# Mississippi Teabagger: Letting Women Vote A Bad Idea **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 14, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720 "2012-10-14T20:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/21 "2012-10-16T22:16:02Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > So I guess she’ll get her ass back in the kitchen, stop interfering in politics and let the men handle it? 😃 Politics or her ass? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/22 "2012-10-16T22:32:38Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > it’s a slippery slope. > > first female singers, then female motorists, now all hell has broke loose. You didn’t go back far enough : first, they decided women had a soul… [(warning, Landover link)](http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0500/femsoul.html) ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/23 "2012-10-17T19:35:11Z")
> [@blindboyard](#): > > As an English socialist, I’ve occasionally had the guilty thought “fucking Representation of the People Act 1928!”. > > Because over here [women are for more likely than men to vote Tory,](https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:O6GInD0ShXoJ:www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/documents/Fawcett-MORI%2520Ipsos%2520briefing%25208-9-06.pdf+wsws+women+vote+for+conservative&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESg0KA-dXHJRp52C1sKbEw3JQU2ln0rqmSRFBF6Fls8EnMVi8vs_sm9M-I39rBybDoXaq8SKb3zdmkZQQPRm2FP7gLAPDoNNsYkyGlUGEmlGTO8RetpopKaHFHgw0wMhRlZkzilU&sig=AHIEtbRK1ElC_Z_ACAZ8JvXYExhA8uZIzg&pli=1) in fact women have been solely responsible for every period of post-war Tory government, in that men as a group always vote Labour. > > But I don’t suppose Mrs Mississippi would have much sympathy for that. Probably because the USA Democratic Party = UK Conservative Party. The UK Labour Party is about equal to the USA Green Party. Does the UK have a National Socialist Party? If so, that would be about the same as the USA Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/24 "2012-10-17T19:41:49Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Politics or her ass? yes 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Deser2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Deser2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deser2)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/25 "2012-10-17T19:53:52Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > She really oughtn’t to worry her pretty little head about it. And bring me a beer. > Seriously, wtf is wrong with people? Don’t forget to have her make you a sandwhich while she’s in there. ---
**Author:** ![Deser2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Deser2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deser2)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/26 "2012-10-17T20:17:43Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > She really oughtn’t to worry her pretty little head about it. And bring me a beer. > Seriously, wtf is wrong with people? Doublepost - Mods please delete at your convenience. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/27 "2012-10-18T00:57:29Z")
They won’t delete it. They enjoy watching you blush. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/28 "2012-10-19T19:14:46Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Probably because the USA Democratic Party = UK Conservative Party. The UK Labour Party is about equal to the USA Green Party. Does the UK have a National Socialist Party? If so, that would be about the same as the USA Republican Party. This blows my mind. :eek: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/29 "2012-10-19T20:13:46Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Probably because the USA Democratic Party = UK Conservative Party. The UK Labour Party is about equal to the USA Green Party. Does the UK have a National Socialist Party? If so, that would be about the same as the USA Republican Party. [BNP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party). They’re all for “self-deportation”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/30 "2012-10-21T07:20:04Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I remember when I first heard Ann Coulter say the she thought women shouldn’t have the right to vote. Then why doesn’t she set an example, and not vote? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/31 "2012-10-21T14:38:18Z")
Typical SDMB liberals, all missing the actual problem. What is Janis Lane doing out of kitchen, huh? ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/32 "2012-10-21T16:20:35Z")
When I was in college, Phyllis Schlafly visited the campus and told all of us that we should get married and not work outside the home. Of course she crisscrossed the country so many days a year, spreading this message of not working. Maybe that doesn’t count. I can’t remember now all the whackdoodle things she said, but she hurt and angered a lot of women (the audience was IIRC almost entirely women), who had to know what they were in for, and I remember thinking Schlafly was there just to push our buttons and laugh at us. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/33 "2012-10-22T02:58:30Z")
I have to laugh about this part of the quote: " The whole time I worked, I’d much rather have a male boss than a female boss. Double-minded, you never can trust them. " How many of us women have had to work with female coworkers like this, who just can’t relate to their fellow females? Either the overly-flirtatious ones who prefer working for a man because they can’t use their flirtiness to get around a female boss, or the overly sporty ones who only have guy friends and feel they have nothing in common with other women. Granted these are huge generalizations, but I have worked alongside some really difficult women who were so much happier when our female boss transferred away and we got a male boss. Didn’t even matter to the flirty one that he was gay. And believe me, he was the most two-faced, wishy-washy boss ever! Just a disaster as a boss! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720/34 "2012-10-22T17:41:52Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > When I was in college, Phyllis Schlafly visited the campus and told all of us that we should get married and not work outside the home. Of course she crisscrossed the country so many days a year, spreading this message of not working. Maybe that doesn’t count. > > I can’t remember now all the whackdoodle things she said, but she hurt and angered a lot of women (the audience was IIRC almost entirely women), who had to know what they were in for, and I remember thinking Schlafly was there just to push our buttons and laugh at us. It’s too bad she didn’t follow her own advice, maybe her [son](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Schlafly) wouldn’t have turned out to be such a complete and utter dumbass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-teabagger-letting-women-vote-a-bad-idea/637720.md?page=1)