March 1, 2012

Lately I, along with many other women, have felt like we are extras in an episode of the Twilight Zone. I can hear the narrator of the show saying “You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. That’s a signpost up ahead; your next stop, the Twilight Zone!”

The rhetoric espoused over that last few weeks by many conservatives has me feeling as if I am in an alternate political universe, where men say the most oddly absurd things about what women should be doing with their bodies. In this universe, the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform holds hearings on women’s health and contraception with a panel made up completely of men.

Now this may seem odd to those who live in the “real world,” but in this alternate reality, it makes perfectly good sense that a bunch of middle-aged men devoid of ovaries and uteruses would be experts on women’s reproductive health.