That gender gap tho

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      4 hours ago

      I’ve sadly seen women say they don’t mind losing the right to vote if it means going back to a more “sensible time”

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    9 hours ago

    Why do you feel that sexiness is an appropriate scale to be using here? There is more to women than their sex appeal.

    • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
      6·
      7 hours ago

      Smart girls are sexy. I want someone I can discuss my mathematical theories with. I have some thoughts on prime numbers that can’t be contained.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    53·
    12 hours ago

    All genders who vote against Trump are sexy. All people who vote for him are trash.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        22·
        12 hours ago

        To preface, one of the initial things that attracted me to my wife was her antifascist beliefs. But also, like, I don’t want people to tell me how hot it is that I vote unless we’re already flirting. This is just me having been raised right.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
          2·
          9 hours ago

          I made this post because demographically with early voting we are potentially seeing a historic gender divide in voting, it seems women in general want Trump nowhere near the whitehouse at this point.

          We will see how the numbers shakeout when all the votes are in but if the numbers keep going the way they look like they will, and Kamala Harris wins, what people will remember is that Trump and Jdcouch fucked with women and got wrecked for it.

          If this happens I am sorry I don’t have any other way to describe it other than “sexy”, but I am referring not to an attraction or leering towards any particular woman, rather the nebulous blob of feminity that is a whole range of lived identities and expressions of gender coming together to say fuck off to a fascist is the thing I was trying to call sexy. It is an expression of collective depth of caring interwoven with a practical expression of power, “badass” doesn’t really encapsulate it.

          • abbotsbury@lemmy.world
            5·
            7 hours ago

            rather the nebulous blob of feminity that is a whole range of lived identities and expressions of gender coming together to say fuck off to a fascist is the thing I was trying to call sexy

            yeah dude that doesn’t sound any less weird

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    43·
    16 hours ago

    DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED

    • vote early if you can
    • tell your friends to vote early
    • contact your local campaign and see if you can help – it’s not too late!
      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        In many conservative run states areas where Democrats are most concentrated have very few places to vote so lines are long. And they even pass laws making it illegal to bring people waiting in the lines food or water.

        It’s a deliberate tactic to disenfranchise voters.

      • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        An early vote is a certain vote. A vote on election day is a bet that you don’t slip in the shower and die before then.

      • lili_thana
        13·
        14 hours ago

        I can’t speak for other states but in Texas early voting means you can vote at any polling place in your county. They reduce the amount of available polling places on actual election day, and you must vote at the polling place for your precinct only as well. So you’re more likely to have less of a wait time than on election day, and thus it’ll be easier to do.

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
      7·
      16 hours ago

      Same goes with being sexy. It’s something one has to work on.

      • Work out to keep fit
      • Wear clothes that flatter your figure
      • Walk with confidence
  • RattlerSix@lemmy.world
    7·
    15 hours ago

    I don’t disagree at all, but it’s a shame that they might have to. We haven’t been shaming our friends enough for being Trump supporting fuckwits, guys.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      16·
      17 hours ago

      There’s a decent chance Walz runs to be president in the future if Harris wins and I think he’d probably do fairly well in a primary and general

        • FundMECFSResearch
          4·
          15 hours ago

          Given the age of our current president I don’t know if you’re joking.

          But given this race is going to be extremely tight. There’s a real chance Harris will win and become a one-term president. Almost every reelection gets worse numbers for the incumbent than their original election for presidential races. With Bush being a notable exception because of 9/11.

            • crusa187@lemmy.ml
              3·
              13 hours ago

              I’d vote for a 68 y/o Walz, because he’s the type of guy who would push for sensible reforms like age and term limits while in office. Harris is much younger, but you know she wouldn’t dare do something like that because she’s too invested in pandering to establishment donors.

              • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                8 hours ago

                Hell I’d vote for Bernie Sanders and he’s old as dirt. But dude is still sharp and I agree with almost everything he says. He’s the exception though, I generally agree we need younger people in office. I’m not just going to vote based on age alone though.

    • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
      6·
      17 hours ago

      I don’t think the wounded egos and manhood of the incel party can’t take losing to a woman. More so that she’s not only a woman but also a minority. It’ll be Obama 2.0 with more heads exploding.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        8·
        17 hours ago

        It would just be instant validation of the power women hold.

        This is the most gendered/ sexist view I have: women, across all age groups, are more responsible then men.

        It might be because culture, it might be because whatever. But generally speaking, women of all ages hold their shit together (make payments on time, go to the doctor, finish the paper work, register to vote, etc…) at a higher rate then men. Young men in the age group of 14-24 are particularly terrible in this regard.

        If women have a woman as an option, and the premise that women can take this seat of power, they’ll break hard in that direction. Might be a conservative piece of shit like Thatcher, but it will be a very long time for men to catch up once this dam breaks. I expect both sides to double down on this strategy if it works.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          16 hours ago

          I think you overestimate how many women will simply prefer a woman leader by default. Several countries have had women as their PMs/leaders before and they don’t automatically win every woman’s vote each election cycle.

          What’s going on here in the US is just pretty cut and dry: If you value women having bodily autonomy and equal rights, then the choice is pretty damn clear on who you should vote for. Unfortunately, it feels like so much attention is on the presidency, this obvious connection isn’t being evenly applied to other political offices as well (i.e. last I’d read, all projections have the GOP winning the Senate).

        • frickineh@lemmy.world
          3·
          16 hours ago

          I don’t think a Thatcher type could win in the US (thankfully) - there are a ton of evangelicals who don’t believe in women having authority on the Republican side, even if that woman is a hateful cow who believes the same things they do.

            • frickineh@lemmy.world
              2·
              16 hours ago

              They do, but there are enough conservatives who really hate women that I don’t think we’ll see a female Republican nominee for a long time. VP again, sure, but look at how a lot of people talked about Nikki Haley. She’s plenty authoritarian and a ton of them hated her.