Republicans: "Sex trafficking exists because women wanted control of their own bodies"

[CousinIT]

ALSO, Republicans promote sexual & reproductive slavery for women and they don't give a damn if they are murdered or mutilated either (VAWA and FGM)


MORE evidence. The opposite of love is not hate. It is INDIFFERENCE. In this case, complete INDIFFERENCE to the humanity of female humans. Females in this World have no clue how much males just really don't care about them (in general):


The Devil Admin decides not to appeal ruling in first FGM case:
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/04/11/1803037/0/en/Disappointment-at-the-U-S-Department-of-Justice-decision-not-to-appeal-ruling-in-the-first-federal-genital-mutilation-case.html


157 Republicans Just Opposed Renewing The Violence Against Women Act
They sided with the National Rifle Association over women’s safety. Not a good look!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-oppose-violence-against-women-act_n_5ca68295e4b047edf957b5e1


Claire McCaskill:

Link to tweet

I didn’t go to one of those fancy private schools, but the history I learned in public schools & Mizzou taught me that the evidence of trafficking of women for sex goes back to before 2000 BC. It didn’t begin with women’s rights and the birth control pill. @HawleyMo

Oh and how is THIS for "pro-life", eh?

Texas Bill Would Make Abortion Punishable by the Death Penalty (This is what reproductive slavery looks like)

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/texas-bill-would-expose-women-having-abortion-to-execution.html

[47of74]

1. I hate Republicans

At all levels. The day the party goes away there will be a shout of joy the likes of which were not heard since the fall of the Reich.

[FiveGoodMen]

18. The R party (or something like it) will always exist

It is the gathering-place for all of the evil Americans.

And that's 1 in 3.

It would take genocide to rid us of these devils.

[wasupaloopa]

2. The opposite of love is hate. Most men support women. I don't know what you are trying to

promote here.

The Republicans in congress act like they are anti women because their religious base oppose laws giving women control of their reproductive lives. But even the repubs in congress and the religious right do not comprise most men. In general men support women. The people you talk about are the minority.

Telling the truth is what we want trump to do. We should too.

So many OPs like this are over dramatic for some reason. My guess is they get a lot of replies that way.

[lostnfound]

3. War against women is resurgent. Please help. Abortion laws, FGM, EHBs, VAWA

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We are a little enraged about it. And fearful.
If doctors were cutting off penises of young boys at behest of their parents, would the administration take a position not to prosecute? FGM is not circumcision.

This OP has lots of interesting content. For example, I had never thought to make a connection between the forced breeding of slave women as livestock and abortion laws. Come to think of it, we weren’t really taught that forced breeding was a thing— slaves came in slave ships and picked cotton in the field. But forced breeding? That is a great topic to illuminate; it is a blind spot in how we are educated about slavery. How many of the male GOP leaders pushing against abortion come from a line of slaveholding men who PROFITED FROM the rape and intentional forced breeding of enslaved women?

Do most men love women? Yes, maybe “most” at certain ages. But there’s an 18 year old boy in San Antonio Texas who just murdered his own mother this week. And 171 republicans in Congress refuse to support women in getting guns out of the hands of their abusive partners. Women are killed every day by men who supposedly “loved” them. Sex trafficking is a thing that too many powerful men seem to patronize. And women making 80 cents on the dollar might be spending an extra $100 a year on birth control not to mention expensive hygiene products. Don’t get me started on the already-born men who selfishly want to save themselves money on health insurance by carving out pregnancy benefits. Selfishness is an epidemic.

The men I know are mostly loving, worthwhile people. But blind spots have a way of multiplying. And many men whose power has ascended — the Republicans in Washington and in state legislatures — are one big walking blind spot.

I miss one powerful man who I know loved women. Barack Obama. Too many others grow up with hate, resentment, or indifference in their hearts.

Don’t feel attacked by a broad brush. Pick up a brush and help us. We need allies. We need the message to get out. We need these clueless and twisted descendants of slaveowners to be disempowered and their electorate to wake the hell up.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

10. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[smirkymonkey]

15. Hear, Hear!

[greymattermom]

4. Didn't they ever learn to

masturbate? What's wrong with them? Sex robots might just be the answer.

[eShirl]

5. Republican "logic."

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. Sex trafficking exists primarily because...

There are men who cannot control their MENTAL and PHYSICAL penis.

Cannot say for sure it’s only men, but even I’m very dubious of what I just typed.

Men try to control women’s bodies in any way, almost any scenario. Penis envy? I do believe men have vagina envy.

[CousinIT]

11. Men who try to control women's bodies do it because they don't want to have to control their own.

And our society and legal system has never required them to control their own bodies.

It's a unique male privilege that they get to pawn responsibility for their own (mis)behavior (and the consequences of it) off onto women and girls, making females responsible for male behavior (which is impossible since the only people who can possibly control male behavior are males themselves). But they're allowed to make women and girls responsible anyway. And they're allowed to enslave women and girls sexually & reproductively, as well as incriminate, mutilate or murder them for daring to even try to control their own bodies.

Men who try to control what women do with their bodies do it because they don't want to be responsible for controlling their own -- which is the only one they realistically can or should control. Contrary to popular belief, women and girls can't control male bodies or behavior. Women and girls CAN control their own bodies and behavior -- but they're severely punished when they try. And -- when they don't.

The guys -- well they can pretty much do whatever they want.

[ehrnst]

7. Male entitlement to women's bodies. It's an assumption they are owed sex from women. (nt)

[dlk]

8. This is What the Backlash Against Women's Rights Looks Like

To paraphrase, how can any society ever advance, in a meaningful way, if they are determined to repress over half of their population? Sadly, there are too many men who love maintaining women as a permanent servant class. It will take women. and the men who truly care about them, continuing to organize and unite in the struggle for fairness and equality.

[UniteTheLeft]

9. They will not stop.

Fascist religious zealots like these only ever want more for themselves and, less for everyone they think are less than themselves. The fact that this texas bill was even allowed to be proposed without some sort of ethics/procedural rules violation in the texan state congress is what is truly mind numbing.

There is an active cabal of these wanna be "Republic of Gilead" old testament style biblical christians in every political office of power in the country. If fiction like A Handmaid's Tale becomes a reality is not the question, only when and how soon.

[Mersky]

12. We must reclaim the discourse on reproductive rights

Texan here, aghast at the latest women hating policies from the GOP. They have lost their damn minds. I'm frequently in deep red areas of Texas, and have some kind of influence among my conservative family members. I bring up politics about once a quarter with each, any more often and I'd lose my mind. I don't shut away from abortion discussion, because of some false need to respect religious views. It ain't about religion folks, it's just plain logic.

I use two lines of reasoning when explaining why pro choice is not pro abortion:

1) I have used the phrase, "it is because I am for more life that I am pro choice". Depending on the person, I might say, I'm pro choice, because I'm pro life (this cause great, in the moment confusion... Then they might listen). Then I quickly follow with, if the goal is to for a society to have fewer abortions, then it needs to remain safe and legal. Then I say something like if your goal is to shame women and increase abortion rates, then take away women's healthcare including contraception and legal abortion. Then, in the air, I draw the chart of the rate starting at 1973, steep climb to 1980, then gradual slope to the early nineties. I explain that the spike in the rate after Roe v Wade was likely due to underreporting. Then I might go on to question why abortion rates are the same or higher in countries where it is illegal.

2) Here's my less than scientific point that'll make people chuckle: All else being equal, if men birthed babies, getting an abortion would be as easy as shopping at a Sam's club.

New material: I recently met a woman who had have a medically necessary abortion in the early 1950s. It saved her life as she battled an illness. She would go on to have three kids and seven grandchildren. Stunned me. Incenses me that men in some marbled building would have the gall to wedge themselves between a woman and her doctor.

Tell your right wing family members why you are pro choice. Don't argue about religion, just try to get some logic and information to them. I think just getting any question into their mind is helpful, because there's so much bad information that has them trapped. Makes me so mad we even have to have this debate again.

[Iggo]

13. For these guys, it's all about fucking, ain't it. (n/t)

[Ilsa]

14. Sexual obsession.

Everything wrong with the world is because of Eve.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Yes. But only for men.

Women are just objects to stick their penises into. They aren't supposed to get any pleasure from it. If they do, they have to be punished.

[Initech]

17. WTF is wrong with them????

Oh wait - domestic abusers are a large part of "the base". Wouldn't want to offend "the base" now would we?

[shanti]

19. That is grotesque!

There appear to be no depths to the depravity of the Republicans!