IMGDO and only MGDO.

[lagilman]

Any woman who votes for the Republican party this go-round needs to reconsider her own sense of self-worth (and, possibly, self-hate).

Argue the economy all you want. Argue taxes all you want. Even argue war and national security all you want. When a party consistently says, over and over again, the only people that they recognize as having 'legitimate' rights are (straight white) males...

what does it matter if you're paying more or less taxes? You're not considered an equal citizen.


(new this week: the "no exceptions" abortion ban drafted by the GOP plank platform - no exceptions for rape. Because, according to Akin, we lie about it being rape, anyway. And what THEY believe trumps what YOU might believe. Because, well, you're not equal, after all.)

Comments

[janetl.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I have long since grown weary of people like that giving "straight white males" a bad name . . .

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

Word.

[slweippert.livejournal.com]

Amen. Why they insist on holding to beliefs that make people run away from their party in droves is unfathomable.

[elsceetaria.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

What you said.

[msdori.livejournal.com]

I sorta feel like I'm looking at the Republic of Gilead trying to cross over in to my reality.

Wait, no. I don't sorta feel that way, I definitely do.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that not being an equal citizen *directly affects* my personal economy. Not enough people are bringing that up in this race - that for all the handwaving of "no, no, look over there, it's the economy that's bad for women, not our social policies" those very policies will be the cause of more want, more poverty, and more economic stress for women.

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

My feelings exactly.

You may have seen my comment on Twitter yesterday, that if any female votes GOP at this point, she should just take her self-loathing out of the polling station and in front of the next oncoming bus. I just can't fathom it.

[strigine.livejournal.com]

I'm a member of a genre writers' group, mostly women, who meet every other week. There's a subset of us, all women, who get together on the off weeks.

Tonight two of the other women in the group said they're "on the fence" re: Obama vs. Romney and I was just stunned.

[mikaela-l.livejournal.com]

I am getting more and more relieved that I don't live in the US. Not that we don't have problems in Sweden, but I would prefer a stronger conservative party, rather than a stronger nationalist party. (Right now the conservative party is below the limit to get into the parlament, and the nationalist party is the fourth largest party.)

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I may need "what does it matter if you're paying more or less taxes? You're not considered an equal citizen" on a t-shirt