So, Why Is the GOP So Afraid of Women?

Because they really are . . .

Go ahead, get a dart. Chuck it.

Chances are 2 to 1 it lands on something someone said or is about to say about abortion and women’s reproductive rights.

All abortions are murder.

We’ve all been hearing that for over 50 years.

On placards and banners outside abortion clinics before someone decided that greater action was needed — and tried to blow it up.

Emotions run high on this topic.

But logic is often flushed and all too often our leaders simply nod like a bobblehead and say if they were king, the land would be free of all abortions. That contraception would be outlawed. And women would be …

. . . would be what exactly?

This is where it all goes off the rails.

The nexus where stupid and religious meet, have a beer and fall into adolescent conversations about locker room pranks and their favorite bathroom graffiti.

The truth is the GOP’s talking heads and the religious right don’t know what to do about women.

They just know there’s something wrong with them. And they’re afraid.

They’re uppity and persistent. They’re tough and that pisses them off.

And perhaps more urgently, they’re smarter as a group than most of the haters and anti-abortionists who know that if it actually came down to logic and reasonable discussion, they would lose.

Why else would they want them quiet, at home, voiceless, and doing what they’re supposed to?

Asking God

So, what do they do when women resist? They look to God.

They point those pious fingers skyward and ask the Almighty to explain the situation to his children — those over there in the cheap seats — and tell them they are wrong.

To flash some lightning. Make the earth shake in warning.

Just do something like they do in halftime at the Super Bowl and make them stop fighting so hard.

Make them listen. Abortions are bad, they must stop.

They insist that women belong to the human race but just not to themselves.

If it were left up to them, God knows what the world would look it. It certainly wouldn’t look like it does now.

Death as relates to abortions seems to be the sole focal point with this lot. Their one undeniable truth. Abortions kill babies and that’s murder. That life — as they define it — is being snuffed out.

And hidden beneath the message. Lurking in the dark shadows of religious lore and respectability is the one place that all conservatives and anti-abortion jurists, clergy and average Christian Joes fear …

Hell.

It must be so.

Two thousand years of Christian evangelism across the globe has painted an indelible picture of fire, brimstone and retribution, positioned just on the other side of every sin and misdeed that the Church has sanctioned as being, really, really bad.

That abortion is considered a more important kind of death, amongst many, is paramount.

People die every day around the world — by the millions.

In auto accidents, fires, through old age, collapsing buildings, disease, and hugely by the hand of Man himself.

With guns, bombs, and weapons so sophisticated that they can slide death neatly into the top end of a coffee cup from a hundred miles away.

All of it made by corporations in America, backed by money-earning American shareholders and signed off by government agencies, manned day and night by some of the same people who are now demanding the life of a mother if she dares abort her child.

So, it seems that according to those same apologists — death is not created equally.

• If US states kill 100 people a year for crimes committed — they deserved it.
• If car a manufacturer was say, a little slow to repair a defect that resulted in death — they were just being fiscally responsible to those same shareholders and ensuring future employment for many.
• If the hundreds of gun manufacturers in the USA push out an endless stream of guns and rifles around the world, that kills thousands — it’s their wars and conflicts and they just have to sort it out for themselves.

But if a woman, battered and beaten and left with a child by her rapist, decides to travel to a neighboring state where her rights are still respected — then that puts all those jurists, clergy, and average Christian Joes, one step closer to Hell — and that just won’t do.

So Again, Why Is the GOP So Afraid of Women?

Because even though Man is advanced and at the top of the evolutionary food chain that circles the globe, they are still, — in their hearts and in those portions of their brains that have yet to fully evolve — animals.

And like the bull elephants that war with each other. And the Hippos and their thunderous tons smashing into one another to attain mating dominance, or even those cute little Meercats, exiling their brothers and sisters for being far too Alpha.

They fight to control.

And when confronted with an opponent who is not bigger or stronger than they are, but smarter and filled with more compassion and common sense, those same undeveloped lobes in their brains tingle with excitement and fear.

And historically when faced with an adversary that they feel they cannot beat — they pray.

And when that fails. They look for vengeance.

And when that wavers and falters for good reason . . .

. . . they return to what has worked in the past. They lie.

Abortion is not their real concern, it’s just being used as a symbol. It represents their fear and the potential loss of control.

See if for what it is. Not compassion. Not doing God’s work.

Just plain, garden variety fear of losing what has “always” been theirs.

It says so in the Bible, so it must be true.

Dr Mehmet Yildiz George J. Ziogas James Knight Rebecca Romanelli