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| My Dad one of the sweetest human beings |
History has proven [Nazis, Bosnians against the Muslims, Hutus and the Tutsies, etc.] if you belittle, berate, disrespect people it becomes easier to be uncaring, or worse, violent toward them. Racism and sexism can lead to violence. Here's a proven equation: if you disrespect and objectify a person it can lead to lack of empathy for them. So why on earth would someone who is intelligent listen to this nonsense [I'm showing some of the quotes below] and not boycott the individuals or the groups? Here are some doozies:
"What does it say about the college coed Sandra Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex."
Rush Limbaugh, drug addict, misogynist and convicted felon
"Women's voices are not appropriate or qualified to participate in the debate over birth control."
Rep. Darrell Issa, unbelievably still in office this year
"Back in my days they used Bayer aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly."
Foster Friess spokesman for the radical religious right
"Before...my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject — because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low" — current Republican Rep. Trent Franks
"I struggled with it myself for a long time, and I realized that life is a gift
from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape,
that it is something God intended to happen."
—Indiana Senate candidate
Richard Mourdock, who lost his 2012 Senate bid--thank god.
"These Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of
these women have been neutering American men and bringing us to the point of
this incredible weakness...We are not going to have our men become subservient."
— Rep. Allen West (R-Fl.), who lost his 2012 bid for re-election
"[Singer] Ethel Waters, for example, was the result of forcible rape."
—Former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, on the upside of
pregnancy after rape. [I'm sure he'd feel the same if it was his daughter who was raped.]
"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that
whole thing down."
—Rep. Todd Akin (R-Missouri). His lost his Senate bid
in 2012.
"The facts show that people who are raped —who are truly raped—the juices don't flow, the body functions don't work and they don't get pregnant. Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever."
—former Rep. Henry Aldridge (R-N.C.)
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I am pleased that slowly people, the people that care about respect for women, are standing up to some of the ridiculous remarks above and happily many of these men have been voted out of office. I did run across two women who said idiotic things but they paled in comparison to the above quotes. Rest assured there are women out there who are disrespectful towards their sisters. Shame on them.
Often, as an excuse for their ghastly behavior men who abuse, who are violent and who rape say, "I had a really difficult childhood" or "hey, I got drunk and she got in my face," and the like. Well, that doesn't hold water. My dear Dad who had an absolutely abysmal childhood and who drank to the point of [as he put it]being 'overserved again', never so much as raised his voice against any of the women in his life and there were many: five daughters, two sisters, a wife, a mother and mother in law, the waitresses at his restaurant...I could go on and on. The point is, there is no excuse for violence against women.
Let's stand together, hold each other dear and have each other's backs.
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