by SHIRIN SADEGHI
Akin, a graduate of the Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri – he has a master of divinity – has gathered along the way, largely due to societal cues, that he is an authority on things that he is not, because he is a man. Like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who recently spoke on behalf of all the women in the Republican Party when he said that his female colleagues “don’t see any evidence” of a war on women, it never struck Akin that he is not qualified to speak for women, particularly when he is attacking their rights.
And he is not the first. It was just this year that Wisconsin state senator Glenn Grothman said that, “money is more important for men,” as he argued against a Wisconsin state equal pay act. In his view of the matter, there is no pay discrimination because women simply don’t want to be paid as much as men do, particularly when they are married and more focused on raising kids (as he duly noted). Grothman, a devout Christian, also made headlines this year when he said that “unwanted and mistimed pregnancies” are “a choice” that women make and are not actually accidents.
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(Thanks to Mukul Dube)