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.
Yes.
Poor thing! His site really is the very essence of funny-sad. I love how all the quotes are from here: It’s an MRA website responding to a feminist website responding to an MRA website. Relevance!
So let’s go back to the beginning here: what point were you trying to make with the Aryan horse thing?
I figured you guys would get that I was equating your superiority complex to racism, but it seems that went over your heads.
Anyway, if I was here for page hits, why wouldn’t I be passively linking to my blog while posting at AVfM? I’m here for fun.
As for the whining about how incoherent I am, I’ve written AVfM and the posters there have built on, complimented, and critiqued my work. So yeah, you know and I know that you’re just being difficult and snarky, and like so many men before me I’m just around you for my own pleasure.
Did these AVfM scholars not see your comment sections. or is this another variation on “the lurkers support me in e-mail?”
And holy shit, you collaborated and your stuff’s still that incoherent? That says a lot about y’all.
Well then young’un, some words of wisdom (for you anyway, most people consider this common sense): when attempting to insult someone, it is always best to be sure that the insult actually applies.
Seeing as I’m neither White (so the WN’s stupid appropriation doesn’t apply to me), nor am I from an actual Aryan ethnicity, your comment just comes across as (and I know you’ve been hearing this a lot) dumb.
That’s the saddest thing ever.
And considering some of the utterly incoherent shit that gets upvoted and complimented on AVfM, you’ll forgive if I don’t consider this much of an endorsement
@Shadow: You’re only saying that because you’re an entitled, superior white racist. Or something.
@Lauralot
No doubt. Apparently every post that I make here drains my skin of a little more melanin. Or something.
“As for the whining about how incoherent I am, I’ve written AVfM and the posters there have built on, complimented, and critiqued my work. So yeah, you know and I know that you’re just being difficult and snarky, and like so many men before me I’m just around you for my own pleasure.”
Ok, just keep telling yourself that. No one else believes you.
I have a feeling no one at AVFM has ever seen his blog.
This is IR/FF’s AVfM piece: http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/activism/shameless/
It’s pretty incoherent and quite racist:
But it does have comments. More comments than the entirety of IR’s blog, in fact. So whooo and big congratulations, dude. Those 13 comments were your day in the sun.
::synthesizer riff::
PONIES!
I’ve written AVfM and the posters there have built on, complimented, and critiqued my work.
But not commented, apparently.
Consider the possibility that you are what a bunch of stupid people think a smart person writes like. This would explain why it is incoherent to those born with a brain.
I get the feeling that, like MRAL, he doesn’t exactly have a fulfilling social life… I feel a little bad, but then I remember that he’s a jackass XD
You… you were? When you said this?
IR
IR, this is serious
I think you might be terrible at expressing yourself in writing.
Slave-boy, the billboard of the dad bottle-feeding his child was pulled in response to protests by La Leche League. Their objection was that the child was being bottle-fed, not that it was a male doing the bottle-feeding.
Now, as a dad who has actually stayed home to take care of his kids when they were infants, I have a problem with what La Leche League is doing here. Breast feeding is important, but so is father-child bonding. Besides, how do they know the dad isn’t feeding the baby pumped breast milk? We did that all the time at my house.
La Leche League has done some good work in promoting breast feeding, but they also tend to be fanatical in their elevation of breast feeding over all other concerns.
Actually, I’m going to help you out a bit. When you said
“you” was in reference to Shadow, and “someone” was in reference to yourself, IdeologueReview, yes? The way you have phrased it suggests that “someone” (i.e. you, IdeologueReview) is mounted on the Aryan horse. For your statement to mean what you meant it to mean, “you” (i.e. Shadow) needs to be mounted on the horse. That could be easily accomplished by adding the word “while,” as in
That’s how you nonsensically suggest that Shadow is a racist White person.
But really, I don’t actually want to help you write better. I just want an excuse to quote your totally absurd words as often as possible.
I’m guessing that FF was/is one of those annoying college students who is always insisting that the reason he gets C’s is that the professors can’t grok his superior intellect.
Wow. What a sad little man.
FF, I mean. BouncyLimbaugh is more part of the roach infestation that’s ruining American broadcast journalism.
Ableism is against the objectives of social justice. Ableism is okay if you use it for social justice. Because, feminism.
IR, so if we point out that your comments make no fucking sense, that makes up ableist?
Things that are ableist:
– Mocking the disabled
– Using words that marginalize disabled people
– Suggesting IR’s problems are the result of a disability
Things that are not ableist:
– Noticing IR’s shitty grasp of sentence structure
Damn, hit post comment too soon. I meant, mocking the disabled for being disabled.