Women: What happens in the voting booth, stays in the voting booth

[Subduction Zone]

Funny. Women are voluntarily telling me the ad is condescending. Guess I know women better than you do.

I am curious, how is it condescending?

 

[Watchmen]

That video must've struck a nerve with you. Interesting.

And it's my thread, so I'll chime in when I want to chime in.

Not with me. With wonderful, strong women I know. Are you aware I’m a moderate who supports Harris’ efforts to reinstate Roe v Wade, or are you just engaging in Tribal think and making assumptions about those who don’t agree with you every jot and tittle?

 

[Watchmen]

I am curious, how is it condescending?

It suggests women vote in secret rather than have intelligent conversations with their male partners about why they voted a certain way. In other words, you're too weak to think for yourself or stand up to your man or talk intelligently about this very important topic, so go do it in secret.

 

[Pogo]

It suggests women vote in secret rather than have intelligent conversations with their male partners about why they voted a certain way. In other words, your too weak to think for yourself or stand up to your man or talk intelligently about this very important topic, so go do it in secret.

That might be plausible if the videos didn't start with the husbands condescending to their wives to vote their way "because".

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Funny. Women are voluntarily telling me the ad is condescending. Guess I know women better than you do.

I am curious about what they find condescending about it. Did they say?

Unfortunately, I suspect that some of the women in my life hide their vote from their husbands.

 

[Koldo]

It suggests women vote in secret rather than have intelligent conversations with their male partners about why they voted a certain way. In other words, your too weak to think for yourself or stand up to your man or talk intelligently about this very important topic, so go do it in secret.

No, what it suggests is that women can vote in secret. Not everyone is either able or willing to fight over politics against their husbands.

 

[Kenny]

Because their Judeo-Christian background says their men make their choices for them, and that what they have to say is irrelevant.

No… that is not the Gospel. That’s an atheist's perspective.

That being said, it would be a frozen night in Florida if my wife thought I voted for Tan-mala Kamala. However, i agree with the principle noted here in that it is a private vote.

 

[Wirey]

Interesting - and telling - reaction to this ad:

Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad​

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Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.​

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“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.​

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Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was “nauseating.”​

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In criticizing the ad, he discussed a husband working hard to afford his wife’s lifestyle, and then said a wife who lied to her husband about whom she backed would amount to undermining her husband.​

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“I think it’s so gross. I think it’s so nauseating where this wife is wearing the American hat, she’s coming in with her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go you know and have a nice life and provide to the family, and then she lies to him saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m gonna vote for Trump,’ and then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth,” Kirk fumed to radio host Megyn Kelly.​

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A long time ago, when Mrs. Wirey and I first got together, she told me about a friend of hers who used to work part time secretly, so she could use the extra money to buy groceries. Her husband had her on a strict grocery budget, and if she couldn't feed the family on what he deemed to be an acceptable amount he expected her to skip meals to make up the difference. Why anyone would stay married to someone like that and not feed him a warfarin omelet is beyond me, but this is a reality for some women. And if you're a guy who has a problem with it, well, shame on you.

 

[Wirey]

In other words, your too weak to ...talk intelligently

It's you're.

 

[Estro Felino]

Women are weird and wonderful They will fall in love with all sorts of men and then stick with them. But sometimes they need a little freedome from them. There is a a video that I saw where they put up part of a Republican response to this add. It was delicious to see them weeping MAGA tears. I could probably find it again.

In my country there was this Democratic Party parliamentarian married to a Right-Wing parliamentarian.
Same parliament. Opposite political parties.

Would it be possible in the United States Congress?

 

[Kenny]

These women will probably not tell their husbands either:

 

[Kenny]

Sometimes women may indeed say something on the outside but will vote differently at the booth.

Of course, men will too.

 

[Subduction Zone]

In my country there was this Democratic Party parliamentarian married to a Right-Wing parliamentarian.
Same parliament. Opposite political parties.

Would it be possible in the United States Congress?

Yes. And in reality they could and likely would vote for different candidates. I do believe that describes James Carville and his wife.

 

[Koldo]

No… that is not the Gospel. That’s an atheist's perspective.

Numbers 30:10-15

10 “If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath 11 and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. 12 But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the Lord will release her. 13 Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself.[a] 14 But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them. 15 If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he must bear the consequences of her wrongdoing.”

Ephesians 5:22-24 (and Colossians 3:18-19)

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

 

[Koldo]

It's you're.

I can't believe I hadn't noticed that. Hilarious.

 

[Estro Felino]

Yes. And in reality they could and likely would vote for different candidates. I do believe that describes James Carville and his wife.


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Excuse me...but that cannot be possible if the FLOTUS is from the opposite political party, right?

 

[Subduction Zone]

It suggests women vote in secret rather than have intelligent conversations with their male partners about why they voted a certain way. In other words, your too weak to think for yourself or stand up to your man or talk intelligently about this very important topic, so go do it in secret.

Have you not noticed here that it is quite often impossible to have a rational conversation with a Trump supporter? No, that is at best a strawman argument on your part.

 

[crossfire]

Jesse Watters, who had an affair with his second wife while married to his first wife said this:

Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’

Watters' claim that if his wife were to secretly vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris he would see it as “the same thing as having an affair.”

www.mediaite.com

At the close of the segment, Watters offered his own humorous take, speaking about his wife Emma DiGiovine, a relationship which he admitted in 2018 began as an affair while he was married to his first wife Noelle Inguagiato and DiGiovine was a producer on his show. The affair prompted Inguagiato to file for divorce.

He began: “If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair.”

“Oh, my god,” Harold Ford Jr. responded.

“Let him finish,” co-panelist Tyrus interrupted.

Watters continued: “That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about?

Tyrus laughed: “Roll the credits.”

Jeanine Pirro asked: “Why would she lie to you?”

Watters doubled down: “Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting… If I caught her and she said ‘I lied to you for the last four years’

“So, you’d admit you’d intimidate…” Pirro began.


“It’s over, Emma!” Watters declared mockingly. “That would be D-Day!”​

The Five - Distrust and Deception: Marriage Divided Over Harris Vote

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I'd love to see the divorce court Judge's face when he said this!

 

[We Never Know]

Seems pretty condescending towards women.

What I got out of it is women don't get to choose/aren't allowed to choose but in only one place.

It says "In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose"

 

[Subduction Zone]

What I got out of it is women don't get to choose/aren't allowed to choose but in only one place.

It says "In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose"

I hope you realize that was in reference to an important area where many women have lost the right to choose. If a woman has lost the right to choose over her own body a lot of other rights pale in comparison.

By the way, the number of early women voters has risen faster than the number of early male voters.