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In reply to the discussion: Nice Girls Don't Say 'Vagina' -- What The Rep. Lisa Brown Controversy Is Really About [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)112. "You're just making up excuses."
Not at all. I'm pointing out the reality that has been lost in the hysteria.
Hysteria: OMG REPUBLICANS BANNED THE WORD VAGINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Reality: she was censured for making rape accusations that weren't really appropriate.
Hyperbole and dramatic imagery are inseparable from politics.
Apparently, considering the claims that she is being punished for saying a single word. Others might call that "lying" but hyperbole and drama works too.
Your side is trying to stifle her use of these time-honored tactical tools but we don't believe the excuses that are being made to justify this censorship.
I'm not trying to stifle her, this isn't my side, and I don't support censorship. I oppose these restrictions on abortions and think her stance is right. Just not how she presented it.
You really can't grasp that it's possible to support someone's goals but not their methods? Let's ignore this for a moment, can you answer me something honestly? Do you think that is at all possible: to generally agree with someone but not support how they go about achieving that goal? A yes or no will suffice.
You've left your fly undone and what's exposed is scabrous.
Drama and hyperbole?
/point out where I supported this legislature. I can point out multiple times where I have explicitly stated that I opposed it. But perhaps you're reading a different thread than I am?
//I think the biggest problem I have with people like you is that you're lying, you know it, and you sincerely do not care. There is no way anyone could have misinterpreted what I have written this badly. So it must be intentional on your part.
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Nice Girls Don't Say 'Vagina' -- What The Rep. Lisa Brown Controversy Is Really About [View all]
Purveyor
Jun 2012
OP
Would the left be willing or able to eject that speaker from the floor, however?
antigone382
Jun 2012
#169
" I think we all know that no matter what the female legislator said, she would have been censured"
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#145
You respond to me then say fuck off then respond then say fuck off
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#153
It is about her body. It is about every woman's body. And that charge of implying rape
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#47
No, that is a clear statement of fact. No does mean no in every case, the implication
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#69
See above reply, no does mean no, the implication being pushed is a fabrication. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#75
It is a three word sentence. What are you finding so difficult to understand?
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#89
And like the other guy determined to push this false premise in this thread, the only implication of
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#94
Because it is the entirety of what people are disagreeing with me on
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#137
Vagina is a "civil" word. It is used in sex education classes all over this country.
kiranon
Jun 2012
#98
it is about women and their reproductive organs. it doesn't have to be about hers specifically.
ejpoeta
Jun 2012
#29
And if another congressman calls her a whore, based on the beliefs of his constituency
TBMASE
Jun 2012
#50
Would she feel threatened her co-worker said he was flattered by her interest in his penis
TBMASE
Jun 2012
#23
Just keep flinging it, I'm sure something will stick. This argument is absurd, you begin with a
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#33
Again with the false premise -> false equivalency -> straw man. You have no argument,
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#55
Continually restating your fallacy will never change reality. This tactic doesn't work on
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2012
#63
The fantasy began when she decided that her coworkers had interest in her vagina
TBMASE
Jun 2012
#41
"Vagina. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable and they find it difficult to say."
Initech
Jun 2012
#13
Some men are so sensitive, they get all testerical when you say crude things to them. nt
bemildred
Jun 2012
#18
Those are the men that inevitably go totally limp from the devastating testeria the word invokes!
Zorra
Jun 2012
#30
Seems unlikely to be original, but if it is, I place it in the public domain. nt
bemildred
Jun 2012
#38