Yesterday, after poll guru Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight posted a chart showing that Donald Trump could easily win the election if only men were allowed to vote, some Trump fans began wondering, with varying degrees of seriousness, if maybe it would be a good idea to repeal the pesky 19th Amendment that gave women in the US the vote in the first place.
Soon #RepealThe19th hashtag was trending on Twitter.
The good news is that most of the people using the hashtag were those who were appalled by the very idea of it. The Washington Post went through 1000 Tweets posted in the hashtag last night, and as best as they could tell, only about a tenth of the posts were from Trump supporters, and most of them weren’t serious about actually taking the vote away from women.
Indeed, some took it upon themselves to tell the world that #RepealThe19th was nothing more than a big goof.
https://twitter.com/jxn_w/status/786375859661737984
https://twitter.com/andeew2016/status/786342381964496896
Some even went so far as to claim that the hashtag was some kind of disinfo operation designed to make Trump supporters look bad:
https://twitter.com/commiesgohome/status/786441807492157440
But if this was all some big conspiracy against Trump supporters or the Alt-Right, someone forgot to tell this to the Alt-Righters who actually do want to roll back the 19th Amendment, some of whom had been using the hashtag already.
Consider, for example, Paul Ramsey (RAMZPAUL), the affable white supremacist YouTuber who’s been arguing publicly against women’s suffrage for at least as long as I’ve been running this blog (and probably a lot longer than that).
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/786478584684830720
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/786505386513854464
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/786512496974626816
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/786481791788060672
And apparently the female role involves a lot of not voting.
RAMZ is apparently unable to detect irony, because alongside all of these tweets he also posted this:
https://twitter.com/ramzpaul/status/786657673127272448
Then there is the woman known as Spacebunny, also known as Theodore “Vox Day” Beale’s apparently non-imaginary wife.
https://twitter.com/Spacebunnyday/status/786311866024734722
https://twitter.com/Spacebunnyday/status/784667107875229696
These guys seem, well, fairly sincere in their hatred of women voting as well:
https://twitter.com/RedPillScience/status/786392337328971776
https://twitter.com/RedPillScience/status/786389870901985280
https://twitter.com/huWhiteDaily/status/786362432692203520
More female control of government and taxation undermines marriage culture and family formation. pic.twitter.com/tAfNGHtOvU
— AnechoicMedia (@AnechoicMedia_) October 13, 2016
Only weak cucks think women should vote.
You aren't a weak cuck, are you?#RepealThe19th https://t.co/1UdA1lr9j9— Kali Yuga Wolf ⚡️⚡️ (@wolfofariosophy) October 13, 2016
Women say they won't vote for Trump due to locker room talk when THEY are NASTIER and DIRTIER about it. HYPOCRITES!! #RepealThe19th NOW!!!
— 👌Teutonic Plague 👌 (@AspieCapitalist) October 13, 2016
Women have been voting since 1920, and we all know how THAT turned out! #Repealthe19th, keep 'em out of polling places!
— 👌Teutonic Plague 👌 (@AspieCapitalist) October 13, 2016
#repealthe19th
Femenism = cancer pic.twitter.com/Xy5weiucTc— Aryan-American (@destory_marxism) October 13, 2016
#repealthe19th
Even most women think feminism is dumb. pic.twitter.com/rfklV7Tudc— Aryan-American (@destory_marxism) October 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/DinduReport/status/786334728408408064
But these days who knows who’s sincere or who’s trolling, or if there’s even a meaningful distinction between the two, at least when it comes to the most energetic shitposters in the Trump army.
Whether or not these guys really think women should be forbidden to vote, I feel fairly certain that they are really a bunch of hateful dicks.
It took me a while to even understand that.
I didn’t think I could be shocked by anything on WHTM anymore. I was wrong.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FalseCause
One of my grandmothers was a little girl by the time of the 19th amendment. I’ll be thinking of her when I vote this year.
This election cannot be over soon enough.
Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
Wake me up when November ends~
Like my father’s come to pass
Eight years has gone so fast
Wake me up when November ends~
It was just a joke
Said the chauvinist tweeter.
Dance my puppets dance!
Nature designed us, but also Satan exists. Now there’s a weird mashup.
In other news, today I spoke in a conference room *and* got pigpiled by two sweet little boys at bedtime *and* paid taxes, some part of which will go to aid federal social safety net programs. I forgot feminism only allows me to do one meme-approved activity with my life, because feminism is all about forcing women into boxes. Oh no, wait – that’s the other thing. Anti-feminism.
Sadly, it took not long at all for me to get that.
Wow. On the one hand I’m inclined to say Silver’s poll is a little misleading – if only men had the vote, Hillary wouldn’t be in the running at all, because men also strongly favored Sanders over Clinton in the Democratic primary. So Sanders vs Trump, would probably be the more likely scenario. And perhaps, if the better angels of the male nature prevailed, the majority of them would choose Sanders over Trump in the general.
On the other hand, knowing that most men would vote Trump is the best goddamn reason to hate men on principle I’ve heard all week; and this is the week I’ve been reading new stories practically every day about Trump groping his employees and Miss Universe contestants and threatening to sue the Times for writing about it.
I don’t hate men, but things like this trains me to expect very little from the majority of them. In particular, this incident leads me to expect that you could stuff a scarecrow and run it against Hillary, and as long as it looked acceptably male the men would probably vote for it.
So gas light. Very straw man. Logical fallacy. Wow.
so one tweeter claims it’s because of women voting that there’s been so much war, others claim women are too weak and sensitive to vote for war… I’m confused… it’s almost as if WOMEN VOTING DOES NOT, IN AND OF ITSELF, CAUSE OR PREVENT WARS, YOU IDIOTS
Notorious cuck? What does that even mean?
TFW you see Teutonic Plague un-ironically paraded as evidence of sexism.
Seriously though, I’m pretty sure he’s a troll and provocateur. You only need to listen to True Capitalist Radio to figure that out.
@KindaSortaHarmless
Oh my God, Wake Me Up When September Ends is the rock anthem of my junior high years. So many memories, so many feels.
Nothing from our friend Judgy Bitch? I thought dear Andrea has been harping on this point for a while now.
The Nate Silvers break down was depressing to say the least. It is one thing to have hateful trolls online whining about feminism. It is another that most men would support Trump. I just thought there were more men out there who supported women. Apparently the men that support women are the minority.
I hate the idea that legalized abortion means women stop having children altogether. Around 60% of women who have an abortion already have at least one child.
How soon before the tourists and missionaries show up to gawk at our primitive culture?
Totally off topic, but I think I found Mark/Terrance’s first appearance here. Way back in 2012!
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2012/04/28/puas-invade-okcupid/comment-page-1/#comment-147041
“Red Pill Science“. Now THERE’s an oxymoron if ever I saw one.
(Or maybe just a plain moron. Plenty of them out there, too.)
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2015/05/devil.png
Remember kids, Lucifer gave us critical thinking! (And apparently he’s handing out free college degrees, natch.)
Also, LOL @ destory_marxism.
DESTORY, you guys. As in, QUIT MAKING STUPID SHIT UP ABOUT MARXISM AND ACTUALLY READ MARX BEFORE YOU CRY CONSPIRACY, YOU FUCKING BUFFOONS.
(Sorry, but my irony meter is beeping like mad tonight.)
So, apparently Lou Dobbs doxxed (or attempted to doxx) one of Trump’s accusers. As of now, he hasn’t been banned from Twitter or fired from FOX.
FTS.
Dear Paul Ramsey.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I want equality. I don’t care about nature. No, really, I don’t. I’m a good Christian woman (cis-gender), and Christ was a goddamn feminist. Therefore, as a follower of Christ, equality-crusading I go. If anything is satanic here, it’s your idea that God made women somehow inferior. How dare you? No, really. How dare you even insinuate that God deliberately made half of humanity incapable of independent, critical thinking and logical reasoning, which is what you’re doing by saying we shouldn’t be allowed to vote, you misogynous, pus-filled boil in humanity’s sweaty armpit? What degree of delusional do you have to be for that to make any sense, whatsoever? You’re not living in reality, man. You’re just plain not.
Sincerely,
A woman
Also, hi, I’m new. Um, does delusional fall under ableism? If so, I apologize in advance for my ableist language, but I’m just too mad right now to come up with anything better. I normally read here and laugh at a lot of the stuff these people write, but anything that wants to take away my basic civil rights isn’t funny and can never be funny. Women fucking well starved themselves for the right to vote, for God’s sake!
@Paradoxical Intention – Resident Cheeseburger Slut
Is this an ironic ad? Because all those reasons would be plenty for signing up with the Pit Lord, who doesn’t want to know how to witchcraft and get into people’s head?