Thank you for your concern, Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, which you displayed by signing House Bill 2 into law. We know you only did it for the women and the children.
The law, commonly called House Bill 2 or HB2, was needed to protect the privacy and safety of women and girls in bathrooms and locker rooms, supporters said. “Such an ordinance creates a loophole sexual predators can exploit,” said the Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, as members of the crowd waved signs saying “Keep kids safe.”
Clearly, your concern was for the heterosexual women who do not work outside of the home, and their children, and that is why the law would ...
... void municipal LGBT nondiscrimination ordinances, prevent municipalities from requiring contractors to pay workers more than the minimum wage and bar workers from filing discrimination lawsuits in state court.
And thank you for your concern, Steven Waits, president of the Oxford, Alabama, city council. The city of Oxford recently criminalized the use of a bathroom that does not match the gender on one’s birth certificate, with a fine of $500 and/or six months in jail. According to the ACLU, “It’s essentially just criminalizing trans existence.”
But we know you are not trying to make it illegal to be transgender—you are just concerned about our welfare.
Waits said the council adopted the law “not out of concerns for the 0.3 percent of the population who identify as transgender,” but “to protect our women and children,” according to the newspaper.
Because next to running out of toilet paper or being shot by the woman in the stall next to us who is carrying a fully loaded gun in the purse that her three-year-old child is holding for her, transgender folk are a major source of—oh hell. They just want to pee.
This concern for the well-being of women is really quite remarkable—even if frequently misplaced, as illustrated by the fact that yet another woman was shot by her toddler son from the back seat of a car last week. This time it was in Wisconsin. Last month it was in Florida. It’s regretful that your concern does not extend to these women, or to their children.
At Brigham Young University, the administration uses its Honor Code to investigate women who are raped. But they are concerned.
“Brigham Young University cares deeply about the safety of our students,” Carri Jenkins, a university spokeswoman, wrote in an email.
They care so much that when a 20-year-old female student admitted that she had taken LSD before she was raped by an acquaintance who, she claimed, had raped her during an earlier incident, she received the following letter from the university:
“You are being suspended from Brigham Young University because of your violation of the Honor Code including continued illegal drug use and consensual sex, effective immediately,” the letter read.
How much more of this concern will young college women be able to handle?
Fortunately, Hillary Clinton is used to the concern. (Via Think Progress):
See all of that concern? They are so worried about Hillary Clinton’s ability to give a speech that her listeners can enjoy. And: Smile, Hillary!
Even the Donald is now concerned about Hillary’s delivery, according to the Washington Post:
“I haven’t quite recovered — it’s early in the morning — from her shouting that message,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And I know a lot of people would say you can’t say that about a woman because, of course, a woman doesn’t shout, but the way she shouted that message was not,” and with that Trump broke off with a dismissive, “eww.”
Apparently the concern with her speaking abilities does not yet extend to all members of the GOP. Totally unconcerned is Bob Sutton, of the Broward County, Florida, GOP Executive Committee. He believes that Hillary would be no match for Donald Trump on the debate stage.
“I think when Donald Trump debates Hillary Clinton she’s going to go down like Monica Lewinsky,” he said.
But he is wrong. Hillary Clinton will likely just pull out her woman card, smile, and look pretty.
Who knows if Allison Wint was carrying her Woman Card when she was dismissed from her teaching assignment at a Battle Creek, Michigan, middle school for using the word “vagina” in her art history class.
Of course, this is Michigan, and many may remember the state representative who also got in trouble for using that word:
In June 2012, State Rep. Lisa Brown, voting against the abortion regulations, told supporters of a bill at the time: "I'm flattered you're all so interested in my vagina. But no means no," referencing the proposal. She was silenced from speaking about any issues for the rest of the final day of that legislative session.
As Republican state after Republican state has made reproductive health care more difficult to access and has demanded control and dictated the terms of that heath care, and as others have made mention of vaginas off limits, it seems the only thing that we can still do with those vaginas is vote.
But thank you gentlemen, for your concern. It has been duly noted. And filed. In this great big binder.