NEWS: Happy Women's Equality Day

CULTURE: Happy Women's Equality Day

Today, my fellow citizens, is Women's Equality Day--the 87th anniversary of the day the 19th Amendment was passed.

If you're a woman, register to vote. If you're registered to vote, fucking do so. The country--and the world--would be different if you did:

There are all sorts of reasons single women don't vote, of course. But I think the last eight years has showed us that we can't afford to sit on our butts waiting for the perfect candidate to come along. Whether it's holding up Plan B for months--the anniversary of making it available OTC was Friday, by the way--or cutting funding for women's health or attacking abortion rights or holding children's health insurance hostage, it's pretty damn clear that the right hates women--and I don't give a shit if they do it actively or passively.

Get out there and register. Make sure your girlfriends are registered. And for fuck's sake, when election days come up, get your butt to the polls and vote.

Bitch_PhD isn't kidding.

I've voted every chance I've had since I turned 18.

I always vote. It sucks that I live in NYC where it doesn't matter so much.

it's pretty clear that the right hates everything.

Women are a special case though because...well there's just so damn many of your little bastards running around...

it's surprising the amount of energy expended on keeping women from taking advantage of the rights they are meant to have...more active women in politics and government would go such a long way...for a supposedly equal state there's clearly not much representation among the lawmakers. We could all do with a little more interest in our government.

Well, there's legal equality, not cultural equality. Huge difference.

Good god yes.

If I don't vote, that makes each woman's vote worth slightly more, right?

Just doing my part, ladies.

Last election I voted and harrassed every single one of my friends to ensure that they had, as well. It may have suited me better to only pressure the ones to vote that I knew were voting the same way I was, but I'm so darned caught up on women's right to choose that I just couldn't go down that path. Damn me and my values

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That's not how our system works. The electoral vote decides our president - not the popular vote.

There should be more focus on local representation and the house and senate. People know more about the president than those in congress who actually choose him or her.

Or convince someone with different politics not to vote

Or kill them so they cannot vote.

Even if there's no one you want to vote for, go in and spoil your ballet or vote for some crazy minor party. Why? Because then you're being recorded as voting. If every single woman voted, then the people running things would notice that and try to cater to them. Because groups like youth don't vote, the people running for office put what those groups want as a secondary priority. It's just common sense for them.

When women are forced to register with Selective Service I'll start celebrating their equality.

That's what I do.

that's moronic on so many levels.

registering for Selective Service is a whole hell of a lot more meaningless than pay disparity and double standards in just about everything.

I agree. I am for equality in every way, but what I have seen in recent years from feminists is not so much desired equality but desired superiority. If we preach equality, it needs to be truly equal, on every level.

Of course, it goes without saying that the selective service is bullshit anyway, but, luckily for me I'm an only child attending college so even if they reinstated the draft I couldn't be called in. Education is a wonderful thing, heh.

Now that the womens are allowed 2 vote... there is only one thing that con stop them

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Well, it's not so much a list of actions I cna produce so much as it is an overall subtle mindset. Not that I think all feminists consciously desire to reduce men's rights, just that the movement as a whole trends towards that general direction. It's more a societal mindset that allows women to get away with more because traditional they were considered the "weaker" gender and we have to fix the perception or women will have all the same rights, but more permissions as well.

One example I have seen a lot and personally been involved in would be custody. When my parents were divorced I almost ended up with my mother as full custody without any consideration. In the end the judge allowed me to choose since I was almost old enough to legally choose anyway, but in almost all cases the mother is granted custody of children unless it can be proven that she is unfit. This is a pretty strong inequality for those fathers who get cut out of their children's lives just because society has a bias.

Anyway, I'm not trying to be antagonistic here but I think most women aren't really aware of a lot of the inequality that has been visited upon men in recent years because of the increase in women's rights. What people need to understand is that limiting one group's rights is not the way to create equality.

And the Voldemort thing is hilarious, btw.

Yeah, all we do is stick our pointy bits in holes. Women make a whole baby in their bodies.

That's like, double bonus points in custody hearings.

Believe me, I've tried. But they just keep talking back, so I have to smack them.