It’s finally legal to be a masturbating female in Texas. Praise the lord and pass the AA batteries.
It’s appropriate because my first thought when I read this quote:
Asked by The View executive producer and Walters business partner Bill Geddie whether it’s true that coveted endorser John Edwards doesn’t like Hillary Clinton, Halperin responded …
“Yes, that’s right. And I can tell you, he’s really skeptical of her ability to be the kind of president he wants. But, he kinda thinks Obama is….he thinks Obama is kind of a pussy … He has real questions about Obama’s toughness, his readiness for the office … he has real doubts about Obama, not just as a president, but as a general election candidate….”
was that with all the abuse of the deeply pleasant feminine organ you hear, it’s probably a good thing for women to buy theirs toys on a regular basis to introduce some balance into the world. And now it’s legal to do so in Texas!
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Well. I think I’ll go buy myself a new toy, then.
My first vibrator was purchased in Austin TX and mailed to me in Massachusetts by my beloved Charlie- made the distance between us much more tolerable…
BZZZZZZ!!!
Your criminal behavior is now legal, Louise. I am dying to find out if anyone gets pissed about this.
Now if only Alabama would follow suit…
I lovvve that the same people who support the ban of liquor sales on Sunday and sex toy sales are so often the “free marketers” who decry Big Gummint.
The free market and fundamentalist Christianity have nothing to do with each other ideologically, and that’s why Republicans go so batshit insane, if they weren’t to begin with. Trying to shoehorn incompatible ideologies into a coherent philosophy makes the crazy in boatloads.
Please tell me that Halperin was putting his own spin on Edwards’ alleged feelings about Obama.
How appropriate that this ruling is announced on the day before Valentine’s Day.
That’s useful. A friend of mine is busy field-testing this book (purely as part of her professional responsibilities as a librarian, of course), so I’ll get her review and see if she’d recommend ordering it in celebration.
Speaking of banning toys, check out this: http://www.thestranger.com/savage
Unrelated but important: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/15293125/detail.html
I just wish Molly Ivins could have lived to see the day.
I had to remind myself that guy was surely paraphrasing Edwards, who probably, like many of us, wondered if Obama has the will and aggression to deal with the worst of the Republican party.
Of course, you realize that this is just an attack on education in Texas.
This is going to siphon off all of those educational aids that have been selling so well and shifting them to private sexual use.
Where will the educators get their visual aids now? Bananas can only fill so much of a need!
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=pussy&searchmode=none
suggests that the use of pussy for effeminate man predates the use of pussy for vulva.
Pablo, far be it for me to offer gentle criticisms of our fine ladies of the self-induced orgasm, but I suspect that a salesperson from Babes in Toyland is speaking from self interest when she suggests that one should buy a whole chestful of new toys every time you change partners. That said, I love the idea of mailing used sex toys to that reporter. If I had anything I’d be happy to part with, I’d do it.
The law was overturned by 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mississippi is in the 5th Circuit, so that law is on shaky ground, if it wasn’t directly overturned by the ruling.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Alabama law.
Because of the “circuit split”, the issue may go before the Supreme Court. They don’t like a Constitutional right that exists in Texas, but not in Alabama.
Amanda- LOL i totally agree. I posted the link to Savage for the second part of the column; about the news expose concerning the illegal sale of sex toys in Alabama, and Savages suggestion on how to dispose of old sex toys.
unrelated, but I was curious on your thoughts on the Republican lawmakers in Arizona wanting to add an ammendment to ban gay marriage.
http://www.lezkeepitreal.com/if-at-first-you-don%e2%80%99t-succeed-%e2%80%a6/
Woohooo! I’m no longer a felon anymore!
Amanda, it may sound like self-interest but I do buy new toys with new partners. I’m bi so I ALWAYS get new toys with a woman lover, and it just carries over when I have a male lover. I’ve been in a monogamous relationship for several years now and before my current career, I was an internet stripper but I still have my “bag of tricks” which I was shocked to learn made me a felon under the state law (I had enough toys to make an “intent to distribute” a serious possibility. So while it may be self-interest on her part, it is also hygenic and respectful to get new toys with new partners.
Wonderful news!
Meanwhile, I think Halperin can’t can’t help exposing his own id — democratic women are too manly, democratic men are too womanly — all with words put in the mouth of a candidate whom the chatterati derided as effeminate.
Great day for Texas! Time to buy a dildo.
The OED is more authoritative than Etymology Online, imo, Arun.
Pussy first meant “woman” generally as early recorded as 1583 (because women are cats, of course) and by extension (and association with fur, as with the ever-popular 17th-century “cunt”–>”coney” jokes) the vulva, a development only recorded circa 1880, “cunny” being more popular from what I’ve read of vulgar 18th-c lit and “pussy” being reserved for feline analogs like “pussy-footing” more usually.
Pussy as “effeminate male” doesn’t get recorded until 1942, which is still later than either other usage, even allowing for a lag in entering the written record.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/110965?gt1=10856
Doing my morning “first cup ‘o coffee” reading and found this related story on MSNBC… apparently the floodgates have been opened!
Too bad Texas sent their best dildo to the Whitehouse…
They say that this law was around for the past 28-37 years. I’m glad that they struck it down. That means you all are legal to get your toys and Playboy DVDs and there is not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Now, only if the Alabama, Georgia (US state), Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom would follow suit and strike its laws prohibiting free sexual expression.
MikeEss, it’s offensive to call Bush a dildo. Dildos are uselful and fun.
;)
Happy Valentine’s Day, Texas!
Astraea, very good point.
We need to have another word that represents the ultimate in uselessness.
Maybe we can use dubya instead. ‘What a dubya! I don’t know how your parents kept themselves from strangling you as a child!…’
LOL Excellent suggestion.
Sweet! Now I can stop calling them “educational models” and buy more than six at a time. Rapture!
More importantly, sex shops can stop being harassed and raided for no reason.
Sweet. Now we’re just that much closer to becoming one of those upscale, sophisticated states.
Seriously, though - I can’t believe it took this long. Molly Ivins is dancing up in heaven right now.
late hit, but above Amanda mentions “Babes in Toyland.”
I think it very likely, considering the subject, that the vendor in question was “TOYS in BABEland”, now known simply as “Babeland”, one of the prouder commercial ventures of the Emerald City.
http://www.babeland.com/about/
Recommended!