Uterus: (Yew-Tur-Us), N, A curse word meaning “not a corporation.”
Apparently, the children in the GOP party in Florida are offended that a Democratic state Representative uttered the word “uterus” on the House floor:
During last week’s discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues from a worker’s paycheck, state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, used his time during floor debate to argue that Republicans are against regulations — except when it comes to the little guys, or serves their specific interests.
At one point Randolph suggested that his wife “incorporate her uterus” to stop Republicans from pushing measures that would restrict abortions. Republicans, after all, wouldn’t want to further regulate a Florida business.
Apparently the GOP leadership of the House didn’t like the one-liner.
They told Democrats that Randolph is not to discuss body parts on the House floor.
Hell, how do these men propose to regulate women’s uteri (because they’re happy to do that) if they forbid even speaking about them?
Now, I’m not sure if the Republicans made this stink because Randolph’s truth-telling about their fondness for corporations made them uncomfortable, or they simply think men should not listen to their wives (Randolph got the line from his wife).
But I’m guessing I wouldn’t last long in Florida’s House without censure.
Some men just want to use or abuse it. Having to name it might disclose their fear, their ignorance or their contempt, rather like a conversation with Ross Douthat lasting more than 30 seconds. How ironic that such behavior unmans the men who engage in it.
For tough guy definitions with a twist, I prefer the quip attributed to Hemingway. It would also describe Bogey, and Poppa, if you added a fifth of whisky: To know a man, you have to see how he handles himself with a woman, a baby and a flat tire. Self-awareness, confidence, tenderness and an ability to make things work without giving in to frustration. Those are not traits commonly associated with denizens of state or federal capitals.
Ursula K. Le Guin–“It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself” is what I like in that spot. It’s been helpful to me in avoiding dark places.
Silly EW. You are supposed to say that babies are axiomatically good. You are not necessarily supposed to say that mothers, or any part of them, are good, especially when part of state government is devoted to unfit parents.
I’ll leave it to BMAz to make a blowjob joke.
Frankly, the boys in FLA need to get over their fear o’ wimmin and wimmin’s generative ability. Not that they will, of course.
Well, they would no longer be good ole boys then, would they.
No suh, they would not.
To conservatives, it’s not a “uterus”, in a “theirs-terus”
Considering how you manage to generate a lot of attention on issues with your words on the tele, I suspect they would only censure you once, word would get out and then they would avoid it like the plague thereafter.
:^)
Both plus they are in full demonization mode to try to distract the public from them as the real criminals but it’s too late (video).
Boomerang – performed by Sainkho Namtchylak
I have very sad news for everyone.
You cannot fix stupid.
Hmm…
He can’t mention any body parts? He would not even be able to give Reagan’s First Inaugural:
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Censorship is the new FL GOP practice on the floor of the House.
Anti free speech is their new step in destroying democracy.
I think what the good speaker meant, but was too gentlemanly to say, was members are not supposed to talk about wumin’s body parts. Men don’t have to talk about theirs; are they not supposed to think of nothing else?
That comes close to the caricatured view fundamentalist legislators seem to have of one aspect of shariah law: men are deemed too infantile to see [or hear about, in Florida] any part of a woman but a clothed shadow, lest their lust drive them mad. How clever of them to ape what they claim to despise.
I guess Florida will next republish those 1950’s junior high hygiene class maps of the human body, with details of head, arms and legs, and nothing in between. Given the Florida legislature’s new cuts in funding an already bottom-leading state public school system, I recommend the republished maps label and color-code the visible parts.
You’d think all those douchebags would have up close and personal working relationships with uteri.
If it weren’t a potential weapon, there’d be no Body Heat.
These good ole’ boys in Tallahassee are rebuilding the antebellum South and protecting their wumin folk from indelicate parts of their own anatomy for their own good. Not. They are just abusing basic knowledge and basic manners in order to protect themselves from just criticism.