Lee Cullum just might need to see a psychiatrist about her persecution complex. She thinks the Catholic church's objection to the Obama mandate to provide free birth control to its employees is all about subjugation of women. She says men for centuries have "felt a primitive drive to . . . control the means of reproduction." And she says the state of the economy has made that even worse. She doesn't give any empirical evidence to back up this hypothesis, so one can only assume that it came from somewhere in the deep recesses of her mind.
She says that women seizing college degrees and service jobs has fuelled the antagonism that mandates they must be put down. But how, she asks, can the dominating males accomplish that. "The same way as always -- keep them barefoot and pregnant." Now, I haven't heard anybody say that a Catholic employee can't have contraception. Have you? One could assume that if they are employed, then they should be able to afford birth control pills and/or condoms which are readily available from most doctors and pharmacies. As I recall, when Mr. Essie May and I didn't have prescription drug coverage or the proverbial pot or window, we still managed to buy birth control pills. They just weren't that expensive.
No, Lee says, there is only one conclusion to draw. There is a "widespread animus toward women, an animus flowing from resentment and fear." The real issue, she says, that is making Rush Limbaugh sound screamingly ready for shock therapy is women at work. She says if the economy doesn't improve, women will have to resort to the Lysistrata solution (Lysistrata convinced the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they signed a treaty to end the Peloponnesian War). Yes, somebody certainly sounds ready for shock therapy, but I don't think it's Rush Limbaugh!
"Anti-women movement is upon us, says Lee Cullum." The Dallas Morning News; March 6, 2012; p. 11A.
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