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A lot of women are not sympathetic to sluts. Most women are sympathetic to women who are called sluts.

Fluke did not say she was using contraception. She did not say she was having sex. She did not say she was having a lot of sex. She did not say she had a lot of sexual partners. What she said was that women at Georgetown should have the university insurance pay for their contraception if they want it. (I strongly disagree with her.) She appointed herself an advocate for these women and said NOTHING about her own life.

Fluke may be celibate. She might be engaged and faithful to her fiance. She might be a lesbian. She might be secretly married. She might be unfortunately typical of many young women with several different partners a year. She might be wildly promiscuous. We don’t know. Rush didn’t know.

Calling her a slut is unwarranted. Calling her a prostitute was out of line. It was not just wrong. It was stupid.

>>Most women are sympathetic to women who are called sluts.<<

Not if they are sluts.
Please don’t make us all out to be sniveling Twilight moms who sit around waiting for the next “Sex and the City” movie watching “The View”.

Maybe where you live, woman are crying in their lattes for this chick. Where I live, right here in MI, women think she is Nancy’s b!tch who is lying by omission to forward her agenda. And honestly, Rush brought this to a head and it popped. What happens after a pimple pops?

She did not say she was having a lot of sex.

There is no justification for Rush's gigantic blunder... BECAUSE RUSH HIMSELF KNOWS BETTER.. Rush could TEACH the principles for why he shouldn't have spoken the way that he did. He knows better. So this is not to defend Rush's mistake.

However, Rush was CORRECT on the theory behind his argument. It is not true that it costs "OVER $3,000" over 3 years for birth control UNLESS a person has having sex 2-3 times a day, paying for condoms at $1 per condom. (Rush assumed $1 each, when you can get them for 40 cents each.)

Sandra Fluke put forward financial numbers on the cost which can only be true if one is having sex 2 to 7 times a day.

So, yes, Sandra Fluke did claim to be having so much sex that she and others are going broke having sex.

While she did not explicitly mention herself, the meaning of her remarks clearly placed herself squarely in the center of the group she was speaking for. After all, her only relevance for being there was that SHE is a Georgetown University law school student, at a Catholic University. Her only reason to be there was to speak about her experiences, as part of the group of Georgetown women.