January 24, 2006
Hrm…
“Our foremothers may have known that the details of daily survival and human touch dominate our lives, not brief moments of public recognition or a few minutes in a voting booth.” - Elizabeth Jameson, Women as Workers, Women as Civilizers, page 161.
I thought it made sense in context with current events. I don’t feel like any less of a woman because I didn’t vote — although I mostly didn’t vote because of inconvenience, not because I don’t care or didn’t feel like it. I didn’t set back the suffrage movement (that some would argue happened more because men decided to give it to us than we actually won it, see the article quoted above in its entirely for more thoughts on that) and really, exercising my democratic right won’t make me a better human being. It’s human contacts that really matter.
lyssa_rae said,
January 24, 2006 @ 10:54 pm
hear! hear!
and same for me… didn’t vote not because i didn’t want to. but getting my papers changed on such short notice would have been just…not what i needed at that moment.
Little Miss said,
January 25, 2006 @ 3:28 am
I can understand that. Although I did vote (right down the road) I don’t think that “not exercising your right to vote” makes you a horrible person or something. I think it’s good when people make the effort to take part in governmental issues, but if you don’t, so what? It’s your choice, and no one should argue with you on it. It’s exercising/not exercising YOUR right, not theirs.
Jess21 said,
January 25, 2006 @ 1:06 pm
I agree what really irks me though is the ones who bitch about the people who didn’t vote and how they have no right to complain cause they didnt. I’ve heard that so many times in the last few days it’s pretty much come to me saying… whether people voted or not they’re going to complain so quit helping them and shut up. *sighs*