Like serial killers who act to gain and exert power over their victims, Republicans are attempting to change society, to cure a perceived societal ill.  And just like those mission-oriented killers typically justify their acts as "ridding the world" of a certain type of person perceived as undesirable, such as homosexuals, prostitutes, or people of a different ethnicity or religion, Republican legislators across the country have introduced laws that address America’s so-called social failings. In an odd twist of fate, the laws all victimize women...the mothers of mankind.

Since the days of Adam and Eve, female sexuality has caused some men to lose self-control so that they cease to be responsible for their actions - or so goes the accepted wisdom.  Many power- or control-motivated killers sexually abuse their victims,  while others simply see sex as merely a form of dominating a woman. Remember Ted Bundy?  He traveled around the United States merely seeking women to control.

Some Republican men clearly fear women's sexual power and even feel justified in blaming them for acts of male violence.  I’m reminded of a case in the early 80’s where a Wisconsin judge sentenced the rapist of a 5 year-old to only three months in prison because, according to the judge,  his five-year-old victim was,  “an unusually sexually promiscuous young lady”.  The judge  added, "I do not put blame on the child exactly, but I do believe she was the aggressor".    Such sentiment might explain why Republicans would seek to redefine “rape”?  

Republicans introduced legislation stating that “Pregnancies resulting from statutory rape, in women who were raped while drugged or extremely intoxicated, in mentally incapable women, or in many of the victims of date rape would not be [considered “forcible rape”].  So if you’re drugged, raped and pregnant, too bad.

Sen. Charles ”throw grandma off the train” Grassley is against protections from domestic abuse for LGBT individuals and undocumented immigrants. Just let ‘em die, I guess.  He also opposes Native American tribes having the right to prosecute crimes.  American Indians should not have the right to prosecute White men, not even for murder.  Just so you know, according to government statistics, one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. That figure is 2.5 times higher than the rate for non-Native women in the United States.   Still, prior to the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, there was a one-year maximum sentence for any crime prosecuted in tribal court. 

A non-Indian could murder someone and receive a maximum one-year sentence.  In the US one woman continues to be raped every three minutes, one wife battered every 18 seconds;   more than three women are, on average, murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.

Still Republicans insist their intent, or so they claim, is to curb the abortion rate, protect the unborn.  I don’t buy it. They don’t cherish life!  No one is more supportive of war than Republicans.  Wars kill children.  Republicans  cut subsidies that feed, educate, house and keep children healthy, all while they fight to protect the richest among us.  Two million children go to bed hungry every night, just as many are homeless.  The richest nation in the world has an unseen population of children who are homeless, hungry, diseased, poorly educated, and victims of violence. Give me a break!

Clearly, women represent an unsettling power which contradicts and undermines their own more obvious social, political and physical power. And it’s high time these uppity broads were "put back in their place".  Republicans remind me of the man who said, “It’s not that I dislike women, I just wish they all weren’t such whores”.

Why do Republican men express such hatred of women?  Womb-envy? Clearly, I don’t really know. But I’m convinced that a man who has so little regard for women could neither love nor respect his mother.