A Call To Arms: With Underwear

by: peacemonger

Tue May 01, 2012 at 08:53:10 AM MST

While you've been busy raising your children, going to work, and caring for everyone around you, Tea Party crazies have been trying to take away women's rights and plunge us back into a previous century.

In 2010, Tea Party extremists gained power in Washington DC, and in many parts of this country. They've presented more than 1100 separate legislative provisions aimed at making women second-class citizens, of which, more than 135 have been passed. These are the kinds of things they've been trying to do:

*   Defund Planned Parenthood, an organization which offers cancer screenings, mammograms, well-woman visits, contraception, treatment of STDs and family planning services.
*   Slash Medicaid for 21 million poor women, so women cannot have health care.
*   Prevent access to birth control and cancer screenings.
*   Repeal ObamaCare, which was the single biggest advancement in women's health in generations. ObamaCare prevents discrimination based on gender, and makes sure insurance companies pay for the things woman deserve, like contraception, pregnancy services, etc.
*   Make women wait days or weeks to have abortions. (Sometimes even, when waiting could cause injury to the woman.)
*   Force trans-vaginal ultrasounds on women who do not need them (government sanctioned-rape).
*   Make women get permission from their husbands or boyfriends in order to get abortions. (What are women and girls who are raped supposed to do?)

Republicans on the radio continue to use the airwaves to insult women, degrade women, and abuse women. Remember Rush Limbaugh who called college student Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute eleven times, simply because she had premarital sex with her fiance? How about the conservative radio talk show host who told a father he should have a friend rape his daughter to make sure she didn't turn out to be a lesbian?

Colorado women and the men who love them will not stand for this lack of respect for women anymore. Join us in a revolt.

Show up to their offices, and make them talk to you. Send them your (clean) underwear to remind them you exist, you vote, and (over your dead body) will they continue to abuse, degrade, mock and insult women in Colorado. Bring your daughters, and granddaughters, and their girlfriends with you.

Picket outside their office with signs, banners, and underwear flags. Call them, fax them, email them, show up to meetings, and generally hound them, until they get the message that they need to go back where they came from.

Raise money for the candidates who seek to replace them (the good guys).

Republicans rant pyschotically about Girl Scouts - I buy cookies

by: Zappatero

Fri Feb 24, 2012 at 18:51:03 PM MST

As if it's needed, further proof that Republicans will stop at nothing and stoop to any level to express that hatred came in the form of an illogical, specious, near-physchotic, ignorance-laden free-associated puke given up by Republican Bob Morris of Indiana:

In what is looking like a coordinated attack on Girl Scouts of America, the latest salvo comes from Rep. Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne. The lawmaker declined to sign a letter of resolution congratulating the Girl Scouts on their hundredth anniversary last week and thanking them "for the strong positive influence it has had on the American woman."

Not so fast. Morris explained couldn't sign because "he did some Web-based research and found allegations that the Girl Scouts are a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood, that they allow transgender females to join, 'just like any real girl,' and encourage sex."

Me? I bought cookies.

Yale Suspends DKE House For "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" Chants

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Wed May 18, 2011 at 06:53:42 AM MST

In October of last year the Delta Kappa Epsilon pledges and the members who were "tapping" them went out and marched by the  Yale Women's Center chanting "No means yes, yes means anal" and "My name is Jack, I am a necrophiliac, I f**k dead women". All good fun and games by a bunch of guys right? Wrong.

There is this boys will be boys culture in this country, and especially in some fraternities that is appalling. I get accused of being a humorless liberal, but there is no humor in statements and acts like that which can only intimidate.

Think about the mind set that you would have to have to think something like this was funny. You'd have to think you were being bold to make a statement like that, somehow charmingly shocking to go the Women's Center and be a sexist jackass. Then to bring a whole group of men and chant about forcible rape (after all what else could No means Yes, possibly mean).

Try to put yourself in the shoes of a 18 year old female Freshman from a smallish city in the Midwest. What would she think about this? That is just a prank and there is nothing threatening to her or indoctrinating to the boys chanting it? Does anyone really think that is going to be the take away?

Yesterday the Dean Mary Miller sent out an e-mail to the entire Yale community announcing that the Executive Committee (made up of faculty and students) had concluded that the DKE chapter and individuals in it had violated Undergraduate Regulations by their actions.  

No Exceptions Caucus - Will They Imprison Women For Having An Abortion?

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Tue Sep 21, 2010 at 06:15:19 AM MST

It all seems to be part of their toughness shtick. Where everything is a life and death fight and they will take any position to the maximal and then declare that it is main stream. I love  this tactic when it is my seven year old nephew and he insists he is a super-hero just because he says so, but it is more than a little frightening in someone who could be a United States Senator and be one for the next six years, at least.