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Women are not considered a minority? I was told that here the other day.
For one, women come in all colors as apposed to the racist, sexist, bigoted WHITE MEN that are trying to control our very rights over our bodies. The sTrumpet is waltzing his way to the WH to defund PP. It is about abortion or something. The stupid man does not realize or just does not care that PP is critical preventive care for women. He is coming for our mammograms, our family planning, our birth control. There he goes again grabbing our pussies. Then he will go after our safety nets.
Remember these Whities...
Eight staggering GOP comments on rape and women
Eight staggering GOP comments on rape and women
As Anna North reported earlier this year, other Republicans paved the way for Akin’s recent statements. In 1995, Republican Henry Aldridge stated that when a woman is raped, “the juices don’t flow,” and in 1988 another Republican congressman stated that women emit “a certain secretion” that stops pregnancy when they are raped. (Which has led many of us to wonder, which is it, guys? Do these mythical juices flow, or do they stop flowing, when a woman is raped?)
2. The daddy of all these rape theories. The National Right to Life Committee’s John C. Willke’s claims in an article that the “trauma” of rape prevents pregnancy — i.e., he “basically just makes shit up,”
3. GOP donor asks, “Want contraception? Put an aspirin between your knees.” This line, now a total cultural punch line, came from Foster Friess, who was a big donor to Rick Santorum before moving on to support Romney. The video clip featuring Friess’ comments and Andrea Mitchell’s flummoxed response went viral this spring.
Friess: This contraceptive thing, my gosh it’s such inexpensive, back in my days we used Bayer aspirin for contraception, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.
4. GOP lawmakers seek to legally redefine rape as “forcible rape” so fewer women will qualify as victims. Remember the media firestorm around the “war on women”? One of its major fronts consisted of congressional shenanigans around the definition of rape in the noxious H.R. 3 “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion” bill. These efforts included Akin and V.P. candidate Paul Ryan and were aimed at siphoning off the number of abortion-funding exemptions so that only the rarest few qualified. What offended women most — and eventually scuttled the bill — was the idea that the government could weigh whether your rape “counted” or not.
Read More: http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/eight_staggering_gop_comments_on_rape_and_women/
Eight staggering GOP comments on rape and women
As Anna North reported earlier this year, other Republicans paved the way for Akin’s recent statements. In 1995, Republican Henry Aldridge stated that when a woman is raped, “the juices don’t flow,” and in 1988 another Republican congressman stated that women emit “a certain secretion” that stops pregnancy when they are raped. (Which has led many of us to wonder, which is it, guys? Do these mythical juices flow, or do they stop flowing, when a woman is raped?)
2. The daddy of all these rape theories. The National Right to Life Committee’s John C. Willke’s claims in an article that the “trauma” of rape prevents pregnancy — i.e., he “basically just makes shit up,”
3. GOP donor asks, “Want contraception? Put an aspirin between your knees.” This line, now a total cultural punch line, came from Foster Friess, who was a big donor to Rick Santorum before moving on to support Romney. The video clip featuring Friess’ comments and Andrea Mitchell’s flummoxed response went viral this spring.
Friess: This contraceptive thing, my gosh it’s such inexpensive, back in my days we used Bayer aspirin for contraception, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.
4. GOP lawmakers seek to legally redefine rape as “forcible rape” so fewer women will qualify as victims. Remember the media firestorm around the “war on women”? One of its major fronts consisted of congressional shenanigans around the definition of rape in the noxious H.R. 3 “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion” bill. These efforts included Akin and V.P. candidate Paul Ryan and were aimed at siphoning off the number of abortion-funding exemptions so that only the rarest few qualified. What offended women most — and eventually scuttled the bill — was the idea that the government could weigh whether your rape “counted” or not.
Read More: http://www.salon.com/2012/08/22/eight_staggering_gop_comments_on_rape_and_women/
Alrighty then, women are not a minority. Got it. We are paid less than a man. We are not promoted more than men. Once as a newlywed I was asked on an interview if I planned to have children, I was shocked. What did that have to do with my qualifications? Are men asked that question?No.
We pay more for insurance than a man. Pre existing conditions, did you know that insurance companies can deny a woman benefits for having been pregnant? Did you know that if you were abused by a spouse, it will be considered as a pre existing condition. BENEFITS DENIED!
I am concerned here. In a word they want to kill us by eliminating our health care, then when they take our birth control away well that means they want us to breed, barefoot and pregnant. My take is they want to cull the herd. When all is said and done... They want us to breed the new Arian race.
Fuck you very much.
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