It is incredibly rude to call anyone a “slut”. It implies that you have personal knowledge of this persons nighttime activities. I am not saying I think Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke had a relationship or have even met. He just took the opportunity to be controversial to say that Ms. Fluke, who testified before a Democratic hearing headed by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, is a “slut” for asking that Contraception be covered completely by health insurance. In doing so, he not only greatly defamed Ms. Fluke, but he insulted everyone's intelligence by reducing a medicine to only one of it's intended results.
Contraception or Birth Control Pills not only prevent conception, they also regulate the entire cycle of a woman's (and girl's) menstruation. Sometimes these cycles can be extremely rough. Sometimes conditions like endrometriosis can make a period unbearable. These BCP's help regulate the cycle and make things bearable. Yet Mr. Limbaugh thinks that any unmarried female who takes them must be a “slut”. Would you like to see the nighttime activities of a 14 year-old girl who takes BCP's for endrometriosis, Mr. Limbaugh? We all know what that makes you. And Ms. Fluke, who Mr. Limbaugh says is a “slut” takes BCP's to prevent ovarian cysts which cause bleeding and pain. How would you treat that if it happened to your daughter, Mr. Limbaugh?
This is an assumption, but if males stayed mentally “male” and yet could biologically have children like females do, things would be different. I bet that BCP's would not only be over-the-counter and cheap, but would possibly be in the food or water supply, like Fluorine. It would be formulated that you would have to take a medicine to become pregnant, not the reverse. It would be a strange, new, and less populated world.
Rush Limbaugh is a blowhard and an idiot. He and his lot love to say outrageous things and then “get surprised” when others are outraged at their comments. It is their Lord of the Ring's Gollum-like “precious”. Every now and then they need a little refuel on the outrage to get their fix.
One of my family members posted on Facebook that Mr. Limbaugh was a misogynistic pig. Yes, and we all knew this 15 years ago as well. The one thing that he needs is an audience. If no one listens to him, he will stop talking. Outrage will then become like oxygen to him. Stop listening, and his supply will be cut off. Oh, I know he will fight this by saying even more outlandish and offensive things. Next thing we will know he will say that all Lesbians should be “confined” to the island of Lesbos. Or that President Obama was actually born on Mars and is not even an Earthling, let alone an American! We have to look away, we have to stop listening to his ilk or suffer the consequences of this stupid and obnoxious publicity stunt, um, I mean national debate.
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