# GOP and women's right to vote **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 13, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016 "2025-08-13T22:01:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/21 "2025-08-15T11:35:50Z")
“I got mine, screw the rest of them” is a distressingly common human mindset. Female GOP legislators will argue that women in general aren’t qualified to vote but they themselves are exceptional and deserve special treatment. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/22 "2025-08-15T12:43:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > > [@PhillyGuy](#): > > > > What about the 41 GOP women in Congress? I think they would have a say. > > Many of them explicitly say that women shouldn’t be in elected office. Many? As is, there is a list? I checked the Wikipedia article on Pete Hegseth’s sexist Protestant denomination, and the [list of prominent members](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_of_Reformed_Evangelical_Churches#Notable_members) includes not a single member of Congress. > [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Female GOP legislators will argue that women in general aren’t qualified to vote but they themselves are exceptional and deserve special treatment. Will, as in one or two women in state legislatures do now? Or will as in this is a prediction? Even if the U.S. becomes a full dictatorship, with elections purely for show, I am confident that women will still vote. Speculation otherwise is IMHO the kind of identity politics which lowers anti-MAGA credibility. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/23 "2025-08-15T15:22:28Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I checked the Wikipedia article on Pete Hegseth’s sexist Protestant denomination, and the [list of prominent members](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_of_Reformed_Evangelical_Churches#Notable_members) includes not a single member of Congress. Well thank the Lord that there are no other denominations saying that women should adhere to Paul’s demand that women sit down, shut up, and make me a sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/24 "2025-08-15T15:48:40Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Well thank the Lord that there are no other denominations saying that women should adhere to Paul’s demand that women sit down, shut up, and make me a sandwich. Women don’t wear hats anymore and according to Paul that makes them common street-walking prostitutes so we hould probably make a law requiring women to wear hats while not voting. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/25 "2025-08-15T17:57:35Z")
The backlash caught up with Hegseth. His spokeswoman (ha) said yesterday that “Of course the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote.” He’ll be ducking the issue as fast as he ducks questions about his drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/26 "2025-08-15T18:05:24Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Let’s run this past Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Linda McMahon, Tulsi Gabbert, and Susie Wiles and get them to sign on. No problemo, amirite? [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a6/56/0f/a6560f584a2a21be4936641491d698eb.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a6/56/0f/a6560f584a2a21be4936641491d698eb.jpg) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/27 "2025-08-15T18:48:11Z")
As long as someone else has even fewer rights it is all to the good, amirite? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/28 "2025-08-15T18:58:11Z")
Who else would I have to feel superior to? Besides you guys, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/29 "2025-08-16T02:36:31Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Pete Hegseth’s sexist Protestant denomination What’s wrong with being sexy? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/30 "2025-08-16T03:46:13Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > What’s wrong with being sexy? Nothing, but what does that have to do with Kegsbreath? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/31 "2025-08-16T04:55:55Z")
Did you know that, at least at some point, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher didn’t believe in women voting? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/32 "2025-08-16T04:59:01Z")
At what point, and does it count that they then got smarter and changed their minds? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/33 "2025-08-16T05:00:16Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Did you know that, at least at some point, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher didn’t believe in women voting? Women in power being disinterested in or outright hostile to other women’s rights or access to power is very common. _“I’ve got mine, screw you”_ is a sentiment widespread in both genders, and gender solidarity has always been a myth. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/34 "2025-08-16T05:00:21Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Nothing, but what does that have to do with Kegsbreath? It was a reference to a line from \*This is Spinal Tap." 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/35 "2025-08-16T11:15:43Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Did you know that, at least at some point, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher didn’t believe Cite, please? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/36 "2025-08-16T13:07:20Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I checked the Wikipedia article on Pete Hegseth’s sexist Protestant denomination, and the [list of prominent members](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_of_Reformed_Evangelical_Churches#Notable_members) includes not a single member of Congress. Heh. First Church of Protestant Sexism. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/37 "2025-08-16T21:57:24Z")
That’s true. Here’s an essay, which is length AND TERRIFYING, from the author of the 2020 best-seller “Jesus and John Wayne”, which I finally read earlier this year. It was actually more interesting than it would have been at the time, from this vantage point. In short, in the home, he advocates using abusive measures to “make women submit”, and also believes in what amounts to torturing children as a method of discipline. > **[Confronting Doug Wilson](https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/confronting-doug-wilson?r=1acfk&fbclid=IwY2xjawMN3SBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtAT-0jGsYVxMZ0Wf_oDVzfPqh80fE6aTLSxSzvfrzdOgNKtJfQYYNQjll5-%5C_aem_VGoUvmSjz4PjoM3nfLZkGg&triedRedirect=true)** > > And how we got here ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/38 "2025-08-18T17:50:23Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Speculation otherwise is IMHO the kind of identity politics which lowers anti-MAGA credibility. They don’t need to be identified. They show the world who, and what they are. They deserve every bit of derision that they earn. This is not ‘identity politics’. This is a struggle to keep democracy, and rid ourselves of fascists. They cannot hide who they are. It’s their very nature to scream their bigotry and hate from every hill top. Thankfully, they won’t be able to climb many hills. We must keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/39 "2025-08-22T17:04:22Z")
I guess I don’t get this? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/40 "2025-08-22T17:31:11Z")
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