Tuesday, August 23, 2005

The Wege's Boobs and Breeding

I really enjoy The Wege, in part because he delivers so much content there's just bound to be something I want to read. But there's a method to his madness (and I'm sure it lies somewhere betwen heart number one and heart number two of a bottle of Bell's), and when he leads with something like this under the title "Boobs and Breeding", and then follows it up with a bit about Randy Kelly, you know he's really working that Shakespearian double meaning. Actually, this is one of my favorite posts in a long time because he does a great job of aggregating one of arguments I put before female coworkers who tell me they vote Republican - being antichoice isn't just about abortion.

"I think that one of the most long-lasting effects of this administration (along with fiscal policy that would shame any banana republic, war everlasting, and global environmental destruction) will be its backwards steps on women’s fundamental rights. From John Roberts’ increasing obvious animosity toward women to the declaration that women’s social rights aren’t critical to democracy to backwards steps on forced pregnancy to the willingness to draw Nazi analogies to those who express concern about women’s health to the vanishing record of women in the workplace to a military medical plan that will pay for breast enhancements but not for the termination of a doomed pregnancy, it’s clear that these people are some really strange, fucked up folk who value the gals only for boobs and breeding."

5 comments:

klund said...

So now you're against boobs and breeding? Typical liberal scum.

Scooter said...

I'm against the "only for boobs and breeding part." As far as boobs - wonderful. Breeding - I'm not much for that in my personal life anymore, now that Pooteewheet is perimenopausal, but everyone else is free to breed as they like (although I recommend breeding within common sense and with a bit of ecological consideration).

MNObserver said...

Um... I think he meant MNObserver DID.

MNObserver said...

..But thanks for the compliment, Scooter.

Scooter said...

That's what I get for trusting the "author" tag on Sharpreader - though I suspect that means your author tags always say "MG" regardless of the author, or you have an author tag for the whole feed instead of individual posts. Then again, I use Blogger and I'm apparently too lazy to read tag lines, so who am I to critique? I presume a beer at the next Drinking Liberally I'm at will make amends.