I love the Ginger Rogers bit, and I've seen women in my life have to live out the truth of it.
I was at a car dealership with my wife at the beginning of our marriage. The salesMAN would not answer her questions directly, but spoke to me as if I had asked. This happened twice. Then we politely excused ourselves and left the dealership. Forever. We went across the road and bought a car from a less toxic male.
Good for you for leaving that place. And as a counterexample, one reason I chose to buy my Prius from our local dealership was that the salesman interacted with me as though I were a regular person, and not a simpleton who needed my husband to explain things to me. Treating customers well is good business!
Good thoughts, Mari! I take issue with your conservative friend, though. Women are angry about the requirements of the SAVE act because it asks them to prove their identities in ways that men are not asked to. That’s discriminatory, not a symptom of us being incapable.
Exactly! It’s making us dance backward in high heels. The Constitution doesn’t say that all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others, after all!
The conservative objection is fundamentally dishonest, anyway. The point isn't "women won't register to vote because women are dumb lol", it's "the vote share of any demographic will decrease if you make it harder for that group, specifically, to vote".
As a former Republican (yes, I’ll cop to it), I find I’m often even less tolerant of the right than those who never shared a party with them. I look with particular jaundice on 'voter ID' rhetoric; it strikes me as a transparent effort to disenfranchise specific groups in the hope they’d have voted Democrat.
For me, the history of these efforts is a parade of crypto-racism. Take the 2016 North Carolina ruling, where courts found that the legislature researched which IDs minority voters were most likely to have and then specifically excluded them as voting ID. It makes one question the true intentions behind these 'common-sense' security measures.
As Mari states in her article, historical voter fraud is vanishingly small. Why, then, do we need such an expensive, high-effort solution? I have my own scars from trying to get a REAL ID here in Minnesota. Despite bringing multiple copies of every approved document, I only succeeded because I had an UNPAID utility bill—apparently, the logic is that 'ID cheats' always pay their bills on time.
If the SAVE Act passes, it would actually require more documentation to cast a ballot than to purchase a handgun. Sit with that for a moment. As a gun owner, that level of social dissonance makes no sense to me—and it’s a contradiction we can lay squarely at the feet of the Republican Party.
So, color me skeptical of the SAVE Act. I don't oppose the concept of voter ID, but I’ve seen exactly where the devil hides in the execution.
Excellent comment. It was beyond the scope of the article, but those examples where an NRA membership card is acceptable ID but a student ID isn’t are truly shameful. It’s like they’re not even trying to hide it!
And I feel your pain about the Real ID mishegas. It is crazy how many documents they need! And why must the documents be on paper?! Literally no one younger than 40 receives paper bills in the mail anymore. It’s all online.
No one asks for proof of citizenship? Everything works in Switzerland because no one lives there. Why don’t people live there? The mountains take up all the room. Plus on a mountain you stand at an angle to the ground, that gets tiring!
You are cracking me up! I wish I could share photos of mountain cows—on a slant or otherwise. As you can imagine, I have many cow photos after eight years here!
I love the Ginger Rogers bit, and I've seen women in my life have to live out the truth of it.
I was at a car dealership with my wife at the beginning of our marriage. The salesMAN would not answer her questions directly, but spoke to me as if I had asked. This happened twice. Then we politely excused ourselves and left the dealership. Forever. We went across the road and bought a car from a less toxic male.
I swear, testosterone must be a brain toxin.
Good for you for leaving that place. And as a counterexample, one reason I chose to buy my Prius from our local dealership was that the salesman interacted with me as though I were a regular person, and not a simpleton who needed my husband to explain things to me. Treating customers well is good business!
Good thoughts, Mari! I take issue with your conservative friend, though. Women are angry about the requirements of the SAVE act because it asks them to prove their identities in ways that men are not asked to. That’s discriminatory, not a symptom of us being incapable.
Exactly! It’s making us dance backward in high heels. The Constitution doesn’t say that all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others, after all!
The conservative objection is fundamentally dishonest, anyway. The point isn't "women won't register to vote because women are dumb lol", it's "the vote share of any demographic will decrease if you make it harder for that group, specifically, to vote".
Well, yes, but then it would have expired 10 years ago: "the best time to get your passport is twenty years ago."
Good point! But “The best time to get your passport is twenty years ago, and then don’t forget to renew it every ten years” isn’t as catchy.
As a former Republican (yes, I’ll cop to it), I find I’m often even less tolerant of the right than those who never shared a party with them. I look with particular jaundice on 'voter ID' rhetoric; it strikes me as a transparent effort to disenfranchise specific groups in the hope they’d have voted Democrat.
For me, the history of these efforts is a parade of crypto-racism. Take the 2016 North Carolina ruling, where courts found that the legislature researched which IDs minority voters were most likely to have and then specifically excluded them as voting ID. It makes one question the true intentions behind these 'common-sense' security measures.
As Mari states in her article, historical voter fraud is vanishingly small. Why, then, do we need such an expensive, high-effort solution? I have my own scars from trying to get a REAL ID here in Minnesota. Despite bringing multiple copies of every approved document, I only succeeded because I had an UNPAID utility bill—apparently, the logic is that 'ID cheats' always pay their bills on time.
If the SAVE Act passes, it would actually require more documentation to cast a ballot than to purchase a handgun. Sit with that for a moment. As a gun owner, that level of social dissonance makes no sense to me—and it’s a contradiction we can lay squarely at the feet of the Republican Party.
So, color me skeptical of the SAVE Act. I don't oppose the concept of voter ID, but I’ve seen exactly where the devil hides in the execution.
Excellent comment. It was beyond the scope of the article, but those examples where an NRA membership card is acceptable ID but a student ID isn’t are truly shameful. It’s like they’re not even trying to hide it!
And I feel your pain about the Real ID mishegas. It is crazy how many documents they need! And why must the documents be on paper?! Literally no one younger than 40 receives paper bills in the mail anymore. It’s all online.
No one asks for proof of citizenship? Everything works in Switzerland because no one lives there. Why don’t people live there? The mountains take up all the room. Plus on a mountain you stand at an angle to the ground, that gets tiring!
😂 I was just in the mountains an hour ago, and I can assure you that only klutzes like me stand at an angle!
Is it true the mountain cows have legs shorter on one side? Or are there enough switchbacks they get exercise on both sides?
You are cracking me up! I wish I could share photos of mountain cows—on a slant or otherwise. As you can imagine, I have many cow photos after eight years here!