Glenn Beck sported a new look today wearing condom gloves and a birth control pill "nose ring" all in an attempt to make a point that birth control will decrease the rates of abortion.
I still can't help but think that there is a deeper and more disturbing meaning beneath his act. While donning his new look, Beck said it was in response to MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry's wearing tampon earrings. Harris-Perry wore tampon earrings in response to Texas' misogynistic move to confiscate all feminine hygiene products from protesters during the abortion debate.
Beck proceeded to mock Harris-Perry, stating that she looked like an idiot. Beck responded that if she had been wearing marshmallows on her ears, he might be attracted to her. OK. So, Glenn has a marshmallow fetish? I don't get it. I don't think anyone gets it. Glenn Beck just thinks he is funny. He tells an inside joke about being aroused by marshmallows that no one else gets.
He mockingly remarked that Melissa looked "as credible as I do, and that's saying something because your entire network practically made a living off of mocking me while I was doing pie charts about how our country was going to be destroyed through spending habits and using actual pies. You're wearing tampon earings, darling." I love how he adds the condescending and sexist "darling" at the end of his spiel. You can hear the rest in the video linked.
Beck was trying to say that he supports birth control because abortion is bad, and birth control decreases abortion rates since it prevents getting preggers and bebehz.
Anyway, Beck and his fellow co-hosts proceeded to mock Harris-Perry's book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America.
So, that whole segment was about mocking wommenz and being downright misogynist. What else is new?
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