This is completely off-topic, but, yes, that headline is true. Legitimate news sources that are not The Onion are reporting that former Alabama gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson, a right-wing republican with an anti-gay fetish, is now facing a scandal of sorts for donating sperm to lesbian Kiwis. Yep, a man who ran on an anti-gay-marriage platform is helping lesbian couples who want to have children.
Seems that Johnson (and his johnson) have been in New Zealand working on earthquake relief — and secretly helping out women who want to get pregnant with his sperm, and financial donations. As the New Zealand Herald reports, Johnson has been on the internets
using the online persona “chchbill” to meet women who want help to get pregnant.
Under that persona, he has discussed making donations to at least nine women without the knowledge of his family in the US.
Three of the women are now pregnant, and Johnson has assisted another three with donations in the past month. It is believed he has been in communication with at least another three women to discuss sperm donation.
So why is the conservative pol being so, well, liberal with his sperm? Because he wants the world to have more Bill Johnsons in it, and in this particular task his wife cannot help. You see, as he explained to a NZ Herald reporter,
I am married to the most beautiful woman in the world. When I married her I knew we couldn’t have any more children. She had a hysterectomy 10 years ago. … If life’s circumstances had dealt me a different hand I wouldn’t be doing this. It is not the hand that life has dealt my wife.
Reproduction and having children is as basic a human need as eating.
Apparently his wife does not fully agree with this assessment, nor was she aware what he was doing with his evenings off in New Zealand. The Herald again:
Johnson, who has a degree in chemistry and is a member of the international high-IQ club Mensa, said he had told his wife he wanted to act as a sperm donor. The couple had sought counselling shortly after. He said he left believing she was aware he was going to continue.
Asked if his wife knew he was donating sperm, he said: “She does now.”
As do we. She’s not happy about any of it. The ironies abound.
More on the story at the Huffington Post.
This “feminism is a hate movement” and “feminists hate men” thing is getting way old. Surely that kind of thing went out of fashion in the 1980s?
Women cheat! Therefore….(hand waving).
Are the women cheating with other women, NWO? Not if they get pregnant by someone else. So these other guys who are sleeping around with married women (some of whom are married themselves). They are completely innocent, apparently. Since you don’t even mention them.
Oh, blitzgal — these are of course the elusive “Alpha men”. They are all any woman (regardless of sexuality) really want and they are assholes (all women want assholes, remember?) and NWO hates them too.
/sarcasm
NWOSlave:
It’s perfectly possible to be a feminist and not be a bigot. None of the regular non-MRA posters here come across as bigots. On the other hand, I can’t in all honesty say the same about you.
Of course you can. Indeed, I’d expect a core requirement of being a decent human being is to sympathise with the proposal that everyone should be treated equal regardless of gender, which is what feminism ultimately means.
Drivel. And demonstrable drivel at that. I doubt you could find a single post from a regular commenter here that unambiguously expresses hatred towards men in general, but I can find dozens expressing absolute loathing of women, and on all sorts of levels from their bodies (urgh, icky!) to their alleged inability to perform particular tasks to… well, just being women generally.
Again, absolute drivel. Mocking people for expressing intolerant and bigoted views only equates to intolerance of those views, for reasons that are amply evidence-based. And the vast majority of threads include an immensely affectionate description of a commenter’s partner – I’ve read loads over the last few weeks. Indeed, people are even trying to get you to lighten up and talk about the things you enjoy – how on earth is that “dedicated to intolerance”?
And now you’re just repeating yourself, presumably in the belief that Lewis Carroll’s rule about saying something three times makes it true. It doesn’t.
Is it worth mentioning them? I mean, if they don’t know the man in question and know it would hurt him, is it morally wrong for the man in that scenario to have no-strings-attached sex? He breaks no promise and really has no obligation to find out the dos and don’ts of his sex partner’s relationship.
Obviously the same would be true the other way around.
I personally would probably not want to have sex with someone who does go behind the back of his or her partner, but I’m not really sure if I should feel guilty if I did.
My wife was “the other woman” in a situation where someone was cheating on his wife without her knowledge.
She also seems to have a pretty clear conscience, and I can see why – she wasn’t aware that he was married at first, and even after she found out she initially believed him when he assured her that he was on the point of asking for a divorce. Also, crucially, there weren’t any kids involved.
“Says the gender who gets pregnant with another mans child at a rate of 10 to 20% in supposed monogamous relationships while decieving the false father into believing the child is his.”
NWO, I’m sorry to break it to you, but soap operas are not real life!
” Feminism is a hate movement, only women matter.”
We don’t hate men. Stop saying stupid shit and just be happy.
Count-down to “proof” from NWO in the form of some stuff that Sharon Osborne once said on the telly or similar.
Rinse, repeat.
This is what can happen when your sexuality gets mixed up with reproduction.
Apparently, this man had the internalized idea that his sexual drive was linked with the ‘need’ to spread his genetic inheritance. I’ve read about this; it always seemed curious to me, as my own sexuality is completely non-procreative. So the old ‘why am I raising another man’s children? Where are MY children?!’ shtik gives him the motivation to go behind his wife’s back. She and he are raising HER children, but that wasn’t enough for him.
It’s tantamount to emotional infidelity, except he was attracted to the idea of his gametes becoming zygotes instead of an actual other person. I hope my sons don’t turn out that demented.
Owlslave reminds me of the black vans in Japan. They drive by, blasting their Hitler music and waving their imperial flags, and shout crap over the loudspeaker about how the foreigners are ruining Japan, etc. etc. Sometimes they stop in front of stations and whine there. It’s loud as heck, hateful, annoying, but you eventually learn to ignore it and give your best smug “screw you, nationalists” smile. Talking with them is unproductive.
Owly is totally the same, except instead of whining about how the Chinese are destroying the economy, he whines about the Title IX agency of DEATH and the VAWA mercenaries from HELL. And we pretty much tune him out.
Now I’m picturing Owly in his tradie’s ute – instead of B&S stickers on the back window, he has anti-VAWA stickers. Probably still has the “No Fat Chicks” sticker, though.
NWO: You’ve got no claim on “broad-mindedness”. You think you are in a war, and only total anihilation of your opposition (women, and those who think they are human beings of equal standing to men) is acceptable. If they mock you, you think hitting them is ok.
If they hit back, then you feel it’s ok to knife them.
If they have knives, you think you should shoot them.
Only when they have been enslaved will you think women are not to be attacked.
If you think I am going to tolerant of that, you are off your rocker. Anyone can do anything they like, so far as I am concerned, so long as they aren’t impinging on anothers rights (and no, raping women is not a right). When they do that, I’m against them. And, allthings considered, I’m likely to be a lot more willing than you are to actually deal with people who are violent.
But go on, tell us all about how evil women are in charge. Explain to us what they can do. How all they have to do is sit down in the street and call out, “That man raped me,” and the man is arrested and never seen again.
Please explain it all to us.
“Not the hand that life has dealt my wife”?
That was entirely the wrong metaphor to use.
Slavey:
Genders can’t get pregnant.
Is this like the women from VAWA?
Meller: You keep talking about how women are “mutants” if they are good in the mathematical arts.
What are your degrees in?
I’ll never be a journalist because I could not resist titling this article “Politician Is a Jackoff.”
According to the NZ Herald article, Bill Johnson had specifically promised to his wife that he wouldn’t be a sperm donor anymore.
I stand corrected, then.