If only I could give Sandra Fluke a high-five right now! As a fellow American woman, I've been fuming over the incredibly disrespectful, ignorant, and downright detestable comments Rush Limbaugh made about the Georgetown Law University student since that oafish blowhard called her a "slut" on the air back in February (for daring to voice her opinion that universities should provide contraception coverage).
Oh, how I've been fuming -- and waiting, waiting for the moment when Fluke would have the opportunity to make Limbaugh look like a bigger fool than ever (dang, that's a big fool!). Then, just a few hours ago, that seemingly endless wait was finally over. Sandra Fluke took the stage at the Democratic National Convention -- the very same Sandra Fluke who was accused by Rush Limbaugh of "having so much sex she can't afford the contraception" -- and wiped the floor with Limbaugh and the rest of his misinformed, misogynist kind.
It was truly a beautiful thing. If you missed it, I urge you to watch the video below (repeatedly, if necessary). But first, check out these 5 quotes from Fluke's speech -- a speech that's bound to make history in the best way possible:
1. "Many women are shut out and silenced. So while I'm honored to be standing at this podium, it easily could have been any one of you. I'm here because I spoke out, and this November, each of us must do the same."
2. " ... your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs. Who won't stand up to the slurs, or to any of the extreme, bigoted voices in his own party."
3. "We know what this America would look like. In a few short months, it's the America we could be. But it's not the America we should be."
4. "We've also seen another future we could choose ... An America in which our president, when he hears a young woman has been verbally attacked, thinks of his daughters -- not his delegates or donors -- and stands with all women."
5. "Over the last six months, I've seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we'll all be living in one or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies and our voices."
I know which America I'm going to choose ... do you?
Did you see Sandra Fluke's speech? What did you think?
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Being a woman is NOT a preexisting condition. Birth control should be covered by insurance because it is the responsible thing to do. Woman have sex! Shocker! Just like men do. It is part of being human and the Republican party needs to wake the f*ck up to that fact. It is 2012, not 1812 and we are not going to go back into the kitchen because a bunch of men think we should.
Jacqueline, do you find this disrespectful and distestable too?
I‘d totes dip a pinky or two in Paul Ryan's wife's bleached asshole (she obvs bleaches her asshole). #RNC
And followed up with a Paul Ryan masturbation joke:
But Biggs wasn't done, not even close. Late Thursday, as the RNC was reaching its climax with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's nomination acceptance speech, the actor decided to also go after Ann Romney's private parts:
Jason Biggs@JasonBiggs
“@godissanta420: @jasonbiggs How dare you ignore Ann Romney’s asshole. Ur un-American.” Sorry ur right. I bet hers is un-bleached and hairy.
Finally, Biggs ended his offensive Twitter rant with a retweet about Janna Ryan’s breasts:
The Left wants to talk about name calling? Michelle Malkin has been called a "race traitor, coconut, white man's puppet, immigrant-hater, the Radical Right's Asian Pitbull, Tokyo Rose, Aunt Tomasina, Manila whore and Subic Bay bar girl" just to name a few. Gloria Steinem called Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson a "female impersonator." Al Gore consultant Naomi Wolf accused (the late) Jean Kirkpatrick of being "uninfected by the experiences of the female body." Keith Olberman wrote on Twitter that columnist S.E. Cupp was "a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does" and also called Michelle Malkin a "mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it." How about Wisconsin radio host John "Sly" Sylvester? He called Condoleezza Rice a "black trophy" and "Aunt Jemima." Playboy magazine published a list of the "Top 10 conservative women who deserved to be hate fucked." Sandra gets called a slut by Rush and gets a phone call from Obama. Where's the uproar over the comments made about these conservative women? Where's their phone call from the President? Sandra, quit your whining. Your 15 minutes of fame are up!
It's only ok to call conservative women slut, cunt, etc. Bill Maher repeatedly called Sarah Palin one and it was dismissed as "comedy", but when Rush called Sandra Fluke one he's vilified. Last time I checked Rush was a talk show host, so what's the difference between him and Maher? Oh yeah, he's a conservative. Listen, I don't think it's ever ok to call a woman those names, but let's not get our panties in a wad over one when the other was just as bad. My real question is why was Fluke there in the first place? Also, I'm a birth control advocate and always wondered why an insurance company would rather pay for a pregnancy than birth control. Having said that, you can't make a private organization go against their mission and force them to offer something they disagree with. She can go to Planned Parenthood if she can't afford her birth control, which I heard was $9 a month. Yes, I do support funding Planned Parenthood and I'm a conservative, shocking I know.
It's not about wanting "free" birth control--it's about contraception being covered as part of basic women's health care under the insurance plans that we already pay for. My family insurance plan is over $1,100 per month, which doesn't sound "free" to me.
When you consider the number of women who are prescribed birth control for health issues that have nothing to do with a desire to avoid pregnancy, such as PCOS, it seems like a no-brainer that it should be covered just like every other medication.