Wisconsin Lawmaker: If You Are Being Beaten, Just Remember the Things You Love About Your Husband

[TalkingDog]

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/23/wisconsin-lawmaker-you-are-being-beaten-just-remember-things-you-love-about-your

According to Yahoo News, Wisconsin Rep. Don Pridemore helpfully suggests that, rather than divorcing an abusive spouse, you should try to remember the things you love about the guy while he is beating you up.

In Wisconsin -- yes, the same state where lawmakers have introduced a bill penalizing single mothers for being unmarried -- a Republican state representative has come out against divorce for any reason -- even domestic abuse.

Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands, Representative Don Pridemore said. "If they can re-find those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help," he told a local news station.

[muntrv]

1. Don Pridemore, pro-wife beater.

[XanaDUer]

2. So women of America

Have you had enough yet?

[Matariki]

3. WTF??? Are you kidding me?

Are these assholes just coming out of the woodwork, somehow thinking they're free to say any old stupid misogynist shit that crosses their tiny minds? Or, have they always been saying crap like this and the media is reporting it all recently?

I'd like to know just what the hell is going on, why is there an apparent epidemic of stupid lately?

[longship]

4. Who's cataloging all this bill shit

(Oops! My typo in the heading ended up to be pretty good, so I left it.)

Seriously, somebody with resources needs to catalog all the anti-woman crap coming from the GOP this year. It could prove valuable in this election year.

[BrendaBrick]

11. EXACTLY!!!

I nominate NOW (National Organization for Women) for starters...

[enough]

5. If you have time, read this powerful dKos diary from today, on this same subject,

though not about the particular idiot from Wisconsin.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/27/1078112/-I-cried-when-I-got-home

[HockeyMom]

6. He must never have seen the move "The Burning Bed"

or remember Lorana Bobbett. When women are abused, they will take matters into their own hands, so to speak. The results will not necessarily be pretty. We going back to those times too?

[Cobalt Violet]

7. I thought we were fighting the taliban there so we wouldn't have to fight them here.

Looks like we have to fight here after all.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

8. +1000

My thoughts exactly. Pfft. What a fugging neanderthal this guy is!

[madaboutharry]

9. What a sicko.

[Raine]

10. Yeah remember how much you love him and treat him real special since it's all your fault

that he beats you because you didn't anticipate his every want and need.

[BrendaBrick]

12. K&R - Letter from Caroline H.:

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The best response I’ve seen to Pridemore’s marital counsel is this modest proposal, which was forwarded to a feminist list:

From: Caroline H.
Sent: Fri 3/23/2012 11:40 AM

To: Rep. Pridemore

Subject: In response to your comment about divorce in case of abuse

Mr. Pridemore -

I would like to make a deal with you. I propose we live together (I'll even relocate to Wisconsin!) for a year in an abusive relationship. I'll beat the shit out of you on a regular basis, verbally assault you, make you live in extreme fear, break down any shred of self-worth you might have, all that good stuff. After 12 months, we can both reevaluate our positions on the issue.

Granted, you don't know me well enough to "love me," thus giving you happy thoughts to call on when I'm beating you violently, but let's see what we can work out. What do you say?

Regards,

Caroline H.

Arlington, Virginia

From The Nation - Katha Pollitt

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167037/wisconsin-gop-legislators-go-after-single-mothers?rel=emailNation

I know I shouldn't be shocked by anything the Republican propose anymore, but finding out about this today...I stand corrected.