Some things you just can’t make up. This past Sunday, a woman yelled “yeast infections” to break up a pro-life protest in front of Planned Parenthood. For her efforts, the liberal media applauded her for bravery and heroism.
If only such nonsense wasn’t true.
In Portland, Oregon, Mary Numair was working her shift at Purrington’s Cat Lounge when she noticed pro-lifers gathered outside of the local Planned Parenthood clinic. The intolerant femi-nazi, er, the woman, went outside to make fun of one the protestors standing away from the group.
According to Slate staff writer Christina Cauterucci:
Mary Numair looked out the street-facing windows and saw a woman carrying a sign that read “Abortion Kills Children.” Numair had noticed a group of protesters about a block away, gathered outside one of Portland’s Planned Parenthood health care centers. “I thought [the woman] might be lost. I said, ‘Hey, you’re gonna feel real silly. The protest is down that way,’ ” [sic] Numair, 29, told me. “She said ‘No, I need to stand here.’ I said, ‘Fuck this shit,’ went back inside, and started making my sign.”
For her sign, Numair drew a completely “appropriate” picture of a vagina with a smiling clit and stick figure with huge breasts. She also penned her gratuitous thanks to Planned Parenthood for treating her unending yeast infections – which is what prompted her chant.
Cauterucci wrote:
Onlookers gave Numair the thumbs-up, and some passing cars honked in support, but she was the only counter-protester on the scene. Still, with a spontaneous chant, she managed to break up the protest in under a half-hour. “I don’t know why I started chanting ‘Yeast infections!’ but it just came out. I have this cold, so it was just this obnoxious squeak, cheerleader-like. And I started doing high kicks, which I don’t normally do, in my skinny jeans.” A religious leader was guiding a circle of protestors in prayers for Numair—but as her chants got louder and more grating, they stopped.
And for that, folks, Slate praised Numair in its headline, which read, “Brave Portland Woman Breaks Up Planned Parenthood Protest by Chanting ‘Yeast Infections!’”
Slate further gushed:
Though her yeast-infection story is deeply personal, Numair thinks her strategy—chanting reproductive-health terms that embarrass anti-choice protestors—is replicable for other counter-protesters around the country. “I did look at the preacher-pastor guy and said, ‘See you next time!’ and I intend on sticking to that,” she said. She plans on making a bigger sign, too, and perhaps a few props. “If someone wants to help me make a giant wooden labia, that would be great.”
Giant wooden labia? Yeah, sounds great. Looks like another rising Lena Dunham, one of which is already almost too much to handle.
The Huffington Post added to Slate’s input by calling Numair’s tactic “awesome,” while Alternet deemed her an “American hero.”
