This diagram (from here, via, click to embiggen) tells us some informative new things about female anatomy, and it’s also good to know that Republicans are at the forefront of science, and have now defined pregnancy as beginning two weeks before conception in Arizona.
The War On Women
Some girls
So rape is permitted by libruls or what? Even for Kaplan, this one is weird.
Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Compares Rape Babies to Out-of-Wedlock Babies
WHAT IS TOM SMITH TALKING ABOUT?!
Tom Smith, the Republican challenging Sen. Bob Casey’s (D-PA) seat, suggested that having a child out of wedlock was analogous to rape during an interview with a reporter at a press club this afternoon, claiming that it would have a “similar” effect on a father:
MARK SCOLFORO, ASSOCIATED PRESS: How would you tell a daughter or a granddaughter who, God forbid, would be the victim of a rape, to keep the child against her own will? Do you have a way to explain that?
SMITH: I lived something similar to that with my own family. She chose life, and I commend her for that. She knew my views. But, fortunately for me, I didn’t have to.. she chose they way I thought. No don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t rape.
SCOLFORO: Similar how?
SMITH: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.
SCOLFORO: That’s similar to rape?
SMITH: No, no, no, but… put yourself in a father’s situation, yes. It is similar. But, back to the original, I’m pro-life, period.
So legitimate rape is no different than having consensual sex, getting pregnant, and not being married or marrying the father of that child.
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AP’s @BenFellerDC Dutifully Reports Romney Lie About Stance on Abortion Ban
Women need the media to be better at its job.
Look. If you’re going to be a journalist, you are required to provide facts. When dealing with a liar of a candidate like Mitt Romney, if you report his stated position on an issue without examining all of the other stances he has taken on that very same issue, then you are not doing your job.
To wit, Ben Feller, White House correspondent for AP is not doing his job:
Obama alluded to the provocative issue of abortion, suddenly thrust to the fore this week when Republican Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin said the female body has a way to “shut that whole thing down” when a woman is the victim of “legitimate rape.”
The Republican platform in Tampa calls for a ban on abortion with no specific exceptions for rape or other circumstances. Obama predicted that a President Romney would not “stand in the way” if Congress gave him a bill that stripped away women’s control over their reproductive health.Romney is on record, however, as not opposing abortion in cases of rape and incest or if it will save the mother’s life.
Polling shows social issues such as abortion represent perhaps Obama’s best opportunity to draw support from Romney. Obama already holds a broad lead as the candidate more trusted to handle those social issues among Democrats and independents. The issue is one of Romney’s biggest vulnerabilities among moderate and liberal Republicans.
Romney is on record as not opposing abortion in cases of rape and incest — as of this week. But for the past five years, Romney is on record as supporting an Eggs Are People Too (“Personhood”) Amendment.
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Pelosi: Akin Is “the Doggy-Doo on the GOP Shoe”
Todd Akin is establishing himself as a great recruiting tool — for the Democrats. Melinda Henneberger, the WaPo‘s “She the People” anchor-blogger and apologist for Republicans at their Rethuglican-ist, wakes up and smells… something that ain’t coffee:
… For more than a year, I’ve argued against the idea that Republicans were coordinating a “war on women.’’ What hyperbole, I thought, reluctant to compare affronts to American women to the truly life-threatening situation of so many women around the globe…
Well, that was then. Though I still know plenty of Rs who show enormous respect for women, as well as some Ds who don’t, Akin hasn’t become a pariah for putting forth a marginal idea, but for embarrassing those in his party who resemble that remark. I believe in extending the benefit of the doubt, but this isn’t the first time, or even the second, that elected GOP officials have suggested that women have to be closely monitored to make sure they’re on the up-and-up about having been raped…
In an hour-long interview with Pelosi this week, at the end of a long day of back-to-back fund-raising events, I was surprised when she agreed that at bottom, this isn’t even about abortion: “My family’s all pro-life – they don’t share my views,’’ she said of the family she grew up in. “But this is not about abortion; let’s put that aside. Abortion is something you can agree to disagree on, but this shows a disrespect of women that’s beyond that – and even beyond politics, to something that’s deep-seated, sociological, cultural and psychological. Todd Akin’s statement and the obliviousness with which he made it find a very comfortable home with House Republicans, who are rushing to get rid of him because of what he says about them.”
Particularly, she says, because Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (Wis.) has sponsored a number of the same bills Akin has, including laws redefining rape and pushing for a ‘human life amendment’ that would ban some forms of birth control….
But Pelosi says that as good as all this is for turnout, “I really have a level of sadness about it.’’
Of the “war on women,’’ meme, she shrugs and says “it’s alliterative. I have not been one of those who’s been out there with the ‘war on women’ words.’’ Those who send e-mails with her name on them don’t seem to know that, but she insists that for a long time, “I was hoping it was the odd duck here or there.’’
What the congressman from Missouri has done, though, she says, has shown that’s not the case – and made him “the doggie doo on the shoe of his party, the tattoo on Paul Ryan that they won’t be able to get off.’’
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Republican Candidate for Sheriff in New Hampshire Would Use Deadly Force to Prevent Abortions
Anti-choice zealots already think it well within their right to murder doctors who perform abortions (Dr. Tiller, anyone?). As it turns out, at least one individual aspiring to elected office (law enforcement, no less!) also thinks it well within his right.
Meet Frank Szabo, Republican candidate for Sheriff of Hillsborough County in New Hampshire. Frank announced today that he will stop at nothing — even deadly force — to prevent abortions from occurring in his jurisdiction (even though abortions are legal). He said he will arrest doctors performing abortions (even though abortions are legal). He also said he will do what it takes to prevent a doctor from reforming abortion (even though abortions are legal).
Frank Szabo said that as sheriff, he would arrest any doctor performing elective or late-term abortions in his jurisdiction.
Bitches Just Want to Be Dominated
You really have to read this whole piece to believe it:
What do women want? The conventional biological wisdom is that men select mates for fertility, while women select for status — thus the commonness of younger women’s pairing with well-established older men but the rarity of the converse. The Demi Moore–Ashton Kutcher model is an exception — the only 40-year-old woman Jack Nicholson has ever seen naked is Kathy Bates in that horrific hot-tub scene. Age is cruel to women, and subordination is cruel to men. Ellen Kullman is a very pretty woman, but at 56 years of age she probably would not turn a lot of heads in a college bar, and the fact that she is the chairman and CEO of Dupont isn’t going to change that.
It’s a good thing Mitt Romney doesn’t hang out in college bars.
You want off-the-charts status? Check out the curriculum vitae of one Willard M. Romney: $200 million in the bank (and a hell of a lot more if he didn’t give so much away), apex alpha executive, CEO, chairman of the board, governor, bishop, boss of everything he’s ever touched. Son of the same, father of more. It is a curious scientific fact (explained in evolutionary biology by the Trivers-Willard hypothesis — Willard, notice) that high-status animals tend to have more male offspring than female offspring, which holds true across many species, from red deer to mink to Homo sap. The offspring of rich families are statistically biased in favor of sons — the children of the general population are 51 percent male and 49 percent female, but the children of the Forbes billionaire list are 60 percent male. Have a gander at that Romney family picture: five sons, zero daughters. Romney has 18 grandchildren, and they exceed a 2:1 ratio of grandsons to granddaughters (13:5). When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.
Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.
From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote. All of it. He should get Michelle Obama’s vote. You can insert your own Mormon polygamy joke here, but the ladies do tend to flock to successful executives and entrepreneurs
That’s just part of the first page.
I haven’t read anything like this since the epic Kim du Toit’s Pussification of the Western Male.