"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud

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"Keep her legs closed!": Republicans are mad one of them said the quiet part out loud
Republicans definitely want to punish women for having sex — but they don't want voters to figure that out

By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2023 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) With just over a year to go until the 2024 elections, Republicans are beginning to realize that the abortion issue won't just go away. The GOP has faced a political quandary ever since Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, opened the door to abortion bans, which red states started to enact immediately. On one hand, abortion bans are wildly unpopular, and have only gotten more so as we hear horror stories about women being seriously injured or forced to carry dying babies to term. On the other hand, Republicans don't want to just give up on their long-standing dream of using forced childbirth to punish women for having sex.

To square this impossible circle, Republicans have relied on their favorite strategy: Relentless dishonesty. Lots of pseudo-compassionate noises about women's pain, while insisting that their sadistic impulses are "pro-life." They pretend to support hypothetical exceptions to abortion bans, which for the most part do not apply in actual reality. They make weak attempts to rebrand their agenda as "pro-baby." They feign support for contraception access while supporting organizations that actively work to demolish viable birth control.

That is, most Republicans most of the time are on board with the lying-through-our-teeth strategy. But not all! Meet New Jersey state Sen. Edward Durr, a truck driver-turned-politician who has a habit of saying the quiet parts out loud.

"A woman does have a choice! Keep her legs closed," Durr wrote in a 2020 Facebook post, in which he also called a pro-choice woman an "idiot." He also "liked" a post that called for "spaying women like dogs."

....(snip)....

Durr's viewpoint may not be uttered in public very often, but it's at the foundation of the entire anti-abortion movement. Former Texas Solicitor General Jonathan Mitchell admitted as much about his state's abortion ban, which he played a major role in writing. In a 2021 Supreme Court brief defending that law, Mitchell wrote, "Women can 'control their reproductive lives' without access to abortion; they can do so by refraining from sexual intercourse." He condemned pro-choice court decisions for accepting the view that "women (and men) should have the right to freely engage to sexual intercourse." ..............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/16/keep-her-legs-closed-angry-that-one-of-them-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud/

[claudette]

1. So he's saying the male

who comes between those legs has no responsibility to prevent pregnancy. Just another female-hating magat.

[iluvtennis]

31. Truth! n/t

[FakeNoose]

62. Well, if she's keeping her legs closed, then he's not getting any

[Skittles]

67. you don't hear repukes telling guys to keep it in their pants

because they are MISOGYNISTS

[soldierant]

68. If he's not getting any,

.he probably has no experience, or no imagination, or both.

[JoseBalow]

69. Challenge Accepted!

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

75. I wonder why others are not

using your same excellent argument.

This needs to be asked to every fake "Christian" and pro birth person:

"What punishment should be done to the man?"

Then don't let up as they whine and lie, avoid the question.

[Timeflyer]

2. Started to reply with a "neuter these POS" but that wouldn't shut them up or stop the war on women.

Infuriating, exhausting, never ending struggle for female bodily autonomy.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Never any mention of men keeping it in their pants.

[Chainfire]

5. Nope, never.

Do Republicans even know how babies are made?

[JoseBalow]

70. These kids know more than republicans

The last kid is a young Tucker Carlson

[niyad]

4. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[duhneece]

23. You're so cruel, my lovely friend 😂 nt

[niyad]

24. One does try!

And how are things down your way, my dear friend?

[onecaliberal]

28. And swiftly....

[niyad]

29. Exactly.

[Wednesdays]

54. Slowly would be better.

Just so long as the job gets done completely.

[onecaliberal]

55. We need them gone today. Every day they stay the coup rolls on.

[PatrickforB]

6. I read this to my wife, who asked, "Why can't we neuter guys, instead?"

How do these hate-nuts get elected?

[Blue Owl]

37. Snip Snip

And for this guy in particular, make it painful...

[Owl]

52. Whoa! What show is that from?

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

53. Ice pirates?

B-movie unserious sci-fi.

[Blue Owl]

58. Could well be this....

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

71. Confirmed.

Googled images from ice pirates.

https://search.app.goo.gl/?ofl=https%3A%2F%2Flens.google&al=googleapp%3A%2F%2Flens%3Flens_data%3DKBE&apn=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox&amv=301204913&isi=284815942&ius=googleapp&ibi=com.google.GoogleMobile&link=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2Fiosgoogleapp%2Fdefault%3Furl%3Dgoogleapp%253A%252F%252Flens%253Fmin-version%253D180%2526lens_data%253DKBE&ifl=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fgoogle%2Fid284815942%3Fppid%3D1ac8cc35-d99c-4a1d-b909-321c8968cc74%26pt%3D9008%26mt%3D8%26ct%3D4815459-oo-lens-isb-bar-lens-cam%26UTM_campaign%3Dgoogle_search_mweb&efr=1&ct=4815459-oo-lens-isb-bar-lens-cam&utm_campaign=4815459-oo-lens-isb-bar-lens-cam&utm_source=google_search_mweb&utm_medium=owned&pt=9008&mt=8

[Blue Owl]

57. I'm not actually sure where it's from -- just an image I found on Giphy!

[Marcuse]

59. The Original.

[UpInArms]

7. Well ... sounds like this guy should be castrated

like a steer …

Would definitely be a way to stop his bullshit

[LiberalArkie]

27. Probably all Conservatives should be, that would provably curtail a lot of their perverse thinking.

[keithbvadu2]

66. Let Joni Ernst do it.

https://www.thedodo.com/joni-ernst-pig-castration-sotu-944923290.html

[czarjak]

8. From the same crowd that says...

“If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.”

[Irish_Dem]

9. Fabulous idea

All women should close their legs to men. Until they wake the hell up and start doing the right thing.

[True Blue American]

16. Agree

A comment like that should make anyone in his path close her legs, to HIM!

[IronLionZion]

10. These conservative guys don't enjoy sex with women?

They could try having sex with men. Same sex couples are the least likely to ever have abortions.

[getagrip_already]

11. The quiet part...

Is republicans don't want children in schools learning liberal teachings and they dont want them in liberal homes.

They want babies, but they want dumb, conservatively groomed babies.

If they can't steal them outright, they are fine strilizing woman. It won't be long before there is a permanent one and done shot that will prevent pregnancies (it is just being tested for pets), and you can be sure they will be lining woman up to get the jab. At every immigration detention center, at every protest rally detention center - everywhere unpopular voices are heard.

Before anyone juries me for conspiracy theories, lest I remind you that forced sterilizations have actually happened in ins detention centers and phychiatric hospitals? And those were much more obvious surgical procedures.

[LymphocyteLover]

13. that's part of it but not their main reasoning

mostly they are religious morons who think they are doing God's work in preventing abortion

[niyad]

26. And yet, their god does not mention abortion. It is ALWAYS about controlling

and hating women.

[LymphocyteLover]

44. Yes, it is maddening. Though I still think in their mind, their number 1 reason is they

are doing God's work-- or that is how they rationalize things

[Marcuse]

60. Evangelicals and the partisan politicalization of abortion.

So how did evangelicals become interested in abortion? As nearly as I can tell from my conversation with Weyrich, during a conference call with Falwell and other evangelicals strategizing about how to retain their tax exemptions, someone suggested that they might have the makings of a political movement and wondered what other issues would work for them. Several suggestions followed, and then a voice on the line said, “How about abortion?”

Still, it took some time for opposition to abortion to take hold among evangelicals. According to Frank Schaeffer – who produced a series of anti-abortion films called Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, featuring his father, Francis Schaeffer, and C Everett Koop, who later became Ronald Reagan’s surgeon general – the evangelical response was at best tepid when the films appeared early in 1979.

And when Reagan addressed 20,000 cheering evangelicals in August 1980, he mentioned his support for creationism and criticized the IRS for its supposed vendetta against evangelical schools. He said nothing whatsoever about abortion. Only in the early 1980s did opposition to abortion finally become an evangelical battle cry.

The beauty of the religious right’s embrace of abortion as a political issue is that it allowed leaders to camouflage the real origins of their movement: the defense of racial segregation in evangelical institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/08/abortion-us-religious-right-racial-segregation

[LymphocyteLover]

63. But how many of the flock know this? I'm sure the vast majority just think they are following

"God's orders"

[Hekate]

34. It is true that forced sterilization is part of US history, and within our lifetimes

[ShazzieB]

40. But a large percentage of them are also against birth control.

Plenty of them would like to go after that next, and the current SCOTUS would probably let them get away with it.

Anti-Abortion Groups Are Coming for Birth Control—Just as Reproductive Rights Activists Warned
https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/17/anti-abortion-pro-life-over-the-counter-birth-control-women/

[dchill]

43. They want constituents who are too dumb...

...to know how stupid their representatives are. That's gonna take a whole lotta dumbing. They're obviously past the testing phase.

[LymphocyteLover]

12. The Republican stance on abortion perfectly reveals their idiocy, misogyny and cruelty

[2naSalit]

14. Because...

Women are supposed to be like dogs, obedient and unquestioning, eager to please. Those fuckers don't want women to choose to have OR enjoy sex, that's only for the menfolk who seem to have a penchant for forcing themselves on women and children by raping them.

Part of this is to return the world to a place where men could have their way with women and children with no recourse. And whether or not to have sex is entirely up to them, the sperm receptacles have no choice in the matter, that's how they like it. Total control over others. Only those with penises can have choice and freedoms regarding sex and reproduction.

That's where this is headed, folks. If you don't believe it, you will find that it will be one of the ugliest fafo events you've ever seen.

[EYESORE 9001]

15. I think I have distilled their vile essence to a single statement

‘Them sluts need to be taught a lesson’

[SouthBayDem]

17. Senator Edward DERP nt

[Lonestarblue]

18. The Guardian has an article today about a young woman in Tennessee who had to travel to New York

for an abortion after her tests showed a severely deformed fetus that would not survive birth. Even though her health was endangered, she could not get an abortion in Tennessee, so now she’s running for election to the state legislature against a Republican (Burkhart) who had no opposition in the last election. She decided to run after Burkhart told her that he thought pregnancy complications only occurred with first pregnancies. That ignorant Republicans are allowed to make medical decisions for women is a travesty. I hope more women run for elections and get these troglodytes out of office.

“Burkhart also appeared to believe that pregnancy complications, such as miscarriages, didn’t happen to women who had already had children. “He was like, ‘Well, I mean, I’m just a guy, but I had always watched and heard that the bad things only happened in the first pregnancy.’ I’m like, ‘What? Who told you that?’,” Phillips recounted.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/16/tennessee-abortion-ban-lawsuit-allie-phillips-representative

[Delphinus]

19. But

aren't they (Durr) worried about the birth rate going down?

And (Mitchell), what about women who are raped?

[ShazzieB]

42. They have a plan.

They want to ban birth control next.

Anti-Abortion Groups Are Coming for Birth Control—Just as Reproductive Rights Activists Warned
https://msmagazine.com/2023/08/17/anti-abortion-pro-life-over-the-counter-birth-control-women/

[hadEnuf]

20. It make you wonder

how these complete assholes who came out from under rocks get elected in the first place?


Then again, the Republicans are always accusing Democrats of rigging elections, so it goes to say that's how this MAGAT got in.

[azureblue]

39. bacause

they are such FINE Christian men...
Oh, Bullshit.

[bdamomma]

21. you wonder

if those who make these derogatory remarks towards women hated their own mothers. How did they treat their own mothers????

[ProudMNDemocrat]

22. Republicans WANT women to have sex, but NOT prevent pregnancies!

Blaming the woman is the GOP mantra.

Women who continue to make it a habit to vote AGAINST their better Economic and Social interests, are voting to GIVE up CONTROL over their bodies and destinies. THEY are a big part as to why Republicans keep winning.

The focus for Democrats is to alter the thinking of Republican women.

[TygrBright]

25. Wth the GOP, the cruelty is the point. n/t

[Deb]

30. "Put an aspirin between your legs and hold it there."

Women haters used to say that before birth control pills were readily available. Old things die, let's speed up the process and bury that shit with votes.

[DownriverDem]

32. Drives me crazy

What about the men? They play no role?

[Aristus]

33. I remember when Rush Limbaugh said that a birth control pill should just be an aspirin

that a woman holds between her knees.

Every right-wing fucknozzle in the country gleefully repeated that for months. I mean, we know these howler monkeys are incapable of thinking for themselves, but do they have to be so fucking obvious about it?

[OMGWTF]

35. There are 35,000 pregnancies from rape every year in the US.

Maybe all men should be forced to have a vasectomy when they turn 18, and reverse it when they’re ready to be a responsible parent.

I fking loathe Republicans.

[BumRushDaShow]

36. ...

[ShazzieB]

46. Oh lord, I will NEVER forget that one!

Fortunately, his political career went down in flames after he said that.

Akin's Congressional career ended after he lost a bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill in the 2012 election. Akin, who had won the Republican primary in a crowded field, led McCaskill in pre-election polls until he said that women who are victims of what he called "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant. Akin eventually apologized for the remark but rebuffed calls to withdraw from the election. He lost to McCaskill, 54.7 percent to 39.2 percent. In a book published in July 2014, Akin defended his original comments and said he regretted having apologized.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin

[BumRushDaShow]

49. He died a couple years ago

https://apnews.com/article/former-rep-todd-akin-dead-0a1b944f96eee4b63d9ea57e04c44ca4

[azureblue]

38. call it what it is

One religion imposing its crap on everybody else. All the GOP does is try to dodge that basic fact.

[badhair77]

41. I say we neuter HIM, right in center square.

[Farmer-Rick]

45. Men can have sex but women can't

Unless they are raped and then they should enjoy it and birth their abuser's fetus.

There is absolutely no scientific, valid evidence that abortion is wrong, bad or more dangerous than birth. It's all based on a magical, mystery, imaginary god. Christian values forced on every American by a paid off supreme court.

[Martin68]

47. They are degenerate morons.

[Bayard]

48. Too bad their mothers didn't keep their legs closed....

[LiberalFighter]

50. When he was a truck driver how many women did he have sex?

And how many got pregnant and wasn't held responsible?

[DENVERPOPS]

51. His wife must be a real piece of work.................

A perfect Stepford Wife or Hand Maiden..........

And the spawn of those two, BREED EVEN MORE of the same ilk........

I am saddened to see that most of the MAGGATS I see are so stupid/ignorant to even begin to see that their hero(s) are out to dominate/control/obliterate them as well as all of us.........They don't have a glimmer that they have been "trained" how to think, and don't recognize that it is as if they have been, quite literally, "programmed", and that they are least "FREE" people on the planet......

Rush Limbaugh was a pro at the programming of this sheep. He would start out his daily program telling his audience about something that had happened politically the day before. His next words would be: "Okay, let me tell you how you should think about that"........

[Maraya1969]

56. The absolute best way to stop abortions is to provide free or low cost contraception

Because you can't get an abortion if you are not pregnant. Start asking these GQPer why they aren't really trying to stop abortion? After all the woman can just fly to another state or country.

If you are pro-life you should be stopping pregnancy before it happens. Otherwise it looks like you just want to have control over women.

[redqueen]

61. K&R

[kimbutgar]

64. What if you keep your legs closed and some man rapes her

And she ends of pregnant ? Is it her fault?

[BigmanPigman]

65. Why didn't he also give all men a lifetime supply of free Viagra?

[raising2moredems]

72. This should be front and center in every election going forward...

With verbiage that this includes christian marriages. Every person who can bear a child should require their partner to fill in a mail in ballot in front of them. Sign it and they take it to the mailbox. And to think durr found someone with whom to pro-create. Ugh.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

73. Maybe we should simply castrate all men at puberty.

[PortTack]

74. The cult of religion is real....and oh what it has wrought on the ppl of the world