# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/41 "2025-08-26T00:53:35Z")
still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/42 "2025-08-26T01:05:34Z")
It’s a reference to the Handmaid’s Tale ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/43 "2025-08-26T07:09:39Z")
I see no way that Republicans eliminate women’s right to vote. In order to abolish it they would have to have such absolute power as to make elections irrelevant. And if elections are irrelevant why would they bother disenfanchising women. It’s better optics to allow them to be included among the 98% who voted in favor of Trumps 5th term. ---
**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 26, 2025, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/44 "2025-08-26T08:09:32Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > And if elections are irrelevant why would they bother disenfanchising women. To publicly humiliate women. and as part of the process of reducing them to chattel slaves without rights of any kind. You don’t let animals vote, and if anything they want to reduce women to a lesser status than animals. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/45 "2025-08-26T09:12:25Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > It’s a reference to the Handmaid’s Tale Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/46 "2025-08-26T10:06:20Z")
@Northern_Piper , if you want to know more, then you need to read _The Handmaid’s Tale_, by Margaret Atwood. Or see the movie. It is a dystopian nightmare, that takes place in the United States. There is a TV series that follows the book. I will say no more, lest there be spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/47 "2025-08-26T16:15:54Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > It is a dystopian nightmare, that takes place in the United States. So, non-fiction section I guess. Sorry, could not help it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/48 "2025-08-26T16:26:00Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > So, non-fiction section I guess. Some of the parallels between the franchise and the real world are why it got so wildly popular. Granted, the people that made the TV series (based on a 30 year old book) got ‘lucky’ in that it aired right around Trump’s first term. From wiki > Fitting with her statements that _The Handmaid’s Tale_ is a work of [speculative fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction), not [science fiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction), Atwood’s novel offers a [satirical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire) view of various social, political, and religious trends of early Puritanism in the United States. Atwood notes that “[n]ations never build apparently radical forms of government on foundations that aren’t there already,” and further describes the novel’s setting as a potential cover story for _how_ someone might seize power in the United States\*.\* Such a situation, argues Atwood, would “need only the opportunity of a period of social chaos to reassert itself.”[[13]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale?useskin=vector#cite_note-13) That line about ‘social chaos’ seems about right. ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016/49 "2025-08-26T16:59:39Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Some of the parallels between the franchise and the real world are why it got so wildly popular. Granted, the people that made the TV series (based on a 30 year old book) got ‘lucky’ in that it aired right around Trump’s first term. That wasn’t just incidental; the shows creators recognized the significant backlash against progressivism and rise of the Christian Nationalist movement with a focus on ‘fertility’ and aspirations to limit womens’ participation in the workforce. For that matter, Atwood intuited this back in 1985 when the novel was first published with the rise of the ‘Moral Majority’ backing an emergent dominance of the conservative wing of the Republican party, although she never intended the the story to be prescience; she made the ‘Sons of Jacob’ to be ridiculously over the top to illustrate how radical religious fanaticism could drive sociopolitical movements without trying to seem that the novel was a _roman à clef_ of the Evangelical movement behind the ‘Reagan Right’. In retrospect, it seems she didn’t make it absurd enough as the novel seems to have served as an unintentional blueprint for the Heritage Foundation and their Project 2025 and the Phoenix Declaration, which basically could have been fanfic of the world of ‘Gilead’ that Atwood created for the novel. Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gop-and-womens-right-to-vote/1022016.md?page=2)