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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy marriage requires birth control-The majority of long-term monogamous American relationships do.
from Whisky Fire:
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How is it not crystal clear how Hickabee is not being sexist!
................. The amount of non-slut American women, by Huckabee's calculus, would be about 1% of all American women.
Speaking as a heterosexual male, I'm cheered by this statistic, because I enjoy sex with women, specifically for many years now with one woman, namely my wife, with whom I have co-engendered three children: and that is quite enough, thank you. We are done with the human race-replenishing, but we are not quite done with the fucking, I don't mind telling you, and that is part of us maintaining a relationship which is about as healthy as people of Irish Catholic descent are capable of, at least comparatively speaking. And so YES the pill is a drug that insurance should cover, and NO it is not my employer's business what I want to do with the medical benefits I receive as a condition of my employment.
I'm not saying that my particular situation is any sort of ideal state; it's just how it is for us, man. But it does I think illustrate how bizarre and far-out Hickabee's radical cleric BS is: Hickabee is talking crap even from my boring minivan-driving perspective. It's absurd. Christ, it is, dare I say it... HETEROPHOBIC. My marriage requires birth control. The overwhelming majority of long-term monogamous heterosexual American relationships require birth control.
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riqster
(13,986 posts)Yes, I am being a sarcastic smartass.
Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)I have never understood how Republicans think picking a fight with the vast majority of American women is a winning issue.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)are not using it for birth control. They're using it to treat various medical conditions (cysts, endometriosis, etc.)
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)And that's what I don't get. Have these fuckers ever been around a woman in their life? How in the world do they not know about that stuff. I learned about women needing birth control for menstrual cycle issues and cysts when I was a teenager and a virgin, just from girls I dated and girls that were friends of mine.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)2014 and 2016 need to be 100% about women, DNC.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)I just had dinner where a couple of women were bitching about ACA forcing them to pay for birth control they didn't need.
Fortunately, that discussion ended quickly when I said that we were also paying insurance for sickle cell anemia and impetigo that we would never need either.
Regardless of my little win, they will still be voting against their own interests and the interests of their gender. They love the GOP. Facts and logic be damned.
TheOther95Percent
(1,035 posts)Are people really that dim that these kinds of things have to be pointed out to them.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)not only is (fill in your republican douche bag of choice) homophobic, but that poor sod is also heterophobic. I guess the only thing that is fair game for him is sheep.....
yes i like that term
thanks dembotoz,
and peace,
kp
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)fundy nutjobs.... simple as that.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)until it kills us or we can't any longer. Besides, if God doesn't want us to have those children, he'll keep us from getting pregnant. He's all the birth control we need. Or, if we aren't married, we shouldn't be having sex, therefore, don't have a need for birth control.
How rational Republicans cannot be embarrassed by this kind of shit, I'll never know.
LibertyLover
(4,788 posts)We used to have those, many years ago. But now Republicans aren't embarrassed by Huckabee's comments, heck most of them agree with him. And yeah, he probably does think that God is all the birth control women need and that we shouldn't have sex outside of marriage. What a troglodyte that man is.
polichick
(37,152 posts)I'd like to use my muscles to beat the shit out of this guy!
But my brain is telling me that's not a good idea.
REP
(21,691 posts)I had a tubal fulguration and an endometrial ablation during Bush II. I'm probably on some Secret Super Slut list for that.
can I join your
"Secret Super Slut"
team?
peace, kp
REP
(21,691 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)people to get birth control at least at first. One of their first goals is to make it so that single people can't have sex, only married people. Then I suspect they would slowly start advocating for married people to give it up to because they need married women at home saddled with a dozen babies so they can't be in the workforce.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)They are shaming their entire gender!
for those who are on edge
eissa
(4,238 posts)Not many. Doubt it's because married people aren't having sex. I've been married 20+ years. We have two kids. We wanted to have more, but certain circumstances (primarily economic) prevented it. The nursery may be closed, but the playground is still opened And lest anyone call me a slut, it's not just my libido but, you know, the guy who lives with me, MY HUSBAND, who also seems to have a healthy libido. But of course, we're not allowed to talk about him. He's expected to have a healthy libido and damn any government or religious figure who would dare make any comment about him, or call him a "male slut" for wanting sex with his wife.