Michigan Democrats stand up for women's rights, and immediately suffer the consequences.

A rather remarkable thing happened in the Michigan House the other day. This.

After those rather colorful and remarks were heard on the House floor, two of those female legislators were not allowed to speak on the floor the next day.

Brown said she had no idea when she arrived at the House chamber Thursday morning that she would not be allowed to speak. She was about to deliver a speech in opposition to a bill that involves teacher retirement, as the minority vice chair of the Education Committee, but Minority Floor Leader Kate Segal (D-Battle Creek) told her she had been banned from speaking for the day. 

"I'd love to know what I said that was offensive," Brown told The Huffington Post. "It was an anti-choice bill regarding abortion, which obviously involves a vagina, so, you know, I don't know what word I'm supposed to use otherwise." 

Byrum caused a stir when she marched through the House gallery Wednesday protesting that she hadn't been allowed to speak on her amendment to the anti-abortion bill that would have required a man to have proof of a medical emergency before he could have a vasectomy. 

"It's my impression that I'm being banned from speaking as a result of my use of the term vasectomy -- a medical procedure," Byrum told The Huffington Post. "Neither of us has been contacted by Republican leadership as to why or how long we've been banned. Talk about disrespectful, that they don’t have the common decency to tell us themselves." 

Ari Adler, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Jase Bolger (R-Marshall), said the lawmakers were banned from speaking because of their behavior, not because of their word choice. "They behaved in a way that disrupted the decorum of the House," Adler said. "For Brown, it was not the words she used, but the way she used them that resulted in her being gaveled down." In Byrum's case, Adler said, "I hate to put it this way, but she essentially had a temper tantrum on the House floor."

She had a "temper tantrum?" You know I have seen some incredibly  petulant and even immature remarks made by male Senators, and Congressmen, for years, I do not remember any of them being referred to as having "thrown a tantrum." Even though, I might add, that would have been  a very appropriate definition of their actions.

But having a female legislator stand up for her rights, and the rights of her constituents, that makes the men in the room uneasy, and well of course THAT is unseemly and SHE must be put back in her place.

Well gee it's certainly a good thing there's no War on Women going on right now, right?

You can see an interview with Rep. Lisa Brown on yesterday's Rachel Maddow Show.