As a woman

[lindac007]

As a woman I am getting pretty damned tired of being considered a mere collection of body parts to be governed over by men in black robes, people, (including ignorant women who kowtow to men) who preach at me on the floor of the people's house about what I can do with my body and by priests who can't keep it in their pants. Most of the people who do the preaching wouldn't know an elbow from a uterus, claim to be "pro life", but couldn't care any less about the lives of women and in fact couldn't be more dismissive of the lives of children born into this world to parents who for whatever reason, did not want them and could not care for them.

I am a woman, fully grown with all the capabilities to reason, probably better than any man alive. If people don't like abortion, then don't have one. If you don't like Planned Parenthood, don't go and don't send your money to them. There are many things my government supports with which I disagree and yet, I am compelled to pay for them with my tax dollars. People need to grow up in this country.

I know this has been said before, but I am angry and needed to repeat it.

[renie408]

1. Sing it, Sister!

[roguevalley]

27. some good gal in a state legislature posed a bill that men had to have

a full rectal exam to get viagra. it got voted down of course.

[RevStPatrick]

29. And that was followed up this week with something even funnier...

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/lawmaker-proposes-bill-life-begins-not-at-conception-but-at-ejaculation/politics/2012/02/08/34402

Lawmaker Proposes Bill: Life Begins Not At Conception But At Ejaculation

Democratic Oklahoma state Senator Constance Johnson has proposed a bill that would make it illegal for a man to ejaculate anywhere except into a woman’s sexual organs, giving an even more extreme twist to the current so-called “personhood” laws cropping up across conservative states.

We need more of this kind of thing, to shut these control-freak guys up...

[tech_smythe]

41. It was a man, and I agreed with him

if you're gonna make women jump through hoops to get contraception which has been around for 80+ years, then a man needs a finger poked up his butt to get boner pills.

Especially since ED is usually a symptom of something much more serious

[Ilsa]

2. Well said & Thank You! nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. I am with you!!

I'm sick of my body being used as a marketing ploy too; of the macho sentiment seen in too many venues that objectifies us AND feels compelled to add a big helping of contempt to it, (the kleenex attitude--use 'em and throw 'em away)

[RevStPatrick]

4. As a man...

I totally agree with you!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. agreed. a very private issue to be determined between a woman and her Doctor.

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Funding should be provided if any woman can not provide it.

Nobody should interfere between Dr/patient.

[EFerrari]

6. Preach.

[prairierose]

7. Thanks for saying this so clearly...

more of us need to say this out loud and tell the bullies to sit down and STFU.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Absolutely!!

[Taverner]

9. As a man, I am sick of it too. Let's play "walk a mile in someone else's shoes" for a minute...

Imagine you, a male, could not get a condom without a prescription. And you had to be 18 to buy one. Add to that that if conception occurs, it is you who must carry the fetus to term. Now imagine that if you didn't want said fetus, you had no job, no money. In fact, let's just say you are in an economic system that places the burden of capital production on the opposite sex, so getting a job of your own is tougher than it is the other sex. And if you do get a job, you get paid less for the same work. Oh, and add to that the morning sickness, extra weight, extra rations of food, fatigue, etc. Now, add to the equation that any and all government assistance that might help is being slashed right and left.

You don't want the kid, yet by law you have to carry it to term.

If you still have questions, try this experiment at home: carry around a shotput on your body for 9 months, take ipecac every morning and order every meal supersized. Then, about midday, take a sleeping pill. Oh, and go to every job interview with a big, red, "A" on your forehead.

[Skittles]

31. TAVENER NAILS IT!!

yes INDEED

[Honeycombe8]

35. Oh, my. (heart, heart, heart) Are you married??????

Just kidding!

A very nice post from a very nice man! It's appreciated.

[Control-Z]

38. Thank you for a most excellent reply.

I so wish I could recommend it!!

[The Doctor.]

39. That is the sacred key.

"Put the shoe on the other foot". That is how we can root out injustice every day.

Thanks for bringing it.

[hue]

52. 9 months of pregnancy is just the beginning--->then the hours of labor & delivery...

the healing of the birth canal & perineum, swollen breasts, sleepless nights...
Oh if men had to go through just one menstrual period all the laws would be changed, child care would be one of the highest paid jobs, LOA for birth would be a year or more....etc.

[Taverner]

54. Yep...I think I just scratched the surface

And I agree

[hifiguy]

10. Brava!!

This middle-aged male agrees with EVERY WORD in your excellent post.

[WCGreen]

11. I wholeheartedly agree...

[Solly Mack]

12. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread, linda.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I'm a man, and I agree 100% with this OP.

People need to worry about the body attached to their own head, not anyone else's.

[one_voice]

15. Nicely put!!...

agree 100%!

[hamsterjill]

16. Agree 100%

And as a middle aged woman, I am sick of the SAME arguments being rehashed that were put to bed in the 60's!!!

Who in their right mind would not want birth control available to anyone who wanted it? If someone disapproves of the use of birth control, then they shouldn't use it. Hell, maybe they'll wind up with a television show on TLC! But do not...and I repeat...DO NOT trample on my right and the rights of others to have it available, have it safe, and have it plentiful.

That stupid fight was fought and won decades ago, and I will not stand silently by while some idiots in this country try to drive the country back into the dark ages. I am woman...hear me roar! Trust me, I have NOT forgotten how to do that!

[Ferretherder]

46. hamsterjill, as a middle aged man, I agree with your assessment...

...but, I have a bad feeling that, with the current state of political division in this country, this may be a battle that will have to be fought again!

Unbefreakinlievable!

[hamsterjill]

50. I'm sure you are correct, Ferretherder!

And I will be proud to have enlightened gentlemen, such as you, alongside me when we go back to battle over these issues! Those that believe in equality for women have been silent far too long. I have been heartened by the recent issue with the Komen foundation, where more voices were speaking up. I hope that means that there are still enough of us who believe in equality in this country to overrule the idiots who want to put women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant!

I'd like a better future than that for my daughter, after all!

[AsahinaKimi]

17. agree

wholeheartedly!

[Worried senior]

18. Very well said

and you are 100% right.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MADem]

20. The "Party of Less Government" still wants the government to tell you what you CANNOT do.

That's the whole irony, there! So much simpler to say--be it abortion, gay marriage, what-have-you....don't like it? Don't do it! Problem solved!

[cate94]

21. Exactly

[peace frog]

22. Right on, sistah!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

23. Amen, sister!!!

[malaise]

24. Well said

Rec

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

25. Meanwhile, there's a fucking penile dysfunction commercial on every 5 fucking minutes!

UGH!!!!!

[CTyankee]

26. drives me nuts too. I mute the damn thing...

there seem to be quite a few commercials out there -- mostly jewelry and resort ads -- that are devoted to men trying to get laid, the perpetual chase...

[Honeycombe8]

37. I hear he's ready...well, "all the time!" nt

[sufrommich]

28. I feel a groundswell of like minded women speaking up,

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hopefully this war on women raises awareness across the country.

[Tx4obama]

30. Exactly! I've been really pissed the past couple of days ...

and especially this morning while watching Morning Joe - a bunch of men sitting around spouting off about what is a WOMEN'S ISSUE,
and Mika sitting there not hollering at the men! She should have said: What gives you the right to say that a woman's birth control bill prescription shouldn't be paid for by their insurance company? And why do you think that insurance companies should pay for a man's Viagra but not a woman's medicine?

Grrrr....

And then one of the cable networks had a Catholic bishop on as a guest, and he was an asshole. He shouldn't be on TV spewing his BS about what insurance companies should be and should not be paying for regarding WOMEN.

Bottom line: We need MORE females in The Senate, in The House, in all levels of government (state and local), on TV as 'talking heads', etc.

Not long ago I composed an OP here at DU www.democraticunderground.com/100292720
about the need for more 'females' in The U.S. Congress and there were a couple replies that inferred that 'gender' wasn't that important.

YES GENDER DOES MATTER.

There is a no better advocate for women's rights than a WOMAN!

[WheelWalker]

32. Indeed.

[Spazito]

33. Well said...

I join you in being "pretty damn tired" of the same crap you have eloquently laid out in your OP.

and Recommended.

[TroglodyteScholar]

34. "I am a woman, fully grown with all the capabilities to reason, probably better than any man alive."

I'm just a stupid man, but I was agreeing with you there for a minute... Then you had to go and reinforce the awful "hysterical woman" stereotype with the ridiculous statement I quoted above. Way to go!

[Honeycombe8]

36. Tell it to the world! I am Woman....hear me roar!

Okay, a silly throwback. But still, we women have not been standing up for ourselves in recent years. It's time for that to change.

[mistertrickster]

40. Wow, all these positive responses from DUers.

How are the angry angry people going to condemn their fellow DUers for being sexist if we keep fighting for our rights like this?

[EFerrari]

42. A long time ago, I moderated a listserv for couples in trouble

most of them going through a divorce. When I was planning a retreat, one of our members told me, "Don't put me in with those really angry guys". Well, as the weeks rolled by, I was nailing down details with him and said, "I remembered not to put you in with those really angry guys." And he says, "You know, now I AM one of those really angry guys".

lol

[mistertrickster]

43. Heh . . . thanks

I enjoyed that.

[nolabear]

44. You and me both, Darlin'.

My last nerve is just about gone.

[secondwind]

45. My husband is tired of hearing me say the same thing!

[NC_Nurse]

47. Yep. Get your nose out of MY business andnyour religion out of MY healthcare!

[Chorophyll]

48. Go ahead and say it as much as you want!

You said it well!

[lunatica]

49. It makes me mad too.

But this is a Presidential election year and women's bodies are now officially a wedge issue to get everyone all riled up.

[Blue Owl]

51. P.S. Fuck Rick Santorum

n/t

[ceile]

53. Amen! n/t