House Candidate Who Called Women ‘Emotional Rollercoasters’ Says No One Cares About Women’s Rights

[theHandpuppet]

What the hell is going through the minds of GOP women like these? I don't get them -- I really don't. It's as if they live in an alternate universe.

Think Progress
House Candidate Who Called Women ‘Emotional Rollercoasters’ Says No One Cares About Women’s Rights
by Amelia Rosch
October 3, 2014

With the midterm election a little more than a month away, GOP candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate in New Hampshire have said that Democrats are using women’s issues as a way to distract voters from “real” issues.

In a radio interview on Tuesday, Marilinda Garcia (R-Rockingham), who is running to represent New Hampshire’s second congressional district, said that the Democrats’ focus on women’s issues was “insulting, because they’re preying upon what they see as a vulnerable group, one that can be swayed with scare tactics.” She said that “maybe 2 percent” of voters she’s talked to are concerned about women’s rights.

Throughout her time in the state house, Garcia has made anti-women comments and has a record of voting against bills supporting women’s issues. In 2007, during a speech on parental notification for abortion, Garcia said that “a pregnant teen — I mean, most women are emotional roller coasters — but a pregnant teen is an emotional roller coaster going at warp-speed.”

Garcia also has voted against bills that would prohibit employment discrimination against victims of domestic violence, prohibit punishing employees who file complaints relating to paycheck equity and create buffer zones around abortion clinics. In a March interview, she said that she opposes the Violence Against Women Act because New Hampshire state law protects women. Domestic violence only became a distinct crime in new Hampshire earlier this year....

MORE at http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/10/03/3575505/nh-gop-women/

[TexasProgresive]

1. I wouldn't say nobody but

it seems that with 50+% of voters having 2 X chromosomes that women's rights should be in the forefront and there should be 52 women in the the Senate and 52 women out of 100 in the House. So she is being an arse but is not far off. She doesn't have to worry about "women's rights" because many women and men are not fussed about them as well.

[Demit]

2. What a charmer.

I don't understand women like this either. I can only guess at their motives. They've got power, so they figure they're special and deserve the perks that come from that, and it's fun to lord it over the powerless? Or they figure that, now that they've made it into the boyz club, they'll be more accepted if they show their loyalty by denouncing women's issues & by working to defeat them?

I've been trying to figure this out since Phyllis Schafly in the 70s. Telling women their natural place is in the home, with their children, as she left her children at home & traveled all over to spread her view.

[theHandpuppet]

3. There's a real disconnect going on that I simply can't fathom

Of course, she's not just a total reactionary when it comes to women's issues -- I did a bit of reading regarding her stances on a number of issues and she makes Mary Cheney look like a flaming liberal.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. The hypocrisy

Makes me brain bleed.

Let's not forget Schafly's recent stupidity about men not liking ambitious high earning women.

I'll probably get the wrath of older DUers but I don't fucking care. This woman was in the dating pool close to 60 years ago and she needs to STFU. She has no clue about what she is talking about and I'm of the mindset (having been married for 2.5 years but married at 39) that she's a smug married (believe she is a widow now) who can't even begin to comprehend that marriage and children are not the be all and end all.

[chervilant]

6. I'm an older DUer,

who had the rare privilege of watching Sarah Weddington debate Phyllis Schlafly about Roe v. Wade. Weddington was articulate, respectful, and well-versed about her most famous case. Schlafly was derisive and increasingly disrespectful in the face of the audience's disdain -- particularly evident when Schlafly tried to beat her "women should stay at home" drum.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. Schlafly was a bad word in my house

Growing up - her and Bryant.

My mom a feminist. My dad grew up with six sisters.

He was so pro women. He would ask - why is this woman eating her own?

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Anyone

Male or Female that votes for this cruel, callous idiot is just as ignorant, cruel, and insidious as she is.

It says more about the people who voted for her to have a place in the NH state government than it does her.

Shame on anyone who would vote for her.

[onyourleft]

8. I completely...

...agree with you. I was reading about her last week and astounded by her views. Her stance regarding physicians performing abortions is absolutely mind boggling.