Wisconsin Lawmaker Thinks Women Are Better Off Beaten Than Divorced

[ProfessionalLeftist]

“Representative Don Pridemore, told TODAY’S TMJ4 he thinks even in abusive relationships, there are other options than divorce. ‘If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help,’ said Representative Don Pridemore.”

And without even a trace of irony, he also claims that the reason women can’t single parent — one of the reasons he supports the bill — is because children will “go astray” since the father is usually the “disciplinarian.”

So to clarify, single parent homes run by mothers cause child abuse, but if there is spousal abuse in a two parent home the wife should stay with her husband, especially since he is needed because he is obviously the disciplinarian.

Let him beat you, let him beat your children, whatever it goes on in a house is just fine as long as you stay married.

Yes, there really is a war on women.


Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/wisconsin-lawmaker-thinks-women-are-better-off-beaten-than-divorced.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. The idiot Brownback appointed to run SRS in Kansas tried to justify not funding battered women's

shelters by claiming women should go back to their husbands and fix their marriages.

These right wing 'Christians' are insane.

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. Wasn't there also a law or ruling stating that the police need no longer respond

to domestic violence calls? Browntongue can flog himself all day long if he wants, just as long as he doesn't encourage the flogging of others.

Go Jayhawks!

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. That was in Topeka

The city wanted to stop responding to domestic violence calls. They claimed it was too expensive. But I think the backlash halted that plan. When it gets on national news, you need to find another way to save money. LOL

Go Jayhawks indeed. Hope they can get past NC tomorrow

[MuseRider]

20. It was a funding fight between the county and the city.

It was a stupid fight between them but it was all solved. It had nothing to do with becoming national news it was taken care of by the DA saying he would do it even if it cost money used elsewhere.

It was stupid and dangerous and just what happens when the people affected are the last thing the governing officials consider when they decide to fight over money.

[usrname]

14. These right wing "Christians" would be

the first to nail Christ on a cross if He ever returns to earth and come to America.

They claim to be Christian, but their thoughts and actions are about as remote from the teachings as to be devoid of all meaning.

[Moonwalk]

16. Well, but isn't that what they'd see as needing to be done to Jesus? I mean...

...he doesn't end up dying for people's sins and being resurrected as divine if he doesn't get whipped and nailed to the cross.

Seems to me that these particular Christians are simply going back to thinking of women the way the conservative Catholic Church has viewed them for some 2000 years. Meaning they should all be passive martyrs like Jesus rather than take action and/or avoiding being abused or killed. Being abused or killed, enduring and forgiving in a Christlike manner, is the only thing that, to such Christians, transforms a woman from a slut to a saint. So, you see, they're doing women a favor by making them stick out these marriages. At least, that always seemed to be the "logic" of this position in past times. A woman who suffered and died at the husband's hand was admired and viewed as saint-like, while the woman who left the bad husband, including those who took their child with them to protect that child, was viewed as sinful.

All-in-all, I just wish such Christians come out and admit that they get a sexual thrill from BDSM relationships with the man as the sadist/master and the woman as the masochist/slave. If they 'fessed up to this, and kept it out of the general political arena limiting it only to consenting Christian adults, they and the rest of us would be far happier.

[HereSince1628]

2. WIGOP's vision of America's Dairyland...a place where a man's home is his castle, and his family are

his punching bags!

I think we should consider amending our state motto to "FORWARD?"

[TBF]

11. Maybe it should be changed to "BACKWARDS"

yes, I'm a native of Wisconsin.

[Dawson Leery]

3. The greatest threat to this country comes from within (the GOP).

[MichiganVote]

4. Another member of the american white republican Taliban

[Hawaii Hiker]

5. When i first saw the title, i truly thought it was from "The Onion" or some other satrical place

I did not think some bastard could actually say that and be serious....

President Obama should win the female vote by 30%, if the GOP war on women continues...

[EC]

6. Now they want to go back to days

when we couldn't get divorced without being abandoned or proving infidelity?

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. R-E-C-A-L-L-!

[Deep13]

10. "refind?"

I think I just refound the reason I hate reactionary politicians.

[freshwest]

12. If reincarnation is true, guess what his fate is going to be?

[Iliyah]

13. The GOP really

do hate women, don't they. I mean look at all these laws, rulings, and shit coming out of their mouths, i.e. if a women is raped, questioning her character not the rapist. Come on, really?

[Zax2me]

15. He's not alone - Bookstore sells out book that advises Muslim men on how to beat their wives

written by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi-
“beat by hand or stick,” withhold money from her or “pull (her) by the ears,” but should “refrain from beating her excessively.”
Oh - not excessively. Okay then.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/23/book-tells-muslim-men-how-to-beat-and-control-their-wives

[jwirr]

17. Hey Don, how would that have helped my ex who just wanted a divorce so he could marry his girl

friend? Maybe I should have beated him?

[Aerows]

18. Most Republican men

Think women are better off under the thumb of a man.

No surprises here, just a surprise he is stupid enough to say what most male Republicans think.

[Aerows]

19. This isn't news

Right Wing Christian males, particularly white right wing Christian males, think their wives and children are property to do with what they will.

This isn't some new revelation. This is their fundamental view of society, reinforced by the churches they attend.

[Auntie Bush]

21. So now they are going after divorce... What next?

Pedophilia?

[provis99]

22. Wisconsin, you disappoint me.

I though all this right-wing shit was over when McCarthy drank himself to death, but lately Wisconsin is looking like the Alabama of the North.