Rick Perry does it again....

[Raven]

[Anomalocaris]

It is Texas, and this texan's texasness is so great he is the governor of Texas. Does this answer the question?

[Minimalist]

There is probably nothing wrong with Texas.

Texans, OTOH, are fucked up beyond belief.

[Tiberius]

I'm sorry, but as a matter of principle, I ignore anyone who attempts to gives legitimacy to the term "mansplaining" by using it positively in a sentence.

As much as I despise Rick Perry, the fact is, this is a bill that affects women, so of course he is going to talk about women. If Rick Perry was a woman, and said the same thing, would it be "femsplaining"? I doubt it. The term "mansplaining" is sexist, and only seems to be used by the ultra feminists to try and silence the opinions of men in conversations.

[Raven]

I'm sorry, but as a matter of principle, I ignore anyone who attempts to gives legitimacy to the term "mansplaining" by using it positively in a sentence.

As much as I despise Rick Perry, the fact is, this is a bill that affects women, so of course he is going to talk about women. If Rick Perry was a woman, and said the same thing, would it be "femsplaining"? I doubt it. The term "mansplaining" is sexist, and only seems to be used by the ultra feminists to try and silence the opinions of men in conversations.

I can understand your concerns on that, I would even go so far as to agree that it does in fact seem to be a mite, shall we say “reverse sexist”. Having said that I also feel that what is going on here that led to the term 'mansplaining' to come into use is that it does indeed occur, and frequently at that. Women are understandably sick of it. Men, especially overpriveleged white ones like Perry, have nothing to care about here. Why does he care about whether women have access to abortion beyond the reflexive reaction to a threat to the whole notion of patriarchy and misogyny? That is what he is doing, and it is bloody obvious. Women have plenty to be pissed about, and there is such a phenomenon as 'mansplaining.'

[Tiberius]

Men, especially overpriveleged white ones like Perry, have nothing to care about here. Why does he care about whether women have access to abortion beyond the reflexive reaction to a threat to the whole notion of patriarchy and misogyny?

Did you even read what he said? He explained why he cared about it quite succinctly:

every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and that every life matters

I don't care if you disagree with his views, but the fact is, he explained why he opposed the bill, and he wasn't being misogynistic when doing it.

In fact, there's another word that is used far too often without proper consideration. "Misogyny" is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. I can't see any part of his speech where he expressed such hatred or dislike. The fact that most (male) pro-life advocates get called it by pro-choice advocates is not something to be proud of. Some of these people (Perry included) have wives and daughters, and I severely doubt they "hate" or "dislike" them.

Edit: ...and no, there is no such thing as "mansplaining". There is only "explaining". You can do it very well; you can do it very poorly. Heck, you can even do it offensively, but it doesn't ever become "mansplaining".

[Minimalist]

and he wasn't being misogynistic when doing it.

Every breath that motherfucker takes is misogynistic.

[Raven]

Lots of misogynist bastards have wives and daughters. That doesn't stop them from being misogynists. The 'hood I grew up in in Brooklyn was loaded with guys like that, my own father included.

[Doubting Thomas]

You don't find the fact that he's trying to take away the rights of women to have abortions a bit misogynistic?

[Something completely different]

Oh,.. that`s the guy who thinks that Sam Houston wanted to abolish slavery.


Despite the fact that Sam Houston owned 12 slaves and made his wealth through slaves.

So either stupid or a historic revisionist.