And he still has that Manichaean, black-and-white world of convenient absolutes. E.g., because there have been occasional cases of women falsely claiming rape ("entrapping men" as they used to call it) therefore any claim of rape is suspect, because, y'know, scarlet women! And because, yes, long term stress makes conception somewhat more difficult during fertility treatments, therefore women who get pregnant must not have been raped because, y'know, fertilization on/off switch.
If only there weren't so many people apparently willing to listen to him.
Todd Akin Explains That by “Legitimate Rape,” He Meant That Women Lie About Rape. Dude, We Know.
Todd Akin, displaying the phoenix-like powers of similar reactionaries Sarah Palin and Paula Deen, is back in the press again. He’s got a new book out, Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom, and the Daily Mail reports that the book…
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You certainly wouldn’t want him to admit that he was wrong, would you? His kind are never wrong, just taken out of context or misquoted or misunderstood. And anyway, he was only talking about women, and they don’t matter — not even to each other if they are Republican/Tealiban.
@Ellie – I certainly wasn’t expecting a retraction. I was kind of hoping he’d just “fade away.”