The "Fluke" Of Feminism

Self | 9/3/12 | Me

[Churchillspirit]

Great move on the part of the dems. - to have this lady of easy virtue front and center at their convention.

Shows the world what low values they have.

[grey_whiskers]

I’d chip in for a tube of superglue...

Cheers!

[Lorianne]

Fluke’s testimony

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/statement-Congress-letterhead-2nd%20hearing.pdf

There is nothing in there about condoms.

There is plenty in there to argue with. A big one for me is her testimony was mostly hearsay. She refers over and over to anonymous people who have said this and that happened to them ... but there is no way of checking any of these stories out. I don’t consider that valid evidence to back up what she is saying.

[supremedoctrine]

I see you’re looking for closure.

[Scoutmaster]

I think you are right about what she actually said...but people came away with the impression that she was talking about her own situation.

That's because they took Rush Limbaugh's spin as gospel, and Limbaugh had never heard Fluke's speech before he started riffing on it. He specifically stated that he had a news article from some conservative service and he spoke from that. Most people on FR never heard or read a transcript of Fluke's speech; they are just repeating what Limbaugh said.

In fact, Fluke's speech was worse. She spoke of six women. One had been raped but didn't go for STD testing because she assumed that, if birth control wasn't covered, nothing related to her vagina was covered.

Another was a married woman who had to abandon all birth control when her particular brand of oral contraceptive was no longer covered. A third was a woman who lost her feeling of empowerment as a woman and could not buy contraceptives after she found they were no longer covered under her plan.

Conservatives commentators, including Limbaugh, would have had a field days with what Fluke actually said - but instead we lost the battle when he went off with the 'slut' comments, the 'round-heeled' comments, the 'it's a miracle she can walk after all that sex' comments, the 'base and immoral' for having so much sex comments.

Fluke never talked about her own sex life. She told some ridiculous stories about other women that could have been torn apart, but we lost that moral high ground the moment Limbaugh started lying about Fluke's sex life and calling her a slut.

[Lorianne]

Thank you.

Limbaugh totally derailed the real issue .... which is religious freedom under the 1st Amendment ... which we will never get to talk about now.