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Texas Female Legislators Get Angry on the House floor

submitted by Gale Wallis

(bareboards2)
1 decade 2 years 11 months 1 week ago

She is a bit incoherent about what her problem is -- hang on until the end if you can, it gets more and more coherent. It is clear that she and the rest of the women in the Legislator have had enough with the good ole boy club down there in Texas. (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7583446.html for a complete news report)

Apparently she had put forth a bill about insurance. The Texas Civil Justice League put out a flyer to try to convince legislators to vote against her insurance bill. Their point was, apparently, that this bill was a nanny state bill -- and to drive that point home showed a woman's breast, nursing a baby. Apparently a lot of the male legislators got their panties in a bunch about the idea of women breastfeeding in public in the past and then used this imagery to squash the bill.

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Glad none of them felt the urge to take their clothes off. Shudder.

Good'ol boys will always be i'm sorry to say... see above comment as a demonstration. Anyone want to take a wild guess which of the parties were represented by the flyers or the woman... come on... just one guess I'm sure ya'll know.

The dude behind her was chewin' tobacco, and spittin' in a cup.

http://www.lonestarreport.org/Home/tabid/38/EntryId/1185/Civil-Justice-League-suspends-Parsley-Roberts-over-flyer.aspx

I'll bet they are back in their jobs as soon as the furor dies down.

Some clarification on the final comment on the vid:

"Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, then asked Thompson whether she thought a symptom of the disrespect toward women was the "pornography on the floor of this House." Riddle later said she was referring to an isolated incident when she saw pornography on a lawmaker's cellphone.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/05/26/3108058/lawmaker-blasts-sexism-in-texas.html#ixzz1NfDeyFcI"

Yes, a baby nursing is porn. I see that now...

But seriously, is that picture the only thing that happened? How is that hateful, violent etc.? How is it an attack on women? I must be missing something.

"Riddle later said she was referring to an isolated incident when she saw pornography on a lawmaker's cellphone."

All the women were sick of a hostile environment. This was the final straw.

>> ^gwiz665:

Yes, a baby nursing is porn. I see that now...
But seriously, is that picture the only thing that happened? How is that hateful, violent etc.? How is it an attack on women? I must be missing something.

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