Limbaugh: The left calls the "rape police" if there's no consent

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/12/1581638/-Limbaugh-hits-new-low-The-Left-calls-the-rape-police-if-there-s-no-consent

[quote]You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it's perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there's no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.

[Goldwater]

The left dislikes it when sex isn't consensual? Well, no sh**t sherlock.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The left? How about people with a conscience, or even half a conscience. This rape stuff coming from some Republicans is just utterly disgusting.

[MasterJedi]

The left? How about people with a conscience, or even half a conscience. This rape stuff coming from some Republicans is just utterly disgusting.

They consider themselves gifts to women and don't believe in rape, what do you expect?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I think his point is less that nonconsensual sex is fine (he does still allude to it in that rape police sentence) and more that consent should not legitimize immoral acts (e.g. threesomes). Still terrible stuff.

[Seneca]

     I think his point is less that nonconsensual sex is fine (he does still allude to it in that rape police sentence) and more that consent should not legitimize immoral acts (e.g. threesomes). Still terrible stuff.

What?

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I think his point is less that nonconsensual sex is fine (he does still allude to it in that rape police sentence) and more that consent should not legitimize immoral acts (e.g. threesomes). Still terrible stuff.

What?

     That's what Rush Limbaugh is saying. I'm not defending it.

[Devout Centrist]

     I think his point is less that nonconsensual sex is fine (he does still allude to it in that rape police sentence) and more that consent should not legitimize immoral acts (e.g. threesomes). Still terrible stuff.

So much sh*t, it's Saudi approved.

[Joe Republic]

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With this single minor change, this paragraph is now entirely correct.

[Landslide Lyndon]

But don't call them deplorables.

[Adam Griffin]

I was going to quote my post from last week about how Republicans love rape and can't for the life of themselves ever stop talking about it, but it appears that it was deleted.

This of course was posted before Trump's rape comments. At least I'm perpetually being vindicated!


Also, nobody calls "the rape police". There's just "the police", because rape is a crime - whether the GOP loves it or not.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

What's the deal with Republicans and rape? Seriously.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

What's the deal with Republicans and rape? Seriously.

It's the "rape culture" that keeps getting brought up. With a huge helping of "we liked it better when women were second-class citizens / chattel".

It's the idea that as long as you're rich, preferably white, and don't beat her up in a dark parking garage first, it can't possibly be rape. It's the idea that men are better than women, but have had to cave in to "uppity" women, because reasons.

The Republicans know it's wrong, know its bs, but they don't like admitting that. So they generally keep their support for rape, their opposition to women with agency, their misogyny, deeply buried. They resort to dog whistles and face saving excuses most of the time. (Abortion bans aren't about controlling women's reproduction - they do it FOR THE CHILDREN.)

And Limbaugh, with the Trump example to egg him on, just pulled a bunch of that right out into the light without even realizing what he'd done. (Watch for him to start trying to scrape the dirt back over his dump as soon as realization hits.)

Really this is just the latest peak of something that's been coming for a long time: the GOP is history. The worst parts of history. And they're on their way to extinction and that's a good thing. They're never really coming back from Trump. Oh, they might surge up a bit for a while, but they're DONE. The tough part is how big a mess they'll make in their dying.

[Person Man]

What's the deal with Republicans and rape? Seriously.

It's the "rape culture" that keeps getting brought up. With a huge helping of "we liked it better when women were second-class citizens / chattel".

It's the idea that as long as you're rich, preferably white, and don't beat her up in a dark parking garage first, it can't possibly be rape. It's the idea that men are better than women, but have had to cave in to "uppity" women, because reasons.

The Republicans know it's wrong, know its bs, but they don't like admitting that. So they generally keep their support for rape, their opposition to women with agency, their misogyny, deeply buried. They resort to dog whistles and face saving excuses most of the time. (Abortion bans aren't about controlling women's reproduction - they do it FOR THE CHILDREN.)

And Limbaugh, with the Trump example to egg him on, just pulled a bunch of that right out into the light without even realizing what he'd done. (Watch for him to start trying to scrape the dirt back over his dump as soon as realization hits.)

Really this is just the latest peak of something that's been coming for a long time: the GOP is history. The worst parts of history. And they're on their way to extinction and that's a good thing. They're never really coming back from Trump. Oh, they might surge up a bit for a while, but they're DONE. The tough part is how big a mess they'll make in their dying.

Where do women in the Nationalist and Conservative Media and "Intelligensia" fit into all of this. What is the deal with the Coulters, Palins, Conways, and Bachmanns of the world?

[OSR stands with Israel]

The left? How about people with a conscience, or even half a conscience. This rape stuff coming from some Republicans is just utterly disgusting.

Totally and utterly disgusting

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Rape, by definition, is sex without consent.

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

So what'd he's saying is, as long as both sides agree, in a liberal society they can commit whatever sexual actions they want.

I fail to see the problem with this.

[Associate Justice PiT]

So what'd he's saying is, as long as both sides agree, in a liberal society they can commit whatever sexual actions they want.

I fail to see the problem with this.

     He's saying that he doesn't want the liberal society that he's describing.

[DINGO Joe]

Where do Limbaugh's Dominican cabana boys fit in all this?

[‼realJohnEwards‼]

So what'd he's saying is, as long as both sides agree, in a liberal society they can commit whatever sexual actions they want.

I fail to see the problem with this.

     He's saying that he doesn't want the liberal society that he's describing.

I know. I'm saying that I don't see any problem with that society, much less with that specific part of it.

[Person Man]

So what'd he's saying is, as long as both sides agree, in a liberal society they can commit whatever sexual actions they want.

I fail to see the problem with this.

     He's saying that he doesn't want the liberal society that he's describing.

I know. I'm saying that I don't see any problem with that society, much less with that specific part of it.

To the Liberal, he seems to be trivializing rape but he probably means that any form of sexual activity needs the community's consent. This idea isn't that outlandish. It is the church's position that when one sin happens within a marriage or home, that it is considered a bad thing for the community as a whole. It is kind of an Eastern mindset, but it is not foreign to the West.

[Enduro]

*sigh

[Associate Justice PiT]

I was going to quote my post from last week about how Republicans love rape and can't for the life of themselves ever stop talking about it, but it appears that it was deleted.

This of course was posted before Trump's rape comments. At least I'm perpetually being vindicated!


Also, nobody calls "the rape police". There's just "the police", because rape is a crime - whether the GOP loves it or not.

Speaking as someone with multiple family members who have been sexually assaulted, I'm honestly glad that Trump's comments went public; not just because it's destroying his campaign, but also because it's helping to expose rape culture to the masses. This might be the first positive cultural impact of his campaign other than him making the idea of "building a wall" a total joke to any sane person, while a decade ago, even plenty of Democrats paid lip service to the idea.

     What is the left going to do with this, though? I think rape is terrible and I'm open to ideas on how to reduce the incidence of rape, but what I've heard coming out of the left on the issue is largely inane. If it's going to be namby-pamby stuff like consent courses (because people are somehow smart enough to go to college yet are blithering idiots who don't know what consent is), then y'all are just going to waste your time.

[TDAS04]

Rush is scum.

[Devout Centrist]

I was going to quote my post from last week about how Republicans love rape and can't for the life of themselves ever stop talking about it, but it appears that it was deleted.

This of course was posted before Trump's rape comments. At least I'm perpetually being vindicated!


Also, nobody calls "the rape police". There's just "the police", because rape is a crime - whether the GOP loves it or not.

Speaking as someone with multiple family members who have been sexually assaulted, I'm honestly glad that Trump's comments went public; not just because it's destroying his campaign, but also because it's helping to expose rape culture to the masses. This might be the first positive cultural impact of his campaign other than him making the idea of "building a wall" a total joke to any sane person, while a decade ago, even plenty of Democrats paid lip service to the idea.

     What is the left going to do with this, though? I think rape is terrible and I'm open to ideas on how to reduce the incidence of rape, but what I've heard coming out of the left on the issue is largely inane. If it's going to be namby-pamby stuff like consent courses (because people are somehow smart enough to go to college yet are blithering idiots who don't know what consent is), then y'all are just going to waste your time.

You put way too much faith in people who attend college.