Sluts Unite/War on Women?

[PiKA2001]

http://news.yahoo.com/sluts-unite-ag...-politics.html

Watch out Republicans, here come the sluts.
Women's rights activists are banding together to "Rock the Slut Vote" in an online effort to register women to vote and cast their ballots against Republicans in 2012.
"If the GOP thinks that throwing the word 'slut' at us at this point is going to silence women they have another thing coming," said Susan McMillan Emry, the site's founder.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh thrust the derogatory word into the political arena in February when he called law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" for testifying before Congress in support of contraceptives.
Following the national backlash over Limbaugh's name-calling, "Rock the Slut Vote" is now aiming to "diffuse" the offensive term, Emry said.
Taking a vein from comedian Jeff Foxworthy and his "You might be a Redneck if…" jokes, Emry's website gives visitors 22 reasons why "You might be a slut," including "if you've ever used contraception" or "if you're still downloading Dixie Chicks music" or "if you don't go to church."
The site aims to "re-appropriate" the word "slut" so that Limbaugh and other Republicans cannot use it to "bully and silence women," Emry said.
"It's really about taking the power away from that word more than it is about Rush Limbaugh," she said. "He gave the word the notoriety but we are trying to take it back."

I don't think it's fair to say that Rush's slut comment was in line with GOP principles especially since several top GOP leaders blasted Rush for making the comment.

It would be interesting to find out how the founder of this movement feels about Bill Maher calling a certain female politician a c*nt. IDK, maybe the GOP can have their own "Rock the C*nt Vote" .

while the rather shocking name may catch voters' eyes, Emry could have a hard time selling the message to prospective female voters.
Only three in 10 women said they believe there is a "wide-scale effort to limit women's reproductive health choices and services," according to a Kaiser Health Tracking poll in May. And just 5 percent of female voters said the issue they want candidates to talk about most is women's health, compared to 60 percent who said the economy was most important.

What do the GC ladies think? Is there really a "war on women" or is this political smoke and mirrors to distract voters from more real, serious issues affecting the country today?