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Women voting, bad idea?

Women voting, bad idea?

  • women voting is a terrible idea

    Votes: 13 14.3%
  • women voting is fine with me

    Votes: 78 85.7%

  • Total voters
    91

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Letting women vote was a bad idea, Mississippi tea party leader says: Jarvis DeBerry

Letting women vote was a bad idea, Mississippi tea party leader says: Jarvis DeBerry | NOLA.com

A tea party leader in Mississippi rues the day that women won the right to vote. Women, she argues, are just too emotionally unstable and untrustworthy for the franchise. Yes, you read that right: The person making the case against women's suffrage is Central Mississippi Tea Party President Janis Lane, herself a beneficiary of the 19th Amendment.

In an interview this summer with the Jackson Free Press, Lane explains that she votes to counteract the insanity that other women regularly unleash at the polls.

"There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women," she says. "They are diabolical in how than can skewer a person. I do not see that in men."

Not really breaking news, so I didn't put it there.

What say you, should women be voting?
 
Uhhh yes they should... Its kinda common sense.
 
Knowing that Tigger will vote the way he will, I'll be shocked if anyone else says it's a bad idea.
Unless they do it just as a joke, or to troll for attention. (Which is what I think Tigger does.)
 


"The trouble with irony is some people don't get it." ~ Ray Wylie Hubbard
 
as long as my dinner is on the table and the dishes get washed then its fine with me. ;)
 
What an idiot.
 
Women voting, good idea. Asking the question if allowing women to vote was a bad idea, not such a good idea.
 
Knowing that Tigger will vote the way he will, I'll be shocked if anyone else says it's a bad idea.
Unless they do it just as a joke, or to troll for attention. (Which is what I think Tigger does.)

Voting is anonymous.
 
But their posted comments are not.

True, but if someone feels that women shouldn't vote, I thought it best they be able to voice their view anonymously, perhaps as a better gauge of people's feelings.
 
When the suffrage movement was kicking along slowly after being resoundingly defeated during the 1860s and 1870s, there was a twin narrative going on ever since:

1) Women would be tainted by politics. It goes against their nurturing and moral aspects. Conversely they would bring an emotionalism that is far too destructive to statescraft.
2) Women would enhance politics. Politics are dominated by men that debase humanity through political conflict and war. Women would remove both.

The former was more often espoused by conservative men (and women). The latter was proclaimed by suffragists convinced of their moral calling, and at the same time, in contrast to the African American and the immigrant.
 
Well this'll be a close poll :roll:

Of course women should have the right to vote. This is a non-question for anyone who's not... I dunno what. Really, really stupid.


To broaden the topic a little bit, though, I do find this particular brand of woman-on-women sexism kind of interesting, though. I see it all the time. Women, as individuals, will shout until they are blue in the face about how we need more women in the workplace and whatnot, and yet I constantly hear women complaining about how much they hate working with other women, lol. Always makes me chuckle.
 
Letting women vote was a bad idea, Mississippi tea party leader says: Jarvis DeBerry

Letting women vote was a bad idea, Mississippi tea party leader says: Jarvis DeBerry | NOLA.com



Not really breaking news, so I didn't put it there.

What say you, should women be voting?

If anything it is the men who should be barred from voting. They are the really risky voters because they vote on sentiment, testosterone, good old boy feeling with the candidate, dislike of the other man/woman without really listening to their points of view and most importantly, they usually vote for other men even when there are better qualified women in the race too.
 
If anything it is the men who should be barred from voting. They are the really risky voters because they vote on sentiment, testosterone, good old boy feeling with the candidate, dislike of the other man/woman without really listening to their points of view and most importantly, they usually vote for other men even when there are better qualified women in the race too.

That's just politics. The suffragists we now idolize were just as guilty of silly sentiments as what you describe above in addition to your own proposition.
 
Depends on the woman.

If she agrees with me, it's a great idea.

If not, a terrible one.


:2razz:
 
If anything it is the men who should be barred from voting. They are the really risky voters because they vote on sentiment, testosterone, good old boy feeling with the candidate, dislike of the other man/woman without really listening to their points of view and most importantly, they usually vote for other men even when there are better qualified women in the race too.
*Waits for all the feminists to come out of the woodwork and decry this poster for being openly sexist, stereotyping and suggesting legal discrimination based on gender*







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*Hears nothing but crickets*
 
That's just politics. The suffragists we now idolize were just as guilty of silly sentiments as what you describe above in addition to your own proposition.

That is your opinion, in a time of crisis usually it is cooler heads that prevail and IMHO, women do that better than men.
 
*Waits for all the feminists to come out of the woodwork and decry this poster for being openly sexist, stereotyping and suggesting legal discrimination based on gender*







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*Hears nothing but crickets*

I did not say that men should be barred from voting, but if it was the choice of either barring women from voting or men from voting, barring men from voting would be the smarter option for all the reasons I mentioned.
 
I don't think anyone should vote if they just don't know what the hell's on the ballot.

I agree with her - though - that some women can be emotionally unstable. So can some men. :shrug: But does that automatically make them unable to form a knowledgeable view using logic and reasoning? No. There's no evidence that people's various personal or relationship issues makes them hasty or 'unstable' at the voter-box.
 
That is your opinion, in a time of crisis usually it is cooler heads that prevail and IMHO, women do that better than men.

Hardly. Our suffragettes were quite the hot heads. One of my main fascinations was the inner and inter-organization disputes women had with each other, in addition to the Pankhurst tactics of political disputation.
 
women can make fine tea

is that guy real*
 
I did not say that men should be barred from voting, but if it was the choice of either barring women from voting or men from voting, barring men from voting would be the smarter option for all the reasons I mentioned.
Ehhhh whatever, same difference. Just the fact that you brought it up out of nowhere and had all this retarded reasoning behind it suggests that you at least somewhat endorse the notion of it, at least.

Point is, the very basis of your ridiculous post is sexism and stereotyping, and the outcry would be deafening if someone made the same post about women.
 
Hardly. Our suffragettes were quite the hot heads. One of my main fascinations was the inner and inter-organization disputes women had with each other, in addition to the Pankhurst tactics of political disputation.

the suffragettes fought against a great injustice, it was that injustice that made them so passionate. We do not live in that day and age anymore, where there are still valid battles to be fought for women's rights today, it is clear to most people that women are equal to men and should be treated that way.
 
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