My Dear Sisters:
Here is
what we have.
We have
predominantly white men in charge of our country at the local, state, and
national level and in every branch of government.
These men
are controlling our lives through legislation and policy as well as through academia and their professional lives and works. And, they are shockingly
ignorant and hateful toward women.
They reveal
continuously, in public, that they lack even the most basic knowledge of women,
anatomy and physiology, basic reproduction, birth control, abortion,
psychology, etc.
And, they
reveal their complete lack of empathy and their utter
disregard for the welfare of their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters.
This level
of disregard amounts to hatred.
Are we so accustomed to this that it has become invisible to us? Don't let that happen.
Let’s
correct the record.
No, birth
control is not abortion. Perhaps this has been a talking point within the
Catholic Church to discourage birth control. But, millions of women are not
Catholic, don’t want to follow the religion of our lawmakers, and don’t want a
Supreme Court Justice this ignorant and biased.
Brett
Kavanaugh Refers To Birth Control As 'Abortion-Inducing Drugs' At Confirmation
Hearing – this week. NYT
And, no,
the female body does not have a way of “shutting that whole thing down” in the
case of rape as Todd Akin professed. Women – and girls – get pregnant from
rape. Republican men and women elected a man this ignorant and vile to a
position of power over women.
19 August
2012, U.S. Representative Todd Akin (R) of Missouri
Nope. There is no such thing as "legitimate" and "illegitimate" rape.
Republican
Akin didn’t give up! “Two years later, while appearing in another television
interview with MSNBC to promote his new book Firing Back, Akin asserted that
“legitimate rape” was a law enforcement term and that his original remark had
been “intentionally misunderstood.” No, it isn’t a law enforcement term.
No, women
cannot relax and enjoy rape. Rape is brutal. Internal and external organs are ripped and
damaged, their hair is pulled out, they are beaten and bruised, and they are
sometimes raped by pipes, brooms, etc. Imagine a man having a broomstick forced
up his anus or down his throat while being beaten. Can you hear us now?
“Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, relax and enjoy it.” (Clayton Williams, GOP nominee, TX, 1991)
“Rape is kinda like the weather. If it’s inevitable, relax and enjoy it.” (Clayton Williams, GOP nominee, TX, 1991)
No, women don't usually feel this way, Mr. Santorum.
“Santorum responded
by saying that although a pregnancy resulting from a rape might be “horrible,”
it was nonetheless a “gift of human life” and that “we have to make the best
out of a bad situation.”
Does any
woman alive believe that “God intended” for her to get pregnant from rape? No.
“Even when
life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God
intended to happen.”
23 October
2012, Richard Mourdock (R)
No, women
do not “get cleaned out” by rape kits. Even women can be shockingly ignorant or
willing to go to disgusting lengths to promote her view:
“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out.”
“In the emergency room they have what’s called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out.”
23 June
2013, Jodie Laubenberg, Republican of TX
No. No one ever has a right to use his -- or her -- superior strength to harm another human being. This makes me think someone should have done a background check of Rep Lockman.
“If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn’t a man be free to use
his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist’s
pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t (in most cases) result in anyone’s death.”
February
2014, Lawrence
I think women might be forgiven for engaging in "identity politics," or a little misandry.
Not feeling the love today,
VLL
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