Jeff Ward: Disdain for Women Is GOP's Death Knell

This new tactic marks the official end of the ultra-conservative movement.

If I had a daughter and she gave me just two choices, I’d advise her to take up stripping before seeing her become a member of the Republican Party. I cannot understand why any self-respecting woman would willingly join the GOP—or the Catholic Church, for that matter. Though I will defend anyone’s God-given right to make bad decisions to my death, the GOP's unofficial war on women baffles me. When I previously wrote about beauty contests, cheerleaders and Halloween costumes, I was trying to tackle the more-subtle ways our culture demeans women by reducing them to the sum of their body parts. But yikes! Having lived through the Women’s Lib and ERA era, I never thought I’d see the day when conservatives would wage an outright war on women. …

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Ignatius Reilly

11:51 am on Sunday, March 11, 2012

When will you selfish women who want to have a career outside the home learn that you role is to stay home and have as many white christian babies as possible. Rick Santorum/Kirk Cameron 2012   more ›

Erin Goes Blagh

Rush Limbaugh's Attack on Women: Mom Talk

How can we raise our daughters to feel like equals when we are still being labeled hookers for having opinions?

Rush Limbaugh has always been a gaseous windbag, but "slut" and "prostitute?" Really? For anyone who may not have heard, the old right-wing shock jock blamed the victim. He waged a personal, and inappropriate attack on Sandra Fluke because she advocated insurance coverage of birth control. "I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation," he said in a diluted apology that came only after advertisers started pulling out. The wrong words? Ya think? Personally, I've never been a fan of shock jocks—on either side of the political spectrum. There is very little, if anything, that has ever come out of Limbaugh's mouth that I would find entertaining. He is easy to ignore. However, as a woman and a mom, this recent outrage has me seeing …

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Max Gruppy

7:37 pm on Friday, March 9, 2012

Good comparison, JD. The historical similarities between sluts and fascists are so obvous that it's no wonder Rush gets excited by both of them.   more ›