Hansen, the grammatically-challenged New Hampshire State Representative, was forced to apologize today for an email in which he wrote “What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina’s of course.” That statement still sounds creepy when you don’t take it out of context, by the way. But what really got people’s backs up is the Amherst Republican personifying the female gender by its lady parts.
As the local blogger who broke the story wrote, “I’m pretty sure that when the Titanic was sinking, the captain’s instructions were ‘women and children first,’ not ‘vagina’s and children first.’ That the representative chose to describe women as ‘vagina’s’ is certainly an affront to half the population. That he failed to properly pluralize the word adds insult to idiocy.” And to make matters worse, the state governor and all four of its representatives in Washington D.C. are female. “I think it offends and takes us away from the important task of making sure we debate with civility,” Governor Maggie Hassan told ABC News.
Rep. Hansen, in his defense, stated that he’s a big Alice Cooper fan. (He also might be having tacos for dinner… get it?) “My point in the choice of words was twofold: One was shock content and the other was to try to get into the mind of the perpetrator,” Hansen told The Telegraph of Nashua. Funny, it sounds more like he’s trying to get into her pants…
