"Men and women at a base level still aren’t viewed as being the
same."  "Men and women at a base level still aren’t viewed as
being the same." Photo: Getty  Three weeks ago, conservative US
shock jock/hell demon Rush Limbaugh took to his radio show to
launch a sustained three day attack on one Sandra Fluke, a 30
year old Georgetown University law student and reproductive
rights activist. Fluke had recently given testimony at an
unofficial Democratic Congressional hearing on whether or not
employers with religious affiliations should be forced to
provide health insurance covering birth control.  It was an
unremarkable enough topic, and would probably have gone
unnoticed except were it not for a) the current war being waged
on women’s reproductive rights in the US and b) the unleashing
of ignorant, vitriolic bile that consumed Limbaugh’s daily radio
show over the following week. For the singular crime of
advocating access to insurance provided birth control, Limbaugh
labeled Fluke a ‘slut’ and a ‘prostitute’. G