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niyad

(113,636 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:09 PM Apr 2015

Gross Tennessee Legislator Tells State Senate About That Time He Got Spayed

(according to this woman-hating cretin, vasectomies are soooooooo much worse than abortions)

There's A Vas Deferens Between These Procedures


Gross Tennessee Legislator Tells State Senate About That Time He Got Spayed



A Tennessee state senator decided that right on the Senate floor was the best place to describe medical procedures on his own genitals. Before you think he’s super gross, just know that he did it so he could talk down to some lady person, so it’s cool.

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Sperm-and-egg-cartoon


You remember State Senator Gardenhire of the great state of Tennessee, right? Of course you do. He was the super nice guy who called sidewalk chalkers literal Nazis and then called a constituent an asshole right to his face. Moran, you’re supposed to wait until you’re back at your office to show contempt for your voters. See, Gardenhire has some dumb ideas about healthcare — namely that poor people should never get it, ever — and this commitment to the “fuck you I got mine” wing of his party has made him none-too-popular with his constituents, hence all the super Nazi chalk assault. Gardenhire is such an expert on all things health that it might surprise you to know he also has some dumb ideas about abortion. No, it’s true! And those dumb ideas involve mansplaining to a woman how he scheduled his own vasectomy. Uh, thanks?

In the course of discussing Tennessee’s newest abortion bill, State Senator Sara Kyle brought up the point that the newly introduced 48-hour waiting period for an abortion was rather strange considering that there wasn’t a similar law for men seeking vasectomies.
“What I don’t understand is the discrimination,” Kyle said, according to the digital recording of the meeting. “You’re putting all this burden on the woman. Why don’t we put these same standards on the man who wants the vasectomy?”
“So,” Kyle told an attorney for Tennessee Right to Life, “I’m just asking that what’s good for the goose could be good for the gander.”

Careful now. You’re asking the pro-lifers to see women as people, and they’re just not ready for that yet. They barely even see women as geese yet.

Senator Gardenhire, presumably having fallen asleep during Kyle’s speech and only waking up upon hearing his safe word “vasectomy,” decided that he needed to correct her blatant misinformation about dudes getting their tubes snipped by sharing the minutia of how he scheduled both of his own vasectomies.
“I wanted to kind of walk Sen. Kyle through what a vasectomy is and what you have to go through to have one, having personal experience in that field,” Gardenhire said.

Stop.

“I also had one reversed. I want to promise you that when you start talking to a doctor about them whacking on you down there you want to wait a while and think about it.”

No, stop. Stop right now, gross old man.

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/582291/gross-tennessee-legislator-tells-state-senate-about-that-time-he-got-spayed#GE4DHQzzBBAiAjUF.99

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Gross Tennessee Legislator Tells State Senate About That Time He Got Spayed (Original Post) niyad Apr 2015 OP
"...his safe word 'vasectomy,'..." randome Apr 2015 #1
the comments after the article are hilarious. niyad Apr 2015 #2
This is the same asshole Go Vols Apr 2015 #3
But was his vasectomy-clinic's utility-room up to code and the doc certified at a hospital? DetlefK Apr 2015 #4
And He must have a rectal ultrasound to show exactly what he is losing! n/t n2doc Apr 2015 #10
Now remember, boys and girls, always spay and neuter your Republicans. backscatter712 Apr 2015 #5
want some mind bleach? niyad Apr 2015 #6
Don't mind if I do... n/t backscatter712 Apr 2015 #7
Now that's calling a spayed a spayed. Orrex Apr 2015 #8
Nice rug, Todd! KamaAina Apr 2015 #9
. . niyad Apr 2015 #11
 

randome

(34,845 posts)
1. "...his safe word 'vasectomy,'..."
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:13 PM
Apr 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.
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Go Vols

(5,902 posts)
3. This is the same asshole
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:29 PM
Apr 2015

that helped screw the people of Tenn. out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion a couple of weeks ago.

...which Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, serves on, killed the Insure Tennessee resolution without debate.


http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2015/04/11/lawmakers-work-tennesseans-insure-tennessee/25613915/

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
4. But was his vasectomy-clinic's utility-room up to code and the doc certified at a hospital?
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:30 PM
Apr 2015

We don't want no back-alley vasectomies. That's why the door-frames at the vasectomy-clinic (the only one for 100 miles around) have to be up to code.

And we shouldn't forget sidewalk-counselors who try to make a point that he's a baby-killer by screaming it into his face.

And we shouldn't forget to let politicians decide what his doctor can and cannot tell him about vasectomies.

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
5. Now remember, boys and girls, always spay and neuter your Republicans.
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 01:33 PM
Apr 2015

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go gouge out my mind's eye with a melon baller...

Orrex

(63,240 posts)
8. Now that's calling a spayed a spayed.
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 01:41 PM
Apr 2015

There's a vas deferens between his minor (and entirely elective) procedure and abortion.

And would Gardenhire want a legislator peeking into his scrotum during his surgery?

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