When Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" (for testifying to the U.S. government on behalf of a friend who needed birth control for medical reasons), bet he never in a million years could have imagined the can of worms that he would have cracked open. A fullblown war against women's reproductive rights has erupted over the past few months, and "sluts" everywhere aren't going to take it anymore!
It's not just a fringe group of few women here or there decrying the sick political games old white men are playing with our rights. I'd actually venture to guess that most women in the U.S. would be labeled a "slut" under the current Limbaugh/GOP definition. And now, there's an activist group just for us called Rock the Slut Vote, founded by Susan McMillan Emry.
Not sure if you're a "slut"? Well, according to RTSV, you are if you've ever done one or more of the following:
- Gone to Planned Parenthood
- Donated to Planned Parenthood
- Taken a pregnancy test
- Teach your daughters about safe sex
- Don't want your employer policing your health care
- Lived with a boyfriend
- Want to marry your girlfriend
- Had an abortion, etc.
The movement urges we who have been deemed "sluts" to stop "trying to seduce innocent men" for just a moment and make a trip to the voting booth, because we've gotta "fight the GOP effort to bully, subjugate, and silence women. We will wrest the power from the word slut and help women get informed, get involved, get registered. and vote." Woot! In other words, anyone who believes she herself (and not a bunch of trolls in D.C.) should be charge of her own reproductive health has a group of sisters to band together with and take this election by storm!
RTSV spokeswoman, Kimberley Johnson, elaborated to us exclusively on the motivation behind the group's fight:
Equal pay, birth control, women's health -- they are all at risk. If for no other reason, vote this next election for those who are FOR women's rights. We can't and WE WON'T allow the GOP to strip away all we have earned fought for decades ago.
It's clear that the GOP should be shaking in their ... chastity belts! The scary reality for them is that by making abortion and birth control an issue, they've almost completely turned their backs on more than half of the population. Guess what? They need those votes if they want to run Washington, RTSV reminds us. Too bad for them we're gonna go with politicians who are standing up for us, for Planned Parenthood, for Roe v. Wade, for our birth control coverage. Given the power of "sluts" everywhere, I have no doubt -- this fall, women will reign supreme.
Are you a slut? Would you get involved with Rock the Slut Vote?
Image via RocktheSlutVote.com
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I will encourage my daughter to be a strong willed and powerful woman.
I will not encourage her to refer to herself as a 'bitch,' a 'slut,' a 'whore,' or any other profane word used to degrade women. Just because you embrace the word doesn't make it mean anything nicer. It should be about your actions, not what you call yourself. DO RIGHT and have RESPECT for yourself and you'll be a classy and powerful woman.
You do not, and never have had, a right to FREE birth control.
You do have a right to use birth control, but YOU have to pay for it.
Saying something is immoral is not the same as trying to make it illegal. There are plenty of immoral things that are perfectly legal.
Just sayin....
FloridaMom - " We can and we must continue to fight for what we know to be right especially as people around us fail." WTF? YOU, my dear, do not get to decide what is or isn't right in regards to other people's sex lives. If they are not physically harming anyone, they can do what they want. You can think it's the "right" way all you want but you - and others like you - do not get to force others into sharing or following your beliefs. We are not a Christian country.
I agree with you.. and floridamom.
I do believe that sex is for mariage. But whether or not you follow that is your choice. We have no business passing laws that force you to save sex for mariage.
At the same time you (by this I don't mean you personally. I'm refering to those on the other side of the issue) have no business passing laws that force others to finacially support your choice to have sex (in or out of mariage) by forcing them to provide birth control.
theyre talking about insurance WHICH I AND OTHER WOMEN PAY FOR to cover our birth control because we pay for the service of insurance. no one is saying its on the american public to provide me with any.