Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Danger of Laughing at Todd Akin

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169451/danger-laughing-todd-akin

THE FACE OF RIGHT WING CHAUVINISTIC BIGOTRY

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
to attach anything humorous to this just further piles on the angst of women having to endure this obvious arcane view of the right wing. and the possibility of them becoming law, the right wing women are complicit in the subjugation of their own gender, what could make a women embrace idiosyncratic statements belittling their existence, put a aspirin between your legs in place of BC? if i were a women that would have been the end of that party
also humor, gives a certain qualification to rhetoric like this as sick and ignorant as it is, this can not be relegated to a joke.