’t represent me and my district!
I saw the interview with her earlier today, and I swear, I wanted to punch my teevee machine. DEMOCRATS are making an issue of this????? W.T.F????
And did you notice the look on her face as she was talking? It’s like the words were coming out of her mouth, but there was no light on upstairs. She’s about as independent a thinker as a Stepford Wife.
I agree with you 100%, ABL, a full 100%! These Repugnant mysoganist ignoramus fucktards have got to crawl back into the Bronze age where they came from.
Conservatives want a government small enough to fit in your vagina. And shoot things, also, too.
Hmm..shooting things from my vag that doesn’t involve babies..
Pew pew? take that rapist! HAH! that would be cool
@vocqueen: “She’s about as independent a thinker as a Stepford Wife.”
With her sanctimonious, self-righteous, more-projection-than-an-IMAX-theater lies, she reminds me more of this character:
handmaid’s tale aunt lydia
I think you’re correct, IT. Stepford came to mind first, but yeah, Aunt Lydia….
I also can’t help thinking of Serena Joy as well. Especially every time I hear Ann Coulter or Phylis Shcfley (sp) spew their anti-women rhetoric.
Holy shit, a subject upon which John McCain can speak without sounding batshit crazy! By the way, how badly were the avoidances of those questions? She actually stuttered a couple of times. Women are concerned that the government are going to take away their ability to make health care decisions all right, but not because of the health insurance bills you stupid bitch. Ahem. Excuse me.
Ovarian gang sign:
http://womanhouse.tumblr.com/post/19549235735
I love this so hard, nellcote.
Had to share that one.
I just listened to the intro bit and went into immediate rage. Listen up, Cathy. Don’t you fucking tell me it’s the Democrats trying to scare women when I’ve been up to my uterus in all these fucking bullshit bills/laws disseminating across the country. Don’t you fucking dare. You ought to just turn in your female card right now because you are a disgrace to your gender.
What you said!
I went looking for the like button on your comment…
I watched the clip again, and again it made me want to shake her and tell her to shut the fuck up and grow a pair of fallopian tubes.
wow. as if this couldn’t get more ridiculous. yesterday i had a wonderful talk with the woman running to represent my district in hawaii. super nice, intelligent, young, and ready to represent women in dc. her attitude was refreshing to say the least. she’s got my vote. the point is, crazy ladies like mrs. mcmorris up there are on the wrong side of history.
If you are mad about what this woman has said……Tell her here :)
http://mcmorris.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=82
http://mcmorris.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=82
Tell her what you think. PLEASE. She actually IS the representative of my brother, sister in law, and her family. I am forwarding this blog post to all of them (lucky for her she’s in the most progressive part of Eastern Washington!)
I did just that!
I just wanted to let you know that I saw you on Chris Matthew’s show recently, discussing the “war on women”. I also wanted to let you know that you came off looking like an idiot. You stuttered and dodged questions so poorly that I was actually embarrassed for you at least twice. Democrats are not trying to avoid talking about jobs and the economy with this issue. They are certainly enjoying their windfall, however. Republicans who are pushing the anti-women’s health agenda are literally handing their seats to the democrat waiting in the wings, it is practically political suicide. The fact that John McCain has a more intelligent view on this issue than you do as a woman is kind of sad. Wake up and grow a set of fallopian tubes, let your own party know that you won’t stand for them taking away the rights of women to govern their own bodies. Tell them that if they truly are interested in less government interference in the personal lives of their constituents then they will stop trying to interfere with the personal lives of their constituents. If you continue to allow journalists to make you look like a fool your career won’t last much longer. I am so glad that I chose not to move to your district last year, I would be ashamed to have you represent me and my family.
Huh. I’m glad I copied and pasted that here. After I clicked submit I got this message:
Your request could not be processed because of an error in the form. Nothing has been saved.
Apparently if you don’t reside in her district you cannot send her an e-mail. Gonna go look up a zip code for Spokane now.
I got so many laughs out of this video, but the very best part was when Chris Matthews was closing the show and his _compliments_ to this idjut! He spoke glowingly of her _brillance_ and what a _great guest_ she was, nicely straight faced and smiling. PRICELESS!
JaneE
[facepalm] Oh my freakin’ FSM. Never heard of this congresscritter before, and I can only assume it’s because she’s been on her home planet till now. Absolutely nuts. Kick ass, ABL.
If Rep. McMorris-Rodgers ducked any more questions, she’d be quacking through the entire interview.
I used to live in her district, so have used my former address on the contact form to tell her what I think–not that it will make a difference, I’m sure, but she made me ashamed of my own normally-wonderful home state, and I can’t deal with that. Do tell her what you think, regardless of whether you live in eastern WA or not–it’s actually a wonderful place, but there are assholes everywhere.
Someone needs to remind Serena Joy there that’s she’s a chick, too, and is going to be on the wrong end of that misogynistic shit and silenced if she keeps advocating for that nonsense.
Just got to remember being anti-woman is all fun and games until the rules apply to you.
Comforting (and scary) to know that I’m not the only one being reminded of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Awesome post. Thank you.
A Georgia Legislator just compared human women to cows & pigs on the idea of not aborting fetuses that have died. What about the complications issue there? They do happen by carrying dead fetuses. That could leads to sterility, among other issues. That should count for something, since women are just glorified baby making machines to some men out there. Then, taking the Pill for PCOS or endometrieosis does not automatically make a woman a “slut”! Sorry, Cathy, some Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot over this subject.