I was going to make a neat post about voting rights and the war on women.

[IdaBriggs]

I went hunting for arguments against "Women's Suffrage" (because google is my friend), and then I was going to post some of the arguments in a sarcastic way to show that women shouldn't have to fight for health care access (including birth control and abortion), and see-how-far-we've-come.

I can't do it.

I found "10 Reasons women shouldn't want the right to vote" and really should have stopped there. http://twentytwowords.com/2010/11/30/10-reasons-women-shouldnt-want-the-right-to-vote/

I learned that wanting to vote ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO meant (among other things) I wouldn't trust my menfolk any longer, that I would have to serve on a jury and listen to murder details, that politics is full of arguments which I, as a woman, naturally shrink from -- oh, and that I can "counsel" instead of "command" because that *totally* works!!!

"Please, pretty please! Allow me access to necessary medical care to save my life!"



Apparently women are still too stupid to make their own medical decisions, so we have to be "protected" from our bad decision making by the men-folk.

Its been nearly one hundred years since we were "trusted" with the right to vote, and we've been able to own / manage our own property for almost one hundred seventy years -- why are we still having to prove we have brains that are capable of making our health care decisions? For the sake of sanity, apparently half the women of Texas are armed with guns; if we are all just "murderers" waiting for the opportunity to kill our unborn babies for the fun of it, why the heck aren't these morons worried someone is going to SHOOT THEM?

(And no, I am not advocating for that - I am simply pointing out that the people who keep KILLING PEOPLE over this are usually ANTI-CHOICE MEN!)

I want to find something clever to say about how we shouldn't have to beg to be treated as equals, but honestly, at some level, that is EXACTLY what we are still doing.

We *NEVER* have to discuss whether or not men can make decisions about their own health care needs; we *NEVER* have to discuss if a male assault victim was "asking for it because of how he was dressed"; we *NEVER* have to listen to someone discussing whether or not men are smart enough to "command others"; and we *NEVER* have to discuss whether or not a qualified man should get more money than an equally qualified woman or minority for the same day's work.

I can't think of anything clever to say here. Just the traditional --



Seriously. Happy Independence Day.

We've come a long way, baby -- but there is still A LONG WAY TO GO.

[sibelian]

1. Yes. It's ludicrous.

K+R

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Yep. It's feels like we just keep fighting the same battles over and over and over. . . .

[RC]

3. +100

Just how civilized are we here in the United States? Not nearly as much as we seem to think we are. In fact we are going backwards.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Extremely Ludicrous

Apparently women are still too stupid to make their own medical decisions, so we have to be "protected" from our bad decision making by the men-folk.

Not just that - but if married and you have a spouse who may have to make a critical medical decision on your behalf . . . evidently he isn't going to be able to make that decision either.

Yet - they fight to keep the 'sanctity' of marriage. To keep marriage between a man and a woman. But when push comes to shove - that's not really what they are about. They are about the total government intrusion into the lives of individuals.