Today is the anniversary of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote

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Think about this before you vote Republican: many of them want to revoke that right.

https://www.bustle.com/articles/189...isogynistic-campaign-that-needs-to-be-stopped
Supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump started a social media "campaign" on Wednesday to call for the repeal of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which establishes women's right to vote. Supporters are using the hashtag #RepealThe19th in response to Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight's recent findings that Donald Trump would win this November's election by a large margin if only the country's men voted — and that Hillary Clinton would win by an enormous margin if only women voted.

A call to repeal the 19th Amendment represents a highly misogynistic viewpoint that is extremely damaging to women's rights and empowerment. While it is probably safe to say that most people, including most Trump supporters, do not believe in abolishing a woman's right to vote in the United States, social media has given a provided a platform that inadvertently helps to almost normalize such an extreme viewpoint by making it a part of our rhetoric.
 
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