So … they have been confiscating tampons at the Texas State
House. Feature this: you’re waiting in
line to enter this publically funded building, which you helped fund as a
member of the public, and ahead of you twenty-two guys carrying assault weapons
are allowed in with a nod and a “Howdy do, partner.” Then low and behold, you get rousted for a
tampon. Is it any wonder that the rest
of the world thinks we are bat-crap crazy – the beacon of Liberty and
floodlight of madness? Apparently, the
Republican Texas State Legislature is terrified that a woman will throw a
tampon from the gallery and hit a male lawmaker who will then suddenly jump up
with an irresistible urge to run right outside, sit down at a bus stop and
breast feed.
I can’t help but think that this is the symbolic expression of
a profound and primal terror of women.
It isn’t bad enough that the feminine has been banished from the realm
of the sacred, relegated to the status of the Whore of Babylon, but now we must
have our feminine hygiene products seized like weapons of mass
destruction. This is a Jungian wet dream.
Symbols are very important in Jungian psychology. Symbolism is the language of the unconscious. Within the personal unconscious resides the
Shadow which is a watershed for all of the individual’s greatest fears. I suspect that in the collective unconscious
of Texas Republicans there resides a twenty-five foot woman with enormous ball-busting
bosoms, a man-eating vagina and a nuclear tampon.
These people are deeply and terminally disturbed. They are not fit to hold the public trust or
to make public policy. Indeed, they
should be shut away in a missile silo in the middle of a vast desert and
allowed absolutely no public contact.
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