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In turn, women need to vote like their rights depend on it. Because you might find in a years time that there is a nationwide abortion ban and there is nowhere left to go.

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And of course they’ll stop at abortion right…

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Birth control.

Right to marry.

Right to vote.

It wasn’t too long ago that women couldn’t have a credit card or a bank account.

Leaving a hospital unaccompanied…

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Well you see, according to conservatives, women doing any of those things are acting counter for their god-given gender roles. As such, they are transgender, and deserve to have their rights taken away…

Did you really think the focus on trans people is actually ultimately about trans people?

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There is a big population of women who are past childbearing age that are voting for Trump. It’s fucked up, but just getting women to vote may not work. They need to get young women to vote.

So many elderly women are going to be voting who no longer have skin in the abortion game.

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9 points

The KKKaren vote

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and this is why there should be an age limit to vote. once you pass the age where your vote affects you personally, you’re out.

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Is this sarcasm? What about people who are infertile? Take away their vote? I had to have an emergency hysterectomy at 28 after my only child was born. Should I not have been allowed to vote after that?

Yes, selfish sociopaths exist but, believe it or not, most people are able to use empathy to put ourselves in others’ shoes without having to literally be in their position.

If your comment isn’t /s it’s pretty offensive.

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40 points

Women outnumber men, get them to vote!

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Get everyone to vote.

Women need to vote in their obvious interest.

Men need to stop daydreaming about living in the Handmaid’s Tale and wake up to the realization that women’s rights matter to all of us. They owe it to the women in their life to step up to defend them.

The only excuse not to vote in this election is to not have the right to.

And people need to stop whining about being told that it’s the most important election every time there’s an election. They’re being asked to set off a few hours to preserve democracy every 4th year. It’s not such a huge thing to ask.

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So many “well akchewalllys” in this thread…

Just because you don’t like the phrasing, or have other grievances, does not negate the message.

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Well actually …. Jk the message is spot on

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If the phrasing alienates people on your side, and is not effective at changing the minds of people on the other side, it kinda negates the message even is the message is correct.

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The last time Trump was elected a significant chunk of the white female electorate sided with him. I’d look there before talking about men, especially Black men who seem to be the preferred scapegoat.

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Yeah, this gets glossed over a lot, but it was White Women who gave Trump the nod, specifically because the DNC just assumed all white women would be voting for HRC. Meanwhile HRC remains one of the most politically reviled candidates in modern history.

White women benefit from structural racism above all others, with the exception of white MEN.

So who exactly is being lectured here, and why?

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It’s easier to talk down to Black men than to hold white women to account.

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Interesting paraphrase…

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An accurate one.

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