Hey Ladies---check out who testified at the birth control hearing on the Hill today.

[trumad]

"What I want to know is, where are the women?" Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) asked Issa before walking out of the hearing after the first panel. "I look at this panel, and I don't see one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventative health care services, including family planning. Where are the women?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/contraception-hearing-house-democrats-walk-out_n_1281730.html

[blue neen]

1. Well, that picture says it all, doesn't it?

They certainly wouldn't want women to be in charge of their own bodies.

The picture is worth a thousand words.

[Lugnut]

9. It sure does.

[lunatica]

28. This is an older version of the same subject

photoshopped so you can tell what the subject of their legislation was

[a kennedy]

2. Holy Crap!!! men everywhere!!!

[jwirr]

3. I assume that this picture was taken before the women walked out or are those rethug women?

[trumad]

5. There was no women testifying at the hearding.

"What I want to know is, where are the women?" Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) asked Issa before walking out of the hearing after the first panel. "I look at this panel, and I don't see one single individual representing the tens of millions of women across the country who want and need insurance coverage for basic preventative health care services, including family planning. Where are the women?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/contraception-hearing-house-democrats-walk-out_n_1281730.html

[joeybee12]

4. Oh yeah...the Happy Valentine's Day banner has been taken down! Good catch!

Unless you mean IT'S ALL MEN!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Well, of course! You don't think females have anything to contribute to the

discussion do you?

[Happyhippychick]

7. No dwarves?

[blue neen]

11. The dwarves were busy making Snow White get a transvaginal ultrasound.

Those dwarves are very proud of themselves that they have violated Snow White's basic rights as a human being.

[Cleita]

8. Was this the hearing held by Darryl Issa where women were excluded?

Issa belongs in prison, not running the Ethics Committee. He is the least ethical person in Congress and now it seems he's also a sexist oinker.

[Quantess]

10. Isn't this political suicide?

Most people approve of birth control. A lot of women vote, too.

[jwirr]

18. And most men approve of birth control. Just as them if they want to be a father in nine months. It

is a real losing issue for the rethugs and the Catholic church.

[Fawke Em]

20. Better yet, ask them if they want sexless relationships.

If women don't have access to affordable and reasonable birth control, then men won't be getting as much as women take stock of which is more important.

[Arugula Latte]

29. I'm wondering if they're all in little bubbles & they think everyone is a religious freak like them

Otherwise, I can't figure it out.

[bluerum]

12. Yeah. That's pitifully dysfunctional. Sickening.

And the catholic church careens even further into irrelevance.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. What a disgrace

The Dems in the Senate (who chair and control committees vs the House where repukes control) should hold a counter-hearing and let it all out...

[Whisp]

41. and some people get all in a flap when the word 'patriarchy' is spoken

to these people, do you fucking get it now? does this kind of sick shit make it clearer for you? (not directed at you, BumRush, just ranting here. sorry)


do you understand now that things really aren't so peachy keen equal and shit for women when the dominant male makes the rules for us in every facet of our lives?

fuck!

[JHB]

14. Plenty of diversity there!

All sorts of different white collars and neckties! And there's a black guy! And a woman, in the back sandwiched between 3 men on each side. And someone in a green sweater who I can't see well enough to tell if it's a man or a woman.

That's diverse, right? What more perspective do you need?

[The Doctor.]

15. Two.

That's it. Two.

And I'm guessing they weren't representative of the women behind them.

[Quantess]

23. The 2 women got to particiate in the second installment of the hearing. Not the first part.

The first part of the hearing was all sausage fest.

[Viking12]

33. ...and they were both anti-choice rightwing zealots

[sufrommich]

16. I'm so proud of my sisters for refusing to

take part in this clown show. Women are waking up to the GOP war on them, they will pay at the ballot box.

[flamingdem]

22. +100

so true

[Honeycombe8]

17. I'm so glad she at least SAID something! This is truly shocking, that this would happen in this day

and age. Is this the 21st century, or isn't it?

If we're going to have reps from the Catholic Church, let's see some nuns up there, at least.

[JHB]

24. That would require putting the nuns in a position to speak for the church...

...which is another no-no, as far as the church hierarchy is concerned.

[Whisp]

19. bunch of fat ugly pigs

a scene from some horrid futurist movie happening right before our eyes.

fat ugly asshole pigs, mind your own fucking business - look after your own pee pees, you wankers.

[Rex]

21. A very telling picture indeed.

nt

[MichiganVote]

25. So where's the bonfire for the purification of the witches? Shameless.

All those men and I'm supposed to believe that not one of them ever has ever had sex with a woman who uses a contraceptive?

[cyglet]

36. Remember, with the GOP

it's "do as I say, not as I do"....

[malaise]

26. Unbelievable

[MineralMan]

27. That bunch of guys have all the contraception

they need right on their faces, it seems to me. Buncha scowling morons...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. All of them testifying for MISTER God.

Does god have a penis? And, if so, why?

[Remember Me]

34. "When God is a man, all men are gods."

-- Sonia Johnson, who was excommunicated from the LDS church which she loved because of her battle in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment. Her book, From Housewife to Heretic, is wonderful. It may be a little dated by now (I read it a long time ago), but quite an eye-opener even so, I'll bet. A few juicy tidbits in there about the ass known as Orin Hatch, too.

[usregimechange]

31. Sausage fest

[Canuckistanian]

32. Hope they cleaned up all that testosterone

It stains carpets if it sets in.

[Tsiyu]

35. So we can put to rest the myth that there is no

"male privilege."

When Issa refused to let a woman testify, as she was "not an expert on religious freedom" or some such, he showed how you marginalize women. It makes half of us mute, absent, neglected and invisible in this house of law, while it taxes us and regulates us. We have no representation when this brutish, Talibanish behavior is tolerated.

Now we all will agree, we are, each of us, experts on our own religious freedom. The Constitution makes that plain. The federal government cannot decide that we all must live under the rules of one religion or another. "Religious Freedom" means you can use contraceptives and family planning if you like, or you can spit out a few dozen kids, no holds barred or diaphragmed, if that's your choice.

Why are Republicans trying to claim that a belief that 'contraceptives are the devil' should be acknowledged as anything with which the federal government must be concerned? Will we hold hearings on the Easter Bunny next week? And why do they call denying the rest of us contraceptives "religious freedom?" Is it only freedom for them when they are taking away another's liberty?

Personally, I think Republicans are all going to hell where the fire dyeth not and the worm is not quenched and there is everlasting torment and no liquor. I believe that Republicans should NEVER be allowed any sort of leadership or legislative role in our society. That belief is a very important part of my faith.

Will they hold hearings to acknowledge my belief? If we're going to talk about the moral things we should be doing, I've got a few suggestions myself.

[lonestarnot]

37. WTF!

[felix_numinous]

38. "And not one of them you would want to have sex with anyway'

George Carlin was right. I think these guys are out for some sick revenge on women, seriously. Misogynists--all of em.

[saras]

39. And the men are too old to understand reproduction... if they ever did

[Beacool]

40. Paternalistic much?

Nope, we can't trust the little ladies to know how to manage their lives. They need the guidance of men. Women should stay in the home to take care of their husbands and children. The poor things are too emotional to work outside the home, serve in combat, and heaven forfend, be president.