QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

Wow how do these rejects get elected?  Sex is the fault of the woman?  That is not how it works.  Tell him it takes more than a woman to make a baby.  Guys are taught to want sex all their lives, and from puberty they’re told not to masturbate but to find a girl.  But girls are property of daddy and they are told not to have sex to preserve their value.   WTF.  If boys / men get to enjoy sex, why can’t girls / women?  Hugs.  Scottie


 

 

The Arizona Mirror reports:

A bid to make birth control a right in Arizona that was a top policy priority for Gov. Katie Hobbs has stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature and is likely dead.

Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.

“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” he said, implying that, if women hold aspirin between their legs, they won’t be able to have sex and risk pregnancy.

Heartland Signal reports

Borrelli’s comments echo those made by late Wisconsin pastor and former GOP mega donor Foster Freiss. In 2012, while Freiss was the head of a super PAC that backed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Freiss contended that women putting aspirin between their knees was a cheaper alternative to contraception.

In 2001, Borrelli plead guilty to a domestic violence charge. His then-wife’s child told police he witnessed Borrelli rapidly punch his mother three times in the mouth before shoving her to the ground.

Borrelli said he only plead guilty to keep custody of his children, and he later blamed his wife for the incident, claiming she was having a “stress-induced meltdown.”

Borelli, an election denier, first appeared here in 2021 when he and several other Arizona lawmakers spoke at a QAnon convention organized by a man who had just approvingly posted a link to a neo-Nazi film. We heard from him again last year when he tried to force Arizona to discard all voting machines.

 

Yet no talk about men controlling themselves, fancy that.

None of these yahoos make even the slightest effort to encourage men to take more responsibility for their own sexual behavior even though men are usually the ones who are more sexually eager due to the influence of testosterone (and even then, using that as an excuse really only goes so far!). They don’t even bother encouraging men to use condoms more often even though condoms actually have many advantages over most female forms of birth control. Condoms are relatively reliable when used correctly, aren’t difficult to find, aren’t difficult to use, don’t become less effective if you gain or lose weight, don’t cost much, don’t have any potentially dangerous side effects, don’t have any restrictions for age and/or existing health conditions, don’t require administration or authorization from a licensed medical professional, and don’t require much advance planning like most female forms of birth control do — and they have an double advantage in the sense that they help prevent the transmission of STDs.

It’s amazing the number of people who refuse to believe that sometimes things go wrong. That’s why abortion is healthcare, not every fetus is viable. Some of the ones that are born, don’t survive either.

It’s not about whether abortion is health care or not

It’s about whether women have any rights or not

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

As we saw in Texas in the case of Kate Cox and her ectopic pregnancy, it doesn’t matter. They don’t consider anything to be life threatening.

And every time, it’s none of their fucking business. I get what you’re saying but there’s also nothing wrong with having sex.

It’s none of their business. And a clump of frozen cells is not a child

And a rapist is not a legitimate father

But to the MAGAts, women are inferior to men

Just as gays are inferior to heterosexual and blacks are inferior to whites

What’s amazing is that most of the anti-abortionists think women are sluts who get what they deserve.

Until it’s their wife, sister, or daughter that needs one. Those are moral abortions, of course.

 

The Christian religion is apparently based on the premise that women are by definition sluts, since Eve in Genesis disobeyed God and accepted advice from a serpent.

Oh the aspirin between the knees bullshit again. Only thing these sexist fucks hold sacred is their access to Viagra.

Indeed. If these christian freaks really believe that it’s all up to the gods, then they should ban drugs like viagra.

I am still waiting for the day that a pharmacist refuses to fill any prescriptions for Viagra or Cialis unless the man is wearing a wedding ring, or produces a marriage license, or signs a sworn affidavit saying they will use the drug only to have sex with their wives. I want to see the heads of a few right-wing males explode.

This is where we are. We are staring down American fascism

It’s here. It’s already a foot hold in the red states

It’ll come to the blue states if the federal government falls

“But honey, I’m feeling romantic. This is your 30th headache this month. Why don’t you use that aspirin between your legs to make your headache disappear.”

*wife thinks a divorce attorney would do a better job at making her headache disappear.*

15 years ago, this Neanderthal would have been sent back under his rock, but Trump/MAGA has emboldened their misogyny, allowed them to use their “religious freedom” to spew this garbage in the public square, and encourage even more wackos to spew their hateful, medieval views

INCOMING RANT

How is forcing women to continue with an unwanted pregnancy not an economic concern?

I can’t wait for these old white, white haired men and women who agree with them to die out but I know there is a crop of them right behind on the conveyor belt.

Contraceptives a.k.a. birth control are not just prescribed for birth control.

Here again we have elected officials who know nothing about the medical field making laws regarding women’s bodies that they know nothing about. Here again we have one of these old dinosaurs yapping about women not needing birth control if they weren’t promiscuous.

Someone will pay for those unwanted babies! Just not them. You know, after they’ve killed off SNAP and other social safety net programs.

Funny how they get away with ignoring the fact that it takes two people to be promiscuous when making a baby… and funny how nobody points out that, if women must be forced to endure a pregnancy, men should at least be financially responsible for that same pregnancy.

 

 

No More Religious Exemption For Hate Speech In Canada

I love this.  The hate preachers in the US desperately need to hear this message.   He says spreading hate and inciting attacks on others is not the message Jesus wanted his people to spread, that is not freedom of religion.  It is so refreshing and wonderful to hear the message that this Rev. is talking about.  Makes me remember the Jesus I was once told about as a child.   Hugs.  Scottie

AP News: England is limiting gender transitions for youths. US legislators are watching

White-opia – The MAGA Secession Paradise!

For all the Trump fans who keep talking about seceding from the US – this is the way….

That’s Florida!

FL Man Charged With Hate Crime Murder Of Gay Man

This is what all the republican hate driven political crap causes.   Simply put it is the same tactic Hitler used.  Vilify the people that you want to harm, so that they are less human and your followers feel entitled or allowed to harm them.  I have faced / felt this all my life.  I thought that with the advancements and acceptance going forward with the modern age all that abuse could change.   Then came tRump and his maga, which gave them permission to unleash their worst demons on the LBGTQ+ at any age, especially the most young in schools.  It seems the republican maga fundamentalist right thinks it is ok to beat the LGBTQ+ out of any kid.  But if they grow up into an adult still being that way … well we have the right to kill them.  Can everyone see how disgusting that is?  Sadly, some days I feel so frustrated screaming into the wind.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

The Tampa Bay Times reports:

Hillsborough County prosecutors charged a man with murder Friday, alleging that the fatal shooting of a gay man last month at the West Dog Park in Tampa was a hate crime.

Gerald Declan Radford faces a second-degree murder charge in the Feb. 2 death of John Walter Lay. Friends of both men told the Tampa Bay Times that Radford had been harassing Lay for months, hurling homophobic slurs and threatening him. Radford claimed the shooting was self-defense.

The office of Hillsborough State Attorney Suzy Lopez announced Friday that they plan to seek an enhanced sentence against Radford under the state’s hate crime statute.

Tampa’s Fox affiliate reports:

Investigators said they first came in contact with Radford after he called 911 about the shooting. He claimed he shot Lay in self-defense, and with no witnesses to the crime or evidence to prove otherwise, Radford wasn’t arrested.

Hillsborough State Attorney Suzy Lopez said her office is now preparing for Radford to attempt to use the “Stand Your Ground” defense. Lay’s sister, Sabrena Hughes, told FOX 13 that the shooting followed two years of harassment and homophobic slurs directed at her brother by Radford.

Authorities also found a video on Lay’s phone. The video was taken like a selfie of the victim as he detailed a threat that was made to him by Radford, according to deputies. Lay claimed in the video that Radford told him, “You’re going to die.”

Tampa’s ABC affiliate reports:

 


Colonel Frank Losat with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the cell phone video on the victim’s phone and character witnesses provided evidence that the suspect did not act in self-defense. Lay had been complaining to his friends about harassment from Radford at West Dog Park for months.

“Some time prior to the shooting, we’re not positive on a timeframe at this point, the suspect and the victim have an altercation over the victim’s sexual orientation,” said Losat. Radford remains in the Hillsborough County Jail.

I normally included the comments because the comments often have many very relevant and important ideas.  But I am sorry I no longer strong enough to do that.  I have a dozen more posts I want to make, but I no longer have the ability to do it they way I once did.   Love and hugs to all.   Scottie

Some old ones I won’t get to do long posts on.

Mighty Christian of this first one.  Good old republican Christian concern and caring.  Hugs.  Scottie

Read the full article.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Jay Trumbull, previously appeared here for his successful bill allowing medical professionals to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients. Last year, he authored a bill allowing businesses to sue to block local LGBTQ rights ordinances and other regulations.
Of note, the lead attorney in the lawsuit is Roberta Kaplan, who is best known to most as E. Jean Carroll’s attorney. Kaplan was also Edith Windsor’s attorney in the landmark Supreme Court ruling on DOMA.
Read the full article. Per the report, Jackson continues to call himself a retired admiral even though he was demoted to captain.
This is quite a story and as you’d expect a portion of their ideology centers against LGBTQ people.

OK with this first batch I am trying to reduce the 74 posts window I have open.  I have to start shrinking these windows.  That means I can not go deep in depth on each thing I think is important to share.  So for a few days I am going to shotgun a bunch of older stuff out.  Do I expect everyone to read all of them?   NO!  What I hope is people see story titles that interest them, open them, and follow the story which is what I do.  So expect a few more of these as I clear out old tabs.  Hugs.  Scottie

The Decision

How and why

Gallup: 7.6% Of US Adults Now Identify As LGBTQ

This is why republicans are so desperate to end any talk or, protection of, or acceptance of LGBTQ+ in schools.   The more people see it, the more people have friends and family that are LGBTQ+, the more open it is in society on social media, the more normal and tolerant people are.   The more young people will come out and live as the person they are.   Republicans are desperate to stop this.  Hugs.  Scottie

Gallup: 7.6% Of US Adults Now Identify As LGBTQ

 

Gallup Polling reports:

LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012. Bisexual adults make up the largest proportion of the LGBTQ+ population — 4.4% of U.S. adults and 57.3% of LGBTQ+ adults say they are bisexual.

Slightly less than 1% of U.S. adults are transgender. Overall, each younger generation is about twice as likely as the generation that preceded it to identify as LGBTQ+. More than one in five Gen Z adults, ranging in age from 18 to 26 in 2023, identify as LGBTQ+, as do nearly one in 10 millennials (aged 27 to 42). The percentage drops to less than 5% of Generation X, 2% of baby boomers and 1% of the Silent Generation.

Read the full article.

 

There would be more boomers and Gen X if they would have survived HIV

I came out in March, 1983, six months after the CDC coined the name Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome and about a month after HIV was first identified as the likely cause. I was 15. By the time I could legally enter a bar, I had been to more funerals that most people will ever see in six lifetimes. And all while Republicans laughed and openly pondered how they could speed up the deaths.

There is a reason why so many of us survivors have CPTSD.

Yes.
It also explains why gay men of our generations have no patience with the politics of appeasement.

Yes, indeed there would be SO many more…as a Black gay elder I do my part to speak, interact and love younger Black LGBT members…

 

Don’t ever stop. There is so much more that needs to be done within the black community. As usual the disparities between communities of color and whites persist in spite of all of our efforts. Every young man you educate is part of your legacy.

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Kinsey found that, among the men he surveyed, 37% had had sex with another man to orgasm.

That figure has been vigorously disputed by researchers who couldn’t accept his figures – and their own surveys managed to reduce the number a lot by excluding same-sex sex between young men, claiming that those orgasms weren’t really same-sex sex because mumble mumble mumble, and some altered their results by doing their surveys insecurely, where the men surveyed couldn’t trust that they’d be anonymous.

Now, with changes in attitudes, men are being more honest and researchers are doing less data manipulation to obscure men’s actual sexual activity – and the numbers in modern surveys are steadily increasing. I think we’ll find that Kinsey was much closer to the actual numbers than any of his critics would ever admit.

I know that, as an out gay man in the corporate world for several decades, the coworkers who hit on me over the years weren’t the other gay men I worked with, it was married men with kids who called themselves straight – but who tried to persuade me to have sex with them although that was obviously not straight-man sex. Sometimes I said yes, sometimes I didn’t – when I did, I enjoyed their intensity and enthusiasm. Those “straight” men were so, so hungry for the body of another man. It’s always seemed to me that there’s a lot more man on man sex going on than most people will admit.

I’ve been to the steam room on a “straight” cruise. Very frisky, it was.

“We didn’t kiss, sooooooo …”