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WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 09:39 PM Jun 2012

"Vagina, Vagina, Vagina" <---- actual headline

Vagina, Vagina, Vagina
By 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, it’s not enough that Republicans have made it a political priority to roll back women’s reproductive rights—they also want to ensure that we remain silent as they do it.

Rep. Mike Callton, for example, was absolutely scandalized by Brown’s comments: “What she said was offensive…It was so offensive, I don’t 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?)

(snip)

It’s understandable—after all, it’s 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, it’s also deadly serious. The legislation at the center of this debate—which has passed in the Michigan House—is being called the most restrictive anti-choice bill in the country. It bans all abortions after 20 weeks—even in cases of rape, incest, and threats to women’s 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.

(snip)

Republicans are systematically and deliberately trying to silence women’s voices and experiences. Not because they find ‘vagina’ offensive—because 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
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"Vagina, Vagina, Vagina" <---- actual headline (Original Post) WilliamPitt Jun 2012 OP
Recommended! longship Jun 2012 #1
He would have traveled through a vagina Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #2
Life long aversion to the female due to being abandoned under a rock by his reptilian mother. freshwest Jun 2012 #4
+13,447 Angry Dragon Jun 2012 #8
And +17,313, 2 you, 2. Although IDK if you made a compliment, LOL. freshwest Jun 2012 #19
Don't reptiles hatch from eggs? HooptieWagon Jun 2012 #26
Oh .... good one! The Wielding Truth Jun 2012 #34
In protest, every non-offended legislator should... Beartracks Jun 2012 #3
Fourscore and seven vaginas ago, our forevaginas... WilliamPitt Jun 2012 #6
Ah, ha! Quite true, that one. freshwest Jun 2012 #13
Beetle Juice taught us why the vaginas are still here..... chknltl Jun 2012 #5
*cough*BLOWJOB!*cough* Maynar Jun 2012 #7
Is that a young Mitt Romney on the left? Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2012 #9
It's from "Animal House." The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2012 #10
I think it's from Animal House but that Neidermeyer was actually this guy: spooky3 Jun 2012 #12
Almost. hifiguy Jun 2012 #14
Oh, right. I get those two mixed up. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2012 #15
Say "yes" MrMickeysMom Jun 2012 #20
Vagina envy? Marie Marie Jun 2012 #11
That, too. calimary Jun 2012 #16
Vagina. If you can't say it? Don't legislate it. underseasurveyor Jun 2012 #17
+1 (nt) enough Jun 2012 #24
penis JitterbugPerfume Jun 2012 #18
That was plagiarized from one of my posts on DU2. Zorra Jun 2012 #21
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo Warren DeMontague Jun 2012 #22
That one made me literally LOL hifiguy Jun 2012 #23
They are men The Wizard Jun 2012 #31
Recommended. H2O Man Jun 2012 #25
rec Stuart G Jun 2012 #27
from Latin - vagina Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #28
"Judy, Judy, Judy." Attributed to Cary Grant Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2012 #29
Vagina is not offensive...... Smilo Jun 2012 #30
If you don't get access to one regularly Aerows Jun 2012 #32
Many years ago, when I first Berlin Expat Jun 2012 #33
It takes a truly sick pRick to regard 'vagina' as a dirty word. TahitiNut Jun 2012 #35
or a major 'asshole' G_j Jun 2012 #36
I'm shocked! Shocked! connecticut yankee Jun 2012 #37

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
4. Life long aversion to the female due to being abandoned under a rock by his reptilian mother.
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:29 PM
Jun 2012

His first view of life was a negative one. No vagina involved or cuddling.


Beartracks

(12,841 posts)
3. In protest, every non-offended legislator should...
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:28 PM
Jun 2012

... 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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chknltl

(10,558 posts)
5. Beetle Juice taught us why the vaginas are still here.....
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 10:31 PM
Jun 2012

Maybe we should try getting these 'overly offended legislators' to say DICKHEAD, DICKHEAD, DICKHEAD!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(116,021 posts)
10. It's from "Animal House."
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 11:02 PM
Jun 2012

That's Neidermeyer, the frat president and ROTC cadet commander. Basically the same character as Mittens.

spooky3

(34,537 posts)
12. I think it's from Animal House but that Neidermeyer was actually this guy:
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 11:08 PM
Jun 2012

sorry - I keep trying to link to a photo of Neidermeyer but can't get it to work.

[link:&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgoldenageofmusicvideo.com%2F%3Fp%3D982&size=108.4+KB&name=Are+you+listening+to+me%3F+Actor+Mark+Metcalf+as+Douglas+C.+Niedermeyer&p=niedermeyer+animal+house&oid=fbdc74a0f112d0a19595b694e2284b08&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-701&tt=Are%2Byou%2Blistening%2Bto%2Bme%253F%2BActor%2BMark%2BMetcalf%2Bas%2BDouglas%2BC.%2BNiedermeyer&b=0&ni=192&no=27&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=117o9jcod&sigb=13nvf2buq&sigi=124rn9rv3&.crumb=BHBJoogWPb1|]

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. Almost.
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 11:09 PM
Jun 2012

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.

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
21. That was plagiarized from one of my posts on DU2.
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:16 AM
Jun 2012

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.



 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
23. That one made me literally LOL
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:52 AM
Jun 2012

The morans who are so terrified of ladyparts should depart from the planet. They were born through them and can never escape the shame.

H2O Man

(73,715 posts)
25. Recommended.
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 11:10 AM
Jun 2012

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.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
30. Vagina is not offensive......
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jun 2012

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)
32. If you don't get access to one regularly
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 03:14 PM
Jun 2012

I could see how you could grow to resent the vagina.

Sour grapes, and all.

Berlin Expat

(951 posts)
33. Many years ago, when I first
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 03:59 PM
Jun 2012

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?
______________________________________________________-

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)
35. It takes a truly sick pRick to regard 'vagina' as a dirty word.
Sat Jun 16, 2012, 05:59 PM
Jun 2012

pRick Snyder's minions and sycophants are that sick. And then some.

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