Is 'Rock the Slut Vote' an Effective Political Tactic?
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2012/06/05 19:00:00
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In response to Rush Limbaugh calling law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" for supporting mandated insurance coverage of contraceptives, Susan McMillan Emry, a 56-year-old mother of two, founded "Rock the Slut Vote." The tongue-in-cheek campaign proposes to reclaim the word from derogatory use, as well as to generate awareness with shock value.
Emry told ABC News, "It's really about taking the power away from that word more than it is about Rush Limbaugh. He gave the word the notoriety but we are trying to take it back." She also wrote in a blog post, "By reclaiming the most hurtful, shaming words, groups rise up, unite and fight against intimidation and injustice." Do you think the "Rock the Slut Vote" campaign will be effective? Will it be able to take the word back?
Emry told ABC News, "It's really about taking the power away from that word more than it is about Rush Limbaugh. He gave the word the notoriety but we are trying to take it back." She also wrote in a blog post, "By reclaiming the most hurtful, shaming words, groups rise up, unite and fight against intimidation and injustice." Do you think the "Rock the Slut Vote" campaign will be effective? Will it be able to take the word back?
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Simmering Frog 2012/06/05 19:46:15No+25God knows there are enough sluts in the United States. Say what you want about the Muslims, they do have a point about the immorality in the West.























His buddy replied "Use the W key." :-)
If you watch a lot of TV the bill goes up
HOWEVER
The pill is the same cost rather your Jena Jameson Or whatever repressed woman that you think does it te right amount
HOWEVER
Viagra does cost more based on times used
It is usualy covered No one is arguing about that
WHY? because the right is a bunch of Misogynistic Limp Dicked Patriarchs
But that's because we ban sex ed, think abortion is evil, believe in outdated religious ideas on birth control and we think gays sex is wrong
OH WAIT THAT'S NOT US
I mean be mildly accurate teen pregnancy is much higher for Christians, in red states than anything else as far as the Pot whatever I'll give my 14 year old a bong, you give yours a gun and lets see who fares best
Liberals are a bunch of baby killers since they love abortions.
Now you modern day loons say "words to make the heart" bitter
you even put them on signs and parade around with them
Christians who follow the teaching of Jesus, not just the judgmental laws in Leviticus are rare in my experience
Sarah Palin is married to the same man for 20 plus years, has four or five kids with him, never known to fool around and what does the left label her? A SLUT or course.
She has been called a slut (David Letterman), a c**t and a dumb tw*t (BIll Maher), a whore, a bitch, and a whole vile slew of other names, as have many conservative women who dare to enter the public arena.
Only liberal women have the luxury of the media taking offense on their behalf.
What treatment? I never heard anything more sexist said about her than what she said herself and she spewed homophobia and bigotry far more than she recieved it
Sorry to hear you don't have electricity in the cave you're living in.
That is why I did, but I paid my own way!
Read and think for yourself; there's a big world out there, and you're not getting the whole picture.
Or are those facts?
what bigger picture do I need any one of those would be enough
As we say in the South, bless your heart, you poor thing.
They want to strip women, gays and workers of thier most basic rights, kill people in the middle east,
The reason that the labels are unrelated is there is no label that is aproprite to display a the level of digust I feel toward them. but I guess I called her a mean name that is much worse than taking away rights or bombing countries
These are factual examples from the real world, not middle-school name-calling. Saying someone is a dooky-head adds no new information, accomplishes nothing, and lowers the level of the discussion to no discussion at all.