Menstruation Is Murder

By Climbing Trees

So, in the U.S. (where else?) a Georgia Republican wants women who have miscarriages to prove they weren’t the result of, um, intervention. i.e. it all came out by itself.

Reminds me of the great Mikhaela Reid cartoon “The Egg Rescue Squad.” So let’s, as Mikhaela did, take this a little bit further. Why isn’t Mr I Hate Menstruating Women Because They Aren’t Fulfilling Their God Given Duty to Reproduce demanding that all used tampons be checked for possible fertilised eggs. After all, [PDF!!] only about 50 percent of these teeny tiny “people” actually implant in the womb. Why is it that ProLiferators and the GOP don’t seem a sh*t about the kind of tampon massacres that are going on every day. Ladies, when YOU lift the lid on those tampon disposal bins in the loo, don’t you sometimes feel just heartsick at the thought of all the tiny dead people in there? Those things are like mass graves. Maybe Repubs could fund something like Reid’s Egg Rescue Squad to regularly clear out those “sanitary disposal units” (talk about euphemistic! “Killing Fields” is more like it). Locate the eggs, take DNA samples, and then git out there and hunt down and lock up the callous murdering menstruating wimmin responsible. It’s outrageous.

I was listening to Bill Maher’s show the other day. Bill can be an annoying, sexist wanker, but I have a soft sport for his irreverence (especially over religion). Anyway, he was whining on about how badly Muslim men treat “their” women. Tavis Smiley (the guy can talk!) challenged him by rather gently suggesting that Americans don’t treat “their” women so damned well either. Bill was apoplectic. But way to go Tavis. Bill, of course, cited the example of the Muslim guy who cut off his wife’s head. Never mind that non-Muslim men are killing their wives and girlfriends every damned day – there was probably one just down the block from the studio that afternoon. But I digress – as Bill waxed on about how terrible it is for women in Saudi because they aren’t allowed to drive or fly planes (sure, it sucks!), and I was thinking, well, what’s more important, being allowed to fly a phucking plane or being able to control your own goddamned eggs? Is America really such a female paradise when its elected officials want to put miscarrying and/or menstruating women in the dock?

I doubt I’ll live long enough to see another feminist revolution – no sign yet that enough people give a cr*p about women’s rights – but I sure hope … that … one of these days … the Sisterhood Will Rise Up! All We Have to Lose Are Our Tampons… or something.

UPDATE LATER THAT SAME DAY: I swear I hadn't seen this really great blog post -- "Dear Rep. Franklin: I submit my used tampons as evidence" -- by Jill Filipovic when I wrote this. But she Nails It! Does anyone smell a fabulous political action here...involving the sending of scores and scores of tampons to anti-choice politicians? Or is it just me?