May 12, 2005
Another Sinner Caught Casting Stones
by Lorraine Berry
Fuck. Here we go again. W. David Hager--beloved OB-GYN from Kentucky, the man who President Bush wanted to appoint to an essential role in the FDA, the man who refuses to dispense various forms of birth control to his patients because it offends his moral values--that Dr. Moral Values, that one--raped his ex-wife repeatedly from 1995 to 2002, when she finally left him. Oh, and he didn't just rape her vaginally. He raped her anally, while she was taking medication being used to treat her narcolepsy. The man buggered his wife while she slept.
The details can be found in this week's The Nation. The story is sordid, and I don't want to quote any of it here. You can read it for yourself. Quite frankly, the man clearly has serious hang-ups about sex. But duh. Most of us could have told you that given the things he has said and done in the past. He's obsessed with sex; he's obsessed with the idea that women can't be trusted with their bodies, that they need a paternalistic doctor to tell them how their reproductive systems really work, and how if they gave themselves to Jesus, their ills would be cured. (Of course, I gave myself to Jesus, and now he never calls.)
Some of you may remember Hager as the asswipe that the current president (sic)
appointed to the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs. He was one of the few members of this committee who voted against making Plan B available over the counter. His reasoning? It would encourage adolescents to engage in unsafe sex. (The fact that he considers Plan B to be an abortifacient was not a factor. Yeah right.)
So, Hager is not exactly the man I want with his hands in my vagina while I'm getting my annual pelvic exam. He and I do not see eye-to-eye on women's health care issues. (Oh god. I just thought about that man's gloved fingers inside my vagina and I think I have to hurl.) My question is, why do misognynistic fucknuts like this go into obstetrics and gynecology? Sheesh. I wonder if it's because he's a little insecure in his manhood? Wants to have power over women? Wants women to come to his office and tell them all about their sexual histories while he hides his woody under his desk while he lectures them on their immoral abuses of their god-given womanly parts? (By the way, this man actually told his wife while he was fucking her that he couldn't tell the difference between her anus and her vagina. Um. That's just a little too frightening for me to even think about.)
So, tell me again. W stands for women? Not quite. W stands behind men who anally rape their wives--better to see the view.
Posted by in Abortion, Bio-Power, Body, Christian Fundamentalism, Culture of Life, Domesticity, Extremists, Feminism, Gender, George W. Bush, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Privacy, Religion, Reproductive Rights, Roe vs. Wade, Sex, Sexual Politics, W T F
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Say it loud, say it proud!
As a Kentuckian, I'd like to go on record and say a lot of us hate this jackweed here too, and frankly this sort of thing is why Kentucky is a national joke.
Everytime we hear a snotty comment about us all being shoeless, incestuous, hillbilly mutants, we have assholes like this to thank for it.
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Comment by: spyder at May 12, 2005 06:29 PM
By the way, this man actually told his wife while he was fucking her that he couldn't tell the difference between her anus and her vagina.??
As he forced her to submit to his continual sodomizing of her, waking her at all hours of the night by doing so. Yes indeed, the very paragon of christian virtue endowed with the power to make FDA decisions based on his faith. I am pretty sure that sodomy is a violation of law in Kentucky, but for some reason, he was never charged with it, although it was the significant cause of the dissolution of the marriage as stated in the court documents. mmmmmm Oh that's right, Senator Mitch McConnel helped him through that, along with the Senator's wife: Labor Secretary Elaine Chao!! Now isn't that some nice little familial incest.
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Comment by: woodviolet at May 12, 2005 06:40 PM
I read the entire Nation article. Made me feel sick.
I know Lily Tomlin already said, "No matter how cynical I get I can never keep up." But this is worse than cynicism. I know this makes me sound as nuts as them, and as nuts as they say we are. But there just never seems to be a bottom to the evil of these people.
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Comment by: Nathaniel at May 13, 2005 01:52 AM
It's simple, really. Hypocrisy is not just a flaw with these people, nor a vice; for them it is a positive virtue. Hypocrisy is the panacea for all their mental ills, and the key to their power. So don't say "he's a moralist _even_though_ he anally raped his narcoleptic wife": instead say "he's a moralist _because_ he anally raped his narcoleptic wife".
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Comment by: sameseeker at May 13, 2005 04:10 AM
A certain psychologist (named--?) has come up with a theory that "attitudes are antidotal," that we adopt attitudes that balance out our behavior. So if you're molesting boys in your office (or picking them up on the internet like Republican, anti-gay Spokane mayor Jim West), you offset that with even greater public piety. It's an interesting idea because it neatly explains all kinds of such twisted behavior. Don't know though if it leads to any ideas on how to prevent it, aside from suggesting that we keep a close eye on anyone acting holier than the rest of us.
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Comment by: Mugsy at May 12, 2005 05:15 PM