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Michigan House Republicans prohibited state Rep. Lisa Brown (D) from speaking on the floor after she ended a speech against a bill restricting abortions by referencing her female anatomy, the Detroit News reports.
Her comment, which is on video: "Finally, Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but 'no' means 'no.'"
Republicans said Brown was "offensive" and wouldn't allow her to voice her opinion on an unrelated school employee retirement bill.
Responded Brown: "If I can't say the word vagina, why are we legislating vaginas? What language should I use?"
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/06/14/lawmaker_barred_after_vagina_comment.html
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)The De-evolution of the Republican Party is proceeding in earnest.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)The Taliban. Do they require women to wear burka's yet?
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)(on edit: Not safe for Pearl Clutchers)
And ask which of these is a better substitue:
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RZM
(8,556 posts)Blue Waffle
Ill Na-Na
Wuss
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)No doubt in my mind they are the same way at home.
AJTheMan
(288 posts)Meaning that they want to conserve the time whenever women couldn't vote, factories would lock all their employees in, children were miners, the minimum wage had not been set, the forty hour work week didn't exist, and blacks and whites couldn't get married.
Electing a G.O.P politician is akin to electing a 1660's Puritan.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)erinlough
(2,176 posts)vanboggie
(1,851 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,767 posts)Lisa is my Rep., go get 'em
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Is their calendar 75 years slow?
Unfuggenbelievable.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)And sometimes expel them.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...the proper term for vagina is ''hoo-hoo.''
- What a bunch of asshats. Michigan, I feel for you.....
K&R
silentwarrior
(250 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Or maybe not. I think a bill title of "A Law Pertaining to That Thing She Was Talking About" is kind of lyrical.
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)maybe they are just scared of vigina.
proReality
(1,628 posts)This guy has some real issues.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)is a woman speaking her mind. The "offensive" use of the word "vagina" is just an excuse to shut a woman up.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)Lionessa
(3,894 posts)coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)anti-Iraq War protests:
Lesbians
Against
Boys
Invading
Anything
Did not know how to take photos with my phone at the time (2003) and kick myself now for not having done so.
siligut
(12,272 posts)This is manipulation, making her believe she did something wrong so they could shut her up. Really, it makes no sense, "vagina" is a medical term. I wonder what she had to say about the employee retirement bill.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I will make it clear ... I have a vagina and I vote.
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)All of this could have been avoided.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)Whatever the case, the V-WORD is only ever used by uppity women who don't know their place. Or want control over...their place.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)ck4829
(35,079 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)I keep thinking that there must be something that we can do as a nation of women; but what and how.
catbyte
(34,423 posts)In honor of the First Amendment: vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina.
You should all be deeply ashamed of yourselves. We women will Remember in November.
Any bets on how long they'll keep it up?
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Arent Luggage--HISS!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... Corporate Tax Breaks.
BigAnth
(320 posts)SpartanDem
(4,533 posts)this is the party of Larry Craig, Mark Foley andLindsey Graham after all.