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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Women's Rights / Vagina Outrage / Anti-Choice Message on Wire Hangers? Dude, naw.

Anti-Choice Message on Wire Hangers? Dude, naw.

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  December 10, 20123:49 pm| 40 Comments

This post is in: Vagina Outrage

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20121210-154322.jpgVia Robin Marty at RH Reality Check (who is sitting across from me right now at the RHRC strategy meeting), a dry-cleaner outfit in Cincinnati, Ohio is splashing its Forced Birther message on wire hangers, either blissfully unaware or blissfully not giving a fuck about the optics of putting a Forced Birth message on a goddamn wire hanger:

There is a branch of anti-choice activists that will use pretty much anything as a medium for their message: newspaper ads, graphic signs displayed in front of schools, bus stop benches. You would think they would know well enough to leave one place untouched, though. Wire coat hangers.

Springdale Drycleaners of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been etching “Choose Life” ads on wire coat hangers used to hang dry-cleaning.

Joan Crawford is not amused.

[via RH Reality Check; image via Ben at Lifehacksimmediately] [cross-posted at ABLC]
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40Comments

  1. 1.

    ranchandsyrup

    December 10, 2012 at 3:51 pm

    I put this up on teh book of faces last week and was informed in no uncertain terms that this WENT TOO FAR and how dare I point this out or laugh?!?

  2. 2.

    Triassic Sands

    December 10, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    Irony is alive.

  3. 3.

    Ben Franklin

    December 10, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    THIS is what you’re on about, ABL?

    Chew on this…http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/zero-dark-thirty-torture-awards

    The claim that waterboarding and other torture techniques were necessary in finding bin Laden was first made earlier this year by Jose Rodriguez, the CIA agent who illegally destroyed the agency’s torture tapes, got protected from prosecution by the DOJ, and then profited off this behavior by writing a book. He made the same claim as “Zero Dark Thirty” regarding the role played by torture in finding bin Laden.

    That caused two Senators who are steadfast loyalists of the CIA – Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein and Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin – to issue statements definitively debunking this assertion. Even the CIA’s then-Director, Leon Panetta, made clear that those techniques played no role in finding bin Laden. An FBI agent central to the bin Laden hunt said the same.

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    December 10, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    @Ben Franklin:

    Yes, who gives a shit about women’s lives and women’s health when there are MEN to be discussed! It’s not like a woman dying because she tried to self-abort is important.

  5. 5.

    Tonybrown74

    December 10, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    @Ben Franklin:

    Shorter Ben:

    ABL wrote about something that I don’t find important … to MEEEEEEEEE!

    Or even shorter:

    Blackety-black-Black-BLACK!!!

    #ablisworsethanhitler #scaryblackvaginarunforyourlives!

  6. 6.

    bemused

    December 10, 2012 at 4:03 pm

    As John said, quoted by Doug in post after this one, they are basically assholes.

  7. 7.

    gwangung

    December 10, 2012 at 4:04 pm

    @Ben Franklin:

    Acting real Republican there, son….

  8. 8.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    December 10, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Are we sure this isn’t comedy?

  9. 9.

    Roger Moore

    December 10, 2012 at 4:09 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:
    These guys don’t do comedy. They’re just too clueless to realize that this is incredibly offensive, or too insensitive to care. They have their holy mission, and they aren’t going to let anything stand in their way.

  10. 10.

    scav

    December 10, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    @Roger Moore: seems a multi-purpose observation in this thread, actually.

  11. 11.

    Baron Jrod of Keeblershire

    December 10, 2012 at 4:13 pm

    Maybe we should start requiring this message on boxes of bullets?

    Naw. When you gun a person down in their 115th trimester, that’s just standing your ground. But abortion? That’s murder.

  12. 12.

    Lurking Canadian

    December 10, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    How is it you say it? I can’t even with these people?

  13. 13.

    Quaker in a Basement

    December 10, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

  14. 14.

    J. Michael Neal

    December 10, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    @Quaker in a Basement: If god had wanted turkeys to fly, he would have given Republicans wings.

  15. 15.

    Corner Stone

    December 10, 2012 at 4:46 pm

    Why would they have a data entry clerk at a strategy meeting?

  16. 16.

    The Moar You Know

    December 10, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    OK, that’s just flat-out fucking funny.

  17. 17.

    Wag

    December 10, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Real turkeys CAN fly. It’s only the bred for the slaughter farm turkeys that have lost that ability.

    Kinda like our democracy. Our democracy was able to fly when we ha a press that called out lies instead of relying on both sides do it BS.

  18. 18.

    J

    December 10, 2012 at 5:01 pm

    I think the Ben Franklin is getting a little more bashing than he deserves. Surely both these issues are worthy of concern–his fault is thinking they exclude each other. I also wonder if people below a certain age might not get the significance of wire hangers.

  19. 19.

    Carnacki

    December 10, 2012 at 5:10 pm

    Some things are so beyond the pale and sensibility that you can’t answer it with reasoned commentary and the appropriate response is, “That’s some seriously fucked up shit.”

  20. 20.

    Lojasmo

    December 10, 2012 at 5:26 pm

    @Ben Franklin:

    Shut the fuck up, son.

    As an aside, I share a relative in Ben Franklin’s maternal lineage.\

  21. 21.

    Lojasmo

    December 10, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    @J:

    I think the Ben Franklin is getting a little more bashing than he deserves. Surely both these issues are worthy of concern—his fault is thinking they exclude each other. I also wonder if people below a certain age IQ might not get the significance of wire hangers.

    Fixt.

  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 10, 2012 at 5:41 pm

    The stoopid. It burns.

  23. 23.

    monkeyfister

    December 10, 2012 at 5:46 pm

    Reminds me of the toilets in hotels:
    “Clean And Safety-Sealed For Your Protection!”
    Good lawd, Conservatives are truly fucked-up creatures.

  24. 24.

    Tata

    December 10, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    We used to mail signed wire hangers to our womb-controlling representatives in Congress.

    Too bad you can’t mail flaming dog poop to drycleaners.

  25. 25.

    gelfling545

    December 10, 2012 at 6:22 pm

    @J: And there are no open threads in which his concerns could be addressed or he could not sat OT but. as I have seen many do here? It is very odd, to my mind, to go on a thread about one topic to complain that it is not about something else. Agree or disagree, fine, but to say don’t talk about this seems a bit unusual.

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    December 10, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    Wow. That’s really sick.

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    December 10, 2012 at 7:08 pm

    @Ben Franklin:

    Greenwald’s a moron, and you’re even dumber for falling for his shit.

    Fuck you.

  28. 28.

    burnspbesq

    December 10, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    @Ben Franklin:

    Greenwald’s a moron, and you’re even dumber for falling for his shit.

    Fuck you.

  29. 29.

    burnspbesq

    December 10, 2012 at 7:12 pm

    And fuck you a second time for believing that whether Jose Rodriguez gets indicted or not is more important than whether millions of American women have access to essential health care and the right to make important decisions regarding their lives.

    Your priorities are severely fucked up.

  30. 30.

    RedKitten

    December 10, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    Wow…there are just really no words at all to describe this. Either that dry-cleaner is the most clueless individual in the history of clueless individuals, or he’s utterly evil and knows damn well the symbolism of the coat hanger…and just doesn’t fucking care.

  31. 31.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    December 10, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    I told my wife about this. I first told her “Lets see if you can see where I am going with what I am going to tell you about something ABL posted at Balloon-Juice.” Then I asked her “You know how some businesses like to put their Christianity right out front, even including pro-Christian messages in the advertising?” She said “Yes”. I then asked her if she remembers the kind of advertising dry cleaners use on clothing they have cleaned and are returning to the customer. Her response? “An abortion message on the clothes hanger paper?” I told her that she picked right up on where this was going and then filled her in on the rest of the story. She literally facepalmed. Her mind, it was boggled. As was mine.

    Fucking nuts.

  32. 32.

    The Other Chuck

    December 10, 2012 at 8:21 pm

    @RedKitten: Or he’s really clever and aims to subvert the forced-birth message by provoking questions about whose life is being chosen.

    But chances are he’s just a stupid fundie dipshit.

  33. 33.

    TS

    December 10, 2012 at 8:30 pm

    Only result of this will be less customers – great business sense the anti abortion dipsh-ts

  34. 34.

    Gus

    December 10, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    How did Joan Crawford clean her one hitter?

  35. 35.

    tkogrumpy

    December 11, 2012 at 2:07 am

    The stupid, it burns.

  36. 36.

    tkogrumpy

    December 11, 2012 at 2:10 am

    My apologies to Villago Delenda Est.

  37. 37.

    John M. Burt

    December 11, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    Coming up next, anti-affirmative action messages on packages of rope and antivax messages on blankets.

  38. 38.

    JackALack

    December 11, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    @Quaker in a Basement:
    No one gets your WKRP reference.
    They should all be forced to dance on a hot plate.

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