You may recall that all-dude panel of “experts” at that recent congressional hearing on contraception. One of the reasons it was an all-dude panel was that congressional Republicans wouldn’t let Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke testify on the costs of birth control. (She later testified at a separate hearing held by Nancy Pelosi.)
Apparently stating publicly how much contraception costs when it’s not covered by insurance is basically the equivalent of pooping on the flag to some misogynistic assholes, among them the always charming Rush Limbaugh, who has denounced Fluke as a “slut” and a whore, saying, at one point, that she
went before a Congressional committee and said she’s having so much sex she’s going broke buying contraceptives and wants us to buy them.
Actually, she didn’t testify about her own experience at all.
Also, does Limbaugh even know how contraception works? Yes, the number of condoms one buys depends on how often you have sex. (Or at the very least how often you hope to have sex. Who knows how many boxes of condoms, purchased in moments of optimism, have quietly expired on the shelf waiting for their purchasers to finally get their mojo working. )
But the costs of many other forms of contraception have no relation whatsoever to the frequency of sex. Women on “the pill” take a pill every day, regardless of whether they are having sex that day or not. Women using IUDs don’t run down to the health center to have one installed every time their vagina expects a visitor.
Birth control, in short, doesn’t work like Oxycontin or Viagra, the two pills about which Limbaugh seems most knowledgeable.
Sorry to belabor the obvious, which apparently isn’t so obvious if you’re a right-wing, woman-hating asshole.
Anyway, now Limbaugh seems to think he’s entitled to watch Fluke having sex:
So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. … We want you post the videos online so we can all watch.
Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Here’s the excerpt from his radio show in which he makes this creepy demand.
It’s like he just discovered that people have sex. Or he still hasn’t discovered, and thinks this woman must be a special extra-dirty Sex Woman.
I can’t wrap my head around the fact that this man makes more money than me.
Ha ha, oh Rush. Remember that time you were busted coming back from Paid Sex Capital of the World, Dominican Republic, with Viagra that wasn’t even yours? Good times.
He thinks we take a pill every time we have sex because that’s how his non-prescribed Viagra works in the Dominican Republic.
And to think, he could have saved himself some trouble by looking up a porn site.
Well, it’s not like anyone accused the Oxycontinfather of being smart. Just a doped up jackass and sex tourist.
That gif is equal parts creepy and hilarious.
The gif isn’t animated; that’s actual footage of him bouncing up and down at some public event.
In his defense, he was making some sort of joke which he felt he had to illustrate by bouncing up and down.
In my defense, it is always hilarious to watch that.
I feel like it needs to be used for “I have no idea what you’re talking about, so here’s a bouncing Rush Limbaugh.”
Listening to that fucking hate-spewing idiot speak sends me into a blind rage.
This is actually an interesting case, because there’s two different layers of Arguments I Shouldn’t Have To Make here:
1. Some women take the pill for PCOS or other reasons; it’s not just for sex. But that shouldn’t matter, because sex is okay.
2. You take the pill every day, not just when you have sex. But that shouldn’t matter, because having lots of sex is okay.
I don’t know how many siblings (if any) this tub of guts has, but unless he comes from a family the size of the Duggar’s, then his mother practiced birth control too. Which makes her, according to him, a slut and a whore as well.
What an idiot.
Don’t the conservative folks sort of want us hippy libs on birth control? Fewer of us to belong to unions, attend university,become educated, enlightened, and outspoken, fewer of us to vote or argue with them. Cause I bet you the sex positive, “liberated” liberal folk are having a lot more sex than people who use it strictly for procreation.
I have to wonder if says things that are so factually wrong on so many levels because there are people who (through wilfull ignorance or the eroding of standards of sex education, and of course the general stigma against thinking/talking about sex unless it’s about how d00ds get pleasure) really *don’t* know how various forms of birth control work and think that pills *actually are* a use-on-demand thing like a condom, and he’s playing to that demographic.
Keep ’em ignorant and let their betters show them what to think!
(channeling Morgan Freeman here)
Let me get this straight. You think that women, even the chastest, most-dutifully-married women in the world, are secretly all sluts who spend their nights wasting taxpayer money having too much sex? And your plan is to make them do porn?
…Good luck.
Seriously, how is this going to improve things?
Also, how the heck are you defining “we”? Royal?
Ha ha ha, I love it when these super creepy dudes get into a groove and overshare their twisted nightmare selves.
“If women want to have sex then, then…then they should be my PERSONAL PORN SLAVES”
I don’t love it so much when they have a radio audience.
@Dracula, I don’t even have to listen to him. Just seeing his smug face and/or reading a synopsis of his arguments sends me into a blind rage. Trust that I did not click play.
Do you get a kick out of defending the indefensible?
This young woman CHOSE to go to a Catholic Uni. She wants the school to pay her to have sex. She doesn’t want women to be accountable for their own choices like MEN have to be. I’ve heard the commentariat here say that having coupled sex is not a right. I agree with all of you. No one owes women just for the fact that they’re women. If you’re going to have leisure sex then you have to pay for it just like MEN.
She does not want the school to pay for her sex. She wants her health insurance to pay for her contraception. The school does not pay for her insurance — she does, through the school’s group plan. In other words, she wants to use a service she pays for. How exactly is that “indefensible”?
@Buttman
What schools are paying people to go? Can I go there? Is it just Catholic ones?
“She wants the school to pay her to have sex.”
This is seriously the dumbest right-wing meme ever. And it’s at the top of a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG list.
My mom suggested I go on the pill in order to deal with my migraines. However, I don’t think a video of me holding my head and groaning “Please kill me now.” would be that entertaining to Rush.
On the other hand, considering how much he hates women, it probably would be more entertaining to him than I thought.
but buttman, you don’t want to have consequences for your (incredibly juvenile and alienating) behavior. isnt it hypocritical of you to level that charge against someone else?
Wait, men have to pay for sex? Jesus, I’m WAY in arrears. I’ve been fucking since I was 18 and haven’t ponied up a dime.
No see, “MEN” have to buy condoms, which to Buttman is paying for sex. Because he lives in imaginary world where women never buy condoms.
Buttman, do you think insurance should cover the cost of childbirth?
Holly, do you even need to ask?