Hobby Lobby Misogyny
I have a lot to say about the Hobby Lobby case -- piercing the corporate veil, favoring one religion over another and thus de facto establishing religion, entering a minefield, corporations being granted rights that our forefathers intended to be given to flesh and blood humans, our flawed system of obtaining healthcare coverage through our employers -- but I find the reaction of many men to be rather offensive. The comments after various articles and blogs about the topic have included gleeful statements along the lines of: -- Women need to go back to putting their legs together. -- Women will have to do as my grandmother used to say and put an aspirin between their knees. -- Women will have to stop spreading their legs. -- If women don't want to become pregnant, why should I have to pay for it? Let the whores/tramps/sluts buy their own birth control. And the very disturbing: -- "If they want to have sex, women will have to start taking it in the mouth or the butt....