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Vagina, Vagina, VaginaBy Jessica Valenti
The Nation
6/15/2012
Yesterday, Michigan Representative Lisa Brown was banned from speaking after having the audacity to use the word vagina in a debate over an anti-abortion bill. Apparently, its not enough that Republicans have made it a political priority to roll back womens reproductive rightsthey also want to ensure that we remain silent as they do it.
Rep. Mike Callton, for example, was absolutely scandalized by Browns comments: What she said was offensive It was so offensive, I dont even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company. (He does realize that this mixed company likely has vaginas, yes?)
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Its understandableafter all, its difficult not to get carried away in the absurdity of grown men having fainting spells over the v-word. But as eye-roll inducing as this incident may be, its also deadly serious. The legislation at the center of this debatewhich has passed in the Michigan Houseis being called the most restrictive anti-choice bill in the country. It bans all abortions after 20 weekseven in cases of rape, incest, and threats to womens health. Women who have fetuses that will not survive birth would be required to carry them to term anyway. The bill also mandates regulations designed to make it near impossible for rural women to obtain abortions or for clinics to operate.
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Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to silence womens voices and experiences. Not because they find vagina offensivebecause they find the idea of women controlling their own bodies and lives offensive. Because they find us offensive. Republicans can shroud their misogyny in huffy rhetoric about decorum, but women know the truth. We just have to keep saying it.
Link: http://www.thenation.com/blog/168429/vagina-vagina-vagina
longship
(40,416 posts)Hate those misogynistic fuckers.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)in his birthday suit (unless he didn't have a natural birth).
freshwest
(53,661 posts)His first view of life was a negative one. No vagina involved or cuddling.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Beartracks
(12,841 posts)... slip the word "vagina" into all his or her comments on the floor.
I can see it now... ... ...
"This is a property tax bill that I know would be beneficial to my constituents. Thank you, and I yield back my time. Oh, and... vagina."
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WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Etc.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)Maybe we should try getting these 'overly offended legislators' to say DICKHEAD, DICKHEAD, DICKHEAD!
Maynar
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,370 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,021 posts)That's Neidermeyer, the frat president and ROTC cadet commander. Basically the same character as Mittens.
spooky3
(34,537 posts)sorry - I keep trying to link to a photo of Neidermeyer but can't get it to work.
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)That's Gregg Marmalard, the Omega house president. According to the movie he was a Nixon White House aide who was raped in prison. And yes, he's a dead ringer for Rmoney at that age.
Doug Niedermeyer was his henchman and the ROTC commander - he was killed in Vietnam. By his own troops.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,021 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)To stationery water marked, "vagina"
Send you letters today,
Vaginally Yours,
V.Jay Jay
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)calimary
(81,611 posts)...Oh, and ... vagina.
underseasurveyor
(6,428 posts)That little gem is making the rounds on social media.
enough
(13,272 posts)JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)I am an equal opportunity poster
vagina
Zorra
(27,670 posts)In reality, I was taunting a sexist RW troll, but still, that headline is word for word plagiarism of my post.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=2454439&mesg_id=2454500
I'm calling my attorney in the morning; I can't afford to have people continually stealing my brilliant ideas like this.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The morans who are so terrified of ladyparts should depart from the planet. They were born through them and can never escape the shame.
The Wizard
(12,556 posts)who secretly want to be women.
H2O Man
(73,715 posts)I have no problem with that word. I have been called, over the years, some variants of "vagina." No problem: You are what you eat.
Stuart G
(38,458 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)German - vagina
Italian - vagina
French - vagin.......
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Smilo
(1,944 posts)what is offensive is Callton and his cronies that they would deny women the right to control their own bodies.
Vaginas of America unite against GOPT insecurities and misogynistic controlling penises.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I could see how you could grow to resent the vagina.
Sour grapes, and all.
Berlin Expat
(951 posts)saw "The Big Lebowski", this little exchange between Maude Lebowski and The Dude certainly made me chuckle:
Maude Lebowski: Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: Uh, is that what this is a picture of?
Maude Lebowski: In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
The Dude: Oh yeah?
Maude Lebowski: Yes, they don't like hearing it and find it difficult to say whereas without batting an eye a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his Johnson.
The Dude: Johnson?
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To be honest, I never imagined that the word "vagina" would genuinely be offensive or disturbing to some men; I thought it was just a humorous tete-a-tete.
So basically, Republicans (and conservatives in general) are afraid of vaginas.
There's something vaguely Freudian about all this.
Oh, and vagina.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)pRick Snyder's minions and sycophants are that sick. And then some.
G_j
(40,372 posts)connecticut yankee
(1,728 posts)I'll bet Mike Callton has called vaginas by plenty of other names to his buddies.