Why don't gals just use aspirin for birth control?

[CHNOPS]

Like in the old days.

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Foster Freiss, Santorum backer, jokes about using aspirin as birth control

By Rachel Weiner, Washington Post
Updated: Thursday, February 16, 11:38 AM

Foster Freiss, the wealthy investor bankrolling a super PAC for GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, appeared on MSNBC Thursday to argue that social issues are largely irrelevant.

If he wanted to take focus away from Santorum's recent remarks about birth control and premarital sex, however, he didn’t succeed.

“This contraception thing, my gosh, it's so inexpensive,” Freiss told host Andrea Mitchell. “You know, back in my days, they'd use Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.”

Mitchell was visibly taken aback. “Excuse me, I’m just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freiss, frankly” she said after a few seconds. “Let’s change the subject.” (She said via Twitter that she is “still trying to get my head around” the comment and asked her followers how she should have responded.

The comment comes on the same day that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) held a panel on birth-control prescription coverage with all-male witnesses.

Donors, obviously, don’t speak for their candidates. In fact, this clip serves as a good warning to other politicians to keep wealthy backers behind the scenes.

But given Santorum’s own controversial comments about contraception, this odd, out-of-touch remark keeps the topic in the spotlight for the candidate at a time when he is trying to downplay his social conservatism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...birth-control/2012/02/16/gIQA5yoAIR_blog.html

 

[hobbit.]

Like in the old days.

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Foster Freiss, Santorum backer, jokes about using aspirin as birth control

By Rachel Weiner, Washington Post
Updated: Thursday, February 16, 11:38 AM

Foster Freiss, the wealthy investor bankrolling a super PAC for GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, appeared on MSNBC Thursday to argue that social issues are largely irrelevant.

If he wanted to take focus away from Santorum's recent remarks about birth control and premarital sex, however, he didn’t succeed.

“This contraception thing, my gosh, it's so inexpensive,” Freiss told host Andrea Mitchell. “You know, back in my days, they'd use Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.”

Mitchell was visibly taken aback. “Excuse me, I’m just trying to catch my breath from that, Mr. Freiss, frankly” she said after a few seconds. “Let’s change the subject.” (She said via Twitter that she is “still trying to get my head around” the comment and asked her followers how she should have responded.

The comment comes on the same day that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) held a panel on birth-control prescription coverage with all-male witnesses.

Donors, obviously, don’t speak for their candidates. In fact, this clip serves as a good warning to other politicians to keep wealthy backers behind the scenes.

But given Santorum’s own controversial comments about contraception, this odd, out-of-touch remark keeps the topic in the spotlight for the candidate at a time when he is trying to downplay his social conservatism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...birth-control/2012/02/16/gIQA5yoAIR_blog.html

their knees don't meet.

 

[QueenLevitra]

Because falling down 3 flights of stairs is safer.

ETA: Romney still IS NOT the one. Only Sarah will get my vote. That is not only FACT! but gospel as well.

 

[Sean]

The last person to tell that joke was a retiree from the dinosaur wrangling business.

 

[Anjasa]

I wish more 80 year old men would tell me that worrying about birth control is silly and I need group therapy to deal with it.

 

[bronzeage]

If a woman can pee with her knees held together, she can get pregnant with her knees held together.

 

[rosco rathbone]

What the hell does that even mean

 

[CHNOPS]

What the hell does that even mean

Near as I can tell, it's an abstinence joke: "If you women would just keep your damned whore legs together, we wouldn't have to worry about any stupid pill."

 

[mercury14]

What the fuck?

And why isn't this a negative in Republican land?

Here's the video btw. All women need to do is stick aspirin in their vaginas for birth control. And then when they get vaginal ulcers they have aspirin on hand to help them cope with the pain.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...r-friess-day-gals-used-aspirin-193938581.html

 

[semen4her]

If a woman can pee with her knees held together, she can get pregnant with her knees held together.

Exactly.

Bend the bitch over.

 

[Honey123]

Near as I can tell, it's an abstinence joke: "If you women would just keep your damned whore legs together, we wouldn't have to worry about any stupid pill."

exactly....

if you don't want an aspirin to drop, your knees have better be pressing the sides of the aspirin.

I realize to read that isn't very funny, but if your old grandpa said it around a table during a Sunday dinner, most would laugh about it..feign innocence and it would be tossed aside to be brought up at a later time when reminiscing about the things grandpa would say....

 

[Riles]

We Canadian gals were told to use a nickle.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Between aspirin jokes, Rick Santorum and the Virginia Legislature (who just mandated medically unnecessary vaginal probes), this election seems to be shaping up to be a referendum on birth control, of all things!

I can imagine this would have tremendous appeal to the JamesBJohnsons and Vettemans of the world (they seem fixated on re-fightin' the 60s/70s women's movement...empowered women makes guys like these two soil themselves)...but seriously, aren't there more urgent issues in America?

 

[Honey123]

We Canadian gals were told to use a nickle.

LOL...

So funny, right?

My mother said she would know if the color of my eyes changed! She was Sicilian...and I was scared!

 

[Riles]

LOL...

So funny, right?

My mother said she would know if the color of my eyes changed! She was Sicilian...and I was scared!

Ha!

I've never heard THAT one before.

 

[phrodeau]

If a woman can pee with her knees held together, she can get pregnant with her knees held together.

She couldn't give birth, though.

Birth control.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You don't use the aspirin for birth control, you use the headache for birth control!

 

[CandiCame]

Near as I can tell, it's an abstinence joke: "If you women would just keep your damned whore legs together, we wouldn't have to worry about any stupid pill."

OK! Thank you! I read this OP like 3 times and could not figure out what the hell it was supposed to mean.

Do these guys not realize that the vast majority of women on birth control are using it as hormone therapy? Like... I don't really talk to republicans, but it should be pretty obvious that you don't change the chemistry of your body exclusively for birth control when you can put on a condom.

 

[Jm J Bullock]

Like in the old days.

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I bet Foster Friess owns stock in a coat hanger business.

 

[richard_daily]

exactly....

if you don't want an aspirin to drop, your knees have better be pressing the sides of the aspirin.

I realize to read that isn't very funny, but if your old grandpa said it around a table during a Sunday dinner, most would laugh about it..feign innocence and it would be tossed aside to be brought up at a later time when reminiscing about the things grandpa would say....

Yes, but grandpa isn't trying to influence policy and help some douchebag run for president.

 

[CandiCame]

Yes, but grandpa isn't trying to influence policy and help some douchebag run for president.

He doesn't have ANY grandkids?

 

[bronzeage]

OK! Thank you! I read this OP like 3 times and could not figure out what the hell it was supposed to mean.

Do these guys not realize that the vast majority of women on birth control are using it as hormone therapy? Like... I don't really talk to republicans, but it should be pretty obvious that you don't change the chemistry of your body exclusively for birth control when you can put on a condom.

Okay, school is in session, history class.

When the first practical birth control pill was certified for use by the FDA, it was known as "The Pill", as if there was no other pill. It became the punchline for about a million stand up comic jokes. Most of them were from the wink,wink,nudge,nudge school of comedy.

This is about one of those jokes: "The most reliable birth control pill is an aspirin held tightly between the legs."

It's as funny now as it was then.

 

[KRCummings]

I'm really surprised at the number of people who don't get that joke. It's really old and the guy didn't tell it for shit but come on. It's a classic. Sort of. In the way that really bad Vaudeville jokes are classics.

 

[richard_daily]

Okay, school is in session, history class.

When the first practical birth control pill was certified for use by the FDA, it was known as "The Pill", as if there was no other pill. It became the punchline for about a million stand up comic jokes. Most of them were from the wink,wink,nudge,nudge school of comedy.

This is about one of those jokes: "The most reliable birth control pill is an aspirin held tightly between the legs."

It's as funny now as it was then.

Ah, I get it... "women are sluts", and it's their fault that they have sex. The man on he other hand, has nothing to do with it.

I sincerely hope that we can get back to these 'core conservative values' that these folks keep talking about.

 

[semen4her]

I thought it was 'put Ishmael between your knees'.