Sometimes I really wish I were a humourless feminist

[commodorified]

... Rep. Doug McKillip of Athens said later term abortions are a "barbaric practice."

[...]

"... [t]his is a red meat issue ..." said Sen. Nan Orrock, D-Atlanta.

ETA that Orrock is Une Ouef Tres Bien with an excellent voting record on women's rights and other matters near and dear my heart. I posted this to point out that actually I think it makes ME kind of a bad person - or at least a person possessed of a truly sick sense of humour - to react to the use, in a serious discussion of a matter of great weight, of a perfectly common, somewhat colourful bit of political jargon expressing "this is a highly emotive and core issue with a certain number of voters, enough so that it can override more reasoned objections a given voter may have to a candidate" by bursting into horrified giggles like a twelve year old whose grandmother just said motherfucker.

I sincerely apologise for implying that Rep. Orrock was in any way trying to be either disgusting or flippant or that she would support the legislation in question or any legislation similar to it.

Comments

[fajrdrako]

Ack!

...And what did he *think* he meant?

[thnidu]

+1.

(Kvankam mi tute ne povas senti min certa pri la intenca senco de Sen-no Orrock.)

[fajrdrako]

Jes, klare!

[commodorified]

She's using a common and colourful bit of political jargon to say that it's a highly emotive and core issue with a certain number of voters, enough so that it can override more reasoned objections a given voter may have to a candidate. She just doesn't have my horrible mind.

[thnidu]

Or at least she keeps it under leash in public.

[commodorified]

I'm fairly sure that if she'd thought of the possible interpretation she'd have shied away from the metaphor. Not 100 percent sure, but say, 95.

That is one bright side to a mind like a sink; I do usually catch stuff like this when I am about to do it/need to edit it out of a draft.

[krait]

I have never heard this particular piece of colourful political jargon, so you can count me amongst those scratching our heads and muttering, "Wait, is she, what, trying to suggest that antiabortionists are like PETA and babies are like cows?"

Well. Muttering that, after snickering like a twelve-year-old. :D