{"id":4673,"date":"2011-04-26T02:17:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2011-04-26T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T06:37:09","slug":"gents-have-ladies-clipped-your-gonads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/gents-have-ladies-clipped-your-gonads\/","title":{"rendered":"Gents, Have Ladies Clipped Your Gonads?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">I know.&#160; That sounds ridiculous, but what can I say?&#160; The latest talking point from the depths of Republican Teabuggery is that liberal women are neutering American men.&#160; Really!&#160; Given the behavior of certain congressional Democrats, perhaps that is the support for the argument, so debunking this may require closer examination.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"26gorgo\" alt=\"26gorgo\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/26gorgo.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"527\" \/>Last week, Tea Party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) addressed his base at a Women Impacting Nation (WIN) meeting [propaganda delinked] in Boca Raton, FL. WIN\u2019s mission [hate group delinked] is to \u201ceducate and equip women with knowledge of God\u2019s truth\u201d and \u201cto support those who take a stand for those Judeo-Christian values upon which our country is founded.\u201d West used examples of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Px4f4vTpXg0\" target=\"_blank\">historical fiction<\/a>\u201d to instruct attendees on <strong>the proper role for American women \u2014 namely, to make strong men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>West first weaved the ancient society of Sparta [propaganda delinked] \u2014 a culture that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women_in_Ancient_Sparta#cite_note-0\" target=\"_blank\">practiced eugenics<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_eugenics#cite_note-3\" target=\"_blank\">inspired Adolf Hitler<\/a> \u2014 into an example of the role of women. \u201cWhat made the Spartan men strong, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therightscoop.com\/west-we-need-strong-women-to-raise-american-men\/\" target=\"_blank\">it was the Spartan women<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause the Spartan women at the age of nine gave up their male sons\u201d to train for the army. <strong>West then exulted conservative women to come forth and \u201clock shields\u201d to \u201cstrengthen up the men who are going to the fight for you.\u201d<\/strong> Painting women\u2019s rights advocates as \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>women that have been neutering American men<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d West charged attendees to fight these apparent castrators who want to force male subservience\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Watch it:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rUCnvIN6E5Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>West\u2019s blatant misogyny is made all the more ludicrous by the sources of his historical wisdom. In heralding Sparta, West holds up Spartan Queen Gorgo as the essential example of a woman who, speaking \u201cout of turn\u201d to a male emissary, said \u201cPersian, beware, for it is Spartan women who raise Spartan men.\u201d <strong>But this stirring confrontation comes not from ancient history<\/strong> but from slightly-less-ancient director Zack Snyder\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0416449\/\" target=\"_blank\">2006 film, 300<\/a>. In the movie, Queen Gorgo <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/?p=161001&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\">confronts a Persian man<\/a> as West describes. But according to Plutarch, who first recorded the statment, Gorgo \u201cis said to have\u201d uttered the principle in response to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/penelope.uchicago.edu\/Thayer\/E\/Roman\/Texts\/Plutarch\/Lives\/Lycurgus*.html\" target=\"_blank\">some foreign woman.<\/a>\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/04\/25\/allen-west-liberal-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Now, first note that West Teabuggered history, not just truth, but he transforms women to a role of subservient chattel.&#160; If anything, it would seem to me that a strong, virile man is not threatened by equality with an independent woman, while the neutered man is the one who needs to put a woman down in order to feel powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">But here\u2019s the acid test.&#160; Counting\u2026 One!\u2026 Two!!&#160; No doubt about it!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">On that basis, I declare the lovely ladies of the left not guilty!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know.&#160; That sounds ridiculous, but what can I say?&#160; The latest talking point from the depths of Republican Teabuggery is that liberal women are neutering American men.&#160; Really!&#160; Given the behavior of certain congressional Democrats, perhaps that is the support for the argument, so debunking this may require closer examination. Last week, Tea Party <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/gents-have-ladies-clipped-your-gonads\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}