Sweet mother of everything holy:
Republican State Representative Vito Barbieri from the state of Idaho thinks that a woman’s vagina has some sort of direct passageway to her stomach because, I mean, how else does the pee come out?
This rather impressive display of anatomical ignorance (h/t Salon) came during a Idaho House State Affairs Committee hearing where the members heard testimony on a bill that “would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine.”
Our friend Vito asked Dr. Julie Madsen, who was testifying against the bill, if women could simply swallow a camera in order for doctors to perform remote gynecological exams. Madsen I assume chocked back cries of utter disdain and horror before explaining that “swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina.”
Rep. Barbieri is on the “State Committee,” which deals with “Statewide policy issues, such as elections, abortion, electric utility deregulation.” Because of course he is.
Idaho, where we’ll regulate your vagina like a utility.
Baud
The technical term is “common carrier.”
The Pale Scot
There’s a Vito in Idaho?
(I’m a Jersey Guy)
Larry
@Baud: This response deserves some love.
shortstop
Five bucks says he also thinks we pee from our vaginas.
CrustyDem
Not pee. Poo. He thinks women poo out their vaginas. Ponder that for a moment and then take time to pity his poor, poor wife.
For what it’s worth, her name is Joy and I can think of one specific way that name is an error.
Gordon, the Big Express Engine
@shortstop: wait, you don’t?
barbequebob
actually, if they thought it was a utility, they would deregulate it.
Gin & Tonic
@Gordon, the Big Express Engine: I know I don’t.
jl
I made fun of this earlier. I have to admit I find it hard to believe this ass (I think that term is appropriate here) was really that ignorant, though I am capable of being persuaded.
Seems more likely to me that he was flailing away at a faint and asinine hope that some little piece of medical equipment could go though the intestinal tract and magically snap some magic picture when it got near the naughty bits that could ID a zygote or fertilized egg wandering around in the womb.
That is actually a less charitable interpretation, since it shows the lengths some individuals are willing to go to in order to control People Not Like Them, And their demented rage that nature (or GOD(!?) if there is one) has arranged things so that their dream of total control is impossible. If they could, of course, they would not let impossibility stand in their way. They would institute a reproductive police state terror against women anyway. Even if it is impossible to ever determine when the little man naughty speck meets the little woman naughty speck, they would proceed anyway and institute a new kind of second class citizen and destroy many lives, including the precious unborn they prate and brag about loving so much, since the parents, particularly the mothers, would get zip help as the unborn actually shows a high probability of becoming a worthless loafing born brat that produces no ready cash for the right kind of people.
Unabogie
I’ve learned more about female anatomy from Republican politicians than I ever did from you liberals and your fancy “facts”.
Can you prove the camera DOESN’T come out the vajayjay as it shuts the rape babies down (which are a GIFT)?
Mike E
OK, Mallard Fillmore makes sense to me now.
shortstop
@jl:
Because GI tracts and uteri are transparent?
Peale
I always wondered if I blew into a woman, would she whistle? I guess I too was misinformed about the connections. There are tricky valves that only experts know about, aren’t there.
MikeBoyScout
As a Washingtonian, I can’t understand why wthe 27% of our populace who loves a well regulated vagina and killing wages does not jump in their car and race to the border of their own private Idaho.
jl
@shortstop:
” Because GI tracts and uteri are transparent? ”
You will need to ask him.
His thinking might go, “well, they stick a damn finger up my ass to check my prostrate, so…. I dunno, shit, why not? Probably them godless scientists know they can do something like that for the wimmins, but they aren’t telling because they are ‘bad guys’.”
I can see some goof thinking like that.
Belafon
@MikeBoyScout:
How are they going to ruin your life if they move to Idaho?
Luthe
Speaking of common carriers and utilities, the lying-ass ISPs of the world have gotten together to buy commercials claiming that regulating the Internet like a utility will lead to more taxes, fees, and sky-high bills.
I heroically restrained from puking when I saw it.
shortstop
@jl: Okay. So that takes us back to “that ass is really that ignorant.” No way out from that.
Suzanne
I always wondered how men like this manage to have relationships with women. Like, dude, have you ever touched a woman’s twat? Have you ever SEEN one? Did you not get the sex talk in sixth grade? Like, how am I supposed to think you’re a manly man if you’re a sixty-year-old virgin?
burnspbesq
This guy presumably had to survive some sort of primary election or party convention/caucus process in order to get the Republican nomination. If he was considered by the relevant audience (voters or party officials) to be the most qualified candidate, can you even imagine what the losers were like?
shortstop
@Suzanne:
He has, many times. And it has yet to be good for her.
leeleeFL
I have to say Rachel had some fun with this tonight. I am nearly done with politics lately. The stupid is just too much…maybe betterness will happen soon, but I am way bummed just at the moment.
shortstop
@Peale: The most important thing to know is that if ur doin it rite, we sing like teakettles.
Belafon
@Suzanne:
When I was in the sixth grade, they sent the boys to the playground when they gave the girls the sex talk. And the parents in my town would have never had that talk.
PhoenixRising
Dr Julie Marsden is my hero, because she did not respond to this stupid question with: “No, Representative, we’d need to ask the stork to swallow the camera if we wanted to check on the baby’s development.”
Legislative committees, in my experience testifying before them, have a maximum total IQ requirement.
jl
@burnspbesq:
At first I thought you typed “This guy presumably had to survive some sort of primary erection” and you had the mystery figured out. But looks like not.
Iowa Old Lady
You people are hilarious!
JGabriel
John Cole:
Out of all the stories and headlines I’ve seen on this paradigm of Republican stupidity, that one is absolutely the best. Kudos. You win the internets today.
leeleeFL
@burnspbesq: I am currently working with 2 new hostesses who apparently were not interviewed by anyone. I assume this only because no one is taking responsibility for hiring them. They are both so bad we might be better off without no hostess. Good times….the Idaho voters probably don’t admit they voted for this ass—- either.
Suzanne
@Belafon: Weird.
@efgoldman: Dudes like that typically don’t think women even have orgasms. My mom dated a dude who thought that female ejaculate was urine. I told her to break up with that idiot.
jl
@Iowa Old Lady: Laugh if you want. But the truth might not be funny at all. Some jezebel might have misled him, and maybe even his poor little…. OMG!
burnspbesq
@jl:
Not going there, under any imaginable circumstances.
yodecat
Yet more evidence of the crappy education that some of are subjected to. My brain! It burns!!
This person was elected to an office that is supposed to provide leadership. Makes me certain that disconnecting da cable was a good move.
Belafon
@Suzanne: It was west Texas in the early 1980s.
burnspbesq
@leeleeFL:
Probably not, but election results are matters of public record. They can run, but they can’t hide.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: I didn’t say it wasn’t awkward.
shortstop
Speaking of elections, I can’t wait for tomorrow’s to be over in Chicago. My alderman has personally called me seven times. If only he were that into me outside of campaign season.
Villago Delenda Est
@shortstop:
Outside of campaign season he’s probably far too busy fundraising for the next campaign to even consider talking to a constituent who doesn’t have an open checkbook displayed.
PhoenixRising
@Suzanne: Awkward it may have been, but you’re still awesome. I’m not convinced that my mom knows women can ejaculate, and I’m certainly not about to explain it to her, regardless.
@efgoldman: i am not a male person, but that has no bearing on the awkwardness level IMHO.
wasabi gasp
Vito swallows a camera to snap a selfie.
Suzanne
@PhoenixRising: Hah, thanks. No one needs a dude like that. That’s what BOBs are for.
cmorenc
@burnspbesq:
You forget: selection of a GOP candidate via primary (or even more so by convention) in Idaho IS a race to the bottom, not a race to the top.
James E Powell
I’d laugh more if it weren’t for the fact that just under half of the country (just over half in a midterm) votes for guys like this.
Suzanne
@efgoldman: My mom is younger than you and it was still awkward. Still needs to be said, though.
ms_canadada
@shortstop: Hee-hee-hee…yes, indeed!
MikeBoyScout
Why did the cad ask a woman if they could simply swallow? In public no less!
Redshift
@jl:
Or he was hoping there was some high tech way to produce images they could force women to look at without all the nasty insinuations they get when they require transvaginal ultrasounds.
mclaren
@burnspbesq:
Like…well, like…you, burnspbesq.
The Republic of Stupidity
Well… by Vito’s reasoning, does the mean if we send a probe up his Cheney, we’ll eventually reach his brain?
Bill E Pilgrim
Even worse was his question about how gynecologists do tonsillectomies.
jl
@Redshift: The least ugly possibility is that he is really such an ignorant fool as to actually have believed that women poop out babies though the back end
Elizabelle
OT. Really enjoying Better Call Saul. He’s looking spiffier in this episode.
I didn’t see much of Breaking Bad. Will bingewatch that one of these days.
JCJ
Reminds me of the joke:
A woman asked her doctor if it was possible to get pregnant from anal intercourse.
The doctor replied, “Of course! Where do you think lawyers come from?”
Dave C
@Suzanne:
I actually read a fairly recent news story (granted it was on “I Fucking Love Science” so take the reporting with a few grains of salt) about some scientists who tested the contents of female ejaculate and found them to consist primarily of urine. *Shrug*
Villago Delenda Est
What the fuck is it with all these people of Italian heritage being outright fucking fascists?
Villago Delenda Est
@cmorenc: See the Presidential Klown Kar as an example.
GregB
Representative Barbieri, would you please sit on this camera so we can get a brain-scan?
sharl
@Suzanne: Apparently there is still vigorous debate and ongoing research regarding the composition of ejaculate from women.
I half-heard a mention of something on the radio on this topic within the past month, and in looking for it now, I assume that short news item probably originated from a report published online this past Christmas Eve (Happy Holidays!).* The two popular science sites that showed up early in my search list (here and here) seem to take slightly different views on that same report, but both interpretations agree that it the ejaculate is mostly urine, though (in some cases, maybe???) containing small amounts of the human female equivalent of prostate fluid.
I didn’t look much at the comments at those sites, but one criticism that seems valid to my non-expert eyes is that the number of study subjects (seven) is statistically too low to enable one to reach a generally valid conclusion.
Research, as they say, is continuing.
*“Nature and Origin of ‘Squirting’ in Female Sexuality,” The Journal of Sexual Medicine, first published online 24-Dec-2014. Abstract:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsm.12799/abstractETA: I’m guessing Dave at #61 read about the same news item.
mdblanche
Vito connected dem lady bones,
Vito connected dem lady bones,
Vito connected dem lady bones,
Now hear the word of the Lord!
David Koch
reality-based
@CrustyDem:
oh, my god. the guy has a WIFE! I read this earlier on Wonkette, it never occurred to me that he had a WIFE!
I bet, when she read this, she thought “well, THAT explains a lot! “
Mike in NC
Worst boss I ever had was some asshole from Idaho. Must be something in the water.
The Pale Scot
Hey G&T, out of the blog biz?
Mike J
@MikeBoyScout: If we moved our border 10 miles west what percentage of the crazy would we get rid of?
trollhattan
You People are killing the room tonight. Killing.
In related news, Cliven Bundy seriously considers decamping Utah for Idaho. Because Idaho just got more awesomer.
jl
Title needs a trigger warning for ‘vagina’ and ‘bone’ appearing next to each other.
I thought this was a family blog. For shame, Cole.
He never would have done something like that when he was a conservative. I hear he was such a nice well-behaved, innocent, lad.
@reality-based: Does he really have a wife? I took that comment above for a joke. Need to get an interview with her. She might solve the mysteries of this schlub.
Suzanne
@Dave C: it doesn’t look anything like piss, and it’s not like all of a sudden you shot piss out. I can buy that some of it is urine, but it’s certainly biologically different.
wasabi gasp
Where in this wacky world might someone regulate J-lo’s ta-tas?
sharl
@mdblanche: Haha, ever since seeing The Singing Detective, never again have I been able to think of Dry Bones without recalling the dark musical dance bit in that show.
Dave C
@Suzanne:
That very well could be true. I know next to nothing on the topic. If you’re interested, sharl posted a much more detailed summary (with links!) in comment #65.
trollhattan
@sharl:
What an amazing and disturbing show that was. Holy crap!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
ZOMG I just remembered Cole’s mother reads here. Thus I’m not adding anything to the female sexuality discussion. Even though my mother once gave me practical advice that caused my father to aspirate his drink when he heard her say it.
Mobile RoonieRoo
At least this is something Louis Gohmert didn’t come up with. I can live with that!
jl
First we had vagina dentata,
Then kids from behind of the hoo-ha
But kids from storks and cabbage patch leaves
Are far more likely than crap Vito believes
burnt
@Peale: Amusing, but don’t try it for real. You might give her an embolism. @baud and @barbequebob I laughed. Thanks.
sharl
@trollhattan: Agree on both counts. It’s been a long time since I saw it, but I recall being simultaneously drawn into the narrative and somewhat repelled by the content. Fascinating and yes, disturbing, all at once.
I wonder if U.S. broadcast TV (CPB rebroadcast of the BBC series) would even allow that on now? ‘Twas a different time…
MikeBoyScout
@Mike J: not enuf. and jeebus said we can’t move the border west
Jim, Foolish Literalist
OT: The strain is starting to show
I suspect somewhere in her separate residence, Mrs O’Reilly is wondering if something’s finally gonna blow and a certain will finally gonna be read.
p.a.
If we can attach a tiny bible to the camera and deliver it to the fetus-person…
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
Not necessarily; there could have been some medical intervention involved. And even if there was no medical intervention, it’s always possible that the Little Woman was involved with somebody other than the nominal dad. If he’s that ignorant of reproduction, he might not have caught on where “his” kids were coming from.
p.a.
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): relax, she knows by now what kind of people hang here.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
people have been funnin’ with his wiki page, but some killjoy took out the snark
Roger Moore
@wasabi gasp:
Most place in the US, for starters; women can get in trouble almost everywhere in this country for putting them on full display. That’s at least some kind of regulation.
sharl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Has Loofah Boy threatened to sic FOX security on anyone yet? That might be good for a chuckle on a slow news day.
Hungry Joe
Remember the really dumb kids in class? You tried not to be mean about it, but they were just face-palm stupid, right? This guy is one of them, all grown up.
feebog
Anatomy, how the fuck does it work?
CaseyL
I have lived in a lot of states, voted in a lot of elections, and have sometimes been represented by real pissants.
But I don’t think I’ve ever been represented by anyone displaying the sheer amount of dumbfuckery as today’s GOP proudly puts forth. Their district voters probably read this crap and applaud, because they have to be even more nitwitted to have elected these clowns.
And yet… and yet… those are the people who care enough to actually cast a vote in mid-term elections.
It fair boggles the mind, it does.
Stacy
Wasn’t a Greek god born through an armpit? Maybe that confused him about where babies really come from. Maybe he thinks the uterus and the stomach are one in the same, that women literally have a pregnant belly.
wasabi gasp
{{{shivers}}}
/snuggles cat, dog, dog, dog, dog and dog.
Roger Moore
how is babby formed? how girl get pragnent
Inquiring Idaho legislators want to know!
The Republic of Stupidity
@p.a.:
And a hand gun… a tiny, tiny little hand gun…
jl
@sharl: Well, hell, O’Reilly said he wrote down the whole true story in one of his trashy novels. I don’t understand at all why that doesn’t settle the issue. Talk about unfair persecution of conservatives.
O’Reilly Cites His ‘Novel Of Television And Murder’ To Prove His War Zone Creds
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/oreilly-cites-novel-mother-jones
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@The Republic of Stupidity: I’m in the process of creating a lyrakien azata with levels in Gunslinger. She uses a musket, though.
The Republic of Stupidity
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
And carries a musket…
Sounds like Tinkerbelle, from Peter Pan…
Except she’s packing some heat…
The Republic of Stupidity
@Roger Moore:
Don’t forget the all important question…
Ruckus
@PhoenixRising:
After I was 40 or so mom ceased to care if I were a male or female in discussing any sexual matter. Not that I wanted to discuss anything of the sort with her but in the case of mom I rarely got my way in discussing anything. And really it’s sort of like a nude beach, after the first 2 min, it’s all just skin and body parts.
Ian
@Mike E:
President know nothing. But hey, I took AP US history, so what do i Know?
gene108
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
How do you get class levels on a familiar?
Central Planning
Facepalm. He probably thinks you can get pregnant from oral sex too.
bemused
Funniest comment segment ever.
rea
It’s not that this guy is actually that ignorant–it’s that this is his idea of scoring a debating point. He wants to prohibit doctors from prescribing abortifacient drugs without seeing patients in person (meaning, without a multiday trip to one of Idaho’s few clinics). He thinks that, because women can’t swallow vagina-cams, doctors must be required to scope them in person.
ixnay
You put the camera down
and the music goes round and round,
whoa o whoa oh…
And it comes out here.
Amir Khalid
@sharl:
Takes all the romance out of it, that does.
boatboy_srq
@jl:
Emphasis added. It suddenly dawned on me that this blowhard thinks that should be as close as anyone not the patient’s husband should get to that part of her body.
boatboy_srq
@jl:
Emphasis added. It suddenly dawned on me that this blowhard thinks that should be as close as anyone not the patient’s husband should get to that part of her body.
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: Something tells me that’s three kids after nine attempts… ,-)
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: Ditto that reaction. We’re both way too DownEast.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@gene108:
Lyrakien can be familiars (but only for CG casters of at least 7th level who take the Improved Familiar feat) but most aren’t. This one is just a general NPC.
Tweez
Why did you spell stomach with an “e” on the end? Is that a joke or something?
Bill Murray
@James E Powell: the numbers are more like just under 30% and just under 20% when you take in to account non-voters