Because slut-shaming needs to go, now...
So, apparently Rush Limbaugh has struck again in the douchebag department. Wouldn't be a surprise (after all, "douchebag" is pretty much his middle name), but let's say he went above and beyond in the douche department this time around.
From one article in the Huffington Post that was just posted today:
Last week, the House of Representatives held a hearing on access to contraception that included no women. Chairman Daryl Issa denied a Georgetown law student, Sandra Fluke, permission to speak on the absurd grounds that the hearing was about religious freedom, not birth control. After Democrats held their own hearing in which Fluke gave passionate, thoughtful testimony about a friend who lost an ovary because she couldn't afford the birth control pills that would have reduced her ovarian cysts, Rush Limbaugh apparently felt the need to weigh in and decided to do so in the shameful, loathsome way that only Rush could. As I could never improve upon the words themselves for a distillation of the soul of Rush Limbaugh, here they are:
"What does that make her (Fluke)? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute," he said. "She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception." As if that wasn't enough, he had to insult the most powerful woman in the legislative branch and Sandra's parents:
"Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be?" he said. "Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the Pope."
Not satisfied with simple slander and name-calling, Limbaugh then doubled down on his attacks on Fluke and actually demanded that she post sex tapes online: "So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch."
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krystal-ball/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke_b_1315805.html)
*Sighs*
Fortunately, the Internet found a way, as it so often does: apparently there is now a petition to boycott Rush Limbaugh, and telling companies such as Dominoes, etc. to stop sponsoring him. The response is overwhelming, but personally? I want you guys to do whatever you can as well.
Go here and sign if you can. If only for human decency's sake.
From one article in the Huffington Post that was just posted today:
Last week, the House of Representatives held a hearing on access to contraception that included no women. Chairman Daryl Issa denied a Georgetown law student, Sandra Fluke, permission to speak on the absurd grounds that the hearing was about religious freedom, not birth control. After Democrats held their own hearing in which Fluke gave passionate, thoughtful testimony about a friend who lost an ovary because she couldn't afford the birth control pills that would have reduced her ovarian cysts, Rush Limbaugh apparently felt the need to weigh in and decided to do so in the shameful, loathsome way that only Rush could. As I could never improve upon the words themselves for a distillation of the soul of Rush Limbaugh, here they are:
"What does that make her (Fluke)? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute," he said. "She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception." As if that wasn't enough, he had to insult the most powerful woman in the legislative branch and Sandra's parents:
"Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be?" he said. "Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the Pope."
Not satisfied with simple slander and name-calling, Limbaugh then doubled down on his attacks on Fluke and actually demanded that she post sex tapes online: "So Miss Fluke, and the rest of you Feminazis, here's the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex. We want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch."
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krystal-ball/rush-limbaugh-sandra-fluke_b_1315805.html)
*Sighs*
Fortunately, the Internet found a way, as it so often does: apparently there is now a petition to boycott Rush Limbaugh, and telling companies such as Dominoes, etc. to stop sponsoring him. The response is overwhelming, but personally? I want you guys to do whatever you can as well.
Go here and sign if you can. If only for human decency's sake.