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Vagina remarks, silencing of Michigan lawmakers draws firestorm online
11:00 AM, June 15, 2012
Compiled by Jason Karas
Detroit Free Press Staff
What started out as a debate in the Michigan House of Representatives spilled out to the Web yesterday. And while state Reps. Lisa Brown of West Bloomfield and Barb Byrum of Onondaga were banned from speaking by the Republican leadership, that didnt stop pundits and bloggers from chiming in.
Naomi McAuliffe writes for The Guardian:
Apparently, when discussing a medical procedure, it's not really appropriate to use medical words. Well not about lady bits anyway. It makes me wonder what euphemisms would be acceptable. "Will the representative get his hand out of the otter's pocket?" "Can the honourable gentleman refrain from trespassing in the lady cave?"
Allison Yarrow from the Daily Beast writes:
Brown said that the Republican leadership did not tell her why she was banned. In her brief floor remarks Wednesday, she also explained that as a Jewish woman, she chooses to keep kosher in her home, and that she also abided by the Jewish tenet dating back to the biblical era that abortions performed in order to preserve the life of the mother are not only permissible, but mandatory.
more, lots more...
http://www.freep.com/article/20120615/BLOG36/120615034/vagina-Michigan-House-Representatives-Lisa-Brown-Barb-Byrum-abortion?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Apparently, when discussing a medical procedure, it's not really appropriate to use medical words. Well not about lady bits anyway. It makes me wonder what euphemisms would be acceptable. "Will the representative get his hand out of the otter's pocket?" "Can the honourable gentleman refrain from trespassing in the lady cave?"
I love these two women and that they can inject some humor while exposing the utter absurdity of it all.
K/R
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)How long did it take the teabaggers to figure out we were mocking them. Granted it is hard to mock an idiot.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Hey hey Goodbye!
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)the MSM.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 15, 2012, 07:43 PM - Edit history (1)
the women up. that is all around wrong.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)no problems using the word abortion for every fricking thing they find objectionable about contraception.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)gets to dictate what's appropriate for her to say. That's kind of the point of the exercise.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)That little matter of "vagina" being the medically correct terminology for THE VAGINA is beyond certain pea brains.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)so there are all these young girls with well meaning parents who are learning about their anatomy incorrectly. I had a co-worker, a young woman, who thought "vulva" was a Swedish car...
It's odd. They're just words...accurate, medical terms...
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)The vulva is the EXTERNAL genital folds. The vagina is the hole and its lining.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)deal with "vulva." And I do think it has to do with the clitoris, I just don't know why.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)Whatever the correct terminology is in context, you mean to tell me that just saying the word vagina is enough to allow you to get kicked out of the session? Lisa is my Representative, I supported and voted for her. Please don't disparage the action by semantics. It sounds like all the male Republicans we have serving here. Trite and misogynistic.
What if State Rep. Martin Knollenberg (R) said that his penis was affected by global warming or lack there of? Do you really think he'd get kicked out of session for saying penis? Good bet not!!
I'm so sorry if I missed your point.
crunch60
(1,412 posts)minds want to know....
immoderate
(20,885 posts)I see the women as provocative. And I think it would have been hard to respond similarly if they had said "uterus."
For the record, the Republicans are assholes, and these Reps have the right to say whatever they want.
I wonder if they didn't wind up doing well, considering...
--imm
drm604
(16,230 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)Sorry this was in response to crunch60
Old eyes, quick finger!
SoutherDem
(2,307 posts)Wasn't it Michigan which the day before railroad through a voter suppression law by holding a voice count only although the number to stop it had their objections entered into the minutes?
So that is democracy, agree with me or you can't speak?
Warpy
(111,359 posts)and preventing them from debating an issue that affects their constituents should result in legal action and not against the members in possession of vaginas.
Those prissy men need to spend a night in the can for contempt.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)I want to say somewhere that the attitude and actions of these Mich. repubs absolutely disgust me.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)why can't Jews object to laws prohibiting them from saving a mother's life by aborting a child?
Same principle of freedom to practice your religion. Of course, Scalia wrote that the law that is not religious in nature must be followed, not the religion. I think the case is called Smith. I'm not going to look it up but if you want the link, I could find it. Just ask me.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)and they are fucking idiots. if they are too prissy to hear the medically correct terms for those parts of a women's body they are trying to control, they have no business passing laws related to women's bodies. absolutely sickening
yewberry
(6,530 posts)JamesBolger@house.mi.gov
I did it, and so can you!
donheld
(21,311 posts)and make a visible protest?
edbermac
(15,947 posts)From Monty Python's Meaning Of Life, just to ridicule these neocon nutcases.