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[geekchick]

Silliest thing I've read on the internets all day (although to be fair, I haven't perused stupid_free yet): "VOTE McCAIN by default for the sake of women's rights."

You mean the John McCain who promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will work to overturn Roe v. Wade (although he claimed to be opposed to overturning it before he was for it) and who has a whopping 0% rating from NARAL, opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, designed to counteract a Supreme Court decision limiting how long workers can wait before suing for pay discrimination, because it would lead to more lawsuits, and "voted NO on legislation to extend the Title X federal family planning program, which provides low-income and uninsured women and families with health care services ranging from breast and cervical cancer screening to birth control". Yeah, he's all about the women's rights.

The poster was making out to be a disgruntled Clinton supporter, but I think I'm going to go with "possibly Republican troll" instead since I've seen this exact same comment in a couple different places.

[Edit:] No, wait, I think we've got another contender!

Roe v. Wade is an amendment that once largely benefited young, middle, upper middle and upper class college women who found themselves pregnant. By middle age, "accidental" pregnancies are rare to unheard of and should they occur, they're usually welcome. By the time a woman reaches her 50s, Roe v. Wade has no personal relevance.
[...] Besides, there are too many legitimate physicians with access to the best of equipment who would probably offer the service at an exorbitant price should Roe bite the proverbial dust.

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[geekchick]

I firmly believe that if one claims to be 1) a Democrat and 2) all about the women's rights, tossing your vote to McCain in a fit of pique that your preferred candidate didn't win the nomination (which is what this poster is pretty much saying she's going to do, assuming it really is a Clinton supporter and not just a troll) is kind of stupid and cutting off your nose to spite your face. On actual issues, if someone liked Clinton's platform I have no idea how they can justify voting for McCain instead. If someone doesn't think they can in good conscience vote for Obama, then don't. Just don't claim that voting for McCain instead is in any way some sort of noble crusade in favor of women's rights, given that he'll be more than happy to take the opportunity to set them back if he can.

And yeah, I have just as much respect for the people who were shouting "if Obama doesn't win, I'm going to vote for McCain neener neener neener" as I do for the "since Clinton didn't win, I'm voting for McCain" folks.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

This is actually just part of my "tell me why your candidate doesn't suck, not why the other one does" campaign... the original commenter was pretty fucking stupid, and there's no way in hell anyone could justify a single-issue vote for McCain on women's rights. Oi.

[asetwoman.livejournal.com]

there's no way in hell anyone could justify a single-issue vote for McCain on women's rights

Well, not unless they are insane, justifying their insanity to other insane people. Then it's just one huge Festival of Illogic.

[geekchick]

This is actually just part of my "tell me why your candidate doesn't suck, not why the other one does" campaign.

C'mon, that's crazy talk! ;) I didn't actually mean for this to be a "VOTE OBAMA RAH RAH RAH" post, more of a "Your logic does not resemble our earth logic o_O" observation. I only mentioned the Clinton supporter thing because that's the context in which the OP was framing her argument, such as it is. I, er, don't think that it follows that because Clinton didn't win the nomination, our daughters have now lost equal rights in the workplace.


Reminds me tangentially I'd meant to post about how I thought Clinton was pretty classy with her speech over the weekend. I've not liked a bunch of stuff about her campaign, but I think she went out on a high note.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Illogic? On my internets? ;)

[geekchick]

Inorite?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Everything that you said. (nods)