Is There a Boys Club Under the Pink Dome?

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Last session, when then-freshman Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, raised a parliamentary question about a male colleague’s bill, she says he said — growled really — “Don’t talk to me like that, little lady.” A couple of weeks ago, Rep. Vicki Truitt, R-Keller, and Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker, faced literal catcalls when they got into a heated debate over a payday lending bill. "Meow," some lawmakers screeched, as the chairman reprimanded the women: "Ladies, please keep this civil."

Is there sexism in the Texas Legislature?

This week's flap over a flyer showing an infant nursing at a bare breast — an interest group's effort to portray an insurance bill as an attempt to help turn Texas into a "nanny state" — has rekindled this age-old discussion. On Thursday, Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, the bill's author, gave an impassioned speech decrying "hateful, resentful, bitter, despicable and violent flyers toward women" and later announced plans, along with other female House leaders, to form a women's caucus.

On Friday, Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, joined the outcry, denouncing the "extremely offensive" tactics. Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, rose after her to say that men, too, were offended by the flyer, and "the idea that boys will be boys is not acceptable." (The Texas Civil Justice League, which created the "nanny state" flyer, has apologized and said it never intended for it to be circulated.)

Several female lawmakers, interviewed in the wake of the controversy, said they do not feel their gender presents problems in the Legislature.

can't legally smoke to dance naked in nightclubs. Just to name one.

Are the dumbass, bigoted, hicky, ill-educated, born-in-sin-but-I-repent-every-Sunday, stingy, envious, small-dicked assortment of malevolent marginal personality disordered cretins a boys' club?

Well, uh, yes. They had to form a club - no man or woman in their right mind would give any of them a second look, and in fact, would run screaming from the general area just as if a horrible unexplainable accident had occurred, which it had.