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Related: About this forumPeter Hansen, New Hampshire Lawmaker, Calls Women 'Vaginas' In Email To Colleagues
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 [SIC]."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/peter-hansen-new-hampshire-vaginas_n_3095135.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
You gotta wonder what word he REALLy wanted to use....
BainsBane
(53,003 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)From PEOPLE on du. Or is this one to feel disrespected about. Who the fuck is to know. Ya. Waiting for the people to tell me when it is cute, cuddly, funny and when it is disrespectful.
Thanks for the info
Fuckers.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)makes you feel. It means you can't ban words or posters who use them, big difference.
I'd rather be offended from time to time than have to cope with censorship.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Feel disrespected or be offended. And when someone actually tells me slurs against blacks and gay should not be banned cause it is cencorship is when I will buy into that argument.
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Feeling offended, or raising consciousness of the harmful effects of words is not the same thing as censorship. People can say what they like. I can tell them how I feel about it.
Simple.
JustJoe
(694 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Susan fights the good fight each and every day.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)a hoot.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a pig.