Why has no one called out Rachel Maddow for her misandry?

[haele]

43. There is a difference between belittling a perception, and belittling a person.

Rachel Maddow was belittling the perception or lack of education - the "For Dummies" was a big give-away. BTW, the "For Dummies" book series is one of the best teaching series out there for people who want to become usefully educated in a process or subject in a casual, humorous way.
What she did was just as misandristic as mocking "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus". It's not a case of "All men are clueless about contraception", but that some men were clueless about contraception.

Limbaugh was belittling a person, a woman who he thought was being "uppity", and trying to crush her. Stating outright that the only reason any woman would want to use contraception would be to have as much sex as they can and not get pregnant.

It is an apples and oranges situation - the subject differences are some men "thinking" vs. all women "using” and delivery differences are sarcastic education vs. sarcastic castigation.

Understanding how contraception works is a matter of education - if the person then decides that contraception is immoral, that's a choice.
Using contraception is a choice.

Two different focii, two different approaches.

If Rachel was saying all men who used Viagra or Cialis were man sluts who were having so much sex every night that they needed the government to force insurance to cover enough of their little blue pills that they could have that sex, and that she wanted them all to post their porn videos before she could go along with the government requiring insurance companies to provide it, then she would be be exactly on the same page that Rush was.

BTW, it is also different for people to snark on Rush's apparent personal over-use of Viagra, as that is a sign of his hypocrisy; mocking other people's sexual activity but acting innocent about his own.
Most those same people wouldn't say boo if it was Bob Dole or someone else who had gone through prostate cancer treatment and wanted to still have marital relationships with his significant other.

Intelligent people know there is a difference between contraception and ED pills, and they know that there are a myriad of reasons that someone might need both, including medical reasons (as in, Viagra was originally a heart/blood pressure regulation medicine) and unless they are using these prescriptions for illegal purposes, "it ain't nobody's business if they do".

That was Rachel's point. Not "Hey Men, you're stupid"

Haele