Written by the same woman, Sally Kohn, who recently called for Disney to make a kids film about two lesbian princesses getting married and said the Oscars is racist for not having enough black winners.
Perhaps it’s time for Republican men to stop talking about women’s bodies and choices. It just doesn’t end well.
Last week, the Republican former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee said this at the annual meeting of the Republican National Committee:
Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing or them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government.
Never mind the fact that the birth control mandate under Obamacare doesn’t involve government giving women anything but simply requiring that private insurance companies include access to birth control as part of their coverage. That women pay for. Privately. Never mind the obviously offensive dog-whistle-esque racialized characterization of our federal government, currently headed by a black President, as “Uncle Sugar.” And for the sake of argument, never mind the oversimplification of the “War on Women,” which in reality is as much about Republicans attacking reproductive justice as attacking paid family leave and refusing to raise the minimum wage and downplaying rape and plenty more.