# Why Are Republicans Allowed To Vote? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 1, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570 "2015-09-01T02:37:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/241 "2015-09-08T21:58:09Z")
You heard it here, first, folks. Men and women are literally different species who are incapable of using the same bathroom fittings. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/242 "2015-09-08T22:13:46Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > You heard it here, first, folks. > > Men and women are literally different species who are incapable of using the same bathroom fittings. Clean the toilet often enough at home and you’ll wonder. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/243 "2015-09-08T22:19:30Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > You heard it here, first, folks. > > Men and women are literally different species who are incapable of using the same bathroom fittings. Hey, I’m all for unisex facilities. Why don’t we have that now? Wouldn’t that be the simplest way to fix everything? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/244 "2015-09-08T22:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Clean the toilet often enough at home and you’ll wonder. You’re supposed to clean it? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/245 "2015-09-08T22:21:53Z")
Having had that job as a kid, I can tell you that in public bathrooms at least, the women are a lot messier and more disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/246 "2015-09-08T22:23:00Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Actually, I was just pointing out that it’s not so simple as “they are whatever gender they identify as.” For the record, you basically hijacked this thread twice. First by bringing up multiple marriages in the first place, with your own version of the tired and flawed gay-marriage-is-a-slippery-slope-that-will-lead-to-multiple-marriage argument, and then by saying that the issues surrounding transgender rights are more complicated than the issues surrounding multiple marriages. That is, hijacking your own hijack. Somehow you gotta be impressed. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/247 "2015-09-08T22:25:35Z")
Well, yeah, but that last bit totally endeared him to our _chiquita_ Dopers. They love stuff like that. And monster truck rallies. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/248 "2015-09-08T22:45:07Z")
[![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/Bm2rd0u.jpeg "Bathroom doors at restaurant in Germany") ](https://imgur.com/Bm2rd0u) Apropos of nothing, bathroom doors in a restaurant in Germany… ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/249 "2015-09-09T04:16:18Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Shouldn’t women get the vote on this one? I know most of us males don’t really care much about an anatomical female in our presence, and if we do it’s because we’re just haters. **But women have very good reasons to not want penises in female-only places.** I know there are many women who don’t care, but I have no idea if it’s a majority or not. > [@adaher](#): > > **Hey, I’m all for unisex facilities**. Why don’t we have that now? Wouldn’t that be the simplest way to fix everything? Wow, what a transparently dishonest douchecanoe. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/250 "2015-09-09T09:22:11Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Wow, what a transparently dishonest douchecanoe. It’s not just **adaher**. Republiopathology is almost entirely based on exaggeration and misrepresentation. You want to increase the tax on capital gains from 23% to 26%? _Why not 100%? … Or 200%?_ You want to allow men to marry men? _Why not allow them to marry their chainsaws or refrigerators?_ You want to check if someone is a felon before allowing them to buy a gun? _Next you’ll be sending the Death Squads out to confiscate nail clippers._ Compared with the usual Republiopathic douchebaggery, fear that he/she may have to look at a penis is almost sensical. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/251 "2015-09-09T13:11:42Z")
No, seriously, why not unisex facilties? ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/252 "2015-09-09T14:20:53Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Having had that job as a kid, I can tell you that in public bathrooms at least, the women are a lot messier and more disgusting. That’s the reason for sex-segregated bathrooms; women’s bathrooms are nasty because they hover and spray, and men’s are gross because men have no problem sauntering in and dropping a 2 lb deuce that pollutes the entire bathroom for 45 minutes. One is bad enough, both would be unusable. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/253 "2015-09-09T15:38:07Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > No, seriously, why not unisex facilties? I’ve been to nudist camps. The restrooms are segregated by sex and screened from public view. Apparently, there are some things even nudists would rather do out of sight of the opposite sex. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/254 "2015-09-09T17:19:15Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > No, seriously, why not unisex facilties? I dunno, why don’t you start a thread on the topic and present your reasoning rather than continuing to hijack this one? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/255 "2015-09-09T17:36:55Z")
Unisex voting booths? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/256 "2015-09-09T17:43:50Z")
Women’s bathrooms have stalls, right? And big ass, well lit mirrors. Anyway, a trans goes into the bathroom, goes into the stall, closes the door, and exposes the Hammer of Thor. So? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/257 "2015-09-09T21:35:20Z")
Returning to thread topic… Some underclass voters are almost as misinformed as typical Republican voters (i.e. knowing nothing leads to better knowledge scores than watching-only-Fox) but at least these underclass voters are voting their interests: improved job and food safety, healthcare access, safety-net, better public schools, minimum wages. Due in large part to big money pimps hiring liars like Beck, ignorant Republican voters often vote \*against \*self-interest and country-interest. I have no realistic plan to disenfranchise Republican voters. If we do it by cheating, we stoop to their level. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Sorry for participating in a hijacking. though ISTM **adaher** gets some of the blame. Mine was intended as whimsical self-parody. > [@septimus](#): > > It’s not just **adaher**. Republiopathology is almost entirely based on exaggeration and misrepresentation. You want to increase the tax on capital gains from 23% to 26%? _Why not 100%? … Or 200%?_ You want to allow men to marry men? _Why not allow them to marry their chainsaws or refrigerators?_ You want to check if someone is a felon before allowing them to buy a gun? _Next you’ll be sending the Death Squads out to confiscate nail clippers._ > > Compared with the usual Republiopathic douchebaggery, fear that he/she may have to look at a penis is almost sensical. > [@adaher](#): > > No, seriously, why not unisex facilties? ETA: Do we know adaher’s coordinates? Is he even American? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/258 "2015-09-09T21:48:19Z")
There are already unisex facilities, but only one person at a time. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/259 "2015-09-09T22:02:11Z")
Just a hint. Do not say “women” and “big ass” in the same sentence. It can only lead to trouble. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570/260 "2015-09-09T23:50:26Z")
There is but one I need fear. At the moment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-republicans-allowed-to-vote/729570.md?page=12)