Todd Akin, the Republican Representative from Missouri
famously known for his definition of “legitimate rape” and beliefs that women’s
bodies can “shut down” to prevent pregnancies in cases of rape, is at it
again—this time calling his Democratic opponent, Claire McCaskill a ‘dog’,
accusing her of fetching “taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive
orders and agencies and brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in
Missouri.” Read more from this article
in the Washington Post.
Additionally, according to this article from Fox News, Akin’s
adviser, Rick Tyler, then added to the derogatory analogy Monday on Twitter, “using
an obscenity to describe what dog McCaskill would be, ‘if Claire McCaskill were
a dog.’ (Tyler’s answer: a combination of “bull” and Shih Tzu.””
Given Akin’s previous controversial comments surrounding
women, do you think he was using the word ‘dog’ in reference to ‘bitch’? Also,
do you think if his opponent was a man, he would have still used the fetching
dog analogy?
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