http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/the-duggars-arent-just-kooky-they-are-a-serious-political-threat-to-gay-rights-and-womens-rights/

I'm surprised this is still a TV show

And once a Duggar girl is married, says Mom, she is never allowed to say no to sex. “Duggar women don’t get headaches,” Michelle told us. “You always need to be available when he calls.” And if you’re not always available—if you do get a headache, or you’re just not in the mood one night, or if turns out that your husband prefers Dad’s auditions—then you’re to blame when your husband cheats on you.
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And because you are not allowed to use birth control, that means that you have literally no say whatsoever in your reproductive life. You are, quite literally, not a person, but simply a tool for which a man relieves himself sexually and an oven in which he bakes his offspring. Your opinion on the matter is of no more value than a refrigerator’s opinion on what food you store in it.
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This double standard that conservatives are pushing, where religious fanatics like the Duggars get to say and do whatever they want to interfere with our sex lives but we are not supposed to even make jokes about their unhealthy, misogynist ideals is more than just culture war posturing, though.  The Duggars are useful as a political tool for the right. They are held up as an ideal by right wingers because they make an excellent cudgel to beat women with. They help instill the idea that it’s normal and okay to demand that women relinquish 100% of their sexual and reproductive autonomy, and therefore the usual conservative demands that we just lose, oh, 50% of our basic autonomy sound more reasonable in comparison.

Holy shit.

Quote from: Kinder on November 07, 2014, 11:24:46 AM

Funny how you get all asshurt at me posting a link from freedomworks and make a huge deal of it being biased yet you turn around and do this shit.

Because that's two totally different things. This is an opinion piece about this crazy family. Yours was about how Common Core is destroying education, when it obviously isn't.


Funny that you can't tell the difference between those two topics.

>dat damage control

Quote from: Kinder on November 07, 2014, 11:29:41 AM

Quote from: Mad Max on November 07, 2014, 11:27:46 AM

Quote from: Kinder on November 07, 2014, 11:24:46 AM

Funny how you get all asshurt at me posting a link from freedomworks and make a huge deal of it being biased yet you turn around and do this shit.

Because that's two totally different things. This is an opinion piece about this crazy family. Yours was about how Common Core is destroying education, when it obviously isn't.


Funny that you can't tell the difference between those two topics.

>dat damage control

TIL explaining the difference between two topics constitutes damage control


Ok guy.

Oh, it does. Your wording and thread title constitutes the theme of you attempting to make a statement and using a source to back it up. The source in this question is not only a blog (because anybody can make a blog) but it's a blog that comes from the Tea Party equivalent of the left-wing with a deranged feminist writing it. There's literally no accreditation to this "source"

Since when do these freaks have any political power?

I've never heard of them before.

They don't have ACTUAL political power, but televising their crazy lives somehow justifies their beliefs to a lot of people.

Yeah, they're weird.

But, if it makes you feel better, know that their audience consists of those who were already radically right-winged Christians.

Quote from: Mad Max on November 07, 2014, 11:38:22 AM

Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on November 07, 2014, 11:37:06 AM

Since when do these freaks have any political power?

I've never heard of them before.

They don't have ACTUAL political power, but televising their crazy lives somehow justifies their beliefs to a lot of people.

Are you sure about that?

This seems more like that Honey Boo Boo bullshit, people like to laugh at backwards hicks to feel better about their own worthless proletarian lives.

I fucking hate Honey Boo Boo. Thank fucking God that show was canceled and that hick left the whale. Now she's dating a registered sex offender who, according to her oldest daughter, was molested by him 10 years ago when the whale used to date it

Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on November 07, 2014, 11:39:59 AM

Quote from: Mad Max on November 07, 2014, 11:38:22 AM

Quote from: Lemy the Lizerd on November 07, 2014, 11:37:06 AM

Since when do these freaks have any political power?

I've never heard of them before.

They don't have ACTUAL political power, but televising their crazy lives somehow justifies their beliefs to a lot of people.

Are you sure about that?

This seems more like that Honey Boo Boo bullshit, people like to laugh at backwards hicks to feel better about their own worthless proletarian lives.

But the backward hicks have these things further ingrained with shows like this.

I'm not so sure there are that many people seeing this and thinking "What a wonderful lifestyle!"

I mean yeah the world is full of retards, but there aren't that many who are as retarded as these people.

"Aww these people are so stupid"

Meanwhile they are on TV living a healthy, faithful lifestyle while y'all niggas are sitting inside with social problems.