Do I even need to go into how much the recent attacks on women have triggered me and mine? Do I even need to explain how much fury I try to keep at bay so I can go to work, make dinner and …. fall asleep.
This is not really a diary but a post to author Meteor Blades in one of his diaries about the insane, terrorist attacks and asinine stupid shit coming out of the GOP’s mouths.
Let me be crystal fucking clear on one thing: Todd Akins did not cross any line, he’s toeing the damn party line.
We are at war. Fighting for our very right not to be raped. Not to be dragged back to the dark ages. Forced to undergo unmentionable torture and pain because angry white men feel they have the final say over your own life, decisions and your body.
These are not your Daddy’s Republicans from the good ole boy days.
These are Rapepublicans. Here’s how they work.
Say something stupid. When your stupidity is pointed out, cry that you are being attacked.
Denounce science and the environment. Shriek about your magical connection to the Masters of the Universe and the ability to harness hurricanes, quakes and floods as a political compass.
Accuse innocent people of terrible things that you yourself are actually doing.
Treat women, minorities and others as lesser than while whining that white, angry men are victims.
Claim you are pro-life all the while you whip up the morans to go kill doctors.
Fight for the rights of the unborn while you tell pre-schoolers to fuck off.
Wear yellow ribbons and fly flimsy EWW ESS AYYY flags made in China and call yourself a “Real American Patriot”.
Insuring your car is being responsible but seeing to it that all people have health insurance is a sure fucking sign of the apocalypse.
Bringing guns and rifles to anti-health care rallies, some of which were on school properties and other public places is just fine and dandy, while people protesting war, drones, torture and Wall Street should be beaten, tased, and have cannisters shot directly at their head. And people wearing t-shirts should be rounded up and arrested.
Do as I say and not as I do.
Bawl your eyes out that gay marriage is ruining this country, while you cheat on your 5th wife with some child of the street in a dirty rest stop bathroom.
Announce to the world that there’s different types of rape and that women have super ninjas in their lady parts capable of killing off any nasty man sperm. But that most women really want it and that Rapepublican men should preside over all women’s thoughts, decisions and lives.
Assert that racism is a part of one’s heritage. Like cockfighting, dog fighting, beating your wife and kids.
Act offended because people are offended by your shit.
where only men can speak about women’s rights and medical needs pertaining to birth control, rape and incest.
Then ban actual women from testifying and allow your shock jocks and pundits to denounce any woman attempting to speak for themselves and others as being a slutty slut of a slutting slut.
Act offended when women become alarmed and upset over your illegal ways and means of keeping them from joining in the political discussion and then ban women from entering the “men only” chambers because they had the audacity to say the word…
VAGINA!
You got this right:
Way back in January Santorum revealed the party line:
Note the given to you. Because that rapist and the GOP-forced-birthers demand that women feed/clothe/house/love all those “gifts of human life” they receive without any assistance from government or the sperm donors that take a hike. My understanding that Ricky assigned to cover that part of the message at their circle-jerk today.
Too bad there are also millions of women that enable the rapist enablers.
Truly exemplars of the concept, “useful idiots”.
They’re just following in the tradition of Chinese women that performed foot-binding on their daughters, women that mutilate the genitals of their daughters, etc.
I think it goes beyond that.
I think Rapepublican Women have to believe and must live their lives telling themselves that only bad girls get themselves rape. It’s a form of “security” in the shape of denial that it could ever happen to them.
But we all know how they just love a false sense of security.
Considered writing a diary last week with that title. You’re correct that allows them to live with a false sense of security. However, they didn’t just make that up; it’s what girls and boys were taught and too few ever bothered to challenge it or learn that it wasn’t true. I know where of I speak because I was once one of those little girls. Thankfully, I didn’t have to learn the hard way that it was a lie. My naivete and adolescent sense of invulnerability was busted by a kind, aging beatnik. He merely grabbed my arms and held them behind my back and said, “Try to get away.” Of course I couldn’t and laughingly acknowledged that fact. Then he said, “Don’t ever again say that you or any woman can’t be raped.” That was my second lesson in feminism. The overt hypocrisy of Phyllis Schafley was my first.
My daugter would help her Sensei teach Womens’ defense classes once a month. Our family took Judo together.
My daughter was/is very very petite. Especially at 10. Sensei (judo teacher) would use her to show these grown adults that they could escape, that they could fight and flee almost ANY attack.
These women would come up with every excuse why they couldn’t/wouldn’t/shouldn’t and then they’d see Danni be able to escape, grapple and run – sometimes from two men.
It was very empowering.
I wish all women, young and old could take judo. Martial Arts is wonderful.
But yeah, we always think it can’t happen to one of us. Then it does. My story is here in the archives.
Hello!
As to the enablers, I call them out for what they truly are. Not “pro-life” or even “anti-women”.
They are “Pro-Rape”. Pure and simple.
I think we need to start framing it that way.
It’s not about sanctity of life or about fetuses…
Throw it back in there faces how they now want rapists to have parental rights.
Pro-Rapists. That’s what these filthy thugs are.
Damnit Janet, your voice has been missed around here.
Thank you.
I just wish our voices could be used for progressing this planet’s people instead of trying to keep from caving to the cavemen.
You’d think by the year 2012 we’d be finished with this type of bullshit.
I will never utter the word, “republican” again. They ARE Rapepublicans.
Yeah, me too. I just hope I can keep up with you.