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Dear Michele Bachmann,
I know you are a political figure that gets a lot of attention. I know that, in the past, you have received a lot of heckling from, well, liberal people like me. I (we) tend to disagree with a lot of your politics, and think of you as being anti-feminist for making statements like school-based health clinics are actually “sex clinics” designed to funnel more 13 year olds to have abortion at Planned Parenthood without parental consent. Um, huh?
Anyways, I get that we don’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues that are really important to me, but for some reason I felt especially icky seeing that you had your husband send an email out to supporters in effort to defend your honor. In response to an anti-Michele Bachmann event entitled “F--- Michele Bachmann” – which, I will grant you, is disrespectful and even vulgar – you had to have your husband take it to the internets in outrage? Why? You are a Member of Congress – an elected official serving in a high office within the federal government! You are a powerful person! It’s your name on that plaque outside your office on Capitol Hill! Why, oh why, did you feel it necessary to have your husband as messenger the minute the conversation changes to sex, and honor, and respect?
I think this leaves me feeling queasy in a totally different way than your regular politics. I think that despite promoting policies that were anti-woman, at least I knew that you are a powerful woman. So my question is, since when do powerful women trot out the Disney defense and have their male partners stick up for them when it has to do with sex/character? Just, ugh…Even from you, I expected more…
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