At last, a right wing zealot has used his vitriolic insults to empower women in the US! Yes, we owe you one, Rush Limbaugh, for waking up millions of people - women and men alike, all across this country. You opened your very large mouth at just the right moment to underline the assault on women that has been waged, increasingly brazenly, by state legislatures and candidates for public office for more than a decade, with complete impunity. Until now.
If any of us here are outraged by this assault by the GOP and its de facto leader, and it seems we are,- we have a really great opportunity to speak with one voice...and insist that an attack on one woman is attack on us all. Indeed, we should stand together and announce that we are, indeed, all, sluts and prostitutes.
This idea appears at TvNewsLIES.org in an editorial titled Let's Hear It for the Sluts and Prostitutes. Here's how it begins:
You know who they are…all those wanton women, those shameful creatures, the ones who actually have a sexual identity and dare to live the same kind of normal lives as men. Yes, you know who they are, the women who hear themselves called "sluts" and "whores" and "prostitutes" if they dare to differ, to speak out, to argue, to protest, or to even dare to think for themselves. Let’s hear it for them.
Let’s hear it for all the women who are vilified because they dare to want to control their own reproductive systems, - and who consider pregnancy prevention a vital part of their basic health. Who would guess that this is the 21st century, and that this is the United States of America? Who would guess that a powerful group of politically extreme, narrow minded, mean-spirited, insecure and backward-looking little men would use the ‘s’ word to describe any woman, anywhere in this day and age? Who would guess? So let’s really hear it for them.
And while we’re at it, let’s hear it for the Limbaugh feminazis among us as well. You know, those ugly, unappealing, man-hating women defiled by mindless ditto-heads for years. Yes, you got it, those miserable females who want equal pay for equal work, or equal rights under the law, or – OMG - access to safe and affordable abortions. Let’s hear it for these women who have heard the whole gamut of ugly names hurled at them, and who have managed to shrug them off with grace and dignity. Please, let’s hear it.
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