He's saying that birth control = not spreading your legs. It's a very old joke.

this schmuck thought he was being cute and funny. But, really underneath the joke is exactly what this kind of man thinks. It's just below the surface, that women are totally responsible for keeping themselves un-pregnant by refraining from sex. Men can and should try to make that aspirin fall, but women should just keep their legs together. Women should be good breeders for their Christ like husband and just shut up about wanting to have a way to prevent pregnancy. This way women will remain second class citizens with no real way to control their own reproductive choices. He meant this, and in the coming days when he gets pressure, or Santorum gets pressure to weasle out of this comment remember he meant every word and inference of it.

because, if I'm being honest, I, too, have no idea what the fuck he is saying.

I guess it means that they could never move their knees apart, even slightly, or the aspirin would fall?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure we all know how that guy practiced birth control until he made his millions.

He's in a bubble, pure and simple.

The problem is that he's using his expertise as a money maker as clout to speak on things that he knows nothing about.

You're seeing the transitive nature of rich white male authority at work.

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Basically he doesn't believe in using contraceptives period.

we really need a truce in this food versus sex war.

Maybe get everyone together for a nice film?

Ahnold played in the Batman movie?

... was when I was a kid.

Just after the war.... the Civil War...it's that old!

It wasn't long before I realized that sex was possible without a lot of leg-spreading.

This sad dumbfuck probably thinks missionary-position sex is all there is.

in the early '60s: If you hold an aspirin tablet between your knees you can't spread your legs. That's your "birth control."

I could not fucking believe it when that wretched old dinosaur resurrected that insane, stupid, sexist remark. It's deja vu all over again; we are having to fight the same battles I thought we'd pretty well won 40 years ago.

These guys never stop. Guess will have to fight that battle again.

I think things would be different if we had gotten that passed.

Since the amendment wasn't ratified within the 10 years after the passage through Congress, it's regarded as having failed ratification, and the original votes are void. It would have to be resubmitted through Congress again.

That said, it's a bad idea. The 14th amendment covers equal protection including gender, and trying to "part that out" amounts to an argument that the 14th is NOT all inclusive, which could weaken its use in the future.

People who say it are assholes.

saying abstinence is the only acceptable method of birth control (for poor women)

Contraceptives are pretty well accepted in this country and have been for years. The right wingers are really making assholes out of themselves over this.

He's a strange one.

I was wondering if this was some turn of the century (the 19th century) method of BC. Where you stuck the aspirin up in the vagina and the aspirin had some sperm killing power.

Women used to douche with lysol for that purpose.