File this one under LOLZ: Florida state legislatures--specifically, the GOP leadership doodz--are a bit squeamish when it comes to biologically correct names for internal organs. Well, just the lady part ones, the knowledge of which might corrupt young, impressionable teen ears.
Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) made what, in my humble opinion, is a damn good point (and LOLSOB funny remark) about the glaring double standard of Republican lawmakers when it comes to government regulation:
Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) made what, in my humble opinion, is a damn good point (and LOLSOB funny remark) about the glaring double standard of Republican lawmakers when it comes to government regulation:
"At one point Randolph suggested that his wife 'incorporate her uterus' to stop Republicans from pushing measures that would restrict abortions. Republicans, after all, wouldn't want to further regulate a Florida business."
GOP leadership then "voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus," even though I'm fairly certain that those pages actually equipped with said organ are hardly scandalized by hearing it's scientifically correct name (as Randolph pointed out, "it's not like I used slang"), and the unequipped--read: teenaged boys--generally don't sit around fantasizing about all those sexy uteri.* In fact, if any one fetishizes the uterus, it's GOP lawmakers who insist on weeping crocodile tears over what I choose to do with my lady parts. If you listen to them, my uterus is at once sullied and sacred. Sweet! I never thought I'd have a paradox for an internal organ!
But through the funny, let's not forget that he has a pretty good point. Many of the same Republicans who champion free market deregulation at all costs (in true Greenspan form**) will turn around and, in the same breath, strip a woman of her sexual and reproductive agency and call for invasive and unnecessary laws that stand in the way of decisions best kept between doctors and patients (and priests and family members, if the patient so chooses).
Randolph admits that his wife is the one who originally came up with the one liner about incorporating her uterus. While explaining the joke to the press, he made what is perhaps the best point about this whole debate:
"And I always say their [GOP] philosophy is small government for the big guy and big government for the little guy."
Yep.
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*I could be wrong about this, so if anyone out there is or once was a teen boy, please let me know if I'm way off base.
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