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What is your opinion on women who choose not to vote?
I recently saw a post on Facebook that said “Arrested, jailed, beaten and tortured to win you the right to vote and you’re not going to use it…. Really?!” under a picture of four suffragettes. I am really torn on how I feel about this because I admire these women for their fight and am thankful that they had the guts to stand up for women but I also hate the feeling I am being guilt tripped for what was someone else’s choice and actions, even if it did mean that I could eventually have rights that women before me didn’t have.
This is the first year that I am struggling to decide who to vote for and I am considering not voting at all for that very reason. I think that the suffragette movement gave us the right to CHOOSE whether we vote in the same way that men have the right to choose. What are your thoughts? Is this kind of guilt tripping justified or merely self righteous of the poster?
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