re: #12 Lidane

I think I’ve watched Sandra Fluke’s testimony three or four times now, and I’m still trying to figure out how any of what she said before Congress merits this sort of misogyny and outright slander of an intelligent, well-spoken, educated young woman.

I can’t come up with anything except these people just being hateful assholes. That’s the only explanation that makes any sense.

The only conclusion I can come to, as I voiced earlier today, is that she’s being hated for bringing facts into the debate that they can’t simply argue away. That birth control pills have uses besides contraception, that insurance companies utilize such archaic regulations to deny claims on technicalities, that contraception is not “cheap” for those working on strict budgets, and that women are suffering from otherwise treatable conditions due to inability to afford something that should be covered by every comprehensive insurance plan.

So the only recourse they see is to destroy not only her, but her testimony. That means demeaning her, dubbing her a “liar” and a “fraud,” and doing everything possible to make people reflexively avoid her testimony.