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Cartoon defames women

Sat., June 29, 2013

Oh my God. How could you print such a disgusting cartoon (June 16) showing a man bouncing around on a woman’s reproductive organs, cowboy hat flying off and hollering “yeeehaw”? One of a woman’s most private, intimate areas made to look like a pogo stick; how sickening, horrendous and defaming can you get?

Women have fought long and hard to get the rights that we have today. We might as well be shoved back to the dark ages where we had no rights and men actually treated us like chattel. Shame on you for printing that picture. Shame, shame, shame.

This time you have egg on your face. OK, men, explain this picture to your sons while women try to tell their daughters why men are allowed to do this.

Hazel Nicholson

Post Falls

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