Article Christian Nationalism’s First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women’s Right to Vote
Article Christian Nationalism’s First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women’s Right to Vote
Nov 30 2024, 1:11 PM
https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/christian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/
Quote:Trump supporters’ calling for an end to women’s suffrage may be the canary in the coal mine for further drastic changes to the electoral system.
Quote:Webbon and others rely on misogynistic themes that they argue are rooted in the Bible. Two years ago, Webbon tweeted that “women are more easily deceived than men,” alongside his argument that the 19th Amendment was a “bad idea.” Anti-suffragists used the same argument that women neither have the knowledge nor the minds to serve as well-informed voters; that tending to their families and households prevented them from staying updated on politics.
Quote:Women’s suffrage is only the beginning as Project 2025—a far-right transition plan for Trump’s second presidency, undermines additional voting rights and democracy more broadly under the banner of Christian nationalism. The agenda outlines allowing aggressive prosecution of voters and election officials as federal offenders, ending federal efforts to provide context for online misinformation and threats and allowing federal access to state and local voter rolls—which would make it easier for the federal government to disenfranchise voters.
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Ms. Magazine, November 29 2024.
https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/christian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/
Quote:Trump supporters’ calling for an end to women’s suffrage may be the canary in the coal mine for further drastic changes to the electoral system.
Quote:Webbon and others rely on misogynistic themes that they argue are rooted in the Bible. Two years ago, Webbon tweeted that “women are more easily deceived than men,” alongside his argument that the 19th Amendment was a “bad idea.” Anti-suffragists used the same argument that women neither have the knowledge nor the minds to serve as well-informed voters; that tending to their families and households prevented them from staying updated on politics.
Quote:Women’s suffrage is only the beginning as Project 2025—a far-right transition plan for Trump’s second presidency, undermines additional voting rights and democracy more broadly under the banner of Christian nationalism. The agenda outlines allowing aggressive prosecution of voters and election officials as federal offenders, ending federal efforts to provide context for online misinformation and threats and allowing federal access to state and local voter rolls—which would make it easier for the federal government to disenfranchise voters.
Discussion on Ovarit.
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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
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Nov 30 2024, 6:18 PM
I kind of want to sit these women down and be like, Hey, listen. You guys will never guess what happened recently, buuut...
🙃 Truly incredible to see people saying that it's "just fear-mongering" in the comments. You know what else was considered "just fear-mongering," right up until the moment it happened? The idea of losing Roe. Top commenter says that "no one supports this"—well, I'm pretty sure abortion rights have MAJORITY support in the US with both men and women, and we still lost them. You know what else has majority support in the US? Common-sense gun laws. And yet...
I kind of want to sit these women down and be like, Hey, listen. You guys will never guess what happened recently, buuut...
Dec 1 2024, 9:07 AM
(Nov 30 2024, 6:18 PM)komorebi You know what else was considered "just fear-mongering," right up until the moment it happened? The idea of losing Roe.What worries me is that so many men only care about abortion rights because they want to get out of paying child support (even though most fathers avoid paying it anyway but plenty of men still think there are consequences for it given how big of a boogiewoman other men make it into). I think that's the only reason they can be invested in this because lord knows men can't even give a shit about things directly impacting and hurting their partners, let alone women in general. So I feel any law that can't be used to benefit men as well in this way could have an even higher chance of passing.
Though voting rights might remain because so many Nigels like the idea of their wives doubling their votes because their male facts-and-logical brains are just sooo big and so authoritative and their wives are so impressed. And that dynamic is, sadly, partially rooted in reality. There's a reason why most conservative women are married and why they vote against their own interests, which is never the case for men. Yes, conservativism and male supremacism does screw poorer and less masculine men over by its inherent hierarchical structures, but the point is that it's a carrot on a stick because they're aiming to get there, which is different from women being completely out of the running in the first place.
Edited Dec 1 2024, 10:50 AM by YesYourNigel.
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Dec 1 2024, 9:07 AM #3(Nov 30 2024, 6:18 PM)komorebi You know what else was considered "just fear-mongering," right up until the moment it happened? The idea of losing Roe.What worries me is that so many men only care about abortion rights because they want to get out of paying child support (even though most fathers avoid paying it anyway but plenty of men still think there are consequences for it given how big of a boogiewoman other men make it into). I think that's the only reason they can be invested in this because lord knows men can't even give a shit about things directly impacting and hurting their partners, let alone women in general. So I feel any law that can't be used to benefit men as well in this way could have an even higher chance of passing.
Though voting rights might remain because so many Nigels like the idea of their wives doubling their votes because their male facts-and-logical brains are just sooo big and so authoritative and their wives are so impressed. And that dynamic is, sadly, partially rooted in reality. There's a reason why most conservative women are married and why they vote against their own interests, which is never the case for men. Yes, conservativism and male supremacism does screw poorer and less masculine men over by its inherent hierarchical structures, but the point is that it's a carrot on a stick because they're aiming to get there, which is different from women being completely out of the running in the first place.
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