#never sold it

[penig]

It used to be taken for granted that married couples might have different preferred candidates, and it was used as an excuse to not vote, the concept being that they would "kill each other's vote." That a husband and wife voting for different candidates would cancel each other out, so why bother?

There is a story, I'm pretty sure in a book of connected short stories called The Nine Brides and Granny Hite,* published in 1952, featuring an immigrant, a European refugee excited to vote in her first election, who encounters this argument while going around town infecting blase Americans with her immigrant enthusiasm. She is taken aback at first, because it sounds reasonable enough, but her gut says it's wrong, and after thinking a minute she comes back with: "You and I, we are each on one end of a two-handled saw with a tree in between. If you go back, I go forward, I go forward you go back. We say to each other, We cancel each other out, so we stop. Does this cut the tree down?"

This argument was still common enough in the early 70s that my social studies teachers would feature it as a popular fallacy when talking about elections and democracy. It seems to be as old as female suffrage.

To find the argument that women will necessarily be guided by their husbands when they vote, you have to go all the way back to arguments against granting women suffrage at all. Because what would be the point? They'd just vote like their husbands anyway! Sometimes with " or fathers" thrown in, when someone remembered that unmarried women exist.

This is not a coincidence. The people disgusted by these ads would happily roll us back to before female suffrage. To before "Negro suffrage." And, ultimately, to before suffrage for adult white males who don't own real property. Don't think they won't!

*I found the link but didn't take the time to confirm the story is in there. I remember it as a distinct change of tone from the other stories, which are mostly little romances.

From the October 31, 2024 article:

“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know,” Roberts says in the ad as a woman on screen meets up with her husband after casting her ballot for Harris.

The voter winks at a fellow female voter as her husband asks if she made the “right choice.”

Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.

“If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.

Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was “nauseating.”

[turtletoria]

i wanted to try drawing older Mabel and Dipper !

[amvipod]

purification in process…

[nevesceramics]

intimacy

2019

cone 1 terracotta, glaze

[dceasesd]

writers are sick and twisted for this. i love it

i’m so glad people are recognizing how fucked up her part in the whole thing was everyone always forgets about her

[sweatermuppet]

[Image ID: a black and white typography edit that reads "don't want to see transsexuality? pluck out your eyes!" in the right bottom corner is a medical model of teeth. between the teeth is a single eyeball. the entire image is textured to look aged and photocopied. /End ID]

inspired by matthew 5:29

click for quality (instagram) (my shop) (as a print) (as a shirt)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[ruubesz-draws]

Minus One will NOT accept any imposters... RIP Minus One Plush... and Shin's 64th sandwich... :'(

Btw I it's Shin's 64th sandwich cos people gave 64 likes on my Instagram lol

Godzilla Minus Plush is REAL!!

[gabbysgoobers]

I made this at the speed of LIGHT 😭

(I saw people mention they have matching scars now, a comic was mandatory.)

The Dragon Prince is so back

[delusinaldreamer19]

I giggle to myself a little every time I see someone complain that Sebastian gets twink-afied. Cus like- it wasn’t the fandom who did that (entirely), this mf did it to himself.

Your telling me that this back arching, eyelash batting, floor knealing, long haired, long lashed, pursed lipped, smirking, eyes half lidded, long legged, skinny waist, birthing hipped, flexible, androgynes as hell mother fucker DOESN’T look like he’d want to fuck your dad?

[cameoliob]

Kallus' first life day celebration was fuckign bonkers

[deep-space-lines]

By the homeworld I hope to see one day...

Prints of this, as well as a few other Mass Effect stained glass pieces, are now available! I’d love to see/hear about it if you order any, it would absolutely make my day <3

This one, Femshep, and Mordin are the only ones currently finished, but I have plans to do a few other characters as well; you can check out the #mass effect stained glass tag on my blog to see the others, if they happen to exist when you come across this post!

[bookishjules]

keeping the "they'll think we're impertinent" / "i am impertinent" lines from the book???? iconic. incredible. reminded me i have never once known what impertinent means

[nouverx]

WHY SO SERIOUS?? 🎉 Nika is here to party!!

A little unfinished project I started on flipaclip last year while the Luffy and Kaido fight was still happening in the anime :D

[phoenixcatch7]

I get that calling white lotus lbh a sticky little 'sheep' is a canon translation and stuck in the fandom now anyway, but I do feel the intended spirit of the original word wasn't the sheeple/dumb herd animal that's more common in the western world, but instead something actually conveying sweetness, innocence, purity and youth - lamb.

Famous for being utterly adorable and following around their mothers, gambolling in sunny meadows, curly white wool shining.

And NOW we can talk about black sheep/wolf in sheep's clothing metaphors.

[nubuckleather]

my new henchim divorce era-esque wishlist item for 8b is giving chris a big stroppy teenage “i wish you never came back from afghanistan” meltdown. i want him to fucking lay into eddie and then collapse sobbing in his arms that he didn’t mean it while eddie is also sobbing. i want eddie to whisper, “christopher, i want you to come home with me. please, come home with me.” i want chris to choke out, “i don’t want to live in your stupid new house.” and eddie says, “not the new house. i want us to go home.” and eddie feels like this is the most selfish thing he’s ever asked of anyone, but it’s all christopher has been wanting to hear