# I pit Rush Limbaugh for being an idiot about birth control **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593 "2012-03-02T22:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/61 "2012-03-03T02:51:54Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Bringing my kids into it is pretty low. It’s your slut wife’s fault for not closing her fuckhole. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/62 "2012-03-03T02:53:55Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I judged her by her actions. What, suffering from ovarian cysts qualifies as an action now? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/63 "2012-03-03T02:54:57Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I judged her by her actions. You called her a slut, that’s not judging her by her actions > [@](#): > > I expect others to judge my daughters by their actions, not mine. Well, unless you taught them how to suck cock, I think that’s what was happening. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/64 "2012-03-03T02:55:51Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I judged her by her actions. > > I expect others to judge my daughters by their actions, not mine. And, I repeat, you consider a woman’s using birth control to be an action that entitles somebody to call her a “brazen slut”?!? I think **Scylla** ’s been watching a little too much _Downton Abbey_. It’s 2012, dude, not 1912. Nowadays, the mere fact of being sexually active (much less being on oral contraceptives for a medical condition unrelated to sexual activity) does not make an adult woman a “brazen slut”. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/65 "2012-03-03T02:56:44Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I judged her by her actions. Which actions? Please do elaborate. Because unless you have a seriously good reason to call her a brazen slut, then I have no reason not to assume that your daughters are cockgobbling whores. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/66 "2012-03-03T02:58:35Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I judged her by her actions. > > I expect others to judge my daughters by their actions, not mine. > Even here. Even you. I expect you to get that. What actions did she do that warrant her being called a brazen slut? Did she flash her boobs on national TV? Did she confess to having sex a hundred times a day, with a hundred different guys? She did give someone a lap dance on the Senate floor? I’m not seeing how talking about how important birth control is to college students makes her deserving of so much negativity and hate. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/67 "2012-03-03T03:02:12Z")
Pretty sure she didn’t say anything about her own sex life at all, much less its variety and/or frequency. So there is no basis to characterize her sex life. ---
**Author:** ![Condescending\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/68 "2012-03-03T03:02:30Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I judged her by her actions. > > I expect others to judge my daughters by their actions, not mine. > Even here. Even you. I expect you to get that. Sorry about your daughters and the miles of (probably black) cock they are currently taking bareback even as we speak. Try to stop picturing them salivating over the parade of dicks for just a second and calm down, though. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/69 "2012-03-03T03:04:54Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Bringing my kids into it is pretty low. I think you thought you could come in here and do a little play-acting/trolling. Problem is that you’re not as clever as you think, and that bigger douchbags than you have already taken it the extra yard. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/70 "2012-03-03T03:04:57Z")
> [@Condescending\_Robot](#): > > Sorry about your daughters and the miles of (probably black) cock they are currently taking bareback even as we speak. Try to stop picturing them salivating over the parade of dicks for just a second and calm down, though. I take offense at the idea that Scylla’s daughters are prejudiced as to the cock they crave. They like cocks of all colors. As long as they are really thick. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/71 "2012-03-03T03:10:21Z")
And veiny. Jesus Christ, don’t forget the veins. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/72 "2012-03-03T03:12:32Z")
If I may interrupt the **Scylla** show for a moment, I’d just like to say that my life has been much improved since I took the decision to never pay any attention to that braying jackass Limbaugh again, except for the occasional news article when he inevitably steps over the line dividing people of humanity and decency from, well, him. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/73 "2012-03-03T03:12:50Z")
So you mean every time he’s mentioned in the news? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/74 "2012-03-03T03:16:59Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > The fuck are you talking about? PP gets $360 million a year from various governments. Every penny of which would stop if the Republican “religious” right had its way, right? > [@DianaG](#): > > That’s nice. We’re talking about _insurance_, you numb fuck. Ya have to love how the clearly visible dots just aren’t ever connected. Insurance companies shouldn’t have to cover all FDA approved drugs and devices if they cover any, if the owner of the business has any objections. I get that businesses have First A speech rights, but ain’t it curious that businesses now have First A religious exercise rights that just coincidentally track directly to the owner’s beliefs? (Meanwhile, I really haven’t seen much complaining from the insurance companies who I’m quite certain are a whole lot more bothered that this new regulation is going to mean that they can’t refuse to pay for expensive heart surgeries and cancer treatments. Birth control pills and IUDs are cheap. Chemotherapy and stents, not so much.) Pharmacies and pharmacists should be free to refuse any prescription they feel violates their “conscious”, including prescriptions for drugs that could in no way be refused under the law. I get that pharmacists have religious exercise rights, but ain’t it curious that so many of these [laws](http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/pharmacist-conscience-clauses-laws-and-information.aspx) only address the “conscious” of pharmacists that don’t want to fill prescriptions for contraceptives? (Meanwhile, I really haven’t seen any stories about those PETA member pharmacists refusing to dispense drugs that offend their delicate sensibilities. But certainly the suggestion that laws like these would have been passed to protect the rights of PETA pharmacists isn’t obviously ridiculous. I’m quite certain that the next time Muslim taxi drivers don’t want passengers with dogs or alcohol, or cashiers don’t want to bag our pork purchases that their religious liberties will be enshrined into la . . . I can’t even finish the sentence it’s so obviously ridiculous.) This ain’t about what they keep telling us it’s about. CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/75 "2012-03-03T03:21:24Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > This has nothing to do with taxes, no matter how many times morons insist it does. > > And am I to presume that you’ll one day not be proud of your daughters if they have sex? What in the unholy fuck is WRONG with you people? I sincerely hope that your junk rots and falls off from lack of use, because you certainly don’t deserve to get fucked by the 50% of the population you so clearly hold in contempt. Ah, blow it out your ass, you old boiler. You want other people to pay for your groceries. If you can’t afford birth control, buy a vibrator. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/76 "2012-03-03T03:23:19Z")
Um, yeah. Sorry that you’re embarrassed and butthurt about being a moron about the insurance thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/77 "2012-03-03T03:24:46Z")
> [@Hyperelastic](#): > > Ah, blow it out your ass, you old boiler. You want other people to pay for your groceries. If you can’t afford birth control, buy a vibrator. You don’t understand what you’re talking about. Birth control is controlled by doctors. It negates a huge medical expense (birth). It belongs under the purview of insurance. Now that you understand, I hope you are able to change your mind. I suspect, you’ll ignore what I say, and try to forget it to preserve your ideological framework. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/78 "2012-03-03T03:26:31Z")
> [@Me Being A Picky Grammar Turd.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-being-a-picky-grammar-turd/74664/22): > > Now that you understand That’s charmingly optimistic of you. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/79 "2012-03-03T03:28:14Z")
I submit that the struggle against ignorance is founded upon relentless optimism. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593/80 "2012-03-03T03:28:47Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > What I love is the next day instead of apologizing he said the following: > > Personally, I think that this is an excellent idea. I think that whenever a Republican male wants to have sex and the woman is not intending to conceive, she should put an aspirin between her knees instead of having sex. I support Mr. Limbaugh’s wife doing the same. How long do you think the men of this country would hold out if the choice were abstinence except for actual conception or paying for birth control for women and actually having sex? In fact, I would wager that if the choice were between only sex with condoms or for procreation, even within a committed relationship and paying for birth control, most men would opt to pay for birth control. > > How about it Mr. Limbaugh? Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is and forsake all nonprocreative sex? Heh, someone’s a fan of Lysistrata. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-rush-limbaugh-for-being-an-idiot-about-birth-control/614593.md?page=5)