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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswith everything else going on, did I miss the dem males in congress raising their voices against
issa and his male-only hearing on women's bodies (oh, excuse me, the hearing on serious matters)
Kber
(5,043 posts)decried the "male-a-garchy" of the hearing. I took note of that since he's one of my senators.
Others have spoken out, but they aren't getting the press. The media would LIKE to cast this as "just" a women's issue and including the male voices that have indeed spoken out ruins their story line.
http://prochoicenc.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/identifying-male-a-garchy/
niyad
(113,336 posts)ellenfl
(8,660 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Better to let the women such as Pelosi take point on this, they're doing fine.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)I think taking action for the good of all humanity surely is acceptable.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)"freedom of religion" doesn't mean freedom of religions to coerce me to obey them.
The catholic church would deny insurance coverage for vasectomies too (if in fact they are covered under HCR at all).
There are some who think their activism is diluted if they accept men as allies.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)Overwhelming numbers.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)I may not be a Congresscritter but I vote and I didn't hear my Democrat rep speaking out.
Having an all-male Congressional panel (or all-female, but I doubt that has ever happened) on anything is intolerable. Having one on women's health is beyond outrageous.
Perhaps this should be presented as "what if it was an all-woman panel discussing men's health"? That would wake up a few men in a hurry.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)One of the colleges I taught at had no women on its counseling staff. The women faculty complained about it in one faculty meeting, saying that women students were coming to them with personal problems that they didn't feel qualified to handle.
The faculty men and the president started harumphing to the effect of, "Don't you think our counselors are competent?"
One of the women stood up and addressed the harumphers:"When you were 18, would you have gone to a woman to talk about your most intimate problems?"
Crickets.
By the beginning of the next semester, the college had a woman counselor.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt