Missing: Women
“Where are the women?” With those four words, Rep. Carolyn Maloney
(D-NY) made the most poignant statement of the week about the House
GOP’s attitude towards women. The simple answer to Maloney’s question is
that women are being callously left out and left behind by the right
wing.
According to a recent Democracy Corps survey, there’s been a net
18-point swing away from Mitt Romney in favor President Obama among
unmarried women in the past few months. Why? Because women have been
watching and listening to conservatives. Here’s a sampling of what we
heard just this past week:
GOP Chairman Darrell Issa defending the exclusion of a woman from his all-male panel on contraception: She’s not “appropriate and qualified.” [Read more]
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld explaining why “liberals” support contraception coverage: “It’s more about getting rid of the poor.” [Read more]
Right-wing billionaire Foster Friess delivering his
contraception advice on MSNBC: “You know, back in my days, they used
Bayer Aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees
and it wasn’t that costly.” [Read more]Virginia Republican Delegate Todd Gilbert
rationalizing a state-sponsored bill mandating vaginal probes: A woman
already consented to being “vaginally penetrated when they got
pregnant.” [Read more]Fox News’ Liz Trotta justifies why some women are assaulted in the military: “Now what did they expect?” [Read more]
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association on women in combat: “Women are not wired, either by evolution or by God…to be in those positions.” [Read more]
Rick Santorum explaining his concerns about women in
combat: “People naturally may do things that may not be in the
interests of the mission because of other types of emotions that are
involved.” [Read more]
At least they’re being honest about what they feel.
--Faiz
Editor-in-Chief, ThinkProgress.org
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ὤTṻnde΄ӂ 2012/02/17 19:21:14+7I'm sure Foster Friess does not worry about birth control because he can't get it up.
There should be a law passed in Virginia that for any man to get a script of Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drug, they must go to a proctologist, get the finger up the butt and see if there is some other reason they can't get it up.
Bryan Fischer is the epitome of white heterosexual men are the only ones blessed by some god and should make all the decisions.





















What's seems painfully clear is the Repubs, besides wanting to overturn Roe v. Wade, now wish to re-litigate the 45 yr old birth control debate. Much as they're marching ingloriously backwards with regard to science and education, they now wish to recreate their selective memories of the 1950's and the non-idyllic days of Father Knows Best. Remember conservatives, that was a TV SHOW and NOT REALITY THEN or NOW.
And, damn its only Februrary.
We wont even know which whackadoo we have to worry about until August.
*sighs