Voting and campaigning for your candidates and issues are far more important than putting a bumper sticker on your car, of course. On the other hand, it never hurts to be seen to be part of a bloc when your issues are under fire.
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
Though now that you mention it, given our candidate choices, sitting on the touch screen is a fairly appropriate symbolic gesture for both women and men.
There is that, Katherine, and that leaves you in even more precarious a position with regard to these regressive politicians. Based on that, I think you’re allowed to vote with a hypothetical or imputed vagina. At least until they start making vaginas show IDs at the polls.
……… weirdest mental image in a long time……
Thanks Michaeld, I didn’t really need that.
Though now that you mention it, given our candidate choices, sitting on the touch screen is a fairly appropriate symbolic gesture for both women and men.
Yeah sorry, I know I sometimes over share these things…
Oh, it’s worse than that. Our ballots are the fill-in-the-bubble sort.
But I don’t have a vagina (yet)
There is that, Katherine, and that leaves you in even more precarious a position with regard to these regressive politicians. Based on that, I think you’re allowed to vote with a hypothetical or imputed vagina. At least until they start making vaginas show IDs at the polls.
Okay. I’ll vote with my hypothetical vagina 😀
But only as a prelude to kicking vaginas away from the polls and back into the kitchen.
I don’t have a vagina, even a theoretical one, but I fully support the right of vaginas to go anywhere they please and do whatever they want.
Great! Now I have vagina envy. Not that I can vote in a USAian election, but, still….
I was going to say something about repeatedly ticking a box, but my personal shame associated with bad puns prevented me.
@ 5&6, I’m jealous- I don’t have a vagina of my own or plan on getting one. Can I just vote for the vagina I borrow?
I do not now, nor will I ever likely, have a vagina. I might have to apply for an honorary vagina so I can use that bumper sticker, though.
Hope this is OK to share here, it’s been brought to mind again by the “but I don’t have a vagina” comments….
A vagina isn’t yet available, but you can get your very own uterus*, ovary, or mammary glands to take to the voting booth with you!
IHeartGuts plush organs!
Also handy for sending as gifts to politicians who don’t have any of these parts but want to control them!
*At least, I’m reasonably certain the plush “uterus” ends at the cervix. It’s kind of hard to tell for sure, though.
If senators can get knitted uteruses (uteri?), could I get a knitted vagina to vote with?
“You want one. You know you do.”
Before clicking through to see the bumper sticker, it looked like you were taunting women like Katherine. 😉