Whatever would we do without lefty “feminists” like Amanda Marcotte to take on the evil, oppressive conservative patriarchy? This morning, she took Rush Limbaugh to task over a comment he made earlier in the week:
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/292307178142982144
Here’s the remark that has Marcotte seeing red:
You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.
Misogyny! Misogyny!
It’s hard not to picture what “abortion by gun” would look like: A sort of rape by gun followed by the violent murder of the woman. It’s taking the subtext of gun nuttery—and how nuts feel that guns give them symbolic phallic power—and making it straight up text. That’s not subtly giving permission, but practically an invitation.
As a side note, it’s interesting to me how many wingnuts turn to abortion the second guns are mentioned. Couldn’t make it more clear that gun nuttery is part of a larger constellation of a psycho-sexual obsession with masculine dominance. Must have MORE GUNS while making sure that women are firmly relegated to a second class citizen status, unable to exert basic control over their bodies. Ugh.
Ugh indeed, Amanda. Anyone familiar with Limbaugh is well aware of his hyperbolic style and understands that his point wasn’t that abortions should be performed with guns; he was saying that the Left would actually care about the lives snuffed out by abortions if guns were involved.
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The truth is of little importance to the perpetually outraged feminist Left, however, and Stop Rush types unleashed their ire:
F Rush Limbaugh “@AmandaMarcotte: http://t.co/6tGYgGsQ Rush Limbaugh incites violence against women seeking abortion.”
— Maggie Germano (@MaggieGermano) January 18, 2013
#prolife y'all! MT @AmandaMarcotte http://t.co/X9nTatPP Rush Limbaugh incites violence against women seeking abortion. #prochoice
— Lisa (@notmuchelse) January 18, 2013
https://twitter.com/kellymendenhall/status/292334630324039680
https://twitter.com/nice_reminder/status/292320677778825216
.@clarkhoward Limbaugh says abortion should be performed by gun. Y do u support this garbage. Move ur ads to non Rush grid #StopRush
— Jeff Long (@jefflongga) January 18, 2013
Rush #Limbaugh condoning violence against #women yet again you say? Anyone surprised? Anyone? …Beuller?
— Avery Oslo (@AveryOslo) January 18, 2013
"You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun." – Same guy who thought up "feminazi." http://t.co/l30Dpahi
— Rebecca Watson (@rebeccawatson) January 18, 2013
Limbaugh: "You know how 2 stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun. It's OK 2 kill women? Boycott #EVERY advertiser of his show
— bmaggiemay (@bmaggiemay) January 18, 2013
Rush Limbaugh Incites Violence http://t.co/WhsODBYo via @zite Perform abortions w a gun. What a dangerous freak.
— Zetetica (@KimMcardle) January 18, 2013
If Rush is a “dangerous freak” for using liberal logic to take on abortion, then what does that make Amanda Marcotte, who thinks a “ritual nick” is an acceptable alternative to female genital mutilation? She certainly doesn’t seem like a worthy advocate for women, does she? Then again, that probably doesn’t matter much; for the Left, intellectual consistency isn’t a priority.
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