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RiverStone

(7,228 posts)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:01 PM Oct 2012

Do you know one of these "undecided" women pondering giving up control of her body to repub rule?

My 24 year old daughter can't imagine it, my 81 year old mother can't imagine it - and this father and son can't imagine it!!!

Not just the women of course, but the men too. Yet it's the women who will become criminals for seeking out reproductive freedom for their bodies if Romney wins and appoints anti-choice justices to the SCOTUS.

For those that drank the kool-aid already, "stupid is as stupid does" (said Forrest).

Yet when I think about the so called "undecided" women at tonight's debate, who are they and what the hell is so damn hard to decide?

When you challenge your fence-sitting women friends or relatives and ask them are you willing to give up control of your bodies? What do they say?

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Do you know one of these "undecided" women pondering giving up control of her body to repub rule? (Original Post) RiverStone Oct 2012 OP
You can't get pregnant from sitting on a fence Rambis Oct 2012 #1
Women who are undecided on that basis are EXTREMELY low information Armstead Oct 2012 #2
If a woman cannot control her body, HockeyMom Oct 2012 #3
It would create a more patriarchal society RiverStone Oct 2012 #6
Not even Independent Women HockeyMom Oct 2012 #9
If, by this point, there are ANY undecided women voters, then they're just too catbyte Oct 2012 #4
Nope. I don't know anyone who is undecided at this point. n/t porphyrian Oct 2012 #5
Granted, those women are brainwashed on who to vote for... Frustratedlady Oct 2012 #7
If youre undecided at this point, you are too stupid to grasp the issues. bowens43 Oct 2012 #8
My older daughter is a lesbian HockeyMom Oct 2012 #10

Rambis

(7,774 posts)
1. You can't get pregnant from sitting on a fence
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:04 PM
Oct 2012

or can you? Don't ask one of the fence sitters- Clearly it is a good thing the breathing is both a voluntary and an involuntary muscle reaction or these people would be in trouble!

 

Armstead

(47,803 posts)
2. Women who are undecided on that basis are EXTREMELY low information
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:06 PM
Oct 2012

I can understand why a woman with strong anti-abortion views might choose Romney for a freason.

But any other women who is at all concerned with those issues but supports Romney because he did well in the debate is not paying any attention whatsoever.

Only explanation i can think of.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
3. If a woman cannot control her body,
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:09 PM
Oct 2012

she won't be able to control anything. Jobs? Forget your college degrees, nice portfolios, when MEN will be hired OVER A FEMALE, because she could become PREGNANT.

I head it ALL as a young woman in the corporate world decades ago. Older women who have experienced this really need to make THIS CASE to the younger generation of women. All Romney's millions of jobs won't matter shit if the men won't hire WOMEN because they can make BABIES.

RiverStone

(7,228 posts)
6. It would create a more patriarchal society
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:15 PM
Oct 2012

No doubt, turning the clock back to the 1950's. Lose/lose for everybody.

HockeyMom, maybe I'm out of the loop here - but I don't know or understand who these women (and men) are that can't see the ramifications!

Do you know any and how do they justify it?

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
9. Not even Independent Women
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:12 PM
Oct 2012

who are Independents in Texas or Arizona. Young or old. So exactly WHO these women? Stepfort Wives like Queen Ann?

catbyte

(34,438 posts)
4. If, by this point, there are ANY undecided women voters, then they're just too
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:13 PM
Oct 2012

damn lazy or too damn stupid to reproduce.

I hate being embarrassed by my gender…

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
7. Granted, those women are brainwashed on who to vote for...
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:36 PM
Oct 2012

BUT, their husbands don't go into the voting booth with them. I know of Republican women who vote the opposite of their husbands and keep it quiet, except to their female friends. Remember...she's a woman first, a wife second. We would never expose them.

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
8. If youre undecided at this point, you are too stupid to grasp the issues.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:38 PM
Oct 2012

the whole idea that undecided voters will be swayed by the issues is nonsense. If there really are any undecided voters they will swayed only by appearance. Who do I like? Who would I rather drink a beer with? Which candidate looks most confident. Who has the best hair? etc

This why Obama's performance in the last debate was such a monumental fuck up. He looked unprepared and worried. Not good

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
10. My older daughter is a lesbian
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 02:18 PM
Oct 2012

Yes, she gets it. Besides her own issues of civil rights and marriage equality, she, too, understands that ALL FEMALES will be at the mercy of these Fundie Men. She certainly believes that her younger, married sister deserves to control HER her own reproduction, and not some man in congress who thinks "sex must have consequences", and that she and her husband should have as many babies as some god thinks.

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