It's why we have call boxes, it's why we have safe zones, it's why we have the whistles. Because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at. And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop, pop a round at somebody."
Rep Joe Salazar (D-Colorado)
While trying to argue against the concealed carry law for Colorado universities, he made this stupid dumbass remark, basically claiming that a woman doesn't know if she's about to be raped (WRONG), and isn't smart enough to understand when it might be appropriate to use a gun against an attacker (WRONG).
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gun control, and I hate that there's a concealed carry policy at CU, my alma mater. However...
Why is it that every time politicians (read: white men) want to show why something is a terrible idea, it comes at the expense of women in some form or another?
Women are too stupid to understand if they're being raped.
Women are too stupid to understand what they're doing to their bodies.
Native women and lesbians don't deserve protection from getting their ass kicked.
Women should buy insurance against rape-induced pregnancy.
Women would cry rape just because.
Women don't deserve birth control.
Women don't deserve preventive health care services.
Women should remember why they married their abusive husband in the first place. Then all the warm fuzzies would come back and it would be ok for them to beat the crap out of you.
Women don't deserve to be paid the same as men for doing the same job.
Women shouldn't be in combat because they menstruate and make men feel all protective (except when we're beating them, and then it's a-ok). Oh and because POOPING!
Women should never have gotten the right to vote. (to be fair, that was a stupid woman who said that)
Women go to the mall to get Starbucks and abortions. (another stupid woman said that)
Why is it that in order to show why something is a bad idea, you have to blame it on women? Why must women be the root of all evil? (No, don't go spouting off that crap about Eve & the apple - that's bullshit made up by a patriarchal society to justify the subjugation of women.)
Women are not the root of all evil. We give birth to you. We raise you. We teach you right from wrong (though obviously, some of us have failed miserably). We feed you, nurture you. We carry you in our bodies (no, actually you are not an organ) while you change from a cell to a mass of cells to a blob to eventually, once we labor for hours on end, a person.
Why must everything therefore be our fault?
Just once, I'd like for someone to stand up and tell the truth. "I think women are stupid. I think they are inferior. I think we need to take away all their constitutional rights just because."
At least then, we would have something honest to discuss. (Like what a fucktard you are)
Anyway, back to Rep Salazar.
Let me rephrase his argument so that it might be understood by all the other folks out there:
What if a guy wasn't sure if he was being followed and happened to see some guy wearing a hoodie (in Colorado in the winter). He might think that guy was going to kill him. And you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop, pop a round at somebody. And whoops! You've killed Treyvon Martin.
Dear Florida, This.
