Honestly, the last couple of weeks, I've started to wonder: Is the Republican Party committed to a full-employment program for pundits focused on gender and sexuality? Every day, my jaw and the floor have had yet another encounter. Yesterday there was Foster Friess, the Santorum backer, saying that "aspirin between the knees" prevented pregnancy. I don't know about you, but I had to check to find out what the heck he was talking about. Was he saying you can use aspirin as a spermicide? As a post-coital douche?
Nope. Apparently it was an old joke, before my time (and I'm old), that if a woman tried to hold an aspirin between her knees, she couldn't open her legs wide enough for some boy to get in. Wow. My mother just told me-this must have been back in, oh, 1973-that for people who needed it, Planned Parenthood could be very helpful. Turned out that I was just realizing I didn't need it, but I appreciated her vote of support.
And somehow I never got to say anything about Fox commentator Liz ("What Did They Expect?") Trotta, who suggested the other day that women in the military deserve to get raped-and that the entire anti-rape and anti-sexual harassment infrastructure within the military was a boondoggle that just channels jobs to feminists. So perhaps Trotta can put an end to that wasteful spending by advising those military women how they can use aspirin to avoid being raped by their fellow soldiers.
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