Google Bombing

[norsegirl]

There's something called "Google bombing", which exploits Google's function of categorizing websites based on the name of the link on other sites. For example, the most famous Google Bomb is for the phrase "Miserable Failure". Type it into google, go on, you'll be amused at what you find as the first entry.

Today's Google bomb campaign is as follows:

Bill Napoli

The short version is as follows... A senator in North Dakota, by the name Bill Napoli, is pushing a bill to ban abortion in his state unless the health life of the woman is at risk. The way the bill is currently written, there are no exceptions. Not even for rape, incest, or health risks short of inevitable death. When asked by the media about the fact that there were no exceptions, he gave his own version of a scenario in which a victim of rape might be exempt from the rule. Summed up in less graphic terms, the following conditions must apply:

The victim must be:
- young
- virginal
- "saving herself for marriage"
- religious
- "Brutally sodomized" (which, as several people have pointed out, won't get you pregnant, so we can't figure why this is a requirement other than that he liked saying/visualizing it)
- suicidal after the event

This would, incidentally, eliminate his own wife from the exception, as, being married, she cannot be either young or virginal. This would eliminate most nuns, as many of them are hardly spring chickens; and any rape, no matter how brutal, or how young, virginal and religious the victim, which did not include sodomy. And heaven help the girl who still has a will to live after all this. If you're not in danger of taking your own life, then you must be perfectly mentally capable of carrying your rapist's baby to term. There are words for men like this, but I have to admit, I'm too incensed to come up with any of them.

He also supports the "return" of "shotgun weddings" where an entire community will force a young couple into marriage if a man gets a woman pregnant. Because I don't know about y'all, but if I get raped and impregnated, I totally want to be forced to marry the guy, what a perfect resolution!

Anyway, the movement was started by this blog and contained therin is a link to the original article in case you want the words straight from the horse's mouth (or should that be the elephant's ass?) Feel free to participate, respond with your own thoughts on the issue, or ignore this post. I'm just doing my part to contribute to the bomb. Though with many news articles and legitimate references to this guy's name, I'm sure it will never succeed. Still makes me feel good to point out his asshattery.

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

To be fair.ish: He probably does have other exceptions. But that doesn't make his creepily detailed description any less misogynistic.

And hey, the shotgun wedding sex could be consensual -- because certainly teenagers are totally ready for married life! And women never get pregnant from affairs with married men!

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Okay, yes, there are other great reasons why "shotgun weddings" are completely wrong. I just happened to like my getting married to a rapist example best. Though I would love to see how he'd handle a shotgun wedding scenario where the guy is already married.

As for "other exceptions" I have no doubt that he would have such exceptions. Probably only applied to those close to him that he personally knows are not "sluts" or "using abortion as contraceptive" or are otherwise "worthy" of the procedure. See The Only Moral Abortion is my Abortion (http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html) for details of this particular brand of hypocracy.

I just hate people who pretend to be Christians and then turn around and completely ignore that whole "judge not" part of the religion. I can kinda respect people who are consistent, and who think that ANY abortion is wrong and who are willing to truly stand behind that and protect ALL unborn children. Even if it does cause poverty, death, anguish for untold women and children, at least they are consistent. I may not agree with them, but I can respect them. But as soon as you start making exceptions in your theology, as soon as you start saying "well, some babies are maybe not as valuable as other babies because of how they came about", then you are applying judgements and you are playing God. In theory, the baby is the same, no matter what its parentage or circumstances of its conception, it's not like it had a choice in the matter. So why is it okay to say that it's okay for some babies to be killed and not others?

And then there's the whole bombing foreign countries and killing millions of babies through war and through the selfishness of not sharing the resources we have in greater quantities than we can use? Why do the African babies deserve to die simply because they live in a place that doesn't grow food so well? And better yet, why is condenming them to a short life of slow suffering better than aborting them?

This particular ass-hat is more ass-hatty (and creepy) than most of the "Christian right", but that doesn't make the rest of them respectable either.

Yes, asshattery

[firefred.livejournal.com]

Middle Ages were we come. I think it's utterly disgusting. But surprised I am not. I have the misfortune to live in Texas. Still, I strongly believe that every woman should have the option to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Just my 2 cents.

Re: Yes, asshattery

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the support. And yes, I wasn't surprised either. Alberta is sometimes refered to as "the Texas of the North", though not quite as extreme, I do know a bit about where you are coming from.

[knightofthorns.livejournal.com]

South Dakota(?) just passed a bill that outlawed all abortions.

I think it's incredibly stupid, and unconstitional, I really doubt that any of these laws would hold up to a case taken all the way to the supreme court.

Plus, what's the point of saying "Well, you can't do that in OUR state!" and then watching as the women just go across the state line to get an abortion?

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Well, it does prevent those too poor to muster the resources to get themselves out of state from having an abortion. Because the kind of woman who can't afford an abortion or the gas money to get to one is totally the kind of woman who can afford to take care of a child ya know! In Canada not only are they free, confidential, and available everywhere, we also pay for them through our universal health insurance. As long as our jack-ass conservative party doesn't have their way and send us back 60 years that is.

Alternate Definition of "napoli"

[misterniceguy60.livejournal.com]

I would like to propose an alternate definition for the verb "to napoli":

To make public a fantasy that would better have remained private.

Examples include Bill O'Reilly's wistful thoughts of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne murdering the Brokeback Mountain lovers, and most of the "humorous" material on sale at Right Wing Stuff.

Re: Alternate Definition of "napoli"

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Nice one. Go suggest it to the woman who started the campaign. She might like to hear it :)

Re: Alternate Definition of "napoli"

[eve-the-just.livejournal.com]

Just as a by the by... who are you and how did you stumble onto my blog?