Summary
A video encouraging women to vote independently for Kamala Harris sparked outrage among conservative men, who called it divisive and “amoral.” The video highlights the gender gap that has widened between Harris and Trump, with recent polls showing notable leads by Harris among women and Trump among men.
Critics like Charlie Kirk labeled it “nauseating,” criticizing the wife for lying to “her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provides for the family.”
Supporters argue it reflects real tensions around women’s autonomy, especially in conservative households.
I thought voting is done in secret… if they rage about that simple topic, you gotta know who not to vote
I know who my wife is voting for, but even if she voted differently, I would love her the same. It would hurt if she lied about it though, because it would imply a lack of trust.
Good lord they’re really telling on themselves with this one aren’t they?
How dare you encourage my wife to be an independent person and have her own thoughts!
- conservative men
So it is “amoral” to tell women that they can make their own decisions. Thanks for clearing that up, Newt.
I’m willing to take bets that sometime in the Future there will be a call from Republicans for a new law that allows husbands to see how their wives have voted.
To protect Family values… And to stop disharmony in the marriage…
And, of course, to prevent voter fraud…
They’ll pass laws that will give men an extra vote for each child they have (because they are “more invested in the future”) and while we’re at it let’s allow them to vote for the entire family to cut down on voting lines.
Gotta stop voter fraud, by letting those who commit election interference and believe the system is compromised to control it. No way that could go wrong.
If the Conservatives had their way, women would not be allowed to vote at all. Unfortunately, that still seems to be one of their goals. I mean, Trump and his henchmen have already made sure that women are no longer allowed to control their own bodies, which I have to admit I thought was impossible in a Western country. What makes you think they’re going to leave it at taking away women’s right to a secret ballot? These people want to reverse advances in civilization like women’s right to vote all together. That’s what conservative means to them: back to the Middle Ages. In this sense, they are little different from other religious extremists such as the Taliban. Their goals might be a little different but their means are pretty much the same.
If conservatives had their way, men would vote on behalf of their wives and unmarried adult daughters.
I can’t imagine (as a unmarried guy) living in a marriage where my wife would be afraid to tell me who she voted for. Even if she votes Trump, she’s my spouse, and that comes way before that. She should chew me out if I make her feel afraid.
…It makes me feel shame for the culture some men are raised in.
I don’t know. If my wife voted for Trump she knows I’d leave her, so I can imagine she wouldn’t tell me if she did. Not to mention she’d have to have been lying about her entire personality the whole time we knew eachother XD.
I’d you’re married to someone who has opposite political views than you , your marriage probably has a lot of issues and voting secrecy is way down on the list. You don’t need to be perfectly aligned but mostly.
Depends upon how extreme the differences are. Arnold Schwarzenegger - who’s a moderate Republican (thankfully supporting Harris) - was married to Maria Shriver from the infamously Democrat-heavy Kennedy family for well over a quarter century. Bill Clinton’s (in)famous campaign adviser, James Carville, had been married to a well known Republican counterpart (Mary Matalin) since the early '90s.
I remember my parents civilly disagreeing about H.W. vs. Dukakis, and later H.W. vs. Clinton. There was never a problem there, just a civil discussion and a difference of opinion. But if either of them was a MAGAt, I think they would be spending their last decade or two apart, and they’d be better off that way too. Shit has been on a while different level the last 10 years, at least.
… and this kids is a great example of why you should support encryption.
This is why you should know who you marry before you get married.
Stop letting regressive religion control your lives.
Religious people typically enforce their oppression with abuse and violence.
At this course, the US Taleban is about to meet the handmaid’s tale…
Critics like Charlie Kirk labeled it “nauseating,” criticizing the wife for lying to “her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provides for the family.”
And just why does she have to lie about it to her “sweet” husband?..
My wife would beat the shit out of me if I didn’t vote for Kamala, and I’d deserve it, and enjoy it.
probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life
Yeah, she probably sits on her ass all day anyway. The kids raise themselves! The audacity of these women to have been born with an ungrateful vagina smh
More like rotten
“If your husband is mad at this ad, then this ad was made for you.”
I’m mad that it’s 2024 and this ad needs to exist
I’m mad it’s 2024 and we need to check notes
Make sure women don’t have rights stripped away
And I’m just mad that it’s 2024!
Right? The 20th century ended almost a quarter of a century ago. So mad.
In a functioning democracy, a vote should be secret by default, and that should be the social expectation. If you wanna tell people, sure, but not in a way where your actual vote can be proven.
That’s so weird that the nazi husbands who would give their wife a black eye for voting for kamala would fly into a rage about something.
It’s bonkers that the people who can’t stfu about FREEDOMS are the ones who want to strip everyone else’s away
Waiting for the article from the NYT about how this is bad for Harris’ polling with police officers.
As we always said when the Volunteers lost to Alabama: “Lot of women are going to be falling down stairs tonight.”
It wasn’t funny then either :(
A lot of doors are gonna carelessly be left open 🫤
What about the husband vote cancelling out the wives vote?
Both humans have agency. If you are going to frame the issue as treachery, then the husband shouldn’t vote against his wife. Or, is the husband owed two votes and the wife none?
Fuck that.
They believe if you do not earn money or earn insignificant amount then you do not deserve to vote or have a say in politics. You can estimate their thoughts and actions based on this simple starting point.
Yokels voting for Trump be like “Yeah I’m earning the 5$/h so I make the big decisions in this House!”
Or, is the husband owed two votes and the wife none?
To conservatives it’s this one.
I mean why should chattel get a vote?
Well, they still believe you should get 3/5 of a vote for every piece of chattel you own.
The south never changed, we just had the luxury to ignore them.
Critics like Charlie Kirk labeled it “nauseating,” criticizing the wife for lying to “her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go and have a nice life and provides for the family.”
These idiots really miss the fact that most women can, and, in fact, must work. This idea of a “sweet” husband who works to provide for his family is so outdated it’s absurd.
That does still apply to rich people, which is why I suspect so many of these idiots still think this way. Surely everyone has the means THEY have!
Surely everyone has the means THEY have!
And if they don’t–fuck em. They obviously don’t work hard enough while spending their few shekels on fancy toast and bubble tea or some shit
Only the people that matter have the means they have.
Yeah but he makes more for the same work so obviously he’s more important…
That’s actually true in some of their cases, because they don’t have anything else to offer the family.
I’m willing to bet a lot of these people can’t cook, never clean and are insecure because they jerked around in high school.
Unfortunately for them, I agree. Better educated women are making people like Kirk obsolete. In the past, the only thing they had to offer was steady income, but now that women are often making more than many of them and are better educated, they feel threatened. So the only thing they have left is pretending women are dumb
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., joined the criticism Thursday, telling Fox News that Democrats are telling wives to lie to their husbands: “What kind of a totally amoral, corrupt, sick system have the Democrats developed?”
Ah yes, the guy who has cheated on multiple wives is talking about amorality and corruption.
He’s not the only conservative paragon of virtue that’s having a hissy-fit over it either:
Fox News host Jesse Watters said on the air last week that if his wife did the same as the women in the ad, it would violate “the sanctity of our marriage.”
“If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Watters said, a remark that prompted many online to call him out for his marital affair, which he admitted to in 2018.
Not just an affair, an affair with his current wife he was calling out. Who he started the affair by being a massive stalker and letting air out of her tires so she’d ask him for a ride.
it’s not “cheating” if the husband does it. it’s “the wife is being frigid and insufferable and i had no choice but to fuck whoever else”
from the party of “it’s not rape if he’s your husband”
