The Imaginary War on Women

[Mr. Shaman]

June 5, 2012

Missouri Republicans vs. Equal Pay Legislation​

"As the Senate prepares to consider the Paycheck Fairness Act, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has strongly backed the important measure, which would expand protections for women who face gender discrimination in the workplace.

But the three top Republicans seeking to challenge her this November unanimously expressed opposition to the bill, the Kansas City Star reports, suggesting that efforts like this to reduce the significant wage gap between pay for men and women are not necessary."

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[Mr. Shaman]

I'm guessing your's is based on being a liberal as they are the ones claiming there is a war on women and every other group you can think of.

Mine's based on being a woman, and keeping an eye on what the Republicans have been pulling for the past 18 months.

The feminine mystique is as beautiful as it is bewildering. Fortunately, a woman does not necessarily have to be understood to be appreciated. I am a happily married male who finds that all women are beautiful, and that beauty includes much more than surface features. Men – Republican or Democrat – who fail to acknowledge the value of womanhood will “pull” (double entendre intended ) much more often than those of us who thank God for your very presence on this otherwise plain and boring planet.

Whew!!!!!

"....plain & boring...", huh??

You've gotta get outta UTAH!!!!!

(....Or, Colorado Springs....whichever the case might be.)​

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

There is no war on women.
Or rather, the war is over. We won.

Women are outpacing men professionally, socially, and educationally:

In a first, women surpass men in college degrees - CBS News

Young, single, childless women out-earn male counterparts - USATODAY.com

Women have more options and choices about their lives than men do (no shame acrues to the woman who wishes to stay home and parent her children full-time, in fact this week makes it clear just how broad the support for that choice is, but the same does not hold true for a man who wishes to be a SAHD).

We have legal remedies to address any sort of wage disparity (and companies who've been confronted with a class action lawsuit, i.e., Walmart, have paid the price and quickly changed their corporate culture).

A woman who relies upon her spouse as her source of financial support isn't villified, but a man who relies upon his wife to support him is known far and wide as a sponge and a leech.

Continuing to beat the drum of "the war on women" just makes women look like perpetual victims, and we aren't. Women have every opportunity to achieve success which equals or surpasses that of men, and many of them are taking full advantage of these opportunities.

Frankly, if there is any combat still occurring, it is on the battlefield of the war on boys. (and I'm saying this as the mother of a teenage son).

Perhaps they're the ones we should worry about next....

College completion rate among men stalls

Sorry but anyone who believes women shouldn't have sovereignty over their own innards should expect to be accused of waging a war on women. We know you think its somehow OK for government to regulate the insides of someone's womb, but it isn't.

What's next? Should government outlaw male masturbation? Is there any doubt that sperm is alive? Is there any doubt its human? Its human life then, isn't it? Isn't it government's job to protect human life?

 

[High_Gravity]

I'm going to war at the strip club tonight and I need back up.

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

I'm going to war at the strip club tonight and I need back up.

Bring lots of $2 bills. You want to stand out.

 

[High_Gravity]

I'm going to war at the strip club tonight and I need back up.

Bring lots of $2 bills. You want to stand out.

I'm bringing change, I am going to make it sprinkle at the club.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I'm guessing your's is based on being a liberal as they are the ones claiming there is a war on women and every other group you can think of.

Mine's based on being a woman, and keeping an eye on what the Republicans have been pulling for the past 18 months.

Really so why is it we hear nothing from conservative women about a war on women?

You mean the.....

....."traditional"/stay-at-home types???

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[Mr. Shaman]

The Imaginary War on Women

There is no war on women.
Or rather, the war is over. We won.

June 13, 2012

GOP Blocking Abortion Access
For RAPED SOLDIERS​

"Republican Senators John McCain, Scott Brown, and Susan Collins all support an effort by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, to expand abortion access for military women who are raped. But despite bipartisan support in the Senate, Shaheen's proposal may not make it into the final version of the 2013 defense authorization bill—because House Republicans oppose it."

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[Mr. Shaman]

June 14, 2012

Raped By
The House​

"According to the Pentagon’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, in 2011, 3,192 sexual assaults were reported, a comparable number to the year before. Of those, 490 were court martialed, and just slightly over 100 were discharged or jailed. That’s three percent (although you’ll have to work your way through some obfuscatory math to get to that number.)

Feeling sick yet?

Well stay near the bucket, because House Republicans are poised to again deny abortion services to service members who were raped and then became rape-pregnant. Even if they are raped by an enemy combatant they can’t get emergency abortion services."

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[Mr. Shaman]

May 24, 2012​

"Under current law, the Defense Department provides abortion care to military women only when their lives are in danger. There are no exemptions for cases of rape or incest."

AirForceTimes​

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[Mr. Shaman]

August 2, 2012

Sorry, Teabaggers.....

Why "Free Birth Control" is Not Free​

"Yesterday, August 1, 2012, was a momentous day for women, marking the official beginning of a process of ensuring that millions of women across the United States will--finally--have access to a full range of preventive health care services without a co-pay.

These include a wide range of services and interventions identified by the Institutes of Medicine as essential to women's health and well-being, including breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling; screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence; screening for gestational diabetes; DNA testing for high-risk strains of HPV; counseling regarding sexually transmitted infections, including HIV; screening for HIV; contraceptive methods and counseling; and well-woman visits. Likewise, the ACA also ensures that plans must cover an array of services, vaccinations, and interventions, including those specifically needed by women, infants, children, and adolescents at different points in their lifecycle.

Unquestionably, due to the efforts of religious and political fundamentalists at the state and federal level to deny women access to reproductive health care of virtually every kind, the benefit that has gotten the most media attention is the one involving contraception without a co-pay."

Stupid Fuckin' Teabaggers​

 

[Dot Com]

Awkward thread after I listened to Jennifer Norris testify the other day.

 

[Darkwind]

But... but... How will Obama ever beat Romney if he cant make crap like a war on women up? You think he is going to run on his record?

If he was allowed to actualy run on his record and Romeny on his, in an honest race, Obama would win hands down.

Right or wrong, Obama has accomplished much.

And all those accomplishments have been listed in thread after thread of people saying Obama cant run on his record, so go look, Im not going to repeat it for you like a broken record.

Sorry, but this is a complete failure of a post.

Obama has not accomplished anything of value to America.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Imaginary War on Women

There is no war on women.

August 15, 2012​

"Is the Republican Party already done trying to court the women's vote? So it would seem, with the announcement of the final two speakers for the Republican National Convention.

Considering the campaign's highly publicized issues with women voters--one that is believed to be made worse with the addition of the strongly anti-women, anti-healthcare, anti-social safety net vice presidential candidacy of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan--the GOP couldn't be sending a louder message that they believe women voters and their desires aren't key to their agenda. After all, Christie made a priority of vetoing family planning and women's health care funding, even after it was shown that 40,000 women would be without care. As a result, six family planning clinics in the state closed. When the legislature restored the $7.5 million by taking it from an over $500 million in the state's budget surplus, he vetoed it again.

It would appear that the GOP still considers women a "special interest group," and they aren't especially interested in winning them over."

GOP;
Uninterested In Women Voters​

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[Mr. Shaman]

There is no war on women.

Or rather, the war is over. We won.

Women are outpacing men professionally, socially, and educationally.

Not all of you......​

January 11, 2013

Celebrating Domestic Abuse

"Christina Hoff Summers specifically singled out “taming” as exactly what uppity bitches need in her endorsement of this abuse-is-great-for-women memoir."​

 

[catzmeow]

There is no war on women.

Or rather, the war is over. We won.

Women are outpacing men professionally, socially, and educationally.

Not all of you......​

January 11, 2013

Celebrating Domestic Abuse

"Christina Hoff Summers specifically singled out “taming” as exactly what uppity bitches need in her endorsement of this abuse-is-great-for-women memoir."​

Looks like personal choice to me.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

There is no war on women.
Or rather, the war is over. We won.

Guess, again......​

February 15, 2013

Wisconsin Republicans:
Transvaginal Ultrasounds Is Our ‘Priority’​

"At the Wisconsin Right to Life Legislative Conference this week, the state’s top Republican lawmakers assured attendees that they will do everything in their power to enact a forced ultrasound bill, which would mandate an invasive transvaginal probe for some women seeking first-trimester abortions. “This bill is a priority,” Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) said. “It is long overdue.”

 

[Mr. Shaman]

But... but... How will Obama ever beat Romney if he cant make crap like a war on women up? You think he is going to run on his record?

Yeah......pretty-much.......

EXPANDED VAWA
PASSED!!!

 

[Mr. Shaman]

3/7/13

Women vs. weenies​

"Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokeswoman Emily Bittner called it "shameful" that Republicans would try to take credit for something that passed without their support.

"The fact is, Tea Party Republicans want to take credit for something they fought tooth and nail for more than 500 days: a law to help protect all women and their children from domestic violence ... Tea Party House Republicans must stop saying one thing at home and doing the opposite in Washington," Bittner said in a statement."

Stupid fuckin' Teabaggers​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

March 11, 2013

Anti-Rape Law

"Shortly after President Obama signed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization into law, Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) released a glowing press release claiming that a “Cornyn bill” to “eliminate nationwide rape kit backlog” was signed into law. The so-called “Cornyn bill” is the SAFER Act, which was incorporated into the VAWA renewal, and which “provide funding for state and local governments to conduct audits of untested DNA evidence and create a national reporting system to help track and prioritize untested rape kits,” according to Cornyn. By all appearances, it seems like a wonderful law. There’s only one problem.

Cornyn voted against it."