Imagine what it might feel like to be Sandra Fluke.
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Imagine the pride you might feel as a law student testifying to members of Congress about how making birth-control pills more widely available could aid people like your friend, who takes the medication to prevent cysts from growing on her ovaries.
Imagine that pride turning to ash when you hear that Limbaugh has responded to your testimony by lying to his national audience that you have essentially said you “must be paid for sex” and are thus a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
Imagine trying to seize control of your life’s narrative as that middle-aged man tells his audience of millions over and over, day after day, that you “want to have all the sex you want all day long."
Imagine walking down the street and not knowing who might be among the millions of people who heard him say that you are “having so much sex” you “can’t pay for” contraception and need the government to pick up the tab.
Imagine watching an entire political party and movement rise to that man's defense. Imagine realizing that he had taught his audience not to believe or sympathize with people like you.
Imagine hearing, years later, that the president of the United States gave that man the nation’s highest civilian honor, before the assembled members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and other notables, with millions of people watching from home.
