Posted on 04/17/2013 10:53:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
CONCORD, N.H. -- A New Hampshire lawmaker apologized Wednesday for referring to women as "vaginas" in an email to his House colleagues during a debate over repealing a law allowing people to use deadly force to defend themselves.
"I am embarrassed, to say the least," wrote state Rep. Peter Hansen, R-Amherst, a day after saying he didn't regret the remark and had used the word for shock value.
In an email sent April 1, Hansen, who once used his gun to restrain an intruder at his home, referenced a speech given by another lawmaker, who described how he had been able to retreat without using deadly force in public.
"There were two critical ingredients missing in the illustrious stories purporting to demonstrate the practical side of retreat. Not that retreat may not be possible mind you. What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina's of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims," Hansen wrote, according to messages posted online this week by liberal blogger Susan Bruce.
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I thought after Eve Ensler wrote that play all Liberal women embraced that moniker.
Will the Repubs ever learn?!
He is my state rep.
Way to go Peter.
At least he used polite terminology.
Its usually a mistake to apologize. Its usually better to double-down and make your point again.
just say he was quoting the vagina monologues...
These friigin guys after what Akin and Murdock did? They give away seats...their careers. Is misogyny just a part of who they are?
Hey! If he’s not allowed to call them a vagina. Then don’t go calling him a peter.
Just what we need...another monologue.
At least he didn’t call them f&#$ing c#*ts.
He said he was doing it for shock value. Tell him what ...walk down the street tough guy and call some guys wife or daughter a vagina for shock value. That shock value will land you right in the emergency ward.
Or “nappy headed ho’s”
That’s reserved for the Rutgers female b-ball team.
Needs his mouth douched out?
Nice to see you giving your member your firm support.
Good grief! Why would a man with a single brain cell in his head do such a stupid thing? A Repubican no less - which means the liberal talking heads will be mentioning this at least 100 times an hour for the next 6 months, always mentioning it was a Republican that did it.
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