- It's gotten a little too easy to make fun of abstinence only programs. They don't work, and actually increase rates of teen pregnancy and stds. Which isn't funny, it's just sad. Which is why I have to thank Tennessee Republicans for authoring a bill that would outlaw mentioning "gateway sexual activity" like handholding or kissing, because lets face it, handholding leads to dancing and the preacher from Footloose taught us what that leads to.
- I mentioned last week that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker had signed a law repealing the state's equal pay provisions. Don't worry though State Senator Glenn Grothman has explained that pay discrimination is a myth: "You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. To attribute everything to a so-called bias in the workplace is just not true."
- Just in case Governor Walker hasn't done enough damage to women before his recall election, he also signed a trio of bills "barring abortion coverage through health insurance exchanges, requiring doctors to consult privately with women seeking abortions and mandating sex education teachers stress abstinence."
- The Romney campaign is trying to create a false equivalency between a really stupid comment by Hillary Rosen (someone even I had to look up) and the Republican legislative agenda. Obviously it's wrong to say that a stay at home mother has never worked a day in her life. But it's also wrong for Ann Romney to say in response, "My career choice was to be a mother. And I think all of us need to know that we need to respect choices that women make. Other women make other choices, to have a career and raise a family, which I think Hilary Rosen has actually done herself. I respect that. That's wonderful. But you know, there are other people that have a choice. We have to respect women in all those choices that they make," when her husband is now violently opposed to a woman having the right to choose what happens with her own body.
- And just in case we forget the problems Romney has with women:
- "Women for Romney" surrogate Wisconsin State Senator Alberta Darling cosponsored the above mentioned legislation repealing equal pay for women in her state.
- Romney campaign advisor Kerry Healy admits that: "There is always a gender gap between women voters between the Republican and the Democratic Party. There are more women in the Democratic Party to begin with. They are Democrats and they are always going to vote Democratic. We’re hoping to win a few of those over, but there’s always going to be a gender gap between Republicans and Democrats."
- Mitt Romney himself is unfamiliar with the 18 year old Violence Against Women Act, which his party tried to filibuster in the Senate (they were upset about provisions that would protect gay and undocumented victims of abuse).
- And then of course there's the conservative Catholic League which immediately attacked Rosen because she "had to adopt kids."
- Meanwhile, Republican Virginia Speaker of the House William Howell got caught on tape blasting a woman who dared question him, "I guess I’m not speaking in little enough words for you to understand":
- And of course it wouldn't really be an edition of the He-Man Woman Haters Club Report without a little something from drug addict blowhard Rush Limbaugh:
- Apparently Claire McCaskill isn't a Senator, she's a "Senatorette."
- Feminism "changed forever the normal human nature relationships between men and women." Which is apparently a bad thing because it was way better when father's sold their daughter's to their future husbands, or maybe we need to go back to when cavemen simply bashed cavewomen over the head with a rock and dragged them back to their cave?
- And of course, "Women have much more freedom and opportunity" in the workplace than men "and always have." Which explains why we've had so many female Presidents, CEOs, and Generals going back to the founding of this country.
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