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08-19-2012, 11:50 PM
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Ignorant things politicians say
Election season is in full force and that means they are opening their mouths a lot. That also means they are saying some really ignorant things.
This can be a bipartisan thread...
We'll start with this one:
Rep. Todd Akin, R, Missouri-
First of all, from what I understand from doctors, [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," Akin said.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2...pregnancy?lite
Pro life or not, surely people know that the female body cannot shut that whole thing down just because it was a rape, right?
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08-20-2012, 12:22 AM
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I'm curious what makes a rape "legitimate".
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08-20-2012, 12:31 AM
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Yeahhhh - homeboy's definitely from Missouri, not Iowa.
Also InTrade has him at about 85% to win .... so there's that.
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08-20-2012, 01:04 AM
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I would like to know where he got this idea from.
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08-20-2012, 01:27 AM
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Yeahhhh - homeboy's definitely from Missouri, not Iowa.
Also InTrade has him at about 85% to win .... so there's that.
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Oops, sorry. I'll fix that. I don't know where I got Iowa from.
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08-20-2012, 01:33 AM
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I would like to know where he got this idea from.
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There are rumblings that it's from literature provided by one of the SuperPAC-funded fake-science think tanks, as a sort of pseudoscientific end-around to help develop anti-abortion laws. I haven't seen anybody produce the literature yet, though.
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08-20-2012, 08:02 AM
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Spoken by one of those misogynistic idiots who don't think marital rape, date rape, acquaintance rape, etc. is "real" rape.
If it's not a total stranger accosting women on the street and violently raping them, it's not "legitimate".
And they wonder why the GOP has lost all credibility.
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08-20-2012, 08:19 AM
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If that is what he believes then he is definitely a misogynist idiot.
I was wondering whether he was talking about that or talking about false rape accusations, in general.
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08-20-2012, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by DrPhil
If that is what he believes then he is definitely a misogynist idiot.
I was wondering whether he was talking about that or talking about false rape accusations, in general.
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I think "false allegations" are part and parcel, but as more of a general "women: what WON'T they fake?!" kind of general misogyny than anything. This article from the Atlantic outlines the strategy: it's pretty gross.
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08-20-2012, 10:09 AM
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08-20-2012, 10:10 AM
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IMO, the dumbest line from that article is this one:
"The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to 'secrete a certain secretion' that tends to kill sperm."
Wow, that's soooooo scientific! Sciencewoman does not like this.
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08-20-2012, 11:20 AM
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But, but "They" say it is true. 
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08-20-2012, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Sciencewoman
IMO, the dumbest line from that article is this one:
"The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to 'secrete a certain secretion' that tends to kill sperm."
Wow, that's soooooo scientific! Sciencewoman does not like this.
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Oh, dear lord. To think of all of the money I spent on birth control. I could have just convinced my sperm killing secreting gland to get to working, and no babies and money in the bank!
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08-20-2012, 11:57 AM
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And just like that, McCaskill's up to 55% to win on InTrade, and Republican leaders are thinking about recalling Akin and running somebody else (since a random suit with an R next to its name would be something like 75% to win MO prior to this).
Fascinating, actually.
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08-20-2012, 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
And just like that, McCaskill's up to 55% to win on InTrade, and Republican leaders are thinking about recalling Akin and running somebody else (since a random suit with an R next to its name would be something like 75% to win MO prior to this).
Fascinating, actually.
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Sounds like an excellent plan to this FORMER Republican.
(Independent since 2000)
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