with everything else going on, did I miss the dem males in congress raising their voices against

[niyad]

issa and his male-only hearing on women's bodies (oh, excuse me, the hearing on serious matters)

[Kber]

1. Sen Frank Lautenberg from NJ

decried the "male-a-garchy" of the hearing. I took note of that since he's one of my senators.

Others have spoken out, but they aren't getting the press. The media would LIKE to cast this as "just" a women's issue and including the male voices that have indeed spoken out ruins their story line.

http://prochoicenc.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/identifying-male-a-garchy/

[niyad]

3. thank you--I was hoping that the men were actually speaking out

[ellenfl]

4. at least one male dem rep walked out of the hearing in protest. eom

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. It'd be derided as "mansplaining" and he'd be called a "fauxminist"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002324451

Better to let the women such as Pelosi take point on this, they're doing fine.

[Lars39]

6. Not by all....

I think taking action for the good of all humanity surely is acceptable.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Certainly. My employer has no business making my medical/ethical decisions for me.

"freedom of religion" doesn't mean freedom of religions to coerce me to obey them.

The catholic church would deny insurance coverage for vasectomies too (if in fact they are covered under HCR at all).

There are some who think their activism is diluted if they accept men as allies.

[Lars39]

8. Right now we need every warm body to protest this crap.

Overwhelming numbers.

[Zalatix]

5. Here's one from the chopped liver brigade.

I may not be a Congresscritter but I vote and I didn't hear my Democrat rep speaking out.

Having an all-male Congressional panel (or all-female, but I doubt that has ever happened) on anything is intolerable. Having one on women's health is beyond outrageous.

Perhaps this should be presented as "what if it was an all-woman panel discussing men's health"? That would wake up a few men in a hurry.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Turning the tables often works

One of the colleges I taught at had no women on its counseling staff. The women faculty complained about it in one faculty meeting, saying that women students were coming to them with personal problems that they didn't feel qualified to handle.

The faculty men and the president started harumphing to the effect of, "Don't you think our counselors are competent?"

One of the women stood up and addressed the harumphers:"When you were 18, would you have gone to a woman to talk about your most intimate problems?"

Crickets.

By the beginning of the next semester, the college had a woman counselor.

[Rex]

9. I don't know, but that was a travesty.

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