Meinung | Die US-Rechte hat einen großen Plan, Frauen das Wahlrecht zu entziehen
Meinung | Die US-Rechte hat einen großen Plan, Frauen das Wahlrecht zu entziehen
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Full article: When I first saw online rumblings that women’s right to vote was being called into question in the US, I assumed the manosphere was having a slow day and that it was an outrageous fringe idea to be laughed off. After all, the 19th Amendment assuring women’s suffrage was ratified in 1920.
It certainly wasn’t straightforward for all American women: native American women weren’t even classed as citizens until 1924 and the Jim Crow laws blocked Black women from voting until the 1960s, and [there is still voter suppression to this day.](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/suffragettes-got-us-half-way-marginalised-women-remain-locked-democracy-118614?ico=in-line_link)
However, even the most fiercely anti-feminist forces haven’t openly questioned women having the vote in my lifetime, because no one can remember a time when it wasn’t normal. That particular Overton window was closed and bolted. But recently, someone has been picking the lock.
I host *The Guilty Feminist* podcast and at a live show in London a few years ago, an admittedly uncharacteristic audience member collared me in the theatre lobby and told me very earnestly that she thought women shouldn’t have the vote – because we were “too emotional”. That was my first alarm bell.
Since then, the manosphere – the online anti-women lobby – has become inflamed in ways I could not have[ imagined and Roe v Wade](https://inews.co.uk/news/roe-vs-wade-what-summary-us-abortion-case-meaning-explained-overturned-supreme-court-1709237?srsltid=AfmBOoplDFiv5XyqwDqPXvikQnVBRvOJ1PofHZ2ecc075aYtqerVdlES&ico=in-line_link), the US Supreme Court ruling ensuring the right to an abortion at a federal level, has been overturned. The times they are a-changing.
In response, I am producing a series of episodes entitled “The Road to Gilead”, referencing[ Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel](https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/real-margaret-atwood-sentimental-blunt-deliciously-naughty-4011809?srsltid=AfmBOoqCrTuAfKLGwmwjaIvCJht9psiF9xn-zHcv2KmdG7RXH7CCFh-c&ico=in-line_link) (and hit TV adaptation) *The Handmaid’s Tale*. Gilead is a fictitious version of the United States where men are in charge and women are subjugated as obedient wives, enslaved baby-factories, sex workers and indentured servants. It sounds horrifying, but it seems more possible this year than last and far more plausible than it did 10 years ago.
With our current government and Supreme Court, I give women 50/50 odds if they’ll be able to vote in 2028. Not that I expect that will be a free and fair election. Trump has already installed electors. Ten years from now, it may only be white land owners who have a vote in this country.
You don’t say.
They’ve also been gradually making it more and more difficult for Black Americans to vote, Florida especially.
These men who think women will just fold and they’re going to get free maid service are in for a real treat.
Pointing out Republicans „Save Act“ while supposedly going after the made up problem of non-citizens voting in our election, it does have the real consequence of making it harder if not impossible for Married women who have changed thier last name to vote. As their last name will no longer match thier birth certificate, and as many do not have the required documents to prove a name change (marriage certificate doesn’t count)
They already pass this in the House.
Of those who voted, 53% of white women voted for the racist, fascist, sexist pedophile on November 5th, 2024.
Yeah that’s because it’s a dystopia, and having kids who will inherit this is among the worst decisions an intelligent person can make
Doesn’t matter. We sounded the alarm in Roe and still voted for this shit.
And everyone else they don’t like.
Only to add to the mystery of why there are Republican women at all.
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IT WAS IN Project2025
Edit: I have sadly read the 900 grueling pages back in 2024 bc im a basement dweller sometimes. but, to be more specific, the Heritage Foundation has been public about rolling back voters rights (some have been scrubbed since the original pdf got leaked; other rollbacks remain on the website; some were further purported in the new P2026 followon. see Union of Concernced Scientists & other impartial groups for a general breakdown of the 2025 version). And the full Project2025 is actually a document of goals from 2024 through to and including 2028 (to touch on the next election year).
to be plain and simple: contesting amendments after the original 10 (meaning amendments 11 on) is encouraged. this is seen by what the Trumo administration has used of P2025, within footnotes of P2025, and by the Heritage Foundation’s numerous other documents. i genuinely encourage people to look up which amendments this includes. im sad that media didnt make more of a stink about this when they had the chance, but we are here now.
when speaking to an informed HFer who routinely cites Christian fundamentals, ive been politely told this is to encourage „household“ voting (where men are head of the household. and a vote from a dissenting wife means it „negates“ the vote of the husband)
tldr: i shouldve typed „this goal is heavily alluded to within, and supported by goals of, P2025“. its good to be exact!
MAGA guy: that’s not true, my wife can vote however I tell her to vote.
Handmaid’s Tale
„women are too emotional“
– guy who thinks fonts are woke, probably
Yeah no shit
I’m really expecting a new voting bill out soon that brings back the only rich white land owners are allowed to vote
How there are GOP voting women continues to boggle my mind.
When I posted about this on some women-focused boards in 2024 and had in-person conversations, I was shouted down and downvoted as “fear mongering”.
This truth has been out there, very few people wanted to accept it. Then we elected the very vermin who would make it possible.
I am tired.
The far right and plenty of conservatives in general are pretty open about removing the vote for anyone who don’t own land. This includes removing the rights to own land by women and minorities. Back in the day, lol, when I volunteered to help for functions you would get these racist snobs who believed that those who don’t play a major role shouldn’t be allowed to have a say. Basically saying the poor shouldn’t vote. It’s very disgusting how many believe these kinds of things and it can also be scary. Imagine having a group of people right Infront of you telling you have no right to vote because of class, sex or race. These types need to be kept far away from politics.
Handmaid’s tale feels less and less like dystopian science fiction…
Probably because the only way the country votes democrat is if women do vote.
Men want women back under their control. Im a dude and its pretty appalling to see the opinions of dudes.
They wont say it to your faces. Only as jokes at best. But their voting habits paint the picture.
And the right to divorce.
Of course they can’t see the obvious consequences of women refusing to get married to conservatives. But hey Incels gonna incel.
And racial minorities, and sexual minorities, and non-christians …
It’s like the published an entire manifesto… or guide… and the year they’d begin implementing it…. IF ONLY WE HAD SEEN THE CRYPTIC SIGNS!
The far right has been pushing „voting by household“ (man votes for everyone in the family) for a few years. Another one they’ve pushed is raising the voting age to 25, with 2 exceptions: Police officers and military members get to vote at 18 because „they are most effected by the outcome of elections“. These people are insane
This will not happen. Do not give yourself over to despair.
These clowns and cultists may have fantasies, but they cannot subjugate 350M Americans the way they hope or plan.
I dont know what the path out will look like, but the tyrants will fall and the future will be ours to reform for the better.
Have faith and outlast.
how much you wanna bet trans women count as women when it comes to the “Removing Women’s Right to Vote Act”?
Dumbasses haven’t seen the anger of women until you deny them their rights.
Vote 💙✔️
Agreed. And Republican women will support it.
i wish more people in comments talked about the specific measures being taken that we need to move against…rather, its a pay article from what i can tell.
and most the comments just reply to the title….While i see its all possible…just seems kinda asinine to not investigate what specifically is being done so your not just saying the title to someone when they ask what is being done for you to say that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just the ones that vote R. 🤪
Not just women .
And the women who voted for this or stayed home deserve everything they get. For them trans athletes and Kamala’s laugh were more important than women’s rights.
There are a lot of Dems – if main stream media is the enemy why don’t the Dems start their own?
The vice president himself said he didn’t want people like me (childless women) to vote during the campaign. It’s never been a secret.
Oh my *god* how I despise everyone who voted for this, it hurts so bad.
And probably anyone else who doesn’t check the right boxes. The only exceptions I can think of regarding who they’re going to allow to vote are probably people with a certain net worth.
They’re coming after everybody.
No vote no sex. Seriously how do you think we got it on the first place?
Get ready to see more female led militias, then.
No shit?? We’ve been saying this for years now and we were all called alarmists.
Not an opinion, it’s literally in their playbook
And anyone who is not a far right white “Christian” male.
We KNOW
They aren’t just after voting rights. They’re after no fault divorce. They’re after abortion rights and plan b. They’re after workplace equality and fair hiring practices. They’re after equal pay laws and maternity leave.
They want to force women back into the role they served when their stone age religion was founded – property.
It is IN PROJECT 2025 it’s one of the heritage foundation main points ffs