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”? 

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