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kpete

(71,900 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:28 AM Mar 2012

Republicans and Sex

How Republicans completely misjudged this

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Republicans just haven't gotten the memo yet. I think that this is where they screwed up. They believe two things are still controversial that aren't, and they just found out the hard way how wrong they are:

1) Equal pay for equal work.

2) "Good girls" can.

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As for the second one, this is where the Republicans really misfired. They really overestimated public antipathy towards privileged adult women having sex while single. I can see why they made this mistake; they watch a lot of Fox News, and Fox is always on about “girls gone wild”. What they forgot is that Americans don’t see single women as an undifferientiated mass. When it comes to middle class or upper class women who eventually want to marry and have children, there’s widespread acceptance of premarital sex. There’s also complex racial politics in play here, where women of color still face more shame for being sexual than white women, even when all other things are equal, but I think that’s one of those things that’s fading away, especially with women like Michelle Obama living up to the modern ideal of sexy-but-wholesome. Right wing media thought that they could label someone like Sandra Fluke a “slut” or a “semen demon” for no other reason than she’s 30 and unmarried, and this is where they misfired. Americans are still uptight about poor women having sex, teenage girls having sex, queer women having sex, and women who openly reject the path to marriage and motherhood having sex, but they’re just fine with the Sandra Flukes of the world having sex. Cohabitation before marriage is the national norm, and not just for my generation. I’m from Texas, for god’s sake, and I can probably count the married couples I know under 60 who didn’t live together before marriage on one hand, and in all my life, I’ve never known anyone to have a fight with their family about that.


The contraception mandate is, at its core, about equal pay for equal work. Under the Affordable Health Care Act, all of men's preventive care is covered, so it's only fair to cover all of women's. That Republicans demand that employers have a right to give women fewer benefits simply because they're women is no different than Republicans demanding the right to pay women less simply because they're women. This crosses a big line with most of the public.



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Republicans and Sex (Original Post) kpete Mar 2012 OP
Only rich people.... bighughdiehl Mar 2012 #1
milf... seabeyond Mar 2012 #2

bighughdiehl

(390 posts)
1. Only rich people....
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:33 AM
Mar 2012

are allowed to fuck according to the Pukes. I outlined this in a thread in GD. That's what it comes down to,
if ya read between the lines.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
2. milf...
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 12:02 PM
Mar 2012

i think it is as much creating all women for a purpose, getting a societal ok and thinking, truly thinking, that as a society we will give a thumbs up to trashing women because after all.... we embrace it in so much of our society. we dont reserve the ho for just a particular woman or girl. we have given it to all women and girls.

i think limbaugh did us all a favor saying it out loud for three days to wake us up to what women and men have allowed and created in this society today.

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