Let's say, let's take ten people in a room and they're a group. And the room is made up of six men and four women. Right? The group has a rule that the men cannot rape the women. The group also has a rule that says any rule that will be changed must require six vote of the 10 to change the rule.
Beginning, we can take as understood that comparing judicial nominations to rape is, uh, the stupidest goddamn thing ever. It's offensive and sexist, sure. But it's mostly just hella dumb.
Having dispensed with the obvious problem of this comparison, let's move onto the part that really struck me:
You guys, I know a LOT of men (and have known my fair share, if you know what I mean... heh heh heh). In those numbers are a lot of lovely, wonderful, strong, feminist men (like the one I'm all married up to). Some of them are just kind of OK men. Some are straight up assholes. But I do not know (and have not known) ANY man who would vote to legalize rape!
Some of the worst men in the world are in the U.S. Senate. Ted Cruz is a homelier version of someone James Spader played in a movie in the 80s. Jim DeMint can eat a bag of dicks. I hope James Inhofe drowns in the run off from a melted glacier. But none of those dudes would vote to legalize raping their female colleagues. And they've got the Senate 80 to 20. The dudes could easily break a rapin' filibuster if it all came down to gender lines.
Look, obviously all reasonable people can agree that Rush Limbaugh is an ambulatory infection. He is what happens when a burst blister gains the power of speech. He is a bandaid floating in a public pool, a pubic hair on a shared bar of soap. He is a tumor. He is the side-by-side used tampon and used condom you step on in the alley behind a frat house. He is a bloated rat corpse. I do not care for him. I am not surprised when he says horrible things.
But that motherfucker evidently has 14+ million weekly listeners. Do you think 14+ million listeners are going "shit, thank GOD there are so many women in my peer group otherwise we'd all start to rapin'"
Who listens to this pestilent scab and thinks, "Ohmigod! My wife is the only woman in her office of four! If we have majority rule for judicial nominations, she's sure to get raped!"
Who listens to this guy? Don't tell me no one. It's 14 million people!!!!
Who listens to this guy? Don't tell me no one. It's 14 million people!!!!
