Men who cannot speak/hear medically accurate terminology for parts of the body they’re passing legislation about have no business being in government. It’s analogous to military officials who can’t talk about killing/death. If you don’t use your words, you shouldn’t get to act.

Today, Jim Stamas, the Majority Floor Leader of Michigan’s House of Representatives, banned two female representatives from speaking on the floor of the house – indefinitely – without any stated justification, and with evidence of rule-breaking only present for one of the two women. Let me rephrase that, focusing on Lisa Brown, the one who broke no rules at all. A Republican, Christian, male House leader ordered a Democratic, Jewish, female state representative – whose entire job consists of representing her district, the most public forum for which is the house floor – to be silent until he says otherwise.

Incidentally, regarding the suggestion that she made a rape joke, the video of her speech reveals clearly that it wasn’t a joke. The vagina sentence was the last thing she said before she sat down, and she was dead serious.