Peter Hansen, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Calls Women 'Vaginas' In Email To Colleagues

[onehandle]

Source: Huffington Post

A Republican New Hampshire lawmaker referred to women as "vaginas" in an email to colleagues on the official legislative electronic mailing list earlier this month, drawing outrage from his own party.

State Rep. Peter Hansen (R) made the comment, first reported by New Hampshire political blogger Susan the Bruce, in an April 1 email debate with colleagues about a "stand your ground" gun bill. Hansen's colleague, Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R) had delivered a lengthy floor speech about the benefits of retreating instead of using deadly force, to which Hansen replied in an email:

What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina's of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims.

State Rep. Rick Watrous (D) immediately criticized Hansen for his choice of words. "Are you really using 'vaginas' as a crude catch-all for women? Really?" he wrote. "Please think before you send out such offensive language on the legislative listserve.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/peter-hansen-new-hampshire-vaginas_n_3095135.html

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Could you guess the party of the offender beforehand?

[Iliyah]

1. GOPers have no respect for women

women are only vessels for baby making any means necessary.

[hughee99]

2. No surprise that he didn't even get the grammar right. n/t

[eggplant]

11. Didn't you know? All vagina's are possessive! n/t

[Kber]

31. LOL

[erronis]

40. Forgot to turn on Grammer Czech?

[Baitball Blogger]

3. I wonder what he was thinking when he added the apostrophe?

[VWolf]

22. Yeah, there's something Freudian there, but I'm not sure what it is. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

30. Well, with the way GOP males...

want to control women's vaginas you would think they think they own them.

[Baitball Blogger]

33. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

[msu2ba]

4. How's that outreach thing going for you guys?

"We love you women" just won't cut it.

Boneheads.

[alp227]

5. Rick Ross is a New Hampshire state legislator now? n/t

[calimary]

6. I've come to expect it, unfortunately. "Let me guess: he's a republi-CON."

I can't tell you how many times I've said that too my husband while we're watching the news or some such. And every single damn time, I'm correct. Although sometimes it's "let me guess: she's a republi-CON." And in those cases I'm calling it accurately also.

Pretty pathetic, isn't it? THEY're pretty pathetic, aren't they!

So if objectification is the thing, maybe we should consider the proper corollary to be "Why children and dicks, of course." And THAT turns out to be calling it accurately too.

[Blue_Tires]

36. Sometimes I just want to force the people who vote his type into office

to all line up so they can be slapped with a dead trout

[NoQuarter]

46. No less than

three days dead.

[alittlelark]

7. .... wow.....

[sakabatou]

8. Yeah, guessed beforehand

Republicans ARE against women.

[niyad]

9. he didn't even get the word right--he wrote "vagina's", which is not plural, but a singular

possessive. it appears that neither biology, intelligence, nor english are his strong points.

[edbermac]

10. Spoken like a true dick.

[2naSalit]

14. ...

[cartach]

18. A real prick I would say. EOM

[City Lights]

26. LOL!

[Grins]

29. Well, his name is "Peter"! (N/M)

[Beacool]

51. Wuuuahhhhahhhaaa!!!!

[fujiyama]

12. This reveals their real feel toward women. To most republican men

all women are, are holes to stick their dicks in, and baby carriers.

[AAO]

13. Do these people have working brains?

I'm not talking about the brain stem - theirs are working overtime. It's the grey matter or lack thereof that concerns me.

[delrem]

15. Aside from that total fuckup, what in hell is he trying to say? Sounds like a total mind-mess. nt

[freshwest]

16. Just part of the rebranding they began in 2012. Note, no more elephants:

GOP Changes Party Logo to a Proud Red Cock, The Symbol of a New Dawn

In an effort to reform their negative image as the party of the past, the Republican Party has unveiled their new logo, a proud red cock to replace their elephant logo.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus unveiled the new logo after the President’s State of the Union Address. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said, “the simple fact is that we really need a new image to connect to a new generation of voters. We needed a logo that speaks to a new generation, with a new message of personal and economic freedom and not the so-called values of the Democratic Party. I’m one hundred percent positive that when people see our proud red cock they’re be no doubt in their mind what we truly stand for and what direction we’ll head this country in.”

The Elephant Logo dates to the 1870?s and which symbolizes that the GOP never forgets but much has been said about the fact the stars on the GOP logo are up-side down and many believe its thinly veiled satanic symbolism. The new GOP logo is supposed to represent the coming of a new day, looking forward to bright future. We asked Brad Mathers and his partner Sergio who own an art boutique in downtown Seattle their thoughts and they said, “we were quite impressed when they unfurled their proud red cock logo here in Seattle at the Newt for President headquarters across the street from our boutique, we were just wowed at how enormous and stunning it was, Sergio couldn’t believe it, the Newt people must really love their proud red cock. Us Democrats really need a new and robust logo as well, perhaps something like a stallion or a majestic owl with its wings stretched.”

We caught up with Newt Gingrich and asked him what his thoughts were and his reply was, “as you can see I’m wearing my proud red cock and I hate to take credit but I recommended the proud red cock logo during the Clinton years but we got side tracked by the Lewinsky scandal and President Clinton’s infidelity and the impeachment process. I recommended it back then because I felt portrayed the values that the party stood for and it portrays my personal values.” We asked the Romney Campaign for a comment but Gov. Romney declined to comment due to the fact that because of his Mormon upbringing he prefers to call the new GOP logo the “rooster thingy.”

http://www.freewoodpost.com/2012/01/26/gop-changes-party-logo-to-a-proud-red-cock-the-symbol-of-a-new-dawn/

[cosmicone]

17. The real descent from morality is reducing people to their genitalia.

It is not abortion, it is not sexual preference, it is not sexual freedom. The real immorality is demeaning a whole group of people by referring to them as equal to their sex organs.

[MelungeonWoman]

19. Why do I get the feeling he originally dropped the C bomb...

which was then cleaned up by a staffer. Are there people who actually refer to women as vaginas?

[Doctor_J]

24. Yep. The quote would make more sense that way

You are spot on.

[Blue_Tires]

35. +100

[blkmusclmachine]

20. Vaginas Unite!

[Shadowflash]

21. Makes sense

As that's the only thing Rethuglicans see when they look at women.

[tanyev]

23. It's only a matter of time until some enterprising RWer brings out a line of sheets with a hole.

"1500 count Egyptian Cotton for that special vagina in your life"

[whathehell]

45. HA !

Good one.

[City Lights]

25. Major league asswipe.

Sounds like a real gem.

[toby jo]

27. The Republican chair of New Hampshire, Jennifer Horn, denounced his statements.

I wonder that no men in his party had anything to say.

His original response was basically 'fu'. But eventually he offered a lame apology.

Dirty stuff considering that NH is pretty progressive.

[Liberalynn]

32. Who couldn't guess the party before hand?

I know your question was rhetorical. The Pukes misogyny is one of the main reasons I am a Democrat.

[ZRT2209]

34. so insecure with their manhood they need the state to enforce gender discrimination for them

[Mopar151]

37. More fun with the idiot here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251300033

[Ken Burch]

38. uh..."the bowels of Amsterdam"?

What DO these Republicans get up to on vacation?

[TygrBright]

39. Since I regularly refer to male GOPpies as dicks, I have no moral standing to take offense here.

But I can still enjoy the hell out of watching a dick be a dick in the full glare of publicity.

appreciatively,
Bright

[olddad56]

41. What a penis.

[smirkymonkey]

43. What I was going to say!

[struggle4progress]

42. p.u.

[VA_Jill]

44. I guess that makes him

a DICK.

[DURHAM D]

48. So you have no problem with him calling women "vagina's"... ?

Welcome back. NOT

[leftyladyfrommo]

49. Is there no end to the stupidity?

It is simply mind boggling.

[Beacool]

50. Vaginas!!!!!!!!!!!

What a dick!!!!!!!!!!!!

[olddad56]

53. His name is Peter.

[Beacool]

54. Good point.

I hadn't noticed. Well, then it's even more appropriate.

[onehandle]

56. If I recall, some state house reprimanded a female rep over using the word 'Vagina' on the floor.

This was during last year's hatefest on the ladies.

The GOP needs to issue a clear statement on who can and can not use that word.

Please educate us, peabrains.

[Beacool]

57. What they need is classes in anatomy and human sexuality.

Some act as if births were immaculate conceptions. Don't these maroons have wives, girlfriends or daughters who can educate them?

Geez..............

[Locut0s]

52. I shouldn't be laughing but I am. The intent and disrespect is still horrible but it's also just so.

Just so childish and immature it's like something a naughty 5 year old might say.

[Beacool]

55. It brings to mind Beavis and Butthead.

He said vagina......he, he, he.

Sophomoric humor.

[Hekate]

58. Says the prick....

Jeez.