"I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, “the race”... Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate. That would really be bad. Lord knows what we would get then." -G. Gordon Liddy on Sotomayor
Wait, isn't that whole "women can't be leaders because they'd arbitrarily bomb the Netherlands when they're on the rag" argument a little archaic by now? Aren't there quite a few successful pre-menopausal female leaders in the world who don't seem to totally lose control once a month? I know the G-Man is a major D-Bag (my journalism class interviewed him once!), but honestly? This has to be the worst argument ever. Talk about pinning inferiority on biology. If this is true, if a menstruating Supreme Court justice would unravel the nation's judicial system with her crazy weeping and eating, then we're pretty much fucked, huh? Because my body's not going to stop menstruating anytime soon, and I didn't have a say in whether it started, so I guess biology is destiny after all.
Hopefully, my future employers will understand that I'll be out of commission for a week every month. And, since that's a week in which my crazy hysterical femaleness renders me sub-human and a threat to society, it should probably be a week in which I don't have to pay any taxes or, for that matter, follow any laws. Good thing we have people like G. Gordon Liddy, a man who has never and will never actually experience menstruation himself, to keep all of our crazy in check.
(Sorry, I'm a little bitchy because I'm about to get my period. I just really feel like I want to... I don't know, mastermind a DNC break-in or something! Is that crazy? I also want to eat some red meat.)
I direct you to the cute essay, If Men Could Menstruate, written by Gloria Steinem.
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4 comments:
Did he seriously refer to Spanish as "illegal alien"? It never ceases to amaze me how much the right-wing HATES intelligence and anything outside of their own narrow world. Because of course Spanish isn't spoken by 350 million people in the world or anything.
D-bag of the highest order I say.
Now, I'm sure most conservatives wouldn't want an insensitive cranky old criminal to speak on their behalf. But yeah, he is pretty awful. He had my Foundations of Journalism class on his radio show once, and his smug condescending self importance practically outdid that of the NYU students.
You make a good point. I'll rephrase by saying the far right rather than just right wing.
YOU'RE THE MAN, G-MAN!
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