Yeah, Rush, we are sluts. Now give us our birth control.
Posted: 03.03.12 Filed under: Politics | Tags: Birth control, feminism, politics, Rush Limbaugh, slut, Stephen Colbert, Viagra, women 14 Comments »The Rush Limbaugh slut-shaming incident reminded me of the Stephen Colbert “It Gets Better” video:
Cretins like Rush Limbaugh throw out those words because they’re the worst things that they can think of to call someone. Rush clearly, if you read the transcript, has no fucking clue how birth control even works:
She gives the numbers: $3,000 worth of birth control pills worth of sex. … So the woman comes forth with this, frankly hilarious claim that she’s having so much sex (and her buddies with her) that she can’t afford it. And not one person says, “Well, did you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have?
If you’re a friend of Rush Limbaugh, please call him and explain that women don’t pop a birth control pill when they want to have sex. It’s not like the Viagra that we know he takes (and that is, oddly enough, covered under a fair amount of insurance plans); it’s the same 28 pills every month, regardless of how much sex you’re having.
To get back to my point, though–Rush really doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about. He’s flinging shit and seeing what sticks. Anybody who takes him seriously doesn’t deserve the breath it would require to argue. We should do what Stephen’s friend did–turn around and tell Rush, “Yes, Rush, we’re sluts who love to have sex. And if you want to continue having sex with us, give us our damn birth control.” He’ll eventually have to slink away. Bullies always do.
Love this ! Really, people just have to own the hurting words. Once we’ve embraced them, the sting disappeats.
I certainly embrace the derogatory terms such as, ‘slut’ and ‘whore.’ The creation of those terms was intended to demean women who do not live up to an unrealistic, unnecessary, and unnatural expectation of sexual propriety. If that’s the definition of a slut, then I am a slut and proud to be one!
Thank you for this.
Love this! Awesome, awesome, awesome. Someone needs to tell people it isn’t used only for pregnancy control either – it also has other functions.
only lesbian sluts can have sex without men, and they don’t need contraception.
rather begs the question…
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THAT THIS IS EVEN ON THE TABLE????
I think the GOP on the whole is just panicking and doing dumb stuff because they are panicking.
crazy stuff is going on here, too.
this govt is completely insane. your lot seem to be busy tripping out as well.
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Love this. LOVE.
It’s so much easier to keep changing the conversation to inflammatory bullshit like women’s sexuality than..you know…focusing on the shitty economy.
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