I don’t usually use Smart Bitches to overtly rant and rave about politics; this site is for romance novels, after all. But I’m going to make a special exception for Bill Napoli, a Republican state senator for South Dakota who had these words of wisdom to say about acceptable rape exceptions for the abortion ban:
A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life.
An acquaintance of mine, Sylvia, referred to this as “hella rape,” which is quite possibly the best damn phrase I’ve read all year.
At any rate, fuckwittery should not go unrewarded. I’m thinking we should do to Napoli what Dan Savage did to Rick Santorum. The nifty thing is, Napoli himself has provided an excellent definition. I propose the following entry be entered into the lexicon:
napoli (not to be confused with the proper noun, which indicates the Italian city)
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): napolied
Pronunciation: nA’poli1. To brutalize and rape, sodomize as bad as you can possibly make it, a young, religious virgin woman who was saving herself for marriage. 2. To hella rape somebody.
Etymology: From State Senator Bill Napoli’s (R-SD) words on an acceptable description of rape that would merit an exemption from South Dakota’s abortion ban.
Now, popularizing this term is going to take a little help from you guys.
First of all, I’ve created a little page with the definition for “napoli.” LINK TO http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/billnapoli with “Bill Napoli” as the anchor text. The link should look like this:
This is known as Google-bombing.
Second of all: Urbandictionary.com. I’ve submitted the entry, and it’s currently awaiting editorial approval. Once it’s up, I’m going to post a link here, and I hope enough of you guys vote on it that it becomes the top result for “napoli.” (Gawd, I feel bad for Napoli, but…not bad enough.)
And feel free to refer people to both the Bill Napoli definition page and this page, of course.
C’mon, everybody! With a little help, we can hopefully make napoli the new santorum.
Except, of course, to vote him out of office – that’s the traditional remedy for errant politicians.
Puh-lease, I’ve been trying to get Santorum out of office since he ran for re-election for his second term. I’ve sent so much hate mail to that man I’m probably on some government list somewhere. Unfortunately, idiots do vex us, and even more unfortunately, their name is frequently “politician.”
But thanks Candy, for making me smile with your reference to santorum.
Delighted to discover your site.
Excellent idea!
Go here http://www.spittleandink.com/simpleblog/default.asp?view=plink&id=311
to see the fake “proposed South Dakota Abortion Application form” based on Napoli’s remarks.
Aaargh! The link didn’t work! Try this one, and scroll down:
http://www.spittleandink.com/simpleblog/
oh candy and sarah, my love for you is too great to be deemed healthy.
I’ve posted at dailykos.
Have you seen this?
http://www.postmoderncourtesan.com/archives/000654.php
Now, you have to understand, according to her blog, this woman is actually a prostitute, so she’d definitely be in the “Doesn’t get an abortion” category, but I thought her little law spoof worked quite well!
Wonderful! I will try to use it as much as possible.
Glad to have found this site as well!
Thanks KateR- where did you post it on Kos?
Life, liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness: Declaration of Independence.
Don’t fret, Cindy. Americans get the one wrong too.
(OTH, they are revolutionary words—a little much for a Constitutional document.)
My mother worked for abortion rights, passage of Roe V. Wade, and was VP of her state chapter of the ACLU. I grew up at rallies. The fact that we’re still debating this using hysterical models designed to get people’s emotions twisted is very discouraging.
So, clearly Napoli is a good buddy of old Bobby Knight, of the “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it” school of thought. One of those enlightened men who think dragging a woman around by the hair is the epitome of treating her like a queen.
What I’m thinking is that this man needs a few night’s stay in a maximum security men’s penitentiary. Perhaps a little gentle loving and sodomy would give him a change of heart about the definition of “violent” rape.
I couldn’t be any more disgusted if he added that public stoning of homosexuals was every South Dakotans moral and social obligation. Okay, well, yes, I guess I could be more disgusted…
So, clearly Napoli is a good buddy of old Bobby Knight, of the “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it” school of thought. One of those enlightened men who think dragging a woman around by the hair is the epitome of treating her like a queen.
What I’m thinking is that this man needs a few night’s stay in a maximum security men’s penitentiary. Perhaps a little gentle loving and sodomy would give him a change of heart about the definition of “violent” rape.
I couldn’t be any more disgusted if he added that public stoning of homosexuals was every South Dakotans moral and social obligation. Okay, well, yes, I guess I could be more disgusted…
So, clearly Napoli is a good buddy of old Bobby Knight, of the “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it” school of thought. One of those enlightened men who think dragging a woman around by the hair is the epitome of treating her like a queen.
What I’m thinking is that this man needs a few night’s stay in a maximum security men’s penitentiary. Perhaps a little gentle loving and sodomy would give him a change of heart about the definition of “violent” rape.
I couldn’t be any more disgusted if he added that public stoning of homosexuals was every South Dakotans moral and social obligation. Okay, well, yes, I guess I could be more disgusted…
So, clearly Napoli is a good buddy of old Bobby Knight, of the “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it” school of thought. One of those enlightened men who think dragging a woman around by the hair is the epitome of treating her like a queen.
What I’m thinking is that this man needs a few night’s stay in a maximum security men’s penitentiary. Perhaps a little gentle loving and sodomy would give him a change of heart about the definition of “violent” rape.
I couldn’t be any more disgusted if he added that public stoning of homosexuals was every South Dakotans moral and social obligation. Okay, well, yes, I guess I could be more disgusted…
I’m not really the Romance novel type, linked over from Jesus General where I am sure your coinage will be picked up and oft riffed upon. If any one hasn’t suggested it yet, perhaps you could submit your new word to the Urban Dictionary, so that it might reside with all the other filthy verbage therein.
, no, she would be one of the “good girls†who deserves access to an abortion.
Oh no, I disagree. He’d make her carry the baby to term despite her wishes, then adopt it off to some good Christian couple.
What in the world is SBTB doing being linked from a site called “Jesus General?”
This man had better have a passle of disabled, HIV-positive, teenaged orphans living in his house. As a matter of fact, let’s send all the unwanted, inconvenient children up to South Dakota. Adoption isn’t all about cute, healthy, WHITE babies, you know. Let’s spread that life-affirming love around, shall we?
What in the world is SBTB doing being linked from a site called “Jesus General?â€
SB Sarah, you know that the antichrist will be making his big announcement here. They’re just staying on top of things.
It had to be the man-titty that tipped them off.
I checked it out – it’s Jesus’ General. The apostrophe made a difference in jogging my memory.
And yeah, let it be said far and wide, through man-titty, all things are possible.
Not for nothing (and in saying the following I realize that I’ve been accused of being a liberal-minded New England Intellectual, Democrat—all of which is completely false, as I’m really a conservative-minded, Greater-Metro-New-York Intellectual, former Republican — hey, I was young at the time, and I got better), but isn’t all rape, by definition brutal?
I mean, seriously, it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) matter if the rape was of an 11-year-old virgin, or a 90-year-old mother of 20; whether the woman was beaten, knifed, shot, or “simply†forced to have sex against her will with someone with whom she would have preferred not to have had any physical contact.
Rape is rape, or rather it should be. And while we are on the subject, why do we talk about rape and incest as if they were two separate things (like a 5-year-old is going to actually understand and want to have sex with a an older relative). I mean, isn’t incest simply raping a family member? If so, then why classify it separately as if it were somehow less heinous a crime than “merely†raping a complete stranger?
I realize that as a Roman Catholic I’m supposed to think Abortion is a bad thing, and that all life is sacred, well I am and I do and I do, only, we are not talking about me, we are talking about some woman (or girl) who was raped, and as I understand it, we all (yes, all) get to make our own decisions, and — of course — be responsible for the consequences of any and all results of said decisions.
Thus to my way of thinking, by restricting a woman’s right to choose is to (quite seriously) place us on the path of the more radical elements of the Islamic movement that require cartoonists to be put to death for cracking a joke (making a point) that was innocuous at best. And if you can’t see that, then that, my friend, is the first problem.
http://www.specromonline.com
Great protest. Glad to be a part.
“while we are on the subject, why do we talk about rape and incest as if they were two separate things”
Because they are. Consensual incestuous relationships are quite possible. Depends on the ages of the two people concerned, but think about Oedipus and his mother. That wasn’t rape. It was incest. And some people’s ideas about how close the relationship has to be for it to be incest vary. I was really suprised when I first learned about the laws some US states have against cousins marrying. I thought that it was a fairly normal, everyday thing (happens in Heyer and Austen). But some people might call it incest.
When I was growing up here in the wild west, if a young man got a girl pregnant out of wedlock, they got married, and the whole darned neighborhood was involved in that wedding. I mean, you just didn’t allow that sort of thing to happen, you know? I mean, they wanted that child to be brought up in a home with two parents, you know, that whole story.
I’m posting this anonymously out of respect for my mom. She was one of those girls. As a matter of fact, she grew up just a few miles from the South Dakota border. And when she got pregnant at 16, she had to marry the 16-year-old father, a boy she wasn’t even DATING anymore. They did “the right thing”, forced upon them by “the whole darned neighborhood”, and they were scared and miserable. In between popping out baby after baby, my mom lived with a man who felt trapped, who was angry and frustrated enough to beat the hell out of her on occasion. Then, when she finally got the guts to leave him. . . a lot of guts, considering she had four small children and no job or education. . . the “whole darned neighborhood” considered her a whore and a jezebel for leaving her husband.
Ah, the good ol’ days. If only there were a lynching in the story, it would be perfect.
Sorry to give you a start, SB Sarah, and for the dropped apostrophe also. You can be sure that sentiment at the General’s site about this turd Napoli is in accord with that here. We just prefer to attack from the flanks, rather than frontally.
The world of the lefty political blog.
the kos diary came and went. They do that. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/8/91144/49061
I posted at blondesense too and if mznicky picked it up and carried it to The General
If mznicky stays on it. . . then ready, set, go. . . it’ll get legs and run
Done and done, ladies.
Thanks for giving me something to be enraged about on this boring HumpDay.
“Because they are. Consensual incestuous relationships are quite possible.â€
Point taken. I tend to think of incest as a father (uncle, older brother/cousin) taking advantage of a younger (underage) child, but I see your point.
Duly blogged and linked. Cretins like this godbag give me a rash.
I’m just amazed that another human being could actually consider that you’d have to be ‘pure’ and reach a certain level of brutality in order to be ‘messed up’ by what is one of the most horrible and emotionally devastating acts that can be perpetuated on anyone, male or female.
Done, with pleasure.
http://wanderingeyre.com/2006/03/08/everyone-together/
If you scroll down to the post before last, Suzie Bright posted a video of this story, including words from the Asshat himself. I’m too pissed to type a coherent response right now.
http://susiebright.blogs.com/
If any good comes of this, I’m hoping it will be a massive public outcry that will force this putz to resign, get censured by his colleagues, or at the very least, not get re-elected. Something that will send a message to other messed up politicos.
Done http://laurendane.blogspot.com/2006/03/bow-down-to-bitches.html
Hey,
I’m without any sort of website. What can I do to keep this fuckwad at the very top of the Great American Dumbasses (GAD) list?
I bet Napoli is one of those morons who think women really REALLY enjoy going to the gynecologist, cuz that pap thing is, like, awesome…long object inserted in hole equals a hella good time. Naturally.
I put up a post about this with a multitude of napoli links, but it’s not showing up in your ‘trackback list.
It is there, though.
And this thought: I’ve got another name to add to my list of Italian-Americans to be ashamed of. This guy is right up there with Scalia and D’Amato.
I have done your bidding, O Smart Bitch!
LC
did anyone else notice the bit about the napolied victim being so messed up that carrying the pregnancy to term would be an actual threat to her life?
so the whole thing is based on the idea that you can’t end a pregnancy unless the mother’s life is threatened.
so is that (seriously) another hurdle to a rape victim procuring abortion, or some kind of adendum to the idea of medically necessary abortions?
reminds me strangely of O. Goldsmith’s poem … as in, Napoli’s “girl” has suffered enough, but the rest of us bitches can just die.
WHEN lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom—is to die.
I didn’t think it was possible, but I’m actually more pissed off today than yesterday. Maybe because I tortured myself by watching the video. I actually wanted to cry, it upset me so badly.
When the time comes, I’m going to Washington. Anybody want a ride?
And in the next election, I’ll vote for Bozo if he’s pro-choice.
Why aren’t any of the Hollywood Big Mouths on this? Sure, bitch about Iraq, but what about your own freakin’ country???
‘reminds me strangely of O. Goldsmith’s poem … as in, Napoli’s “girl†has suffered enough, but the rest of us bitches can just die.’
They’re working on the basic fundie idea that if women can’t get an abortion legally, they’ll give up. They’re not figuring that someone might just be scared or hurting enough to do it herself, one way or the other.
And if she dies of peritonitis from dirty instruments or perforating her womb with a knitting needle, why, that’s God’s will, and just punishment. Strike two lives to ‘save’ one. Illogical, but it’s the principal of the thing. I think.
noted and blogged.
what.an.asshat.
could someone go all Bill Napoli on his ass?