While speaking last Wednesday against a bill requiring doctors to ensure women aren't coerced into ending their pregnancies, Rep. Lisa Brown (D-MI) told Republicans, "I'm flattered you're all so concerned about my vagina. But no means no." As a result, Rep. Brown was barred from speaking in the House on the grounds she violated decorum. Since when did using the medically correct term for a body part become an offense?! To really offend the GOP, maybe Rep. Brown should have said "Keep your stinking paws off my pussy, you damned dirty Republicans!"
Mich. lawmaker barred for "vagina" comment in abortion debate
Rep. Lisa Brown's op-ed piece on the controversy
On last Friday's installment of The Ed Show, guest host Michael Eric Dyson had on Rep. Brown to discuss the controversy.
In an awesome postscript, Rep. Brown will take part in a performance of the play "The Vagina Monologues" along with the writer of the play (Eve Ensler) on the state capitol steps on the evening of Monday, June 18th.
3 comments:
The GOP has a strange idea of what is inappropriate and what is not.
Naming a body part correctly is "inappropriate," but passing around photos of chimpanzees and gorillas as representative of our First Family is perfectly within the bounds of decorum?
There's something basically wrong with that sort of thinking.
For once I agree with you to a point. But many parents of young children probably cringed when she came out with that particular word.
I see nothing wrong with using the correct terms, but I believe she should have used a little more decorum.
Oh well.
Shaw: Good point. The GOP members who deemed the word "vagina" inappropriate come off as being very repressed and uptight.
Leticia: If the House hearings aired on The Disney Channel or Nickelodeon, I'd see your point. If there were parents whose young kids heard Rep. Brown's comments, it's up to them (the parents) to talk to their kids about the word.
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