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The GOP’s nipple ban: The war on women gets personal — and even more hateful — in New Hampshire

Author:     Amanda Marcotte
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Thursday, Dec 31, 2015 07:21 AM PST
 Link: The GOP’s nipple ban: The war on women gets personal — and even more hateful — in New Hampshire
Stephan:   I don't know. Some days I think it is just too broken to fix. Here is what governance by Republicans looks like. This is a story with a particular focus but really, at a deeper level, it is a story about the state of state governance at the legislative level. The Great Schism Trend has reached a point politically where rational converse is essentially impossible. This is a sample of that reality.

The Republican war on women is mostly focused on trying to control what women do with the parts below the belt, but in New Hampshire, that urge to put conservative men in charge of lady bodies has drifted upwards, focusing on the nipple. Republican men in the state legislature, clearly having nothing better to do with their time than worry about what strangers do with their boobies, recently proposed a bill banning women from having exposed nipples in public.

 As reported by Mark Stern at Slate, this bit of government overreach annoyed Democratic state legislator Amanda Bouldin, who took to Facebook on Tuesday to express said annoyance.

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Republican representative Josh Moore, one of the sponsors of the bill, reacted to Bouldin’s post with some old-fashioned sexual harassment, which he appears to have quickly deleted. Sadly for him, however, one of the commenters on Bouldin’s Facebook page got a screenshot.

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Moore, I suspect, does not think he should be forced to wear a hood in public to earn the right not to be tweaked on the nose. But […]

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