Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle says, for instance, that you should concentrate on your online dating profile, because you’re not smart enough to vote conservative. You don’t get it because you’re “not in that same life experience of paying the bills, doing the mortgage, kids, community, crime, education, healthcare. They’re like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world.”
Yes, I’m sure being single insulates you from having to pay bills, go to doctors, pay off student loans or having a mortgage.
Media Matters collects more outrage at young women voting here. Kevin Williamson, who once wrote about how having five sons made Romney sooooo much more manly than Obama with just two kids and not a y-chromosome among them, thinks women are just being shallow when they vote, it’s a fashion statement. And if it takes a celebrity to get you to care about issues and voting, that proves you aren’t smart enough to vote and besides, voting is overrated (more on Williamson’s views here).
Right-wing opposition to women voting isn’t new but I imagine it’s only going to get more intense as the Republican party continues to embrace anti-women policies. That said, I doubt Guilfoyle, Williamson etc. really think they’re going to discourage any women from voting. More likely they’re just shoring up their right-wing credentials so that whoever rights their paychecks will keep writing their paychecks. But of course, that’s no excuse for sexism.
Spike their guns. Get out there and vote.
