Women's Rights

Good people of Blue NC, especially those of you near Asheboro or within a sane drive to Asheboro (I am talking about you Greensboro!) -- why not leave work early this Friday and join me and a bunch of other people unhappy with Thom Tillis and all he represents at a rally? We'll be gathering in Asheboro at 4 PM on Friday to protest the unconstitutional post-midnight legislative session called by GOP lawmakers last month as well as their ever more lousy public policies. It will be held right before House Speaker Thom Tillis’s town hall (see details after the jump). A couple hours protesting and you can be on your way to a good weekend suffused with a sense of accomplishment -- plus we could meet in person and... there's nothing like a good protest rally to get the blood going!

Hello again 1950's: (Hat-tip to Pam Spaulding for Tweeting this)

“Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously, the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem?”

Which is an excerpt from his 1987 book Freedom Under Siege. And proving that idiocy doesn't improve with age, his defense of that quarter-of-a-century-old statement is even worse:

So much for giving women important information to guide their decisions:

For the past year, NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina has been investigating the state's 122 crisis pregnancy centers. Director Carey Pope says they found that, "Staff and volunteers often use propaganda to dissuade women from abortions." Previous research has found that the centers often lie to women about abortion being linked to breast cancer, infertility, and mental illness.

Which is bad enough, but this stuff is just crazy:

And has 'em rolling in the aisles:

Rep. Foxx rose to defend the bill against charges that it was misogynist. The bill, said Foxx, “takes away no protections from women in this country. It is not extreme.” She followed with a statement that was fearsome in its effect on bullshit detectors nationwide. “Nobody has ever fought more for the rights of women than I have,” declared Foxx

Yeah, right. Not only are you a bane on women in the U.S., you've tried to inflict your warped ideology on women across the globe:

If hypocrisy was a capital crime, leaders of the Tarheel Taliban in Raleigh would have long since been hung by their necks until dead. As Bob Geary observes in the Independent this week, nowhere is their two-faced arrogance on display more than in the area of constitutional law. In the holy land of Skipstamistan, the North Carolina constitution is nothing but an afterthought on the way to imposing a Christian version of sharia law on women in the Old North State.

I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot of this sort of thing coming in the months ahead.

The GOP assault on women continues

Hot off their latest "prayer breakfast," North Carolina's Grand Old Patriarchy is gearing up for what promises to be a long and relentless assault on the rights of women. And why not? Everyone knows that women can't think for themselves. The weaker sex needs the government to ensure they are informed about their own bodies before they decide to terminate a pregnancy.

You see, women are especially stupid and ignorant when it comes to pregnancy. Just ask Taliban Stam. He has it all figured out. The government shouldn't be telling women about the importance of safe sex. That would be an insult to god. Nor should the government inform women about the risks of, say, brain surgery. Who cares about that? No, the only thing that really matters to Taliban Stam is passing a new law requiring women to understand that god wants them stay pregnant and have those blessed children no matter what. Plus, of course, he also wants to strip abortion coverage from insurance policies covering state employees and college students in the UNC system.

If you are a woman who believes you should have the same rights as men, and you voted for Republicans in 2010, you are also an idiot.

This should be required reading for every man in America. A most excellent diary up today at Daily Kos: Please stop touching me.

Just be sure to touch me before you go. Touch my shoulder, my hair. Try and touch my face. Stink of booze while you do it. Try and hug me. Give me a high five. Touch my back. "Accidentally" touch my chest or buttocks. Take my asking you to stop as a joke. Smile when you apologize because if I tell you go to go hell, you'll write me a bad review and say I was bitchy.