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Viagra: The Gift That Keeps On Giving, Even In Afghanistan

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CherriSpryte
12/26/08

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My father has just yelled at me for being too angry during the holiday season, while i was reading this.

I feel I am nowhere near angry enough. But I have to go bake cookies, now, apparently. Still, Grrrrr. Stabby.
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PilgrimSoul
12/26/08

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So I have been surfing round the blogs this morning and I'm amazed how many asinine male bloggers DIDN'T EVEN CONSIDER WOMEN IN THIS EQUATION. (Spencer, you get a pass because Megan and you corrected that shit.) Mostly they're all chuckling about erections. It makes me despair. These are smart progressive men, and they find this entertaining and, in many cases, a "smart and creative" move? Yikes. I'm Debbie Downer on the patriarchy, but dudes, I expected better of you.
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Hooplehead
12/26/08

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I love how you feel it necessary to have this conversation while repeatedly reminding us all that your cock is in perfect working order.

Seconded.
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toubab
12/26/08

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Megan, I fucking love you. Seriously, when my Dad was reading this story aloud this morning my Mom and I had the exact same reaction. "Oh fantastic! So glad to hear that 60 year old chieftains are now being further empowered to force themselves on their young, frequently unwilling wives!". I mean, I totally believe in soft diplomacy and trying a different tact when other avenues fail, but how can Americans forget the single largest problem with the Taliban: there horrific treatment of women.

Sad to say, there were two reasons I supported the invasion of Afghanistan and only one was 9/11.
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PilgrimSoul
12/26/08

@toubab: But bush says he went in there to save the wimmenz too! Save them from their husbands' limp cock problems, I guess.
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llamalash★
12/26/08

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Horrible idea in so many ways. What do ED pills such as Viagra do to testosterone and other hormone levels? I honestly do not know. I would assume it does something to them though, which would make it as likely as not that instead of giving a non-war-related solution to the impotent, the drugs could enrage them more.

And hello? Women could be killed for being outdoors without a male relative only a few years ago. The implications for women in the region are disgusting. Where's Eve Ensler when we need her!
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drunkexpatwriter
12/26/08

@llamalash: Vigara does nothing to testosterone or hormone levels.

It's a completely non hormone related medication.
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So Irish
12/26/08

@drunkexpatwriter: It was originally intended for cardiac use. (i.e. dilation of veins and arteries). THEN they noticed a peculiar side-effect. ;)
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llamalash★
12/26/08

@So Irish: That's right, it was. I had forgotten that part of (typical) malecentric medical history!

I guess it's at least "something" if it's not adding to hormonal issues. Still, wtf? I somehow doubt the CIA is slipping birth control or family planning education to the women in combination with this plan.
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Jack_Burton
12/26/08

@llamalash: Sadly, I'm guessing that the CIA is doing a "simpler math" - more babies = more impetus to protect "the Tribe," its' territory, etc.

But perhaps, hopefully, more babies also = more conservative military actions over time, as those babies don't replenish the ranks overnight.

It could be even simpler, I suppose: more babies = more perceived prosperity?

Very strange dynamics CIA is messing with, here...
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drunkexpatwriter
12/26/08

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As a guy on "not go crazy" pills that can impact "function" who is also a freelance writer living in a country where it costs $50 for two viagra tablets, I can honestly say that my girlfriend and I would vote for Ron Paul in exchange for an unlimited supply of the Big V.
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PilgrimSoul
12/26/08

@drunkexpatwriter: Yeeeeeeah, this is not really analogous to you and your girlfriend though. I imagine you know that.
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drunkexpatwriter
12/26/08

@PilgrimSoul: True. I'm just saying that I can imagine Viagara would be a big incentive to someone on the fence on an issue.
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SomeAuthorGirl
12/26/08

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Helping the Afghan tribal lords to not be impotent against the Soviet threat turned out super-awesomely well. Handing out Viagra seems to be a similarly great idea.
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PilgrimSoul
12/26/08

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My guess is it's not just marital rape they're enabling.

Megan, this probably is obvious to you, but I like it when we all refuse to shut up about women's issues. And Viagra? It's a woman's issue. People forget that. No one really talks about it in terms of its effect on women, it being assumed that we're all just thrilled to have it available for the men who pleasure us so with their hard, hard wangs.
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SomeAuthorGirl
12/26/08

@PilgrimSoul: The best we can hope for is that handing that shit out without a prescription is just asking for misuse. It's not like your average impotent Afghan tribal lord who, having popped like 4 Viagra at once and ended up with a four-day hard on, can just pop on down to hospital to get fixed up. Oh no. They'll be laid out, unconscious in the streets, with no relief in sight.

Which, come to think of it, will only make them like the U.S. more...
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
12/26/08

@PilgrimSoul: Yup, it's not exactly like we're also out there distributing oral contraceptives. Because these women should really know better than to have available vaginas to service the men's chemically-stiffened cocks.
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CollegeBookworm
12/26/08

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...This is my last Crappy Hour. I'm going to Israel for two weeks on Sunday and I won't have my laptop with me. :(
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LucilleMcGillicuddy
12/26/08

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The CIA and the Japanese Family Planning Association should get together and coordinate some kind of super-secret sex study/exchange program.
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Khrushchev
12/26/08

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(Shut up, italics).
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Khrushchev
12/26/08

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Oh, I forgot about Bing Crosby in blackface. Delightfully, Fred Astaire appears in blackface in Swing Time to pay tribute to Bojangles. Bless their hearts!

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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
12/26/08

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Let's cut the CIA some slack. They are just trying to empower the Afghan people. We need their peens to swell with the juices of liberty so that they can splooge democracy all over the face of factional strife and the tits of terrorism.
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Too Hot For TNR
12/26/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (and the ovumlord of the rings): FTW. Already.
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keldo
12/26/08

@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (and the ovumlord of the rings): Seriously. How can you be this funny whilst gestating? I was monosyllabic for the last few weeks of my pregnancy. How far along are you? And will you bring your laptop to the delivery room? Please?
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PilgrimSoul
12/26/08

@keldo: we have five more months of internet hilarity at least.
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keldo
12/26/08

@PilgrimSoul: Excellent. But I propose she only gets 2 weeks Jezzie maternity leave.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
12/26/08

@PilgrimSoul: @keldo: At this rate I may want to turn into an honorary Duggar so that I can keep the connection strong between my funny bone and my uterus.

@Too Hot For TNR: I just like using the word "splooge". Glad it was appreciated. :)
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VPea
12/26/08

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Hmmm sounds like a terrible idea. Giving boner drugs to a nation of men that for the most part does not value women as independent human beings? Ya totally. Boners for everyone.
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So Irish
12/26/08

@VPea: Yay!!! Wait...Are they C.O.D.???

Nevermind.
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So Irish
12/26/08

@So Irish: Yeah, doesn't make much sense. Move along, nothing to see here. ;)
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So Irish
12/26/08

@So Irish: ALTHOUGH, since I'm talking to myself.... YAY!!! I got Wishful Drinking for xmas!!! AND almost every other book Carrie Fisher has written! My husband rocks! Now if the damn UPS guy would bring them already!!!

(Yeah, I got several notecards folded in half w/ book titles on them. Merry Christmas!?!)
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