Women had few rights. Then they got rights. Do some women imagine that they will get those rights back if they vote them away in this election?
sonofrojblakesays
On this 5th of November I’d like to invite all Americans to join in the British tradition of November 5th, where we take people who plan attacks our legislature, torture them to death, then celebrate doing all this by having firework parties and burning effigies of them on the anniversary for the next four hundred years.
Or make one of them your President, if you like, I mean, you do you.
jenorafeuersays
@Matt G:
I expect it’s more a combination of three things:
-- ‘rules like that are made to affect other people, not me as part of the ruling class’ attitude of a lot of the rich Republican women (like, say, Phyllis Schlafly), the sorts of people who know that they’ll always be able to fly elsewhere for abortions anyway;
-- ‘oh, he wouldn’t really do that’ denialism from a lot of the more edgelord-y and ‘leopards eating people’s faces’ types (Candace Owens);
-- and the women raised in the cult who think that taking away their rights is actually a good thing for them because it keeps the man-child husband happy.
None of those three are expecting to have to fight to get their rights back. Only the middle group will actually be disappointed by the inevitable result of losing them.
Ichthyicsays
well, we get the chance to find out by direct experiment now. whether we wanted to or not.
Women had few rights. Then they got rights. Do some women imagine that they will get those rights back if they vote them away in this election?
On this 5th of November I’d like to invite all Americans to join in the British tradition of November 5th, where we take people who plan attacks our legislature, torture them to death, then celebrate doing all this by having firework parties and burning effigies of them on the anniversary for the next four hundred years.
Or make one of them your President, if you like, I mean, you do you.
@Matt G:
I expect it’s more a combination of three things:
-- ‘rules like that are made to affect other people, not me as part of the ruling class’ attitude of a lot of the rich Republican women (like, say, Phyllis Schlafly), the sorts of people who know that they’ll always be able to fly elsewhere for abortions anyway;
-- ‘oh, he wouldn’t really do that’ denialism from a lot of the more edgelord-y and ‘leopards eating people’s faces’ types (Candace Owens);
-- and the women raised in the cult who think that taking away their rights is actually a good thing for them because it keeps the man-child husband happy.
None of those three are expecting to have to fight to get their rights back. Only the middle group will actually be disappointed by the inevitable result of losing them.
well, we get the chance to find out by direct experiment now. whether we wanted to or not.
er… whee? no wait, what’s the opposite of “whee”?