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‘Sluts’ Unite Against Republicans, Rush Limbaugh
ABC News ^

Posted on 06/05/2012 3:44:16 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

‘Sluts’ Unite Against Republicans, Rush Limbaugh

Watch out Republicans, here come the sluts.

Women’s rights activists are banding together to “Rock the Slut Vote” in an online effort to register women to vote and cast their ballots against Republicans in 2012.

“If the GOP thinks that throwing the word ‘slut’ at us at this point is going to silence women they have another thing coming,” said Susan McMillan Emry, the site’s founder.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh thrust the derogatory word into the political arena in February when he called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” for testifying before Congress in support of contraceptives.

Following the national backlash over Limbaugh’s name-calling, “Rock the Slut Vote” is now aiming to “diffuse” the offensive term, Emry said.

Taking a vein from comedian Jeff Foxworthy and his “You might be a Redneck if…” jokes, Emry’s website gives visitors 22 reasons why “You might be a slut,” including “if you’ve ever used contraception” or “if you’re still downloading Dixie Chicks music” or “if you don’t go to church.”

The site aims to “re-appropriate” the word “slut” so that Limbaugh and other Republicans cannot use it to “bully and silence women,” Emry said.

“It’s really about taking the power away from that word more than it is about Rush Limbaugh,” she said. “He gave the word the notoriety but we are trying to take it back.”

Emry said the “Rush Limbaugh mess” coupled with the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to cut Planned Parenthood funding and recent efforts in state Legislatures to restrict access to abortions and contraceptives “compelled” her to create the site after 56 years on the political sidelines.

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To: Sub-Driver

Remember when women wanted to be “Ladies”.

It was better time.

Ladies didn’t want tattoos, tongue piercings, they were discreet about their sexual practices.Some even wore white at their weddings because they earned the right.


41 posted on 06/05/2012 5:29:29 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Sub-Driver
I think they are jumping to conclusions. I suspect Rush has progressed way beyond them. When he called her a slut he meant it in the most respectful endearing way.
42 posted on 06/05/2012 5:32:40 AM PDT by JIM O
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To: grobdriver

And she did not speak “in support of contraceptives”,

she spoke of using coercive force of government to force others to PAY FOR her contraceptives.


43 posted on 06/05/2012 5:33:00 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: LibLieSlayer

No they are not very smart. Witness they are the only demographic (sex) group which voted for Obama in the majority. Even today after we know how big a disaster he is they still favor him.

What better definition of stupid do you need?


44 posted on 06/05/2012 5:37:20 AM PDT by scram2
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To: Sub-Driver

Glad they’ve accepted the label finally. Now I don’t have to feel guilt when I call a slut a slut.


45 posted on 06/05/2012 5:37:26 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Sub-Driver

:: He gave the word the notoriety ::

Well, not exactly. Rush gave the word as an “attenion-getter”. The Dhimmicrats and the NAGs took offense and made the hue & cry in the negative sense.


46 posted on 06/05/2012 5:39:38 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Slutty women want to change the definitions of slut, whore, etc so they (believe they) can be empowered to be promiscuous without being judged. They're fools, and shameless sluts.
47 posted on 06/05/2012 5:54:30 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: grobdriver
when he called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” for testifying before Congress in support of contraceptives.

IRRC, Rush called her a "Slut" for saying she needed thousands of dollars each year for contraceptives.

"slut (sl t). n. 1. a. A person, especially a woman, considered sexually promiscuous."

According to this dictionary definition, Fluck has identified herself as a "slut". Rush's main issue is that Fluke wants US to pay for her promiscuity supplies.

48 posted on 06/05/2012 5:54:51 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Sub-Driver
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh thrust the derogatory word into the political arena in February when he called law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” for testifying before Congress in support of contraceptives.

Rush should not have used that term, as he himself finally did admit. However, this is of course a completely inaccurate depiction of the context - first of all, she did not "testify before Congress" - it was a Democrat Party caucus meeting designed to look like a committee hearing. Secondly, she did not merely testify in support of contraception - she testified that she saw on the faces of women all over her campus pain because they weren't getting free contraception and many women were all but going bankrupt because of it, so essentially she wanted other people to be forced to subsidize her sex life and those of others, including having religious institutions have their basic freedoms under the Constitution be disregarded.

49 posted on 06/05/2012 6:13:15 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: scram2

They define the term.

LLS


50 posted on 06/05/2012 6:14:00 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sandra Fluke is not a slut. She's simply a girl with a great deal of experience between the sheets, one who expects other people to pay for her bedroom activities, because that's what we're here for - to work so she can play.

51 posted on 06/05/2012 6:15:15 AM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: All

The Obama surrogates are picking up the failed memes and running with them to see if they’ll gain any more traction.


52 posted on 06/05/2012 6:17:05 AM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Vindicating Rush by responding like a mob of empty headed bimbos. The irony is almost unbearable.


53 posted on 06/05/2012 6:30:25 AM PDT by Spok
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To: Sub-Driver

You can’t fix stupid.


54 posted on 06/05/2012 6:37:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: JudyinCanada
All I remember is them saying something about “sexual empowerment”....whatever that is.

Round heels and bed flopping, while the normal taxpayer picks up the bill for their contraceptives, abortions, and STD drugs.

55 posted on 06/05/2012 6:55:22 AM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: OldMissileer; JudyinCanada

In Gen 3:16, the curse to the woman was that she’d desire to be in the man’s role, but he’d still rule over her.


56 posted on 06/05/2012 7:02:05 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Biggirl

Witch doctors need demons to banish.


57 posted on 06/05/2012 7:26:46 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

You summed it up! Reminiscent of the lib women whose hero was Bill Clinton and said they would be overjoyed if they could service him same way Monica did.


58 posted on 06/05/2012 7:54:18 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Yes indeed... I cannot remember her name but Rush mentions here from time to time.

LLS


59 posted on 06/05/2012 8:36:08 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: dennisw

Yes indeed... I cannot remember her name but Rush mentions her from time to time.

LLS


60 posted on 06/05/2012 8:36:22 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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