Meet the Vagina Voters
The women voting for Hillary because she's a woman are setting feminism back a hundred years.
"I intend to vote with my vagina."
Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that? It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine, written by a person with a vagina who intends to vote for Clinton because she also has a vagina.
Let's leave aside the unfortunate image conjured up by that sentence ("You can hold a pencil with that thing?!") The bigger problem with such unabashed declarations of "vagina voting" is that they confirm the descent of feminism into the cesspool of identity politics, even biologism, and its abandonment of the idea that women should be valued more for their minds than their anatomy.
Kate Harding, the vagina voter in question, isn't only going to vote with her vag—she's also going to tell everyone about it. "I intend to vote with my vagina. Unapologetically. Enthusiastically... And I intend to talk about it," she wrote in Dame.
She thinks Hillary would be a great president because she "knows what it's like to menstruate, be pregnant, [and] give birth."
So you're going to pick your leader on the basis of her biological functions, the fact she's experienced the same bodily stuff as you? Imagine if a man did that. "I'm voting for Ted Cruz because he knows what it's like to spunk off. And he knows the pain of being kicked in the balls." We'd think that was a very sad dude indeed. Why is it any better for a female commentator to wax lyrical about voting on the basis of her biological similarity to a candidate rather than any shared political outlook?
The point of Harding's pussy politics, as I think we should call this biologism among some in the Hillary camp, is to say that it would be a brilliant, symbolic breakthrough if the U.S. were to have its first-ever female president.
It would be "enormously important," she says. "American women have been bleeding for over 200 years"—again with the blood!—"and a lot of us have arrived at the point where we just want someone with a visceral, not abstract, concept of what that means."
There's something profoundly sexist in this. Hillary is valued, not for her ability to think abstractly, which is the very essence of politics, but for what she represents viscerally—the visceral being, in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary, the bowels, "the seat of emotion."
A hundred years ago, the precise same view of women as visceral rather than abstract creatures was used as an argument against having them in the political realm.
In 1910, the London-based journal The Anti-Suffrage Review said women have difficulty "forming abstract ideas." "Woman is emotional," it said, "and government by emotion quickly degenerates into injustice." Yet now, a century later, the potential first woman president of the U.S. is hailed by some for her visceral—"not abstract," in Harding's words—understanding of women's lives and everyday issues. To stick with the biological-function theme, modern feminism is pooping all over the suffragettes, who fought tooth-and-nail against the valuation of their viscera over their brains.
Harding's pussy politics is only a more physical, blood-obsessed version of one of the main arguments coming from Hillary's cheerleaders in the media: that she deserves to be elected because she's a woman, because she has a vagina.
In response to the claim that Hillary is "playing the gender card," Jessica Valenti says "good," adding "I hope she plays the gender card so hard..." Valenti writes about "the very important, symbolic and necessary vision of the first woman president," and says "that's a gender card I'd play again and again." In short, she's voting with her vagina.
Chelsea Clinton says her mother's femaleness is "absolutely important for...symbolic reasons." Nancy Pelosi says Hillary's sex should also be a "very major consideration" for voters, because of the brilliant gravity of "what it would mean to elect a woman president of the United States." In short, vote with your vaginas. Or if you're in the unfortunate position of having a dick, then at least give "very major consideration" to the fact that Hillary is a woman and vote for her accordingly. Think about what is in this woman's knickers rather than what is in her mind.
Over at Bustle magazine, Gabrielle Moss continues the suffragette-defaming fashion for elevating women's biology over their brains, admitting she will be "voting with my emotions" and eschewing the "clear-eyed political rationality that so many of the men around me [claim] to possess."
She says her vote for Clinton won't be "based on a clear-eyed, unemotional review of her political track record," nor on a "clear-eyed assessment of all possible Democratic candidates," but rather will be an expression of the "intense personal connection" she feels with Hillary as a woman. They both have vaginas, you see.
Here, again, the very thing the suffragettes street-fought against—the idea that women are too emotional to partake in abstract politics—is bizarrely rehabilitated as a badge of honour. I'm a woman, and therefore I'm visceral, and I will vote for a woman. Vaginas of the World, Unite!
The rise of vagina voting, and the centrality of gender to the whole Hillary shebang, shows how dominant the politics of identity has become in the space of just eight years.
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"I intend to vote with my vagina" I hope she cleans the machine when she's done.
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Does that leave a snail trail?
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Q: Why did god give women legs?
A: For men to look at, and so that they don't leave snail trails.
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"You can hold a pencil with that thing?!"
Pencils at least make sense. Levers do, too, although I assume would require practice. Touchscreens are now almost universal and Im sorry but that suggests some form of appendage. -
Touchscreens are now almost universal and Im sorry but that suggests some form of appendage.
Nahhh....she can just "kiss" the screen.
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My take is different. "Vagina voting" is an implicit concession that their is no legitimate reason to support a Hillary presidency. No consistent ideology, no policy agenda, nothing except, "I'm Hillary, and it's my turn." Or perhaps, "the blacks had their president, now it's our turn to have ours."
Also shows how dependent Team Blue is on identity politics.
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Ugh..."there is," not "their is."
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Notice they don't attribute any of Hillary's failings to her vagina.
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Just as Obama is half-white, Hillary is half-male.
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Hillary is half-male.
Expect the Hillary/Jamie Lee Curtis comparisons to start in earnest.
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If nothing else, a little hysteria might do the Hillary some good. The woman is robotic.
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So should I assume that if the election were to come down to, say, Sarah Palin v Any Male Democrat, that she would still vote via snatch? Or would Palin be labeled as somehow not a real woman?
They do it all the time with black conservatives (Uncle Tom!), why not conservative women?
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Do 'they' say Thomas is 'not really black' 'all the time' or do they see Thomas as Uncle Tom was portrayed in the famous book, as being unacceptably deferential to whites? I've read of a silly activist or academic or two being quoted saying things like the first, but the black people I've talked to about Thomas only say the second.
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Before you get wrist-deep exploring your navel, he only pointed out that the preference for gender (or race) is skin-deep. It seems to line up pretty well with their overall political preference. Almost as if the sexual or racial preference is post-hoc rationalizing for supporting TEAM BLUE.
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It's almost like in the end it's a metaphorical way if saying 'I'm inclined to vote for someone who I think is naturally inclined to be sympathetic to my experiences, but if there's enough evidence to the contrary I'm willing to overcome the inclination.'
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You've got it backwards, broheim. They're voting for the lefty and ascribing it to lofty motivations.
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Wouldn't that be an indicator that for them ideas matter most with something like identity as a tiebreaker or 'plus factor?'
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Or that thinking takes a backseat to emoting.
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If it's just emoting the the policy positions wouldn't overrule the identity signaling I'd think.
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Emoting her support for a candidate whose positions differ very little from other candidates for whom she would vote, all varyingly progressive, and rationalizing it with reference to her vagina, pretty well summarizes the policy prescriptions of the Democratic party.
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It's not like that at all. Because it's a one-way ratchet when it comes to identity politics, and any sober observer of the political climate for the past 30 years or so knows that.
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sober observer of the political climate for the past 30 years
Sober observers? Here??
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I plan on being a sober observer for at least the next hour or so. Till the Bloody Mary's kick in.
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Sober observers?
DRINK!
(and only 8:30 am on the left coast!)
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Bo's making a retarded argument. News at 11.
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Playa shows up anytime (there really is SOME time of day for your non-virtual family, isn't there???), ignores what the person he disagrees with says, and just insults. News at 11
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The fact that you posted that comment at exactly 11 made me chuckle.
Everything else you've said has made me wince.
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I'll try to take your delicate nature into account in future comments.
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I have no words,is it too early too drink? I'm sure there are many people who will vote for a mommy part. BTY ,why does the long time progressive government in Baltimore hate black people?
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The vagina here in this room just had 12 orgasms within 4 minutes. Goddamn enthralling that is to me.
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"I intend to vote with my vagina."
God I love niche pornography!
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Ugh...I just looked a picture of Kate Harding....there are some niches meant to go unfilled!
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"I'm going to vote with my vagina"
Because she certainly hasn't used it for anything else.
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Contrary to what we've been told all these years apparently this is where Kates higher cognitive centers reside.
My hat's off to her I can't think straight when it's that hot and steamy.
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I see what you did there.
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Vagina-Voting-Woman Also Thinks We Should Stop Telling People to Not Be Fat, Because Feelings
Also
She Has the Face of a Pit Bull and Has Never Read Any Real Literature
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That is the face of a scold if ever I saw one.
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MMMM Fuck yeah. I'm gonna go get the peanut butter.
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I'm even less interested in her personal experiences and opinions than I am in her vagina.
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I tried to read that second one but then I died a little inside.
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"So you're going to pick your leader on the basis of her biological functions, the fact she's experienced the same bodily stuff as you? Imagine if a man did that"
It's not like something like the reverse hasn't been going on for our history. Women have been at least 50% of the population historically but somehow 0 of our Presidents. For Brendan to suddenly become aware and alarmed of people including sex as a factor in the choice when it suddenly appears it might be a factor in picking the long excluded group is punching down. It's like a long time baseball fan in 1947 seeing blacks enthusiastically cheer Jackie Robinson and saying 'oh my goodness, since when did this bad form of taking a player's race into account come into play!?!'
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So you mean we could have been voting for the other 50% of the population all these years and we didn't.
I wish I had been informed about vaginas years ago.
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Hillary's about last on my list of people running to vote for. And I do try to talk women I know into not voting for her. I tell them that while it's certainly long past time there was a woman president if our elections were anything other than historically drenched with sexism, that it's of course possible that a given current woman candidate is still one that could hurt the country and the cause of women's rights in the long run. But I'm not silly enough to not get why women think it's way past time for one, just like I wouldn't have tried to convince a Catholic in 1960 that wanting to finally see a Catholic president was something awful.
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Hillary's about last on my list of people running to vote for.
Why? She has a vagina.
We're reliably informed that that is that this is the primary requirement.
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Not a bad photo here....everybody looks better as blond...for about 6 months!
Plus I think she can make significant inroads into the "Impressive Rack" voting bloc.
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It's a silly notion regardless, especially coming out of another first-ever presidency which did nothing to suture up the racial divides in our country. Nor should we have expected it to, any more than we can expect women to overcome the myriad gender myths percolating through our culture simply because a Clintonian Freaky Friday role reversal takes place in 2016. And it's just that sort of thinking—"it's time, it's symbolic, it's historic, it'll change everything"—that makes their entire pitch look dewy-eyed and feeble-minded. The shouldn't be indulged, they should be mocked.
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If you read the Dame article you'll see a critical point for her is that overcoming that hurtle will hopefully make it easier for future women candidates. I think she should consider how it could be done in a way that makes it harder for the next woman, in other words Clinton could be a disaster that reaffirms negative stereotypes about women.
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That's the rub. If Robinson had been the first black player and sucked it would have set blacks back. This woman should be screaming for a competent female leader, not I vote with my vag. I've been hearing my whole life women are people not objects. Evidently that was a lie. Women have vaginas and that is all that matters.
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Which is even sillier. She justifies voting for this candidate on the basis of her tits and vag so that later she can vote for a candidate on the merits of her ideals? She can start doing that now without reference to his or her plumbing arrangement.
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No, she's arguing that it's hard to break the ceiling but once broken it'll be gone and easier for future women.
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Then find a good female candidate. Are they really saying this is the best women can do? Is this woman willing to let a terrible surgeon do her brain surgery as long as it breaks some stupid ceiling? I don't want another vile peice of shit in the white house because "it's their turn".
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I have for every vaginal candidate for Prez on the ballot so far.
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The Jackie Robinson analogy is an especially nice touch of retardation, even for you.
There's a difference in cheering for an accomplished athlete being successful because of his skill and voting for a politician because of their reproductive organs.
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You think blacks didn't in part cheer for Robinson because he was a successful player that looked like them?
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Sure they did.....right after he used his ability, and solely his ability, to reach the professional level he reached.
There's a difference in:
A: applauding someone's accomplishments a little more loudly because you share an identifier.
B: using an identifier in an effort to elevate someone else and help them accomplish something they are unqualified for.They wouldn't have cheered Robinson so much if he was a rag-arm fielder that batted .080. Yet they're doing the political equivalent of that in supporting Hillary for president.
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Whatever happened to that gay football player? Did he do well? I know there was some speculation the only reason he got drafted was for signaling. I don't follow sports.
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He was dropped
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Well, shit. I was gonna vote for her, but I ain't got one of them innies.
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Well I for one hopes that this removes the last impediment from Americas Sweetheart and her budding political career.
All hail President Bruce Jenner!
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If she's voting with her vagina, wouldn't she vote for that dreamy Rand Paul?
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What with the modern touchscreen voting machines, it's a lot easier for me to vote with my cock. #patriarchy
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Or your dick, or your rod or your Johnson.
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You can call me Ray...
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So if Hillary were a socially conservative Republican, would these women's vaginas demand they vote for her then? Would it still be a "woman's turn" and their duty to vote for her?
What a crock. It would be bad enough if they actually meant this bullshit. The don't. It is just a rationalization to vote for the Democrat even if it is Hillary. As someone points out above, what this is really saying is that even Hillary's supporters have no coherent reason to support her.
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So if Hillary were a socially conservative Republican, would these women's vaginas demand they vote for her then? Would it still be a "woman's turn" and their duty to vote for her?
Don't go there sister!
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"Kate Harding also added that Hillary's major foreign policy experience is a result of her vagina being under sniper attack from Bill Clinton."
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The real question is would they vote for Bruce Jenner?
