SNARF NOTE: This is too good not to re-post
All the Single Ladies
By CHARLES M. BLOWThe noxious “legitimate rape” comment by Todd Akin, Missouri congressman and Senate candidate, has me once again pondering a simple question: Why do any women vote Republican?
The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson — who has made a number of appearances on Fox News, founded a Tea Party group in California and is also the founder of a group called BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny) —recently gave a speech (I hope it wasn’t a sermon), in which he said:
One of the primary reasons that it is over for America is because women are taking over, women are taking over, they’re in high so-called powerful position, they’re now running companies, they’re making decisions.
He then pointed out that he was not referring to all women:
The are some, a few out there that are logical women and can make sound decisions, but most cannot.
He prattled on nonsensically for a while, adding that “women cannot handle power, it’s not in them to handle power in the right way” and “women have been degraded, women are now degraded, they have no shame.”
I’m getting upset just transcribing this, so let me just get to the meat of it. Here’s the part of his speech I wanted you to see:
I think that one of the greatest mistakes that America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote. We should’ve never turned it over to women.
Why? Because “they’re voting in people who are evil.”
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This brings me back to my original question: why do women vote Republican? Even if you are personally pro-life you don’t have to be universally anti-choice. This is the party that attacks reproductive rights and limits women’s health options — which has the effect of limiting women’s economic liberty — and whose proxies on the radio and TV openly show disdain for women, especially those not hitched to a man.
Even if you’re married now, you weren’t always. You too were once a single lady.
As Shaila Dewan pointed out in The New York Times earlier this month:
On the one hand, the Republican establishment wants to battle the perception that the party is waging a war on women — which it is — by claiming that women’s economic interests are separate and distinct from their health interests. But that’s a false argument for many women because the two, particularly when it comes to reproductive control, are inextricably intertwined. Children dramatically affect one’s financial bottom line.
Self-sufficiency is tied up in self-determination. Family planning is essential to career planning. This is particularly true for single women. (http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/blow-all-the-single-ladies/?src=me&ref=general)
……………………………when are you young republicans going to see that this is how the old guard likes their women……….if it ain’t equal outside the bedroom it will never be equal inside!