we will all have to wear black, not drive and be circumcised?

equal rights in the US for a country that brags to the world all the time about how F'en great it is.

with despicable comments like 'legitimate rape' & 'just shut that down,' a repub friend called me ranting against these "jerks who want to take my birth control away . . . & my daughters!"

Two weeks later she 'liked' Romney & Ryan.

I know and am related to many conservative and very religious women. Many of them probably agree with this decision. They also tend to be very anti-abortion.

their interests, but they vote for people wanting just the opposite. I swear, I often think many in this country are just absolutely stupid.

rich, straight, white males, with less than five years left to live and no relatives they care about, would *ever* vote for the GOP.

It isn't until daddy or ex-husband cr*ps on them enough that they fight back at the voting booth.


Tikki

an abusive husband who said he had to beat her because she was not a good wife to him. Finally, I got here to divorce the asshole and then then found a decent husband.

1) She's stupid
2) She's in on the racket
3) She's married to somebody who is in on the racket

Just sayin'

As a man I can only speculate, but it seems to me that society has made it very difficult for a woman to break free of the constraints organized religion has put on them. It takes a strong person to be able to stand up in the face of that much adversity...

Look at the stupid Matt Lauer interview. "Given the pressure of this job at General Motors, can you do both well?" (asking about being a mom and a CEO).

Can anyone name one fucking time when a man was asked if he could handle being a father and a CEO at the same time?

enormous about of inequality, suppression and lack of civil rights in this country. And many are bred into it, and indoctrinated into their lack of rights. It is all so weird.

...often at the very clinics they picketed. They'd protest on Monday, get an abortion Tuesday, and be right back out there protesting on Wednesday. Their overriding sentiment was that their situation was somehow "special", they weren't like those "other women" who were getting abortions but should be required to carry to term instead.

i suspect the same goes for most people (male and female) who consistently vote Rabid Republican, and then gladly make use of the benefits provided by Democrats/Feds. Ordinarily, they wouldn't be using these resources/services at all, but their circumstances are obviously "special", and anyone else who relies on them is a lazy parasite suckling at the government teat.

So it goes.

benefit they can get because they are special and not like "them" over there trying to take things away from good republicans. It is so sickening.

give or take, and my cousin who is lesbian and has been with the same partner for nearly 20 years also votes republican, frequently posting right wing garbage on FB.

some of the GOP could manage it ...

You asked why and that is why.

Over the past decades I've noticed a transformation of the wives of some friends and relatives going from liberal, or at least centrist, or even apolitical to very pro-republican conservative; all concurrent with them becoming more religious.

Truly. I have heard/watched the brainwashing on Sundays in the bible belt.

to do things like send their kid to some other country to get an abortion if that should come up and vote instead on things like low taxes and other benefits for wealthy.

all, and basically follow the will of god. My response fuck you, like WTF, you go follow some inane myth like a dope led by the nose.

or even more restrictive clothing. It's just how they think. They've internalized a certain morality and it's just how they view the world.

Liberals like to think they are helping women blah blah blah..... There are already clinics in place for a woman to get for contraceptives. Don't think that this is for one second about free birth control, its about control of government over private citizens right to freedom of religion."

This was posted by a woman yesterday in an online debate I was involved in over the Hobby Lobby court case.

She's from Alabama and a considerable number of women think just like her.

It's the woman's choice. Who one falls in love with is their choice. When I go to the Dr I don't need your help. Lots of folks I know votes against their best interest. They listen to FOX and learn crap and don't know they could at least bargain for a better deal, get equal pay for women and family leave but they just sit around while these crazy people teach them to hate.

It fucks everything up.

religion has been the root cause of endless tragedies, wars, persecutions ... name a diabolical thing, and generally religion is at the center of it.

So many sects and members of the major three desert-originated paternalistic monotheisms are anti-science, anti-women, anti-gay, anti-reason, etc. It really has been the way evil people have justified their power grabs and suppression of the masses.

We need a worldwide mass rejection of religion, and we need it now.