New Hampshire Republican refers to women as ‘vaginas’

From the Raw Story courtesy of a facebook friend:

Responding to debate over the state’s Stand Your Ground law, Hansen wrote on April 1 that “children and vagina’s” were missing from “the illustrious stories purporting to demonstrate the practical side of retreat.” The law allows deadly force when someone believes their life is in danger, without the obligation to first retreat.

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But Hansen was less than apologetic.

“Having a fairly well educated mind I do not need self appointed wardens to A: try to put words in my mouth for political gain and B: Turn a well founded strategy in communication into an insulting accusation, and finally if you find the noun vagina insulting or in some way offensive then perhaps a better exercise might be for you to re-examine your psyche,” he responded.

More here.

I commented this on my friend's post for the article:

I'm starting to think that, instead of embracing ideas about women's rights that we have long taken for granted, lots of conservative men have simply been gritting their teeth and tolerating it all. For decades, apparently. And now they're tired of doing it. I guess. This continues to be really weird.

Indeed, I've long since lost track of all these conservative beyond-the-pale remarks and legislation blatantly aimed at oppressing women.  This kind of crap has long been on the wane, almost gone entirely, excluding random abortion restrictions here and there.  But in the last three or four years, it's been open season on women, and the conservatives doing it are doing it without shame, proudly, as though the women's rights movement had never happened, never been successful.  It's like 1955 all over again, but right now.  I just don't get it.

It's frustrating enough to have to hear about this shit, but what's worse is that it forces citizens who value women's rights to be ever vigilant.  Sometimes they get these bills passed through, and the rhetoric itself has the potential to make people forget that women, are, in fact, human beings.  You know, just like men.  That is, these Cro-Magnons are trying to fight a battle that they lost decades ago.  They are few in numbers, but they have more power in the political sphere than such numbers might suggest.  We're all in the twenty first century, but these alpha male assholes have a decent chance of pulling us back in time if nobody opposes them.

That's the thing about winning.  You forget that your opponent might not understand that he's already lost.  Fuckers.

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