..and not only "get it", but are fighting back.
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Afraid of allowing a true test of their unacceptable agenda through the democratic process, the GOP's megaphone, Fox "news" is now trying to sell the idea that women are not qualified to vote or even serve on a jury.
This latest assault from GOP/Fox news, is yet another move to purposefully disenfranchise one more political enemy; a specific demographic - Women, especially younger women who statistically will tend to include a higher percentage of single women.
Fox News to young women: Don’t worry about voting, just focus on your Tinder profile by Jenny Kutner | October 22, 2014
On Tuesday’s edition of “The Five,” Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle suggested that young women, who apparently lack important conservative wisdom, should just go ahead and excuse themselves from voting in the midterms. According to Guilfoyle and her co-hosts, females of a certain age just “don’t get it,” which should probably disqualify them from serving on juries, or from exercising a crucial constitutional right they gained less than a century ago.
“It’s the same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea,” Guilfoyle said. “They don’t get it. They’re not in that same life experience of paying the bills, doing the mortgage, kids, community, crime, education, healthcare. They’re like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world.”
"conservative wisdom" - lol
SMH; I was going to mention the "conservative wisdom" in the Michelle Bachmann-like bigotry of a Phyllis Schlafly but this latest warped and degrading (and coming from GOP/Fox/Christianist/rwnj/family values, astoundingly hypocritical) view of women is so out there, if it wasn't coming from GOP/Fox I wouldn't have believed the story.
Fox "news", yes, the slut shaming Fox News, is trying to sell the idea that women should not bother voting because.. how boring.
Women should be running around having fun..
..healthy and hot and running around without a care..
WTF is GOP/Fox message here? that it's racy and coool to be an idiot, albeit a group of "hot" idiots that just "don't get it" or need to "get it" and why should "they" ?..these "hot" single women who haven't or shouldn't have a care in the world -
and of course would never consider nor have the wherewithal to use contraception or worry about college and the ever increasing student debt
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So while the GOP/Fox is stuck trying to corral and belittle women into a box, women are fighting back, organizing and know what they want, leaving the GOP and their trash talk behind
Two popular women's magazines are successful in their goal of doing exactly the opposite of what the GOP/Fox blabbermouths would have women do. Elle and Cosmopolitan.
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First, this from Laura Clawson: If single women vote, Democrats win. But in a midterm year, that's a big If...
..but something good is happening. Women have had enough, and are fighting back against a coordinated assault by the rwnj GOP. Two popular women’s magazines ‘Elle’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’ are taking up issues in a big way.
Elle magazine weighs in on how crucial the next Supreme Court Justice be a Dem.
Cosmopolitan will now be endorsing candidates for the first time ever
Here is a link to NYT’s from Laura Clawson’s Diary with these stats charted:
Single women: A Key Voting Bloc for Democrats
Half of all adult women over the age of 18 are unmarried — 56 million, up from 45 million in 2000 — and now account for one in four people of voting age.
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A shortened comment with some of this information and the Rachel Maddow video on Cosmopolitan endorsing candidates for the first time:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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Here is Rachel Maddow reporting on Cosmopolitan magazine's recent activism:
(short ad - sorry | and for the video cover shot of the that twerp)
Link to Rachel Maddow: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
#CosmoVotes: How We Decided Which Midterm Candidates Are the Best for Women: Women deserve equal pay for equal work, a livable wage, and access to contraception and abortion. These are the candidates who will deliver. By the editors | September 8, 2014 : http://www.cosmopolitan.com/...
If you only listened to the pundits, you'd think young female voters were a lost cause this election season. We don't turn out for the midterms. We're single-lady "Beyoncé voters" who "depend on government because they're not depending on their husbands." We need politicians who will bring policy discussions "down to a woman's level" and won't use big words or pie charts.
This year, we want to prove the condescending talking heads wrong.
Young women care about politics, and we know that decisions made in Washington and in statehouses affect our day-to-day lives, from our finances to our health to our physical safety. That's why Cosmopolitan is endorsing candidates this year, for the first time ever.
We'll be announcing endorsements every Tuesday until Election Day, November 4. In picking candidates to endorse, we aren't using scorecards or a formula. Rather, we're zeroing in on Senate, House, and gubernatorial races that are competitive and important, and evaluating candidates based on whether they stand up for the issues that matter to us the most.
The candidates that Cosmopolitan will be supporting will be those backing laws that:
♦ protect a woman’s reproductive rights; reversing the Hobby Lobby decision
♦ equality in the work place; passing the Paycheck Fairness Act
♦ raising the minimum wage which will help two-thirds of working women earning the minimum
♦ candidates that support the ‘Violence against Women Act’
♦ responsible gun ownership legislation
♦ protecting the environment
♦ humane immigration reform
♦ “make sure more voting laws mean more Americans, and not a privileged few, can exercise their right to vote and to be heard in the political process.”
And younger voters: U.S. Census Bureau | Young-Adult Voting: An Analysis of Presidential Elections, 1964–2012. So mid-terms turnout is even lower - we know this but it presents a challenge we can meet head-on
♦ age 65 and over: 69.7% turnout
♦ age 45 – 64: 63.4% turnout
♦ age 25 – 44: 49.5% turnout
♦ age 18 – 24: 38% turnout
Opportunity for major out-reach for Dems
That's what Cosmopolitan is up to.
Elle magazine is focusing on the importance of the Supreme court. Below is their interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This seat is taken
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rules out retirement, and according to Rachel Maddow Justice Ginsburg is expecting Dems to hold the Whitehouse and have a senate majority, and is strategizing that is will be a strong enough Dem senate so to insure confirmation of a Dem Justice
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Link to Rachel Maddow: http://www.nbcnews.com/...
A couple of the questions from an interview with Justice Ginsberg from Elle magazine:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I'm Not Going Anywhere By Jessica Weisberg | September 23, 2014
Q: Do you think the pendulum might swing back in a more progressive direction on women’s rights in your lifetime?
Justice Ginsburg: I think it will, when we have a more functioning Congress.
On women’s rights:
Q: When it comes to abortion rights, does the pendulum have to swing in a more conservative direction before it starts to swing back?
Justice Ginsburg: No, I think it's gotten about as conservative as it will get.
On the next supreme court Justice:
Q: I’m not sure how to ask this, but a lot of people who admire and respect you wonder if you’ll resign while President Obama is in office.
Justice Ginsburg: Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have? If I resign any time this year, he could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. [The Senate Democrats] took off the filibuster for lower federal court appointments, but it remains for this court. So anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided. As long as I can do the job full steam…. I think I’ll recognize when the time comes that I can’t any longer. But now I can.
Justice Ginsburg is 81 years of age, going strong, and is fired up and ready for more
I'm hoping that GOP/Fox latest anti-women "theme" being sold backfires. I think it will too.
All these women sound to me like they "Do Get It", know exactly what is at stake, what to do about it, and are doing it too
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note: I don't read either of these magazines, and don't know what percentage of women do either, so I'm assuming that since they are sold around the world that they must reflect the views of a pretty sizable demographic of women and that there is a change happening with these magazines that have previously not been known for their political advocacy. More awareness happening - a good change it seems to me