“It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors [my frat brothers in college], that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
In college, Mr. Akin was a member of Phi Gamma Delta (aka FIJI), a fraternity with a well-documented history of rape tolerance, e.g. here, here, here, here, here, and here.
The genesis of our beliefs lies rooted in the loam of youth. Those roots are tough to cut.
s. d. stewart 
theinkbrain
/ August 22, 2012My brain cannot take in and process this level of noxious drivel so I am looking for a largish bucket of fine sand in which to bury my aching head.
birds fly
/ August 22, 2012Sounds like a reasonable strategy, given the general state of affairs.
Laura
/ August 23, 2012Interesting info. I had no idea that Akin’s misogyny is so well grounded. I think he also meant to say, “If the little gal gets pregnant, she wasn’t raped. It was consensual. I don’t care if she was in a coma, 12 years old, or physically disabled.”
birds fly
/ August 23, 2012Once a frat boy, always a frat boy. And yes, he sure did leave that other part out, too, didn’t he. As usual, The Onion has taken that point to the extreme, although no more extreme than the standard rhetoric of anti-abortion activists.