I could not help but laugh. Saw in the news today that a representative in the Mississippi legislature has introduced a bill declaring life begins at erection. I know this post will bring a lot of garbage to my site, thinking it’s about pornography but I get lots of garbage anyway so a little more won’t matter. The bill, which has no chance of passing in a heavily Republican congress, makes it illegal for a man to have any other use for an erection than to impregnate a woman. Wow! Oh my goodness, now that really changes the whole picture doesn’t it. Just think, if men were responsible for their bodies the way women are. The representative knows he’s going to get a lot of negative press on this, but seems not to care. I found it amusing also that it’s a man who brought the bill to the legislature. It seems much more likely that a woman would do such a thing. But then she would just be labelled as ‘menstrual, or menopausal, or even post-menopausal’. Maybe Republicans can’t see women in any other way than somehow relating to their ability to reproduce, like cattle or chickens. It certainly appeared that society at large had advanced beyond such notions but here we are, back again.

Still, it did make me laugh and my hat’s off to the man who did this if for no other reason than to point out the vast disparity between the standards women are held to and the standards men are allowed to sink to with no apparent consequence.