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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 12:06 PM Jan 2014

My 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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more:
http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2014/01/thats-still-sexist-i-say-thats-still-sexist-son-and-heterophobic.html

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My marriage requires birth control-The majority of long-term monogamous American relationships do. (Original Post) kpete Jan 2014 OP
Oh, if only his wife could control her libido! riqster Jan 2014 #1
Well over 90 percent of women have used some form of birth control in their life. Shoulders of Giants Jan 2014 #2
Also on the statistics front: about 50% of women who use "the pill"... jeff47 Jan 2014 #4
Yea my wife is one of those women. phleshdef Jan 2014 #7
They don't talk about icky things like that. So they never learn. (nt) jeff47 Jan 2014 #8
The GOP just called women everywhere, sluts. onehandle Jan 2014 #3
And yet... progressoid Jan 2014 #5
Not to mention the Proctology Exams They're Never Going to Need... TheOther95Percent Jan 2014 #20
HETEROPHOBIC i like that term dembotoz Jan 2014 #6
me too kpete Jan 2014 #17
It's all about getting money out of Still Sensible Jan 2014 #9
Or it could be that Huckabee thinks that women should be having children justiceischeap Jan 2014 #10
Rational Republicans LibertyLover Jan 2014 #13
Just to show how we women are so much more than our slutty libidos... polichick Jan 2014 #11
My two sterilizations don't seem excessive now, do they REP Jan 2014 #12
REP kpete Jan 2014 #18
Spread 'em and join! REP Jan 2014 #19
I suspect if they got their way they would make an amendment to allow married liberal_at_heart Jan 2014 #14
Huck is . . . homonormative? nt geek tragedy Jan 2014 #15
Why can't these married women just control their libidos?? TroglodyteScholar Jan 2014 #16
How many families out there with 15+ kids? eissa Jan 2014 #21
2. Well over 90 percent of women have used some form of birth control in their life.
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 12:35 PM
Jan 2014

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)
4. Also on the statistics front: about 50% of women who use "the pill"...
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 12:58 PM
Jan 2014

are not using it for birth control. They're using it to treat various medical conditions (cysts, endometriosis, etc.)

 

phleshdef

(11,936 posts)
7. Yea my wife is one of those women.
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 01:26 PM
Jan 2014

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.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
5. And yet...
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 01:16 PM
Jan 2014

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)
20. Not to mention the Proctology Exams They're Never Going to Need...
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 03:14 PM
Jan 2014

Are people really that dim that these kinds of things have to be pointed out to them.

dembotoz

(16,808 posts)
6. HETEROPHOBIC i like that term
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 01:25 PM
Jan 2014

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

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
10. Or it could be that Huckabee thinks that women should be having children
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 01:58 PM
Jan 2014

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)
13. Rational Republicans
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:07 PM
Jan 2014

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)
11. Just to show how we women are so much more than our slutty libidos...
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:01 PM
Jan 2014

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)
12. My two sterilizations don't seem excessive now, do they
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:05 PM
Jan 2014

I had a tubal fulguration and an endometrial ablation during Bush II. I'm probably on some Secret Super Slut list for that.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
14. I suspect if they got their way they would make an amendment to allow married
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:09 PM
Jan 2014

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.

TroglodyteScholar

(5,477 posts)
16. Why can't these married women just control their libidos??
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 02:12 PM
Jan 2014

They are shaming their entire gender!

for those who are on edge

eissa

(4,238 posts)
21. How many families out there with 15+ kids?
Fri Jan 24, 2014, 03:51 PM
Jan 2014

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.

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