I am impressed by Sandra Fluke and I think she should be applauded for her pro-freedom stance. She had to know she'd be slimed, as she was (We'll get to that), but she went out there anyway and defended an important point. Very ninja, very cool.
If early second-decade 21st-century politics has brought us any benefit at all, and it hasn't, because we knew this already, it is to underscore just how much Modern Conservatism is predicated upon virulent misogyny. This is indeed impressively nasty.
Speaking at a hearing held by Pelosi to tout Pres. Obama’s mandate that virtually every health insurance plan cover the full cost of contraception and abortion-inducing products, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said that it’s too expensive to have sex in law school without mandated insurance coverage.
Apparently, four out of every ten co-eds are having so much sex that it's hard to make ends meet if they have to pay for their own contraception, Fluke's research shows....
$3,000 for birth control in three years? That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex – and, she wants us to pay for it.
Yes, us. Where do you think the insurance companies forced to cover this cost get the money to pay for these co-eds to have sex? It comes from the health care insurance premiums you and I pay.
Wow.
First off, "co-ed?" (Checking calendar. Baffled to discover 1962 is behind us.) "Co-ed"?
Next I guess would be that I'd be more than a little bit surprised if a certain proportion of this hot Hoya sex were not occuring between opposite-sex hot Hoyas. But as we'll see in the lovely tour we're about to take through Scoldy Wingnuttia, this is a point never acknowledged.
Also for this shouty CNS nonsense, where the hell does this kind of crap stop? You find out that a co-worker in 1998 once ate 6 Twinkies in a row, you sue the Government to get back whatever tiny fraction of your premiums somehow factored into his bypass? Just how dumb would you have to be to think that you would be More FREE! if your employer could at will say "I morally object to paying for that procedure!" (Don't answer that...)
But the nastiest, cruelest issue here is the slut-shaming. Which is insane and obnoxious. And weird. Note:
she and her co-ed classmates are having sex nearly three times a day for three years straight, apparently.
At a dollar a condom if she shops at CVS pharmacy’s website, that $3,000 would buy her 3,000 condoms – or, 1,000 a year. (By the way, why does CVS.com list the weight of its condom products in terms of pounds?)
Assuming it’s not a leap year, that’s 1,000 divided by 365 – or having sex 2.74 times a day, every day, for three straight years. And, I thought Georgetown was a Catholic university where women might be prone to shun casual, unmarried sex.
Because the pill and condoms are used exactly the same. Right.
Smart women (who would be likely to go to grad school at Georgetown) will insist upon a condom for random hookups. (Which happen. Sorry, Pope.) For relationships, it's the pill. My wife and I have been monogamous since the 1990s, and for birth control, we prefer... the pill! And we've had three kids! And we might even still be Catholic if the hateful crazies had not assumed control.
But the significant point is the nasty and disgusting inane statistics mangling to personalize it and say, essentially, "this slut is having sex four times a day, on your dime..." And the unsaid leftover, "the whore deserves it, or ought to."
I mean, look at what TBogg went and found, this crap about pregnancy being "a lifestyle choice." And then happily discover this at the site Mr Bogg examines, where the current top post is a gleeflul fap-fap about women getting surgically enhanced tits.
Yep. Women ought to be always sexually available to men, the contemptible whores, why aren't they virgins?
It is so fucking weird. And then you get this weird shit:
Birth control pills can be purchased for as low as $9 per month at a pharmacy near Georgetown's campus. According to an employee at the pharmacy in Washington, D.C.'s Target store, the pharmacy sells birth control pills--the generic versions of Ortho Tri-Cyclen and Ortho-Cyclen--for $9 per month. "That's the price without insurance."
One, I call bullshit.
Two, so? That has nothing to do with the actual issue, whether or not your employer has the right to tell you what you and your doctor can decide about your own healthcare.
Three: "Either this Georgetown law student is too dumb to shop around to reduce her lifestyle costs, or she’s using abortion as birth control, or she’s just lying about this whole thing."
"Is she a slut? Probably. On the other hand, what a slut."
Fluke had to know she'd get this horrid blowback. I admire her guts. Why is my daughter going to have to fight my grandmother's fight, again? I'm in her corner, anyhow. But damn.
