Why Is the Right Obsessed With Castration?

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/179655/why-right-obsessed-castration


Sarah Palin speaks at a campaign rally in Leesburg, Virginia, in 2008. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Right-wing pols and militia men seen to be thinking about castration an awful lot lately. In speeches and in campaign ads, they’re threatening to cut off their enemies’ balls, and it’s getting weird.

We can only speculate over why some on the right have castration on their minds. Conservative white males, now a minority in a country led by a black president, are losing their demographic cojones. Maybe they’re threatening their foes with what they fear most—or maybe talking like a mohel allows them to sound violent and still be considered vaguely humorous.

Over at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, the folks fighting federal tyranny (that is, refusing to pay for grazing rights on federal land) are still gathering and making speeches.

“All over this country, we are still staring civil war in its bloody face,” said Mike Vanderboegh, leader of the militia group Three Percenters and author of a novel that allegedly inspired a domestic terrorist plot in 2011. He blames Senator Harry Reid (who’s called Bundy supporters “domestic terrorists”) for inciting civil war against a “free people who are armed and who are willing to use those arms in defense of liberty.” And Vanderboegh warned, “Don’t poke the wolverine with a sharp stick, Harry, unless you want your balls ripped off.” That brought hoots and hollers from the crowd.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Oh, please...

this is a common rhetorical device used by all sides.

[Bjorn Against]

2. This is an actual ad for an Iowa GOP Senate candidate who castrates pigs

[Bluzmann57]

3. Because they have no balls

Well, you asked....

[Eleanors38]

4. Music of the Spheres.

[jwirr]

5. The main tenets of their religion are sex and religion. They are obsessed.

[SamKnause]

6. They are obsessed with genitalia and warmongering.

They want control over every vagina in this country.

Glad to see they are picking on male genitalia for a change.

Maybe they should revisit their Bible and see what it says about men missing their genitals.

[WhiteTara]

7. What will that idiot do when his gummint checks stop coming?

He can't be that disabled to be carrying on so. I think we may have found a one of those welfare queens they are always screaming about. Go get him, feds!