What Do You Call a Woman Who Is So ‘Sexually Active’ That She Needs More Contraception Than She Can Afford? UPDATE: Is Sandra Fluke a Fraud?

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 101 Comments

Apparently, the old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon word “slut” won’t do:

Speaker John Boehner on Friday denounced radio host Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” remarks aimed at Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke, but the Ohio Republican also jabbed at Democrats who have been fundraising off the fracas.
“The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an e-mail Friday morning.

In a predictable MMFA-led tactic, the Left has gone after Limbaugh’s advertisers. Limbaugh is amazed by the ridiculous uproar:

What has happened to our country where law students have to buy their own contraceptives? What has happened to us, folks? What have we done with our hearts? How did we become so cruel?
How did we become so heartless? Require each other to pay for the contraceptives of the women law students at Georgetown? Sandra Fluke reported to Pelosi: “It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to her calculations. ‘Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,’ Fluke told the hearing. …” That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex — and, she wants us to pay for it. Now, what does that make her? She wants us to buy her sex. She wants us to pay for her sex, and she went to a congressional committee to close the sale.

Michelle Malkin writes:

The language Rush used is completely unacceptable…except when it’s used against the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, myself, and every other prominent female conservative in public life, of course.

Let us be clear: Words have meanings. To call a woman a “slut” is to say that she is promiscuous — easy, a pushover, loose, “Runaround Sue” — whatever synonym you choose.

The pejorative intent of the word “slut” or any other such term is to express a disapproval of vice, because virtue loses some of its prestige if vice goes uncondemned. We praise and encourage honesty by our condemnation of liars, just as a high regard for courage requires us to scorn cowardice.

We cannot esteem loyalty without also denouncing two-faced backstabbing crapweasels. But why bring John McCain into this?

If we remove “slut” from our discourse, we thereby discard half the reward of chastity, namely the superiority of prestige that the virtuous woman should rightly enjoy in comparison to those who are less virtuous. And, I must hasten to add, we also degrade our discourse if we misuse “slut” as an ugly synonym for “woman I don’t like,” as the Left uses the word against conservative women who have never done anything to deserve a reputation for promiscuity.

The degradation of language is one of the weapons of totalitarianism. During the 1930s, epithets like “saboteur” and “parasite” were used by Stalin and his henchmen to vilify people in the Soviet Union whose only real crime was to have been suspected of posing a threat to Stalin’s supremacy. Nowadays, labels like “racist” and “homophobe” are applied with similar purpose by the Left in America, and this degradation of language in the age of Political Correctness (a phenomenon also known as Cultural Marxism) ought to alarm us, as a warning signal of an encroaching totalitarian ethos in our society.

The Left has substituted the clinical-sounding term “sexually active” for more value-laden terms used to describe promiscuity, because the Left is actively seeking to destroy the system of traditional moral values that condemns sex outside marriage. And while pretending that they have no such intent, the Democrats are exploiting the phony “War on Contraception” meme they’ve created for purely partisan political purposes.

We can laugh at the hysteria — “Republicans are coming to steal your ladyparts!” — but we cannot ignore the fact that the Left is engaged in a Culture War offensive with potentially serious consequences.

UPDATE: Jammie Wearing Fool finds evidence that Sandra Fluke, who was presented as a 23-year-old “coed,” is in fact 30 years old. She is an experienced left-wing activist, past president of “Law Students for Reproductive Justice” (!!!) and evidently enrolled at Georgetown University Law School with the specific purpose of challenging the Catholic university’s policy of denying insurance coverage for contraception.

So apparently, this was all a phony political stunt. It’s a good thing Sandra Fluke didn’t dress up like a hooker and use a hidden camera, or she might have been denounced by Rolling Stone.

UPDATE II: It is important to keep in mind that this controversy involves a genuine public policy dispute, namely the attempt by Democrats to use ObamaCare to impose universal, mandatory, no-deductible, no-co-pay contraceptive coverage on private insurers — and to demonize any opponent as a misogynistic theocrat who would ban contraception. We must keep this in mind, I say, as headlines indicate that “SlutGate” is rapidly becoming an idiotic media carnival sideshow:

Obama in personal phone call to Sandra Fluke:
Your parents should be proud
— Hot Air

Carly Fiorina: Limbaugh ‘insulting’
— Politico

Second Advertiser Pulls Out From Limbaugh
— Think Progress

The purpose of the carnival sideshow is to distract you from what is really at issue, by focusing your attention on scapegoats and inflammatory appeals to emotional triggers.

Category: Contraceptive Culture, Rush Limbaugh, Sex

Comments

101 Responses to “What Do You Call a Woman Who Is So ‘Sexually Active’ That She Needs More Contraception Than She Can Afford? UPDATE: Is Sandra Fluke a Fraud?”

Sweet63
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:03 pm

Ehh, I still don’t like our side talking like this. I tend to think Rush is so rich and happy with his life, he doesn’t care what happens to his show and will keep pushing the envelope.
richard mcenroe
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:04 pm

“That all depends on what your definition of totalitariansm is.” B.Clinton, S***-eating Grin, AR)
JeffS
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:13 pm

I’m confused. I thought leftie females are proud of being sluts. Why else have “Slutwalks “?
JeffS
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:15 pm

Wait…..Slutwalks were national?

You’d think lefties everywhere would be thanking Rush for the reminder.
Steve in TN
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:18 pm

If it walks like a slut, talks like a slut, and wants our money for sluttish endeavors…
robertstacymccain
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:18 pm

It’s as if you didn’t even read what I wrote. The Left can engage in any outrage — any corruption, crime or abuse — with impunity and yet, if those on “our side” employ a bit of rough language to make their points, Republicans throw them under the bus?

No wonder conservatives never win an argument worth winning.
richard mcenroe
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:22 pm

http://tinyurl.com/7b7v4y5
willpeir
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:25 pm

Um… I think only sluts have a $1000 a year budget to have sex. That’s going to be about $200 for birth control, and the rest is going to need to go into lingerie, red lights, and “Ask about our daily special” fliers.
Pandragon
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:43 pm

This is how you get in trouble, RSM. And for abundantly good reason.

You’re hiding behind your faux-erudite linguistic tomfoolery to feed your (male) base’s lusty prejudices and hypocritical disdain for women on the other side (I know, you dropped in an obligatory disclaimer in the middle of this post, but everything else screams out a very different message).

Let me ask you. Are you sure, really sure, that your daughter (who seems like a very nice person) had the “virtue” you seem to demand of others before she wed her beau? And what about your strapping sons? Are you going to hold them to the same standard as well? Not that it matters a whit to me, I’m guessing that you can’t measure up to your own double standards.
PaulLemmen
March 2nd, 2012 @ 3:52 pm

Truth is truth whether spoken by a University professor or the fellow who sucks pus from your anal boil. Even Hitler spoke truth when he told Speer it was a sunny day when the sun was shining in a cloudless sky. If you cannot attack the message you attack the messenger. Asshat.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:08 pm

My oh my!
Evi L. Bloggerlady
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:10 pm

You mean like the Kossacks trying to get the Westboro Baptist Church to picket Breitbart’s funeral? Of course Andrew Breitbart would treat that as a badge of honor. And the left, they do reveal themselves.
robertstacymccain
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:18 pm

Hey, why don’t we just make it entirely personal, Ye Who Hides Behind a Pseudonym?

It’s damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t, you see: One the one hand, conservatives are not permitted to criticize promiscuity in general, because to do so will prompt our adversaries to cite examples of conservatives who have similarly transgressed. Yet neither are we permitted to condemn any specific liberal person’s transgressions, because to do so is to invite the accusation of engaging in “the politics of personal destruction.”

Therefore, if conservatives play by the rules that liberals would like to enforce, we can say nothing at all. In effect, liberals are seeking to suppress dissent by any means necessary.

As I say, a totalitarian ethos is apparent.
Sweet63
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:21 pm

Yeah I know, and to make an omelette you have to break a few eggs, etc.
Zach van draden
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:21 pm

Give some examples of “The Left can engage in any outrage — any corruption, crime or abuse — with impunity.” And, does anything, anything at all justify calling someone a slut on the radio!!
Zach van draden
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:23 pm

Or maybe Dubya’s negative I.Q. “SMIRK?”
Finrod Felagund
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:31 pm

There are so many of them you could write a book about them.

Oh wait, Stacy already did, it’s called Donkey Cons. Get thee to amazon.com.
Finrod Felagund
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:33 pm

Ethical sluts pay for their own birth control.
arturo_ui
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:34 pm

Please keep this “slut” angle up. It is a guaranteed winner with female voters. They love nothing more than being called “sluts” for their use of contraception.
angelaisms
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:47 pm

Fortunately for me, I always scored high on reading comprehension tests.

No one’s calling her a slut for using birth control — it’s the fact that *she wants other people to pay for her sex life.*

I do, though, agree that anyone calling her a slut for this is using the wrong word — the correct word would be “whore.”
Edward
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:53 pm

It has nothing to do with “eggs” or “omelette”.

The left repeatedly misrepresents themselves as civil, thoughtful and will to debate politely. The reality is that they are a bunch of vicious crap-weasels who will use any deception, lie and smear they can.

Why don’t you look up some of the things that prominent lefties have said about Sarah Palin. Or any of her kids.

Go ahead. Google “Bristol Palin slut”.

Then next time don’t frigging complain.
angelaisms
March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:54 pm

I always found the term “sexually active” to be a bit strange. Sure, I guess it’s better than, “How many guys/chicks have you banged lately?” But whenever a doctor or nurse would ask if I was “currently” sexually active, I always had to bite down a snarky remark along the lines of, “Currently? Well, no; considering the time and place, that would be incredibly rude.”

Granted, I got to answer “No” anyway, up until the day I donned a poofy white dress and said, “I do.” (It can be done, folks!) So I always took joy in the little double meaning.
arturo_ui
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:01 pm

“No one’s calling her a slut for using birth control — it’s the fact that *she wants other people to pay for her sex life.*”

That doesn’t follow. Wouldn’t the correct insult be “cheap” or “moocher” rather than “slut”, if that was the case? Calling her “slut” makes it ENTIRELY a criticism of her sex life, and NOTHING to do with how her contraception is being paid for.
Zach van draden
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:01 pm

Hey Steve, when your working your ass off at the local bar at ten minutes til mid-night trying like a heart sick dog to get Miss Eligible to leave with you for the night, at what point does SHE become a Slut? When she tells you to go *uck yourself
Edward
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:02 pm

You know it’s actually rather curious in a way. In doing a bit of googling to respond to Zach “Mr. Oblivious” van Draden I got reminded of all the really nasty things that were said about Sarah Palin and Bristol Palin.

Anybody remember when David Letterman called Bristol Palin a “slut” on national television?

It’s instructive.
Kathy Kattenburg
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:04 pm

Hey, Stacy, what do you call the men who are sharing all this sex that I’m hoping you don’t believe women are having all by themselves (of course, that’s another form of pleasure and comfort that the right condemns, but that’s another comment).

I’m a lot older than Sandra Fluke, but I would not even look at a man who could use the word “slut” or “whore” or “prostitute” to describe a woman who likes and enjoys having sex (is that less “clinical” for you?) — much less marry one.

That’s NOT the kind or quality of man I would ever want to spend any time with, at all.

But that’s just me.
robertstacymccain
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:05 pm

Reading comprehension seems to be a lost art in the Internet Age. Some people seem to find a strange pleasure in attacking people for implied meaning that they project onto the actual words, in the same way that a psychotic projects bizarre interpretations onto the inkblot in a Rorschach test. Such interpretations, of course, tell us more about the minds of the (mis)readers than they tell us about the inkblot.
Zach van draden
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:06 pm

Typical Limbag sycophant…
ThePaganTemple
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:08 pm

The horny little midget approached three sluts in a bar.

“What would you sluts say to a little fuck?” he asked.

Sandra Fluke-“Hell0, little fuck!”

Carly Fiorina-“That’s insulting”

John Boehner-“WAAAAHHHHH!”
Zach van draden
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:17 pm

That’s weaker than kitty whisker’s mccain, how about a simple civil debate, name calling, ascribing false motives to another’s intent, hatred all wasted emotions and extremely destructive to the fabric of our nation. This verbal pie throwing contest nonsense is the foundation for every Civil War ever fought and the political climate today in the United States needs a rheostat of some type to dial down the emotion. The only place it can start is on message boards because it is the only place we meet. It’s easier to throws pies than to talk about and work on area’s of disagreement.
ThePaganTemple
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:22 pm

I’m guessing he’s simply saying taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s contraceptives, whether said people are or are not sluts. Said people should pay for it on their own dime. I need so much coffee and Coca-Cola every day, and I think there’s health benefits to both, so I guess the taxpayers should pay for that too. Bullshit.
Pandragon
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:26 pm

RSM: You’re waaaaay to smart to believe your own sophistry in the false parallelisms you just dashed off. Smokescreen, no?

You didn’t answer my question, either.

As for the pseudonymn. Well, this isn’t my profession, so I can afford to shield my identity. If you’re that curious, though, we could always meet for coffee at the lunch nook at your Sheetz or the Main Cup over in Middletown. Now, that would be a real hoot!
arturo_ui
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:26 pm

You are the one defending the deployment of the word “slut” in this circumstance. That’s clear as day. And all I’m saying is, KEEP IT UP, GOP!
ThePaganTemple
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:27 pm

Okay, how’s this for a compromise. You fuck whoever you want to. Fuck nine or ten different partners a night, and twenty on Sunday. Just kindly pay for your own contraception. I’d also advise you to keep a steady supply of clean sheets and underwear, otherwise it might get smelly down there. Slutty pussies tend to smell to high heaven, ya know.
ThePaganTemple
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:28 pm

Depends on how many times she’s putting that pussy out there, and to how many men. If its as many as I think, er, I say slut.
ThePaganTemple
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:29 pm

Okey dokey, slutty.
Edward
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:32 pm

“That’s NOT the kind or quality of man I would ever want to spend any time with, at all.”

For which I’m terribly grateful.
Pandragon
March 2nd, 2012 @ 5:39 pm

TPT: I am truly grateful to you for the last half-dozen posts or so . . . you’re graphically demonstrating what really underlies all of Stacy’s pseudo-intellectual gonzoism. And I notice that when you and your sewer-dwelling buddies get on a roll like this, neither Stacy, nor Smitt nor the hammer-swinging Wombat whisper as much as a mild rebuke in reply.

Keep it up. Your true colors are blazing.
Leslie Eastman
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:01 pm

As a palate cleanser to Fluke, here is another American woman: MUT’s Badass of the Week: KIRA DAVIS
Sweet63
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:06 pm

I know. I don’t need to Google. They started it, neener neener.

But I think we lose something by emulating them. Dignity, credibility, or something.
AngelaTC
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:15 pm

Dear God. The Right has managed to allow the left to completely dominate this conversation. What a cl*ster f*ck this is.

The issue should be the government mandate – from the executive branch no less – that private companies provide anything as part of their coverage.

The GOP can’t handle that? And yet we think they’re the best suited to run not only the country, but the whole world?

Oh sure – they’re *totally* going to be strong enough to repeal Obamacare. (Not really, but it won’t be their fault. It’ll be those mean, scary Democrats that will talk them into submission.)
Garym
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:17 pm

You illustrate absurdity by being absurd.
Garym
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:19 pm

Hey asshole, go fuck yourself!!
Leslie Eastman
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:22 pm

Kira Davis, the Tea Party activist who produced the awesome video “apology” smackdown of Team Obama for the Koran Burning kow-tow now has a new one: Dear Ms.Sandra Fluke: I Don’t Wanna Pay for Your Sex
Garym
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:23 pm

Is that a threat?
Zach van draden
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:28 pm

Lol!
Garym
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:28 pm

But do you want taxpayers paying for you to have sex?
Garym
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:30 pm

Oooooh! You really told him. Go whine on another blog then dumbass.
FenelonSpoke
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:33 pm

Pandragon sounds like the poster GG (and the other names they used) back on a stupid roll again.
tranquil.night
March 2nd, 2012 @ 6:34 pm

IMO, the bottom line of this is that 80% of D.C. is sluttier than Ms. Fluke.