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Attention feminists: Rush Limbaugh wants to watch you having sex.

Sometimes Rush gets a little overexcited

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.

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ideologuereview
12 years ago

IR, so if we point out that your comments make no fucking sense,
Oh dear.
that makes up ableist?
No.

ideologuereview
12 years ago

This would explain why it is incoherent to those born with a brain.
Here’s one of the more obvious examples. Does ableism not count when it comes from a feminist or something?

darksidecat
darksidecat
12 years ago

@IR, I know you’re bad at medicine, but you do know that humans literally can’t live with no brains, right?

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

Maybe he thinks the comment is ableist towards zombies.

jumbofish
jumbofish
12 years ago

no brain ism!!!

katz
12 years ago

You guys are all being coherentist.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

We here at the No Brain Liberation Front are deeply offended by your thoughtless comments. Or rather, we would be if we were alive.

Magpie
Magpie
12 years ago

Surely “thoughtless” comments are what the NBLF is all about?

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

The NBLF resents that assertion.

Holly Pervocracy
Holly Pervocracy
12 years ago

I don’t think the guy who made “preggo punchout” gets to co-opt social justice terminology.

Especially when the only “ability” anyone’s talked about was the ability to not be an ignorant asshole. And how you have it and just aren’t using it.

Lauralot
12 years ago

Seriously, people? Discriminating against zombies?

I expected better of you.

Shadow
Shadow
12 years ago

The real question is: is this due to natural causes, or is it a lifestyle choice? IR, do you ID as brainless or brain free?

captainbathrobe
captainbathrobe
12 years ago

Actually, I think we are being ableist against those who suffer from Recto-Cranial Inversion Syndrome.

Myoo
Myoo
12 years ago

Now, now, everybody knows that zombies don’t have brains, and your politically correctness is just blinding you to the truth.
So remember, zombies don’t have brains, so when they come shuffling towards you, there’s no point in shooting them in the head. No point at all.

………braaaains…….

Myoo
Myoo
12 years ago

@shadow
that link gives a “no hotlinking allowed” message. You should probably link to the website
http://www.thedawgpound.com/2011/09/zombie-protest/

but still, LOL.

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Although I think Rush makes intelligent statements sometimes, his behavior over this issue makes me want to vomit.

Kyrie
Kyrie
12 years ago

Although I think Rush makes intelligent statements sometimes

He does? I don’t know him, could you point me at some of these?

zhinxy
12 years ago

<You guys are all being coherentist.

zhinxy
12 years ago

You guys are all being coherentist.

OMG <3

Ami Angelwings
12 years ago

Or you’re being absurdistist…

Ami Angelwings
12 years ago

So IR is hiding behind ablism now? -_o

I had no idea IR was so concerned about ablism. I’ll be sure to watch his comments from now on and make sure he sticks to his new philosophy :3

Ami Angelwings
12 years ago

Or is this yet another “I’ll hold you guys to a standard I don’t hold my own movement to because we never said we’re good guys who care about people”? xD

Somehow IR does not note the number of times MRAs say “moron” or “retarded” or “idiot”…

or is that okay b/c the MRM is ablist and proud of it? xD

What kind of anti-feminist argument can the MRM make at all accusing us of being ablist, or racist, or etc.. when their movement is full of that and proud of it? xD “Sick of feminist ablism? Join us, we’re even worse!”? xD

Ami Angelwings
12 years ago

This isn’t the “well you do it too!” thing, it’s that ablism IS wrong, but somehow I doubt that IR really cares about ablism. xD I certainly don’t remember him calling out Elam for his ablism. I’ll give you some AVfM and Spearhead posts if you’d like and I fully expect to see you vociferously complain there too, being the great defender of the disabled you suddenly are… xD

Feminists DO call other feminists out on ablism (just look what happened to David, whether ppl think it was fair or not), or what happened on this very forum about “insane” and “batshit”… MRAs seem to only call feminists out on ablism, just like they only call feminists out on racism, but are perfectly fine with racism, ablism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, hell they’re even okay with misandry in their own movement xD