New 'sensitivity training' teaches Republicans that rape is bad

by Kaili Joy GrayFollow

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Enrollment now open for Don't Say Stupid **** About Rape 101
Are you a Republican who has a devil of a time not opening your piehole and letting gobsmackingly stupid **** about rape spew right out of it? Do you fear that you might open said piehole when the cameras are rolling, and it's a slow news day, and you might inadvertently focus national attention on the aforementioned stupid ****? Do you have a hard time remembering what even a member of Mitt Romney's braintrust thinks is a simple guideline: "If you’re about to talk about rape as anything other than a brutal and horrible crime, stop."

Well, fear no more! The Susan B. Anthony List—an organization dedicated to restricting women's health care—has the solution for you:

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said the lawmakers are falling for a trap set by proponents of abortion rights who want to focus the debate on extremes such as rape instead of other abortions.

“It’s a tactic to [force pro-life lawmakers to] talk about this rather than the 98 percent of abortions because they know that they lose it,” Dannenfelser said.

She said that SBA List is working on a new training program for candidates and lawmakers to “make sure that in future elections, a candidate can never with a straight face say, ‘I never thought about that or I got caught flat-footed.’”

That's right, Republicans. Your friends at SBA are taking time out of their busy schedule of hating women to set up a new program that will train you to hate women, but in a sensitive way that doesn't cost your party supposedly safe seats in the House and Senate. Because lord knows how those mean gotcha reporters in the lamestream media are always tricking Republicans into volunteering their opinions about how, for example, women have magic lady parts that can detect and deflect legitimate rape sperm. Or how some women rape easy. Or how when your rapist impregnates you, that's just God's way of telling you how super special you are to Him. Damn librul media.

SBA isn't the only organization that thinks Republican politicians need to go to how-to-not-say-stupid-****-about-rape boot camp:

Marina Ein, whose public relations firm does crisis communications, said the party needs some kind of “sensitivity training” for its candidates if it wants to do better in the next elections.

“It all boils down to whether or not the Republican Party thinks this is a problem,” she said. “If they want to make inroads with women, then they need to subject every one of their candidates to sensitivity training — not to mention reality training.”

The training would have to “educate politicians on subjects that are absolutely taboo, except to say, ‘I sympathize with the pain of anyone who goes through fill-in-the-blank,’” she said.

Right. In other words, the problem for Republicans isn't their ideology or their platform that is at odds with science, reality, and, oh yeah, public opinion. Now that the problem has been identified, with a little training, Republicans can learn how to fight for their deeply unpopular draconian agenda without actually talking about it. And voila! Problem solved.

Originally posted to Kaili Joy Gray on Mon Jan 14, 2013 at 11:18 AM PST.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/14/1178886/-New-training-course-teaches-Republicans-that-rape-is-bad#

That fact they need it, shows how ignorant they are.....

Snooze. Trivial compared to other issues the nation is facing!

More PC BS to be shoved down our collective throats?

Gee, I'm glad I'm an Independent....I hate being called ignorant...Pretty insensitive if you ask me ...What do you call Democrats?...

Anyone who needs this kind of sensitivity training shows ignorance...not specific to party.

Ignorance just means you don't know any better...need to learn....

It is a sad fact that some few men (I hope it's few) think various degrees of rape are okay.

The only reason they think so is because they were taught that a woman deserves it at some level and since they are men and cannot feel it from a woman's perspective, it can't be all that bad, right?

"Sensitivity training teaches republicans that rape is bad" says to me ALL republicans need sensitivity training...Richard Mourdock does not speak for all republicans does he?

OK Appealing to the masses aye?

I don't think it is right. I just don't think being stupid is right either. But equating a lack of sympathy to acceptance is ignorance of its own kind. I can sympathize with someone who did nothing to put themselves in harm's way. But if you want to party with the dangerous crowd and get hurt doing so you got what you deserved!

Don't like fire, stay out of hell!

The problem is how about the Democratic and Liberal thing giving CRIMINALS RIGHTS? So we steal from the victim to give to the criminal? I can equate Criminal Rights to acceptance of rape too!

I love oiling a slippery slope!

I thought the purpose of this thread was to bash republicans.

If Dems had said the ignorant rape things listed it would be about Dems, etc...

The fact that there is a need to teach these men what not to say, it actually the issue.

They have never been taught by self realized women about women and how sex is never to be forced no matter how naked anyone is or how suggestive they look, speak, act, etc....

...It was so cleverly disguised it went right over my head Joe...

Right ...

I thought the purpose of this thread was to bash republicans.


...It was so cleverly disguised it went right over my head Joe...


Right ...

Glad ya'll caught it.

...It was so cleverly disguised it went right over my head Joe...


Right ...

Glad ya'll caught it.


Damn it Will!!...You made me laugh so hard I peed in my panties

Right ...

Glad ya'll caught it.


Damn it Will!!...You made me laugh so hard I peed in my panties

In another lifetime, I would have told ya' to send 'em on over and I will clean 'em up fer ya'.

But, I am more mature now, due of course to the knowledgeable material this thread has presented.

Call me and I will give you my address.

I am such an incurable prevert. Somebody, quick!!!! Spank me and make me behave. Where's Ms Rose when I really need her?

Glad ya'll caught it.


Damn it Will!!...You made me laugh so hard I peed in my panties

In another lifetime, I would have told ya' to send 'em on over and I will clean 'em up fer ya'.

But, I am more mature now, due of course to the knowledgeable material this thread has presented.

Call me and I will give you my address.

I am such an incurable prevert. Somebody, quick!!!! Spank me and make me behave. Where's Ms Rose when I really need her?


Spank you? I commend you for reveling in your badness!