So you’re saying the side that treats their wives better has more votes
p_pio on
Great argument, let’s expand it a little. Generally people vote like me multiplaying my vote or vote againt negating my vote. That’s absurd and reductionist. Therefore to simplify process making it more efficient we should switch to system where only I am allowed to vote. I don’t see any drawbacks.
Reditor723 on
Women vote solely with culture and male influence; they don’t have sufficient logical reasoning to vote on their own
Imjokin on
It only works as an argument in 2 party systems.
smudgethomas on
There was a letter to the Times where a woman argued that any woman who couldn’t make her husband vote the way she wanted didn’t deserve a vote.
masterbeatty35 on
You do know that not everybody is married right?
ColoOddball on
Not all women have husbands.
HumanTheTree on
IIRC one of the arguments used at the time was that men got to vote, but they also had to sign up for the draft. Therefore women shouldn’t get the right to vote so they wouldn’t be obligated to go to war. Of course, they ended up getting one without the other anyway.
TL;DR Abolish the draft.
BoltorSpellweaver on
Or, and hear me out, we have more than 2 political parties…
karlothecool on
At that point this just flaw democracy as system
Minty0ranges on
I mean this only applies in a two-candidate system.
Zareshine on
The only version of this that I think was somewhat compelling is that wives could be coerced by their husband into voting how the husband wants due to the amount of power men could have over women in that time, but even in that situation it just speaks to other problems that needed to be addressed in addition to giving women the right to vote rather than a reason to not give them the right to vote.
Daikaisa on
Was… was that an actual argument people used?
afiendindenial on
My father refused to take me with him to vote (while using my car) because my vote would “negate his”. 🙄
SomeShiitakePoster on
Ok but this logic applies to literally any two people, whether they know eachother or not. If Jim from Brooklyn votes for Democrats, and Mike from Buffalo votes Republican, have their votes magically cancelled eachother out? Or is that just how voting works…
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So you’re saying the side that treats their wives better has more votes
Great argument, let’s expand it a little. Generally people vote like me multiplaying my vote or vote againt negating my vote. That’s absurd and reductionist. Therefore to simplify process making it more efficient we should switch to system where only I am allowed to vote. I don’t see any drawbacks.
Women vote solely with culture and male influence; they don’t have sufficient logical reasoning to vote on their own
It only works as an argument in 2 party systems.
There was a letter to the Times where a woman argued that any woman who couldn’t make her husband vote the way she wanted didn’t deserve a vote.
You do know that not everybody is married right?
Not all women have husbands.
IIRC one of the arguments used at the time was that men got to vote, but they also had to sign up for the draft. Therefore women shouldn’t get the right to vote so they wouldn’t be obligated to go to war. Of course, they ended up getting one without the other anyway.
TL;DR Abolish the draft.
Or, and hear me out, we have more than 2 political parties…
At that point this just flaw democracy as system
I mean this only applies in a two-candidate system.
The only version of this that I think was somewhat compelling is that wives could be coerced by their husband into voting how the husband wants due to the amount of power men could have over women in that time, but even in that situation it just speaks to other problems that needed to be addressed in addition to giving women the right to vote rather than a reason to not give them the right to vote.
Was… was that an actual argument people used?
My father refused to take me with him to vote (while using my car) because my vote would “negate his”. 🙄
Ok but this logic applies to literally any two people, whether they know eachother or not. If Jim from Brooklyn votes for Democrats, and Mike from Buffalo votes Republican, have their votes magically cancelled eachother out? Or is that just how voting works…