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Rush Limbaugh used the words “slut” and “prostitute” to describe a woman, Sandra Fluke, who went before Congress in an attempt to force someone else to pay for her contraception.
The appropriately-named Ms. Fluke, though apparently fully at ease publicly demanding subsidies for her private sex life, came down with a massive case of the vapors upon hearing Mr. Limbaugh’s comments.
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After being revived with smelling salts, she proclaimed, while fanning herself repeatedly, that Mr. Limbaugh’s comments were an effort to “shut her up.”
No, Ms. Fluke, they were not. His comments were an effort to introduce you to a concept that is sadly unfamiliar to many of my generation: shame.
And you ought to be ashamed. Your entire argument is based on the idea that women are such moronic sex-maniacs that, unless someone else freely provides every form of birth control known to man, we’ll all be popping out babies like crack-addled Pez dispensers.
It is you, Ms. Fluke, not Mr. Limbaugh, who has been demonstrating a clear case of misogyny and anti-feminism.
I don’t disagree with Mr. Limbaugh’s apology, especially since he made it clear the he was apologizing not for the message, but the packaging.
But I’m not about to string the man up by his thumbnails for calling Ms. Fluke sexually-charged names when she’s the one who brought up her sex life in the first place — again, in the context of trying to force other people to pay for it.
And I’m especially inclined to cut the man some slack, considering all this came around the same time as the death of one of his most accomplished colleagues and a bomb scare at his own home.
It takes a deeply good person to apologize when
A.) He should be the last one apologizing, and
B.) The person to whom he is apologizing is the sort of shameless hack who will almost certainly use it as a weapon against him.
Mr. Limbaugh, you have more than earned my respect.
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These are great illustrations for Angelaism’s righteous rant! Take a bow, ladies.
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I know I’ve said this until I’m blue in the face, but I’m going to say it again: While Rush’s comment may have been impolite, and might have hurt Miss Fluke’s feelings, it was not inaccurate. An unmarried woman who is having so much sex with so many partners that she has to spend a thousand dollars annually on contraceptives, and who is not in the least ashamed to testify in front of the United States Congress and the television cameras about how much sex she is having and how it’s breaking her budget and why the taxpayers should pick up the tab for her recreational activities — if that doesn’t qualify as a slut, I don’t know what a girl has to do to get that designation.
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What’s a girl got to do? ROFLLLLLLLLL
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You do realize that birth control for women costs the same whether you’re actually having sex or not, right? Its not like a condom that only gets used if you have sex. Beyond that, the pill can be prescribed for a number of female reproductive issues completely unrelated to sex.
Simply assuming she is having sex 10 times a day with multiple partners for spending money to correctly use a contraceptive regimen is just slanderous hyperbole.
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Planned Parenthood says the cost of the pill is “about $15–$50 each month.”
At the top end, that’s only $600, plus an annual GYN checkup which she would need at her age regardless of her sexual activity.
To get to the grand she claims, you’d need 200-300 condoms that she buys herself, which is a little hard to imagine if she’s actually in law school. My friends said graduate school was the best birth control around; they were all too tired!
Then there’s the fact that if she’s really a starving student who is smart enough to get into law school, she would be smart enough to go to a clinic where the exams are on a sliding scale and the condoms are free.
Or maybe only bang guys who bring their own rubbers?
If I had to guess, I’d say she is most likely lying about the cost to make political hay.
Either that or she’s averaging an abortion every year or so. Those do get expensive.
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Birth control pills are very cheap, Jeff. (Free if you get them from Planned Parenthood or the public health nurses.) Since Miss Fluke said contraceptives cost her a thousand bucks a year, I had to assume she wasn’t on the pill, and must be using barrier methods instead. A thousand dollars would buy so many condoms that a woman would have to be having intercourse several times a day to use them all up. Since most men are unable to perform multiple times a day, I could only assume that she must have multiple partners. In other words, I didn’t assume she was a slut just because she was an unmarried woman who’s having sex. I came to the conclusion that she was a slut because of the outrageous dollar figure she was using to explain why her sex life was bankrupting her.
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