Lester “Bubba” Carpenter and His Coathanger
I want y’all to meet a guy. His name is Lester “Bubba” Carpenter and he’s a Mississippi State Representative.
I am going to refuse to call him Bubba. Bubba is a term of endearment in Texas. Every woman who really loves her Texas man calls him Bubba Darlin’, because in Texas a man is required to have two names, and those are two pretty good ones.
Lester the Molester will do just fine for this bloated woman-hater in Mississippi. Ole Lester is a Baptist boy who didn’t need no damn college education. He’s a paramedic, having dropped out of two different community colleges, and is on the State Legislature’s Tourism Board. And, probably in charge of education.
Ole Lester spends his spare time standing on street corner passing out coat hangers.
In a speech this week, Ole Lester explained the upside to Mississippi making abortion illegal.
It’s going to be challenged, of course, in the Supreme Court and all — but literally, we stopped abortion in the state of Mississippi, legally, without having to — Roe vs. Wade. So we’ve done that. I was proud of it. The governor signed it into law. And of course, there you have the other side. They’re like, ‘Well, the poor pitiful women that can’t afford to go out of state are just going to start doing them at home with a coat hanger. That’s what we’ve learned over and over and over.’
But hey, you have to have moral values. You have to start somewhere.”
But hey, what’s one less poor pitiful woman when Mississippi is in desperate need of more children they can refuse to feed, educate, or provide medical care for.
And that right there is some of them “moral values” that Ole Lester is talkin’ about.
Okay, Mississippi girls, I will pay ten dollars cash American money to see a video of one of you chasing Lester down the street with a coat hanger threatening to perform a medically necessary prostate exam with it. On second thought, I dunno if Lester would run from that. Give him a little banjo music and some moonshine and he’d probably pay you money to do it.
Thanks to Carl for the heads-up on Ole Lester.
He looks stupid and vile.
1Right on, Kate. Look at the smirk. You want to slap it right off his face!
2It’s cruel to say, being a Christian woman and all … but maybe someone should have handed his Mama a coat hanger and a DIY pamphlet! The thought just makes me sick and looking at his stupid face makes me even sicker! Sometimes it is difficult to believe we are in the 21st Century … it being 2012 and all … seems more like 1912 the way things are going with these idiots of today!
3I would like to see more raw anger among the young women of 2012 . They appear to think all of this is some kind of fantasy, that nothing bad is going to happen, that all the rights their grandmothers fought for are in place and immutable. They have no sense of “sisterhood” with all women.
4This may be the only “reality show” around and they are opting out.
I had a legal procedure called a D and C–it failed and I had to repeat it–in a bloody nightmare mess $$$ involving emergency rooms and a ruined new coat from Christmas…since fibroids, cyst’s and other “woman” type illnesses are now going to be illegal, and having a monthly cycle is murder, I guess using a coat hanger with a DIY pamphlet is the next step since I was “supposed to die”– no operations for any reason–and shooting gynecologists on principle is okay with these whack jobs as well–I think we should pass a resolution that their children go first to war–to support their pro life stance and that any male that opens his mouth with a “rule” about assaulting another human being just needs gelding–this would solve the issue of unwanted children–any woman who “submits” to this cluck or any of his kind is an idiot–time to use the stupid aspirin and no cuddling unless there is a ring and a contract for child support before the child is conceived. As-hat!!
5I love how this creature is proud of laws enacted to kill people knowing he will never be subjected to them.
6I am sure there is a special place in Dante’s hells reserved just for Lester the festered molestor.
Lester is worried…. There are more minority children…. than Anglo….. now being born in these here United States.
Lester is real worried….. So forcing white women to have kids…. regardless….. is what Lester is all about.
Juanita, there are “Bubbas” and there are “Bubba Honeys”…. and there’s a world of difference between the two.
If you have a guy…. named “Bubba” representing you in any danged Congress or state legislature….. You need to re-think that vote.
“Bubba Honeys” are by and large… keepers.
This guy needs to be tarred and feathered…. and ridden out of town on a rail…… Frontier justice.
7Iris,
I say let him ice skate nekked in the ninth circle of hell and see if he can dodge the obstacles.
8Well, I strongly suspect that most of the readers and responders to JJ’s website are past the time in their lives where contraception and abortions are an issue…. hence the reason we are all so mouthy and opinionated about the crap that is going on with women’s health issues today.
We remember when….
I had a college roommate while I was at WTSU slip off to Juarez for a very-scarey solution for an unintended pregnancy. Then I went off to college in Atlanta. The first week I was there, a new friend in my dorm had an illegal dark alley special. Several hours later, once back to the dorm, the situation required a call for an ambulance, complete with sirens, a gurney being run down the hall at warp speed, with my new friend strapped to it, white as the sheets she was bleeding all over. She almost died. There were lots of wide eyes, tears, and whispers in the dorm that night. OMG. Trust me… we all remember.
We remember when Roe v Wade happened, just like we remember groveling for birth control pills from our doctor, professing that we were engaged to be married. The anonimity experienced in Atlanta, versus a small town in the Panhandle where my family doc, who taught my Sunday School class and lived across the street from us, made it a whole lot easier. Maybe the little snots who are so apathetic today will wake up and smell the coffee when they realize thru a few bad experiences that they are living in the 1950’s again.
I have no children, but I am concerned about education, schools, etc…. I can no longer get pregnant, but I am very concerned that abortion is legal. Go figure.
Miemaw may have a point about Lester being worried about minority births versus white birth rates. Grrrrrrrr….. I’m surrounded by idiots…. white, Evangelical male idiots.
I think I need a martini… gin, up, a little dirty, with double jalapeno stuffed olives…..
9Remember that Planned Parenthood wasn’t the only bunch hurt by the cuts in funding for clinics, but all the clinics that provide women’s services here in Texas. I’m not particularly pro-abortion but I am in favor of folks who have babies being educated and being able to have a job and have a decent place to live and have enough food to eat and medical care, one way or another and us not running off to war all the time when we have all these babies being born and no way to support them except running off to war. Our country is crazy. I gotta go vote.
10I make it a point to educate the young women in their 20’s and 30’s today and explain to them about all the methods of birth control and self abortion when the approved stuff was illegal. They think I’m making it up, it sounds so weird, like a horror movie, couldn’t be something that was commonplace.
11They really need to understand how it used to be to get wise to how it could be again if these guys aren’t stopped.
Good grief!! I KNOW you couldn’t possibly make this crap up — it’s too unfreakingbelievable!!!! So sick and tired of these “boys” thinking they are men by wanting to control women…
12Hey Lester, when did you decide you wanted Miss. overrun with Black folks? You get rid of subsidized legal abortion and the obvious result is a Black Baby Boom requiring long term financial support. It’s your choice and fine by me, but it does seem out of character for ” Southern Gentlemen ” such as your self. Lester you and yours leave me clueless as to what you are about, unless you are bigotry insane. BTW most White folks are able to get abortions elsewhere.
13Isn’t it interesting that the “moral values” of guys like this usually require doing something controlling and punitive to women.
14I think little Lester should be willing to undergo a double orchidectomy without anesthesia before he can decide what women can or cannot do.
15Carol… add this to your tales to the 20-somethings… my roomie at WT had to raise money to catch the flight to Juarez and pay for the abortion…. we passed the hat at the dorm and sorority house….the “father” tapped frat bros at Phi Delt… here were the instructions: Wear a red dress. Fly to Dallas, go to the gate for flight XXX to El Paso. Look for other young women wearing red dresses…. you are the group that will be meeting the taxi together once in El Paso to take you across the border to Juarez. The taxi ride was almost as frightening as the procedure. Wasn’t much better than a kitchen table, but according to Paula, it was “clean”. So what was she going to do, say NO? Run out the door…? She spoke no Spanish, she was in Juarez, God only knows where, and if she didn’t do the procedure, she had few alternatives. Telling her parents she was pregnant would have been worse. Scarey as hell. They knocked her out with Valium, I guess… downed it with a Corona. That to me was almost as scarey as the thought of having a 1969 abortion in Juarez…..(taking a knock out drug with a beer in Juarez, with strangers) she woke up, got dressed, met her other red dress buddies in the living room, they did another kamikaze taxi ride back across the border to the airport. El Paso to Dallas, Dallas to Amarillo…. then the ride back to Canyon to the dorm room where she was met by a dozen terrified friends, wanting to make sure she was OK. OMG. Paula was lucky….no complications, no repercussions, no sterility, no infection. It could have been much worse.
16I witnessed a similar story in my Houston high school. One of the cheerleaders had to fly to California to do the deed. Same scenario, guys passing the hat for money, girl friends making a tangle of lies so cheerleader’s mother would think she was spending the weekend with friends.
I’m down with MzPatti. Young women today are so willfully ignorant about the past. I guess we need a reality show where the bachelor has to make arrangements for the girl he knocked up. He can overcome multiple obstacles to reach his goal.
17I never thought I’d live to see these days.
Hi Elise honey – just ONCE I would like to meet you and give you the kind of hug I give to all my other friends that are within distance…even my “friends” that don’t like me very much or have a grievance get ’em (I find out about that other stuff second hand, Naievete is my middle name) … From everything I’ve read that you have posted, I get the impression that you have had one long hard row to hoe, and being a horticulturalist (what a title!) I wish I could help 🙁
18Furthermore, when my daughter, who is still in school (3.8 this sem and she took Physics for crying out loud!), needs first rate gyno advice, I told her to go to PP. That’s where I went when I was a student at TAMU for way too long (but I got that BS!!) and I used to see Zita, who did my exams and advised me, when I went to church on Sunday at one certain parish. And she has passed on, and I am pretty sure she is a St. too, though unsung, because she spent a lot of time looking after the poor – and she was KIND!
19I hoped I would never live to see these days…again.
I fear the prevalence of back alley abortions spreading.
20My friend Robbie who volunteers at PP says she was astonished at first to learn that the vast majority of clients needing an abortion are not young women but women in their 30s and 40s who find themselves pregnant after raising their children.
21And as for the shock value of what real life can dish up? my younger daughter worked for her college’s sexual information/referral service. Students participating were required to take a week-long course that taught them about privacy laws, birth control options, STDs, etc.
“A” missed the refresher course her junior year because of studying abroad and was required to re-take the full program before starting her senior year.
I will never forget her dazed expression and grey complexion when she came home one day and asked “…do you now how many STDs there are out there for which there is no cure?….”
Nothing like reality to hammer home a lesson.
Required reading for the post Roe v Wade crowd, and those who either aren’t paying attention or not believing women’s health and rights are under severe attack: “The Cider House Rules”, and “The Handmaid’s Tale”. btw when I did clinic defense in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we used to say “we should drag him to the alley and do a ‘fourth trimester’ on him”, in reference to the vicious men we encountered.
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