Planned Parenthood obviously thought this tweet was super clever and not sexist at all:
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Sen. Rand Paul’s “Show Your Support” page doesn’t have anything for women.
Message received.
h/t @jess_mc pic.twitter.com/AdNSLQLnuX
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
Unfortunately for them, Twitter did not agree.
The tweet referred to a section of Rand Paul’s newly-launched campaign website which provides profile pictures like “lawyers for Rand” or “doctors for Rand.” Apparently Planned Parenthood was insulted by the lack of “women for Rand”–because gender is a woman’s only identifying information?
Nearly all of the flood of responses were negative:
In which @PPact says that women can’t be Nurses, Veterans, Lawyers, Students, Doctors.. etc. https://t.co/NMo1D263ux @jess_mc
— RB (@RBPundit) April 7, 2015
.@PPact @jess_mc I fit in at least three of those categories – what are you talking about?
— Anne Wilson Smith (@EarlyGirlSC) April 7, 2015
@PPact @jess_mc Soooooooo women can’t be any of those things? Message received. You think of women as vaginas and uteruses and thats it.
— H (@Tark31) April 7, 2015
Planned Parenthood Says Women Can’t be Doctors, Nurses, or Vets http://t.co/paQyjySQre @RBPundit @JonahNRO @obrienc2 @ElizaCussen @cwfora
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) April 7, 2015
Later Planned Parenthood tried to clean things up with this follow-up tweet:
Women are many things—doctors, veterans, more—but w/ his record, seems even Paul knows “Woman for Rand” won’t be one. pic.twitter.com/27n795guXm
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) April 7, 2015
…but that didn’t go down very well either.
@PPact why did it take you so long to realize how condescending and sexist the first tweet you sent out was?
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) April 7, 2015
Please tell us when you realized your previous tweet was sexist? @PPact https://t.co/CqwsknxcdI
— Chelle (@FL_Chelle) April 7, 2015
@PPact I didn’t realize women was this monolithic entity without the ability to think for themselves.
— R Thomas (@Plate0fShrimp) April 7, 2015
Awkward.
