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October 23, 2014
Media Discourages Young Women To Vote
Young Women Are Too Dumb To Vote?
On October's 21st edition of Fox News The Five, the co-hosts decided to discuss the potential impact on women voters for the mid-term elections. Kimberly Guifoyle suggested that young women shouldn't exercise their civic duties and should be excused from jury duty, because they lack life experience and just "don't get it." Greg Gutfeld suggested that young women lack the wisdom to vote as conservatives. This all comes after Lena Dunham wrote an article called the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which she encouraged young women to go vote.
"Five Reasons Why You're Too Dumb To Vote"
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, has received numerous backlash as NRO'S Kevin D. Willamson decided to provide "Five Reasons Why You're Too Dumb To Vote". In this article he criticizes young women stating: "I would like to suggest, as gently as I can, that if you are voting as
an act of self-gratification, if you do not understand the role that
voting in fact plays in a constitutional republic, and if you need Lena
Dunham to tell you why and how you should be voting -- you should not
vote. If you get your politics from actors and your news from television
comedians -- you should not vote. There's no shame in it, your vote is
statistically unlikely to affect the outcome of an election, and there
are many much more meaningful ways to serve your country and your fellow
man: Volunteer at a homeless shelter; join the Marine Corps; become a
nun; start a business."
Do You Agree?
I think it's completely offensive that people believe that just because you are a young women that you are too naive and stupid to vote. Telling young women that "your vote is
statistically unlikely to affect the outcome of an election, and there
are many much more meaningful ways to serve your country and your fellow
man," is ridiculous when their are plenty of well educated young females that understand politics extremely well. There are plenty of older women and men in this country that doesn't know anything about politics and they still go vote. Everyone's vote counts and is important to this nation, just because you're a young women doesn't mean your stupid, go voice your opinion and go vote.
Lexi, you make some very interesting points and I like how you presented the information and issue as well. I agree with you 100%. Everyone deserves a chance to vote and it does not matter wether you are 18 or 80 you are in-tilted to vote and no one should tell you otherwise. The fact that some media outlets are stating that young women are to dumb to vote is just wrong and completely ridiculous. It is true that a lot of younger women and women in general don't get involved in politics but that does not mean that they don't understand or know what is going on in the political world.
Lexi, you make some very interesting points and I like how you presented the information and issue as well. I agree with you 100%. Everyone deserves a chance to vote and it does not matter wether you are 18 or 80 you are in-tilted to vote and no one should tell you otherwise. The fact that some media outlets are stating that young women are to dumb to vote is just wrong and completely ridiculous. It is true that a lot of younger women and women in general don't get involved in politics but that does not mean that they don't understand or know what is going on in the political world.
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