A steaming pile of sexism from Hillary Rosen: “This public debate on whether or not the Obama administration’s sensible policy on covering birth control has turned into a boys against the girls fight. And the boys are out of touch and out of line.”

chavelah · 2012-02-11T19:01:29+00:00

If Catholic Bishops want to make their own rules as employers, then they can stop taking federal government subsidies for Medicaid and Medicare patients in their hospitals, or have their schools subsidized by government sponsored student loans.

Dingdingding!

IHaveALargePenis · 2012-02-10T20:35:18+00:00

How dare these guys or anyone say that the young cleaning woman or secretary who just happens to work at a hospital or university owned by the Catholic church should not be able to get birth control paid for by her employer.

Why is the employer supposed to pay for this? I'm not against free birth control (for everyone not just women) but how is this a medical issue?

hardwarequestions · 2012-02-10T22:28:29+00:00

TOTALLY AGREE. The religious argument is a cover. Take a look at the conservative responses to my post on this issue in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review, for goodness sake! One male commenter actually prides himself on how he can "pull out" in time-- a line demonstrating that for any men, this all about their control over women's bodies.

wat.

chavelah · 2012-02-11T08:29:59+00:00

Since when is insurance supposed to pay for something that is expected? Insurance is supposed to be for things that happen by accident. Otherwise, it's not insurance.

Why can't women just pay for their birth control? Last I looked, I didn't get condoms for free at the drug store.

It's not about fairness, Feminists, you just want more stuff for free.

2012-02-11T09:54:30+00:00

I will never be against anything that leads to less people having kids, and if companies had to give men free condoms, I'd be happy with that. But to turn it into a men verses women issue, what the fuck?

chavelah · 2012-02-11T19:08:06+00:00

I look at this fight and I don't see boys-against-the-girls, at all. I see the fundies against the reasonable people, with men and women arrayed on both sides.

BinaryShadow · 2012-02-12T04:34:42+00:00

Funny how a lot of religious women are completely against this Hillary character on this issue. Oh, but those women don't count in the black-and-white, penis-vs-vagina war she lives in.

hardwarequestions · 2012-02-10T21:56:42+00:00

it's only turned into that because some women are insisting they're entitled to free birth control and that this entitlement is more important than a certain tenant of the constitution.

Are Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, EJ Dionne and George Will etc. going to run around the country telling men to wear condoms? And by the way, pay for them themselves?

men already do. does anyone see us bitching and moaning about it en masse?

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