Are you gonna vote this November or nah?

submitted by joy1090 from self.GenderCritical

It's now July, and maybe some of you haven't made up their minds yet, even though both parties seem to not care about women. The right wants to control reproductive rights. The left wants to erase women and put them to harm. Are you still planning to vote, or is it hopeless?

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[–]RuminatingOracle 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I plan to. It's important to remember there are a lot of local races that affect our lives more than the presidency. I'm voting Biden as an unenthusiastic yes. I think he is a centrist and won't commit to endorsing fringe views. He is problematic as well, but I honestly believe four more years of trump is way worse.

When you break down GC and tell normal people (not on the internet) that what we are saying is that you can't jumble up your chromosomes on a whim, it makes sense. The cancel culture amplifies everything so you forget it's actually a small group of people who really are TRAs IRL.

[–]medium_tomato 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

As a centrist I actually view Biden as pretty far left and crazy pandering to TRAs. Didn't he say that trans rights are the civil rights of our time? If he wins I can see TRA nonsense going federal. No thanks. As much as I hate Trump, he never made any actual policies against women. I still don't know who I will vote this year but it sure as hell won't be Biden.

[–]macaron 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not American, but man, I sympathize. Between super incompetent Trump, and the woke tyrannical politics of the left, not an easy choice.

[–]Nona_Biba 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm gonna vote for Biden. He is not my first pick. I liked Buttigieg (i'm more moderate and thought he could sway some rural people, even though he didn't have much experience) but voted for Bernie in my primary after Pete lost momentum.

My view is that Trump is a traitor. He still wanted Russia let into the G8 AFTER he learned putin was paying afghans to kill our soldiers. Getting Trump and all his associates out of office is my #1 priority.

I figure that maybe, hopefully, it will be easier to bring someone back from thinking TIMs are literally no different than women than it will be to convince someone that abortion is not "baby murder" and that gay people are not "hell bound." At least now that gay marriage is legal I haven't seen too many conservatives itching to overturn that, ya know?

[–]ThisReality 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm voting. Women have only had the vote in the U.S. for 100 years, and those activists didn't deal with the bullshit and violence thrown their way just so we could now sit out elections because we don't like who ended up on the ticket. I've seen both men and women on social media say they think women shouldn't be able to vote, and it's insane to me that anyone thinks like that nowadays.

If you really can't bring yourself to vote for someone at the president level, at least vote downballot to help affect your state and local politics. And please, think about long-term things like federal judge appointees, and beyond issues such as trans rights activism. There's a lot going on in the U.S. and the world, and how we vote can affect all of that.

It's difficult to keep up with everything that might be on a ballot, and before I vote I'm usually reading a variety of resources, like voter guides that get mailed to me with explanations of different measures and propositions and candidate stances. (NOT the campaign flyers that flood my mailbox to tell me how great X candidate is and how much Y candidate sucks, I ignore those) I read the editorial board recommendations from different newspapers in my state. I look for voter resources online that appear to be independent and not pushed by one side or the other. To me, it's worth the effort.