Fe Bongolan is recovering from a mild bout of adrenal exhaustion, having completed a successful creation and run of a new play — a collaboration with Planned Parenthood of Northern California. In her stead, Fe’s uterus has kindly volunteered to write today’s “Fe-911”. — amanda
Someone tell me, because I really want to know. Have lethal doses of moron gas been pumped into the ventilation systems in state legislatures around the country? Starting in February this year with Virginia and heading westward, apparently so. In the state legislature of Michigan for example, it seems male moronic behavior is fast approaching idiocy, soon to reach dangerous levels of cretinism, threatening democracy itself.
Last week in the state building in Lansing, two Michigan legislators, Rep. Lisa Brown and Rep. Barb Byrum, were silenced for speaking out against proposed legislation banning abortions needed to save the life of the mother. Brown’s purportedly offensive remarks were: “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no’.” Byrum followed suit drawing punishment for introducing an amendment to ban vasectomies except when one is required to save a man’s life.
Their objections were answered by the legislature’s refusal to hear them speak on other bills the next day of session, or as the speaker of the state house stated, they “will not be recognized to speak on the House floor today after being gaveled down for their comments and actions yesterday that failed to maintain the decorum of the House of Representatives.” Yes. It has come to this. In American politics in the year 2012, we cannot say the word vagina without some poor frightened men, mostly Republican, getting a severe case of the vapors.