2:24 pm - 02/29/2012
Oh hell naw
Limbaugh Calls Student Denied Spot At Contraception Hearing A ‘Slut’
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown student whom House Republicans wouldn’t let testify at a contraception hearing last week, a “slut” and a “prostitute” today, because, Limbaugh argued, she’s having “so much sex” she needs other people to pay for it:
"LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."
Listen here, via Media Matters:
While it’s probably not even worth engaging with Limbaugh on the facts, Fluke’s testimony was about a friend who is a lesbian and needed birth control for non-sexual medial reasons, so he’s only wrong about three times over, and offensive many more times over than that.
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown student whom House Republicans wouldn’t let testify at a contraception hearing last week, a “slut” and a “prostitute” today, because, Limbaugh argued, she’s having “so much sex” she needs other people to pay for it:
"LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex."
Listen here, via Media Matters:
While it’s probably not even worth engaging with Limbaugh on the facts, Fluke’s testimony was about a friend who is a lesbian and needed birth control for non-sexual medial reasons, so he’s only wrong about three times over, and offensive many more times over than that.
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I CAN'T ANYMORE!
Sometimes I just want to get in the fetal position and give up.
Edited at 2012-02-29 09:51 pm (UTC)
cant we send him away?
fuck this guy.
ruined mah day
though i've been called a slut several times by friends, not in the stigmatized conventional way as it means, more like, "ebay slut" or, "ramen slut"
idk.
I actually try to tell people that use that word to describe another woman to stop and tell them that slut shaming is bad.
Yeah, not part of my vocabulary.
Fun story time: My grandmother had alzheimer's and one day we had some family visiting us and we had taken the ladies (me, my mom, my gma, and our cousins) out shopping. My gma came up to me at one point and told me she wanted to leave the store we were in. I basically told her we were almost done and that we just needed to wait for everybody to pay. Apparently she didn't like that so in front of the whole group, the sales ladies AND everyone else in line she says really loudly 'YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A SLUT! YOU TREAT ME LIKE SUCH A SLUT!!!'
Omg I was dying.
I will however call people whores in a joking manner. Like if my husband farts in my face or something I'll call him a whore.
Maybe that makes me a hypocrite, for some reason I can't stand the word slut though. And I don't use whore as a way to describe women who have sex either.
Don't mind it if its used correctly or playfully. Its valid for people who cheat or have. One night stands, 3somes or "groupies"
Edited at 2012-02-29 10:59 pm (UTC)
it only has a negative connotation because they've given it a negative connotation.
also, if not fitting into societal norms of how people should treat sex and relationships makes me a slut, I AM PROUDLY SLUTTY TBH
Sexuality is pretty complicated and I can't say I haven't felt like my sexuality has been used against me at one time or another in my life. It never feels good.