The War On Women
By DougJ, Head of Infidelity March 1st, 2012
The phrase War On Women is starting to crop up on some of the internets. I recommend using the phrase as much as possible. I’ve made it a tag.
We’ll know we’re winning when Politifact rates it as “false”.
Posted in The War On Women
The sad thing is that it is an accurate phrase. Why a political party would go out of its way to
antagonizeoutright marginalize a majority of the national population is beyond me.March 1st, 2012 at 6:49 pm
You need to add Republican. This is the Republican War on Women. That needs to be stated over and over again.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:51 pm
By the way, a bit of sad history on a past war on women.
Conservatives want women to be forced to give birth, but sometimes they want to be able to sit in judgment about whether they are suitable mothers.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:53 pm
I hope the outrage doesn’t peak too early. We’re still eight months away from the election.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:53 pm
until they physically drop a literal bomb on more than one woman…
March 1st, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Hey DougJ, as much as you FPer’s like Charles Pierce, I’m shocked no one’s posted this lovely bit by Mr Pierce:
Obama Is the President of the United States Again
March 1st, 2012 at 6:56 pm
@PeakVT: I don’t think the Republicans are smart enough to let it lie. They genuinely believe this is going to help them in November.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Hell, Doug, I’ve using that phrasing for decades. However, perhaps we’ve finally reached the point where I not the only shrill one on this subject.
The War Against Women is, literally, the oldest and longest running war on this planet. I am not at all afraid to keep fighting the good fight. This is why we couldn’t get the ERA passed.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:57 pm
Zombie Reagan: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Wingnuts: The free market, Jesus riding a dinosaur, specific parts of the Constitution, and white evangelical Christians.
Zombie Reagan: Wrong! el Rushbo! What is best in life?
Rush: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women and young dominican boys.
Zombie Reagan: That is good! That is good.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:57 pm
PolitiWho?
March 1st, 2012 at 6:57 pm
One of the most unexpected human rights advances of the past few decades is to eradicate the ridiculous distinction of illegitimacy. So many have suffered for this.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Kind of funny watching the media portray this as one of those “50/50” issues. Some say it’s about religious liberty… I think the Tweeties and the Cokies are gonna be confused how this plays out. Even the estimable Pierce got a little concern trolly on this
He then of course goes on to say that if it isn’t a winning issue, it’s Obama’s fault
I don’t imagine that Manchin or Casey is in trouble, but Susan Collins (or her staff) is in for a rough couple of weeks I’m guessing, and if her class was up, she would have voted with Snowe. I don’t think this issue is going away, and for every goober who thinks Obama is trying to ram Shari’a birth control down his (used advisedly) throat, a lo-info woman with a tote bag who thinks Romney ins’t one of those Repbulicans is going to think twice about her vote.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:58 pm
It’s a fight women routinely used to lose, you know, back when they didn’t have the right to vote.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:01 pm
I thought Bobby Riggs lost the War on Women in the ‘70s.
Man, I need to catch up.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:02 pm
@PeakVT: Tweety played an ad that’s being run against Claire McCaskill “FIrst they took over the banks, then they took over health care, now Claire McCaskill and Barack Obama want to tell churches they can’t follow their own beliefs”—- or pretty close to that, and definitely Obama “took over” the banks. No mention of taking over the auto industry. This whole folderol is orchestrated to run that ad against McCaskill, Kaine, Sherrod Brown and a few others.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Also, too, from a sign in my office:
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Partly True – Politihack.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:03 pm
@Dave:
Well, I give them a bit more credit than that. Remember that scene in Hunt for Red October when the captain orders the sub to be turned into the approaching torpedo in order to strike it before it activates? That’s what the GOP is trying to do here – how to run up the vote count by energizing the base faster than they lose moderates. They’re counting on most people not voting. They’re counting on women not turning out. They’re counting on minorities not turning out. And poor people. They rely on that and they know that they can piss off a TON of people and lose no ground on election day.
The sad fact is that this WILL help them on election day, but it will also hurt them. But will they get the balance right? The only cure to it is to get everyone to vote. Everyone.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:04 pm
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wait, they took over the banks? Funny, thought they saved those motherfuckers and let them keep their jobs and their freedoms.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:05 pm
I don’t know what it is about a certain segment of the right that likes to pick targets they think are weak and then beat up on them. Racism etc. often has a large component of bullyism.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:09 pm
@geg6: In case you didn’t see this thing of beauty from Comrade Mary on an earlier thread, I will repeat it for you here:
When I read that, for some reason I thought you might really enjoy seeing that.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:09 pm
@WaterGirl:
LOL.
Too bad for them, Obama has an 11-dimensional chess board.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:11 pm
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yeah, but it’s Pierce, so this is a surprise.?
March 1st, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Congress has not declared that a state of war exists between the United States of America and the female sex. Nor have any American troops been deployed against women. An argument can be made that some members of both parties have cast votes that in a metaphorical sense could be likened to a “war”, but when evaluated on a factual basis we have to rate the unqualified phrase “war on women” as Mostly False.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:14 pm
@Billy Beane: they were gonna change their names from “PolitiFact” to “Some Disingenuous Fuckers” but I guess the latter was too close to violating their “Truth in Advertising” standards….
March 1st, 2012 at 7:15 pm
@Catsy: Furthermore, it should be remembered that no true woman would think or behave in such a way as to draw our fire. Only sluts were harmed in the making of this religious freedom.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:17 pm
any resident law buffs know if the Georgetown student has any course of action that involves ramming Rushbo’s word down his throat and maybe hurting his pocket a hell of a lot?
BTW, Miss Fluke put out a statement on Rushbo
Sandra Fluke Issues Statement On Limbaugh’s Comments And Public Support
March 1st, 2012 at 7:17 pm
I urge twitterers to send politifact spoofs to #politifact.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:20 pm
@Dave:
Which implies that they’ve seen poll data that tells them that it will. “The” math, so to speak. Who is selling them those polls, I wonder?
BTW, alleged bomb threat at Casa de Rushbo this evening.
How conveniently timed for them.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Tonight’s network evening news (not sure which one) had a segment on the War on Women, featuring that pile of pig shit Rush Limbaugh.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:23 pm
@lamh35: C’mon Mr. Grim. Take a friend for Breitbart so he isn’t lonely.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:25 pm
@Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor: Yep. Republicans have pollsters, too. I would not doubt that they have been read.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:26 pm
@Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor: they get their polls from Rassmussen, who doesn’t include cell phones, and doesn’t do call backs, and has a whole host of other problems that tends to skew their polling toward people who are old, white, and with too much free time on their hands… you know, the GOP base… and, shockingly, you get these results.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:31 pm
I’m also organizing this virtual event: Hoyas & Harlots March On Stupid. The acronym is almost a winner too.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:32 pm
I’d be careful to make that REPUBLICAN War on Women, lest our unbiased corporate media apply their standard equivalence deception.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:33 pm
@lamh35:
She’s a class act.
@Cassidy:
Rule of threes. Davy Jones, Andrew Breitbart and…?
March 1st, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Of course. Instead of focusing on the merits of the actual arguments being made – you simply lie that it’s a “war on women”. It’s dishonest, but it is sort of your thing.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:33 pm
@Darryl: Second this.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:35 pm
@makewi: Go ahead and lay out those arguments. And please be specific.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:36 pm
@geg6: I like to point out that homophobia is ultimately rooted in misogyny. They are outraged about gay men and use images of gay men to scare people. They are not so upset about lesbians. The reason being, it is an unimaginable humiliation for a man to be like a woman in any way.
ETA: While war on gays might appear to be turning, the fact is almost all the major victories are theirs so far. They felt comfortable enough to
move on toreemphasize the war on women.March 1st, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Lemme predict how this war pans out. One of the least known reasons of the fall of the Soviet Union, was not Reagan, or even internal collapse of the massive bureaucracy the communist system . It was mothers pissed off at all their sons coming home in body bags from Afghanistan, and the government lying to them that most died in agricultural accidents, and other military mistreatment of their sons.
When these woman organized and took to the streets for some of the first public protests in that police state, the powers that be threw in the towel. It wasn’t the biggest reason that brought down that system, but it was one of the last straws with moms putting their feet down on the permanent culture of war.
We have our own example of how these things turn out when male idiots go to far with the sense of ownership of the female population. But I always thought what happened in the late 80’s within a brutal police state, was particularly brave.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:36 pm
@makewi:
I’ve been around so long I remember back when you used to pretend to be a woman (because you thought it would give you a free pass to post bullshit).
Pretty hilarious now that you’ve joined Rush on his “STRIP FOR US YOU SLUT BITCHES” crusade.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Oh good lord. Nebraska might be trying to try again on “Justifiable homicide” against abortion docs.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:38 pm
OT Reading the Leveson inquiry notes today and golly the Met isn’t covering itself with glory today. Been quite a week so far there too. Is it something to do with speaking English? If only. Apoptosis also seemed a solid plan C or D. (ETA: Right now Yates is my prime Doofus but I’m not done yet.)
Oh, and makewi? Love how you worship that pair of crossed beams jammed in your eye. Suits you.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:43 pm
@makewi:
Well, it’s not exactly a “war of christmas” or a “war on religion”, and all the other Frank luntz borne Orwellian bullshit you wingnuts have put up over the years. Turnabout and fair play. American as apple pie, hey, Scarlett?
March 1st, 2012 at 7:44 pm
House Republicans are asserting the right of religious groups to decide whether individuals have access to birth control. Their policy goal is which of the following:
1) People only ever have sex when they want a baby.
2) People have a baby every time they have sex.
3) Homosexuality for men alongside abstinence for women.
4) Rape and adoption.
5) All of the above.
ETA: Dammit. Forgot the altar boy option.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Or: “listen you guys. If you want to have sex without having a baby you can just ass rape a child like we like to do.”
I like to speak pretty bluntly about how I think about our moral superiors and the standards they put forth.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:47 pm
The new slogan of the GOP: “There’s nothing we don’t do to punish women for having sex.”
March 1st, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Has no Democratic lawmaker or pundit put forth the observation that their religious beliefs forbid them supporting medical care for men? I’m sure some religion out there has that kind of thing as a core tenet. The Blunt amendment would allow business owners who follow that religion to be true to their religious beliefs when providing health insurance for their employees.
March 1st, 2012 at 7:52 pm
FYI, there’s a book called The Republican War against Women, which came out in 1996.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:03 pm
Found my religions first commandment on a scrap of paper lying about. Am willing to share, because, well, the burning text reads “You can’t have any unless you share.”
OT continued. John Yates is not only weapons grade doofus, he’s practically troll-grade. But Andy Hayman is making it a race.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:08 pm
OK, I’ll try:
The Republicans escalated the Republican War on Women again yesterday, when Republican War on Women General “Chickenhawk” Limbaugh said that women who want their health plans to cover contraceptives are “prostitute[s]”. The Republicans have been waging the Republican War on Women ever since Reagan teamed up with Jerry “Jesus Hates You But Loves Me” Falwell during the 1980 campaign. Further escalation of the Republican War on Women is expected as the wingnuts running under the Republican banner battle each other to attempt to appeal to an ever-crazier Republican base.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:08 pm
@makewi:
Perhaps you should try to develop some arguments that have actual merit since you still haven’t managed to convince anyone that a hospital and a church are so indistinguishable that you had your appendix taken out on the altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Why do Republicans hate women? Were they the dorky guys in school?
March 1st, 2012 at 8:36 pm
@WaterGirl:
That is a ton of awesomeness. Heh. Can only move diagonally. Heh heh.
March 1st, 2012 at 8:58 pm
@makewi:
well first, there are some basic facts that need to be laid out. 1). there are sluts 2). those sluts need shamin’ 3). somebody needs to shame those sluts.
March 1st, 2012 at 9:25 pm
WAR ON WOMEN
very very accurate
March 1st, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I heard Fluke on the radio. I was proud of her, to the point where I teared up listening to her.
If she gives more interviews, El
Rushbo’s got big problems.
Does John Boehner have grown daughters? One wonders how conservatives live with worshipping this scumbag, and kissing his ass.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:05 pm
We need some clips of all the conservative leading lights appearing on Limbaugh’s show, and kissing his ass, with Rush’s voice played in between, calling this woman a slut and a prostitute.
The part where he fantasizes about watching video of her would qualify her for a protection order from him in this rural, conservative county.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:18 pm
@WaterGirl: Wait, bishops can’t count—how’zat?
Oh, you must mean as in the electorate is 52% women, 48% men.
March 1st, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Oh, BG, no! That sign dates from BEFORE Bobby Riggs.
March 1st, 2012 at 11:07 pm
@Mnemosyne:
I’m going to have to remember that one.
March 1st, 2012 at 11:28 pm
I think this is good advice. Given the current media crush on twitter, seems like it’d make a good hashtag, too.
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:05 am
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/po.....for-women/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....#pagebreak
welp
March 2nd, 2012 at 4:32 pm