Summary

Trend underlines vast gender divide as election approaches, as experts say some women face pressure to ‘toe the line’ politically at home.

A TikTok trend of women "canceling out" their partners’ votes highlights a gender divide in the 2024 election, with many young women supporting Kamala Harris while their male partners back Trump. Campaigns encourage women, especially those in conservative households, to vote independently, emphasizing privacy through ads featuring voices like Michelle Obama and Liz Cheney. Conservatives like Charlie Kirk and Jesse Watters criticize these efforts, claiming they undermine family values.

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[–] 171 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Conservatives like Charlie Kirk and Jesse Watters criticize these efforts, claiming they undermine family values.

So Kirk and Watters (among others, I'm sure) believe that individual voters casting their votes independently based on their own judgment "undermines family values." Got it.

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  • [–] 106 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I agree. The husbands voting for Trump independently really undermines family values.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The irony here is Jesse Waters cheated on his ex wife. So, who's actually undermining family values here? And it ain't the women.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    He is the one that said woman voting independently is "as bad as an affair" as well.

    Dude reveling in his shitbaggerity and just winking at the camera. He certainly knows his audience.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    They are habitual liars. Nothing they say is in good faith. Charlie is a terrorist who helped finance an attack on the capitol, the article should bring that up if they want to cite him as a reference for anything political.

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    [–] 148 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    STOP. FUCKING. REPUBLICANS.

    Look, I know women in these situations often have no easy way to get out from the financial situation they're in, or will be alone and unsafe with a vengeful partner. I feel terribly for anyone in that situation, and if I knew anyone like that personally I would offer to help them.

    But don't fuck them in the first place.

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  • [–] 127 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    You want to know why Republicans did a hard course change on mail in voting for 2024?

    THIS is why. The husband can ensure the wife fills out her ballot “correctly” in the comfort of their own home, instead of the wife filling it out as she sees fit at the polling station.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oops i spoiled the ballot. Too late to get another one, guess I'll vote in person.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Here in Sweden, you can change your vote even if it is mailed in.

    If you vote in person on election day, your earlier vote won't be counted

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    You can do that in the US*. My ex had to do it when her dad stole her ballot in 2016 and voted for Trump.

    We got the last laugh, though. He was a massive anti masker and then died of COVID. Wasn't really that funny though...just sad all around.

    *Edit to add - some places in the US

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  • [–] 107 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    If my partner were voting fascist they wouldn't be my partner.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    If my partner were voting fascist they would be my partner.

    Well they wouldn't be mine!

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's what I meant to say. I'm so tired.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hydrate. Recreate. Hibernate.

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  • [–] 97 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    claiming they undermine family values.

    Oh really? And exactly which values are those? Perhaps that women should obey their husbands commands and be glorified slaves? They can't very well say that quite part out loud yet now can they. That would actually cost them some votes they really can't afford.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not even slaves - combination incubators/dishwashers/laundry machines.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    My parents have been voting opposite since they met and very rarely had issues. They just don't talk about politics and they've made it work for 40 years. How about be a fucking man stop trying to control your partner. Women had to fight for their right to vote so as far as I'm concerned they can do whatever the fuck they want.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Maybe it's a generational divide or something, but I would lose my fucking mind if my partner for life were braindead enough to support trump. Maybe Clinton v Dole was just a more reasonable thing to disagree with your spouse about (idk, I wasn't there, and I don't care enough to look into it, don't @ me), but a disagreement in 2024 fundamentally is about democracy v fascism, helping people v hurting people, and decency v shameless petulance. A politically split household in 2024 is not a team or a partnership in any meaningful way. Just fucking get a divorce already because you've clearly married the wrong person! There's absolutely no fucking way I could cohabitate with, let alone share a bed with somebody who wants women, children, immigrants, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, and poor people to be punished in every aspect of life for not being financially comfortable, straight, white, cis men. Truly incomprehensible. "But taxes! But gas prices!" No. Just no. You're clearly not actually paying attention if you think that literally anything would be better for you under trump. There would be short term gains at the expense of long term collapse, just like what happened when you gave him the keys last time.

    And I don't mean you specifically. Just the rhetorical "you" for anybody it would apply to.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I definitely agree with you there. But my parents are also in their seventies and are set in their ways. My little sister came out as trans and I can obviously tell my dad hates it. My mom doesn't understand it at all so she just avoids the conversation, but she is supportive.

    But I also 100% believe that the majority of people voting for Trump don't understand the threat of fascism. The thing about fascism and being in a cult like MAGA is that you don't realize anything is wrong with what you're doing from the inside. They think what they are doing is the right thing to do. Just look up anyone that has escaped from a cult and they will say the same thing. People don't want what they believe to be put into question and will fight tooth and nail to protect it. It's how propaganda works. Like, if someone they trust tells them that Latinos are coming into this country and doing awful things they'd be more inclined to believe them over the stranger they've never met telling them they're stupid for what they believe in.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's one thing to have different opinions and another to have a partner that believes a convicted rapist with an unimaginable amount of blood on his hands should lead the fucking army to start mass murdering civilians he doesn't like. The guy is cartoon levels of evil, it's fucking ridiculous.

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  • Yeah I have to agree.

    I'm not in the US, the leader of our conservative party (not presently in power) is a douche but not like Trump.

    In the present climate I doubt my partner would vote conservative, but if she did I could live with it.

    If she voted for someone as messed up as Trump I would genuinely struggle with that. I feel like it would be indicative of deeper problems.

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    [–] 67 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    They should Cancel out their relationship as well. If your partner is willing to vote away your rights gleefully and you stay with them?! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    it's sad that woman have to hide this from their partners. Everyone should be able to vote how they wish without fear of retaliation.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wonder if there’s a trump suppoerter out there somewhere who is deathly afraid to tell his liberal wife. What are the chances guys? 0.01%?

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    The convicted rapist and the couch fucker really planted their flag on Toxic Masculinity hill, didn't they?

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    Jesse Watters criticize these efforts, claiming they undermine family values.

    Mr "Family values" man, Watters, is a Fox hypocrite and stooge.
    Watters was married to Noelle Inguagiato from 2009 to 2019, and they have twin daughters. Inguagiato left Watters in October, 2017 after he admitted to cheating on her with DiGiovine.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    I do so love this idea, LOL. The impotent rage of a whole lot of redhat douchenozzles....

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Anarchist socialist antifa liberal democrats have infiltrated MAGA, die mad about it

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The threat from within! /s

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I mean, I hope they are right, but they seem to be putting an awful lot of faith in the notion that enough women are going to do this in the right zip codes to make a difference.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I mean, I don't think this is an official campaign strategy or anything. It's just a trend of women independently realizing the GOP is bad for them and their husbands don't care...

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