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If you don’t like it, shut your pie hole (or come write for us)! the paper c/o Offi ce of Student Leadership and Community Development Fordham University Bronx, NY 10458 [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/fordhampaper march 7, 2012 the paper page 3 nnewsews ultimately “how people try to silence women…it’s been used against wom- MORE WISDOM FROM THE VAULT OF RUSH en before and I hope it won’t be used by Marisa Carroll against women again.” Limbaugh turns to a time honored phrase to When a chorus led by a man ar- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF silence women and birth control arguments rested for having too much Viagra calls Georgetown law student and repro- for “Girls Gone Wild” and other dated ticle about birth control into an argu- a buttoned-down, Catholic law student ductive justice activist Sandra Fluke pornography. He repeats the slurs over ment about whether or not Diablo Cody who tried to testify in Congress—an ar- fi rst gained national fame as the lone and over so that reporters like me and is talented or sex work is respectable. chetype known here to for as the “Nerd female voice nominated to speak at CBS and the Times give him attention My point is that Channing Tatum, actor Patriot”—a slut, the whole system looks the Senate’s oversight hearing on the and, consequently, a surge in new lis- and superstar beloved by the Mom’s like a parody of itself. Rush’s over- White House’s contraception rule, a teners and hits on his website. He was and Daughter’s of America, was also the-top statements emphasized how hearing that came to be known collo- probably gleeful when people called a stripper. He, too, is “selling” his sex- ridiculous slut shaming really is. Even quially as “Ladies, Shutup and Let Men him a hypocrite because of his arrest work history in his semi-autobiograph- better, the Fluke incident shows us the Talk about your Babypockets: Episode for having enough bottles of Viagra for ical Steven Soderbergh collaboration GOP’s anti-woman campaign through a 800.” Fluke was nominated because an elephant retirement community. Of “Magic Mike,” a fi lm due for release funhouse mirror. It isn’t about religious of her impressive history campaign- course Rush Limbaugh called Sandra in June 2012. Yet the public response freedom—it’s the same slut shaming ing for women’s health. In her time at Fluke a slut—it’s his business model. to Tatum’s sex work history and art Limbaugh employs in a more politically Georgetown, she has not only seen But slut shaming is not a new tech- has been quite the opposite of that to correct frame. It’s not a war on Cardi- her fellow peers struggle to pay for nique. Cody’s. As she told Ma- nal Dolan or Father McShane, but a non-insurance covered hormonal birth Con- ron, “I am sitting patiently war on “sluts” (like Fluke’s now-infer- control, whether for contraceptive or sider waiting for people to tile friend). Rush is just saying what the medical reasons, but also interviewed one shame Channing Tatum GOP is thinking; that conservative’s and advocated for women at Catholic small for this revelation and it’s have not responded to Rush’s attack— institutions across the country. Fluke ex- not happening. I’m not Romney even walked away from a CNN was supposed to speak on behalf of ample saying I want it to happen camera on Friday when asked—shows women like her friend whose birth con- from to him—but I do fi nd it their allegiance to his brand of think- trol—which was prescribed to treat her the very curious that nobody ing. Boehner, Blunt, and the rest can polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)— enter- has anything negative to frame this issue as a “religious free- was not covered by Georgetown’s in- tain- say.” dom” one all they want, but instances surance. After months of struggle to ment I’m not—at least I like this one out the GOP’s movement pay the $100+ per month co-pay, she world. hope I’m not—blowing as an attack on women’s sexual free- dom. stopped being able to afford it, and Re- PPictured:ictured: EEllusivellusive HHornyorny anyone’s mind by assert- This “outing” could be a huge op- subsequently became so ill she is now cently, MMaleale FFeministeminist ing that women are often infertile. writer shamed harder than men portunity for women’s health activists, If your gut response to Sandra Dia- when it comes to sex because 99% of American woman and Fluke’s attempted-testimony is think- blo Cody was interviewed on Marc Ma- and sexual autonomy. I hope, though, 98% of American Catholic women use ing, “What a slut!,” then hello, Mr. Lim- ron’s WTF podcast. In case you haven’t I can highlight why Rush’s horrible birth control in their lifetime. When baugh. I didn’t know you were a paper heard—or, in the off chance you didn’t comments may actually be benefi cial Santorum says “I don’t want to pay for fan. groan when I brought her up—people to reproductive health activists. Slut- someone else’s premarital sex,” Mrs. As you may have heard, a “slut” is hate Diablo Cody. They say she’s talent- shaming occurs everyday—from the en- Smith down at the Jewel-Osco nods exactly what political talk radio host less, they say her work is too affected, tertainment business and political talk her head. But when Rush calls a nice Rush Limbaugh called Fluke. He said, they hate her because of hamburger radio to sex-ed classes and conversa- young lady a “slut” and a “prostitute” “What does it say about the college co- phones and Kimya Dawson (which, as tions around the kitchen table.