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I was speaking with some people about politics, mainly how the Right has so many anti-women's rights issues on the table. One of the people, a male, called me an "extreme feminist" and said I needed to "check my facts, because women don't have it bad at all".

I asked him how that had anything to do with what I had said (Personhood bill, the legitimate rape act, etcetc) and he stopped talking to me.

Ugh. I've had quite a few men this election act like women had no reason to be upset by what the Right was trying to pass into law. I'm not frustrated or annoyed by the ads or the calls or the commercials. I'm so damn frustrated by the assholes who think it's okay to tell me I'm over-reacting to issues that only effect me and not them. :|

Ugh. Some people just don't understand that any rights women have aren't magically untouchable for all time once achieved, they have to be constantly defended against the people who believe we never should have achieved them, that things will be better for all once they're gone. We may not have it bad now, but we're constantly one decisive backlash away from that changing.

That's exactly why this election scares me. As I've said elsewhere, every other election I've voted in? My guy losing didn't scare me. I was not afraid of Dole or Bush or McCain winning - that would merely be disappointing.

A Romney/Ryan win, on the other hand, scares me.

Fortunately I think they're not going to win, but I don't understand how this is even any sort of a race when women make up approximately half of the population.

This is exactly how I feel except for the inescapable, nauseating terror that Romney/Ryan might actually win.

I'm going to vote today, and then I'm coming home to hide from the world.

i wouldn't worry too much. there's only so much power a president has, and he has to be consistently checked by the legislative and judicial branches. the former is divided into two party-domination sectors, so overall it would be far too difficult for a president to criminalise abortion again, or get any number of these pieces of legislation passed. and if they did pass, they'd no doubt be interpreted and unconstitutional.

romney and ryan can say what they want about all their little plans for the white house, but part of me thinks they don't mean half of it, and the other part of me knows that even if they did, nothing would come of it.

Edited 2012-11-06 15:51 (UTC)

I don't understand how this is even any sort of a race when women make up approximately half of the population.

I know a lot of women who are voting for Romney, it's scary.

Yeah, it must be annoying and frustrating for people who are just fiscally conservative, etc, to deal with the fact that voting for the party who fits their economic and governmental views means voting for the party who's trying to drag women back to the 19th century, so I get WHY they want to ignore and deny it and pretend it's not that big a deal...but that doesn't excuse them. At all. They should have some kind of grasp on reality and ignoring it can be really harmful.

Most of the guys who have said that to me weren't conservative, though.

It's almost like their economic and governmental views are equally 19th century, and that's why they're the only party espousing them.

True, but not everyone who has backwards fiscal views also has backwards views of women, social issues, etc. They're two pretty different (and often contradictory) flavors of backwardness.

But I guess that's what happens in a party system like the U.S.'s. :\

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