Soapbox

Empower This!

    I had some fun last night making fun of Mike Huckabee's recent statement about women and how the GOP is actually empowering them, fighting a war FOR women not on them, and that liberals only want birth control pills covered by health insurance because they think women 'cannot control their libidos'.
    Right! Whereas Mike and Rick Santorm know that, with the right "empowerment" (which apparently is code for 'Pioneer women didn't need Gal insurance. ladies, and neither do you!") we can stop being sluts who need our daily slut pills from "Uncle Sugar".  Barfity-barf! As one blogger said "The way I control my libido is by thinking about Mike Huckabee".
    But this morning, another phrase he used caught my eye.

    Huckabee said that GOP policy initiatives (like no birth control coverage, closing Planned Parenthood clinics, wanting the IRS to audit your rape and unnecessary transvaginal probes) are unfairly labeled a 'war on women' when in fact, this is how the Republican party helps American women "be something other than victims of their gender".

    Excuse me? A victim of my gender?
    Ex- freakin- SCUSE ME!!????

    Getting affordable women's health care (the way men get their gender-specific health needs covered) makes me a victim of my gender? But needing prostate exams and all the low-T cream and boner pills you guys apparently can't live without doesn't make you victims of your gender?

    Yes, female America: Unplanned Pregnancy is freedom!  The Republican party wants you to know that untreated hormonal imbalance is liberty!!  And letting your rapist stop you from having an abortion is empowerment. You're welcome, girls. Now go make Mike a sandwich.
    And old Huck and the wise all-male committees of the GOP want to magically help me rise ABOVE my nasty, slutty lady parts… by restricting my access to health care. Gosh, instead of fighting it, maybe I should just lay back, close my eyes and enjoy all the power, huh?

    Huckabee wants America to believe that if you take away a low-income woman's access to Pap smears and mammograms, take away her ability to control her hormones and control her fertility (in some way other than by Withholding Sex, guys- think about it!) and saddle her with child after child which she cannot feed– you empower her.

    That is cruel, misogynistic and it's massively, mind-bogglingly Stupid!
     But what can you expect from people that would empower the unemployed- not by helping them find jobs, but by denying assistance, and who think that the way to help hungry people rise above their poverty is by taking away their FOOD!?