Is there a meme of Margaret Atwood looking horrified yet? Because there should be.
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Remember the MAGA women wearing the "You Can Grab My Pussy" shirts? Not all Republican women are going to be upset by this.
I had to look that up to see if it was real, and sure enough—but I honestly shouldn’t be surprised. Utterly fucking revolting. On the other hand, the tee website display of a black man wearing it while saluting is pretty hilarious
As a fairly jacked middle aged bald man, I want to get one for the funny, but I won't give them money.
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Oh wow who could have predicted this
I'm not sure if the article covers it, still reading, but one of the things they want to do to disenfranchise transfoks is to require the the name on your birth certificate matches you're legal name in order to vote.
As most married women don't change their name on their birth certificate when they take their husbands last name, they would not be able to vote either.
Edit: The article does go into all of this.
In British Columbia, there is no legal requirement to change your last name after marriage, and either spouse can legally use either last name at their leisure without any bureaucratic change. It is a genderless law.
Fuckin A, now I am really appreciating that.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. That’s bad. That’s oppressively stupid fucking bad.
Hey Americans: Don’t want to be oppressed or live in a fascist state? Immigrate to Canada! We’re hella friendly and open to people’s of all kinds, except MAGAs and Nazis and or maga-nazis
I mean, y'all gonna let me in? I need a place to crash for at least 4 years.
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My wife and I were talking about this last night. She chose not to change her name when we got married, as she's been down that road before and has no desire to do it again. I'm totally fine with it, she's been able to grow and discover things about herself now that she "wasn't allowed to" in her past marriage, and I love helping her realize that. We also just got our passports the other day - work wants me to get mine and paid for it, so she got hers as well.
Interesting thing about that is that, while it's still common practice, a lot of more left-leaning women did away with taking their husband's name years ago
Yeah my wife and I just kept our name. Its funny because over the years we sorta wish we would have done the traditional thing as it would make a variety of things easier but now apparently its becoming a brilliant move.
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Left leaning women are also far less likely to get married to begin with.
The article actually points all of that out, it will be Republican women who mostly are disenfranchised by this.
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Long term, this seems like an effective way to end that custom. What person would go into marriage changing their name when they know this attitude is at play?
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Ok so
As a single WASP (ok well, I grew up protestant) male in my 30s, who has the confidence of an abandoned kitten, how exactly does this benefit me?
Like I feel like this is supposed to be about men like me getting more power over women. But I fail to see how that helps me at all.
All I can see is that they start here, remove voting rights next, then they remove the ability for women to be licensed to be doctors, or lawyers, dentists, etc. That's gonna fuck my life up immensely.
Just so women can't have a say? Why?
Conservative views on women are absolutely confusing. I know we have to abandon logic with them, but maybe that's the part I don't understand: how the fuck do I think without logic?
That's the thing: it isn't. The patriarchy is bad for 95% of men, as well, but a huge chunk of those believe it's good for them because at least they're not a woman.
It's not about what's good for you, it's about what's good for the people in power. And as women increasingly turn away from the Republican party, they're going to want to disenfranchise them.
They are fine with women being doctors and dentists. They won't have any respect for those professions if they are female dominated, but they are caring roles so they fit into the fundie worldview. Lawyers might make them uncomfortable. They would be fine with women as paralegals, but they would want a man in the courtroom and the boardroom.
None of them should be paid well enough to live truly independently. Can't have women building wealth outside of marriage. It's a process really. Give them a couple generations in power and they might clamp down on employment outside the kitchen or the nursery.
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Face eating leopards are going to be morbidly obese by the end of this administration.
They're already in peril from cholesterol poisoning. Humans are HORRIBLE for a food source
Nice, maybe this is the extra little push for some turncoats in congress.
It is almost like MAGA is sexist.
They seem to like terrible isms.
I've fought tooth and nail against accepting this, but looking at their plans it's becoming unavoidable: This will not end without violence.
Tis is gonna be one of the most delicious schadenfraude of all. They think they are safe, but soon enough they are going to discover how important is being a white straight able-bodied male for these fascists. And how unimportant they are outside of a bedroom or a kitchen.
But rather than treating their wives better, MAGA men are looking at making it illegal for their wives to leave them. >
You're overestimating Republican women...
Ever hear one of those stories about a Military wife who believes Rank is sexual transmitted so she has all the authority of her husband?
That's how they think.
It's not that all women are lower than all men, it's that the wife has the defacto "rank" as the their husband.
Disclaimer:
Obviously I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's how they think and why they're ok with this.
You have to think like them, they're "property" so treating a man's wife badly is like going up and pissing on his giant truck, the man will "handle" the offense. And the only way for a woman to gain social ranking is marrying a "powerful" man.
A frightening amount of woman think that's a good system.
I've seen examples of this in real life. It is WEIRD
Bruh...
The county I grew up in voted 95% plus trump in the last three elections.
It was weird to run into anyone who didn't think like that till I was over 18 and in college. Even then at a red state college, lots of women viewed themselves as status symbols. Their self worth was solely determined by the "best" guy that would date them.
Like, for large parts of America that's still the norm. And no amount of "Yaaaas Queen" social media posts will change their thinking. It's not even that they're trapped and need saved, that's the life they choose a lot of the time, you don't have to grow up in it.
But everyone still acted shocked women were voting for trump.
If we dont understand why they're doing it, we'll never change their minds.
I will not enjoy seeing all American women being marginalised. I will, however, enjoy seeing Americans finally exercising their right to protest a fascist government.
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I'm not from the US: What happened to Katie Britt, who gave her response to Biden's State of the Union address from her kitchen? Is she happy now? I mean, not that I wanted to criticize anyone, but that was totally obvious even before the election.
No, no, no. She's not one of those women, you see. That's for the other women.
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When are they going to start coming for the black folks so we can watch Clarence Thomas squirm?
Maybe he'll get fired for being a DEI justice. I honestly don't want whatever would replace him tho.
You mean so we can watch him vote yes on it?
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They needed conservative women to vote this felon. And now they don't need them because he plans to stay forever. This will happen with everyone that supported him. He has disdain for everyone except himself. He will turn on everyone. His ego is massive and he is power trippin' right now. I can't wait until he tries to fire the Supreme Court and not replace anyone. Trump Jong Un coming soon. When they complete a border wall with Canada, we are locked in.
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