Schizoid Sexual Society: Focused on the Petty Sex Scandals, Ignoring the Ones That Really Matter: "Why isn't it a bigger scandal when politicians chip away at our rights to control our bodies and our sexuality?
In a year when America has been otherwise austerity-obsessed, we are still sex-scandal rich. But while we certainly flock like moths to the scandal flame when that flame is a photo of a Congressman's penis, isn't it just as much of a scandal when Congressmen (and women) want to redefine rape, criminalize abortion and sex work, and chip away at our rights to control our bodies and our sexuality? Why is the media so easily obsessed when casting aspersions on the real or imagined sex lives of the already powerful, but not when the powerful target the rest of us? Before we get all misty-eyed with nostalgia – or tear gas – let's look back on some of 2011's sex scandals, with attention to the ones that should have scandalized us all...."
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This country is so hung up on sex, that they can't even think straight. The Republicans want to be in everyone's bedroom while crying for small gov't. They make me sick.
Same here. To me, when they say small government they're really meaning Government so big it takes up the entire universe.
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