Hey ladies, the media says we don't care about bodily autonomy.

[onecaliberal]

We don’t care if our daughters and granddaughters lives are set back 100 years. We don’t care if they are raped and made to have the child and co-parent with said rapist. We don’t care that our girls will die because of ectopic pregnancy. I guess we also don’t care that men will decide our hopes and dreams.
Are they right? I don’t think so. Let’s show them what we care about.

[lindalou65]

1. Women's bodies -- We are not going back!

K & R

[katmondoo]

24. I lived through those years, the worse is coming. It is not stopping at abortion.

[Demsrule86]

2. The media is wrong. I care a great deal...and so do all the women I know...pretty sure

Republican women care too.

[Hugin]

3. What happened in Kansas proved your point.

The GrOPpers are still wincing.

[Boomerproud]

4. What media is this?

[onecaliberal]

5. All of the main stream media. I heard it on all 5 big networks yesterday.

It’s not the top concern.

[CatWoman]

6. I've been seeing this all this month, and last

the media keeps trying to push that narrative

[Farmer-Rick]

15. Yeah, I even saw someone trying to push this idea here

Luckily DU doesn't take kindly to GOP talking points.

We are all so much more worried about economics according to the corporate media owned by the filthy rich.

But the kicker is the 3 worst economic crashes we have had were a direct result of GOP policy and happened on their watch.

So, I think Biden will do well for the economy considering it's capitalism and an unstable economy by it's very nature.

I'm more worried about women's bodily autonomy right now. It is under attack by people who believe in imaginary super daddies in the sky right now.

I don't want religious GOPers making decisions about my daughter's and granddaughter's lives. Because GOPers always make bad decision especially when being guided by their imaginary beings.

[calimary]

32. It's that graphic that shows nobody seems to give a damn about anything but the economy.

Higher prices at the pump just don’t quite measure up when your very bodily autonomy is under siege.

[soldierant]

42. I care about the prospect of losing democracy forever,

and I see bodily autonomy as one aspect of that issue. A big aspect. Every single one of us, regardless of gender, is in danger of losing all autonomy. And that certainly includes the media, who appear to be laboring under Stockholm syndrome.

[calimary]

44. Whoa! What an eye-opening way to think about it!!!

“And that certainly includes the media, who appear to be laboring under Stockholm syndrome.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

[soldierant]

46. My eyes were opened to it by an uncredited meme which just showed a monitor

bearing the words:

"Watching people who largely make less than $40,000 a year talk about how raising the minimum wage would destroy the economy is one of the most impressive examples of Stockholm syndrome I've ever seen."

I thought it was right on the money. I still do. Thank you.

[liberalla]

33. I've really noticed it for the past week or two. They're minimizing and downplaying the influence

of Roe being overturned. That's wishful thinking on their part!
Instead, they're pushing the inflation, economy, crime, border, etc.

A guy friend told me yesterday that it's down to about 5% that still care about it, everyone else has forgotten about it.

Ridiculous! I said I don't believe it, and I don't think anyone is prepared for the WAVE we are about to see... well, we're prepared

[onecaliberal]

35. I hope the women in your guy "friends" life know hes a douchebag who doesn't care about them.

Maybe it's because I am old, but I just don't have time in my life for these people. Too much at stake. Too much going on.

[liberalla]

43. He hates trump, but he is a conservative. His source of news is right wing news.

I tell him "you've been watching fox again, and he always says he's seen it in other places too (without specifying where).

He's divorced, lives alone, and on SS. I don't think he has many women in his life. I know him through work connections. We're not good friends and we talk politics occasionally.

[FakeNoose]

7. I believe someone is paying them to say it too

Now who could that be? Hmmmm...

[Ford_Prefect]

8. Let's ask Kevin!

[budkin]

9. Huge wave incoming

The polls aren't seeing it, but it'll be there. I'm confident.

[onecaliberal]

10. I think so too. They're not talking about all the new women registrations.

It’s A L O T.

[Sky Jewels]

29. It's already happening. The early voting is off the charts for Democrats.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/20/2130162/-More-Americans-Are-Voting-Early-but-What-Does-That-Mean-Here-are-some-details

[dlk]

11. That would be the media essentially run by men...

n/t

[onecaliberal]

13. Lock, stock and barrel.

[LakeArenal]

19. My thought exactly.

Until their woman can’t get health care.

[Texin]

31. Well, "their" women won't have any problem accessing needed healthcare.

Whether it's an abortion because a baby, or another baby, isn't in the cards, so to speak, or whether they're facing an ectopic pregnancy emergency, fetal anomalies, or they've been raped, "their" women will be able to avail themselves to whatever it is they need or want. They'll see to facilitating whatever needs to happen. Just ask Herschel and his sponsor tRump.

[Sky Jewels]

38. To them abortion is not a REAL issue because REAL Americans

(of course meaning “older white rightwing men”) don’t care about it.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. This is why I don't believe these polls

Showing a nail biter for the Democratic Party.

I think we are farther ahead than what the polls are telling us. I have not 'believed' in them since 2016. I respond as a Democratic Committee member in an extremely red county in NJ - that we flipped the county seat (my borough) in 2018 to Democratic/Liberal.

The only House Seat I'm worried about us not retaining is my Congressman's - Malinowski. Trenton sacrificed his district for Mikie Sherill's.

[onecaliberal]

14. I think the polls are full of bull myself.

The other thing not being taken into consideration is how many republicans died of
COVID.

[Farmer-Rick]

20. I visit a VA clinic for my vaccinations.

And I went there yesterday for my booster.

Mostly the COVID vaccine walk in clinic is pretty empty. One or two people ahead of me with hardly any waiting. But not yesterday. It was swamped yesterday. A 2 hour wait with a bunch of mostly conservative grumpy old men. And I live in a very red state.

I think the GOPers have caught onto COVID vaccinations. Maybe they got tired of dying off?

Who let the cat out of the bag?

[JustAnotherGen]

22. And women drove our midterm turn out in 2018

I think it's the same.

On the deaths - yep. They aren't weighted for reduction in population of a district - even if the district was redrawn - between 2020 and today.

[Sky Jewels]

41. Particularly Black women.

Also, young people were key.

[Danascot]

16. Get angry!

Go vote!

... and tell everyone you know to go vote.

The 'polls' say inflation and the economy are the top concerns but does anyone seriously think the gop can do anything but screw things up more?

[mnhtnbb]

17. There are a half million more women

registered to vote in NC than men. If they just this one time vote together in favor of their own bodily autonomy, NC political control and representation will turn blue.

[Hekate]

18. Write to them. Write to newspapers. Write about your own experience, your mother, your daughter'

… your friend. Your grandmother, even.

I read you here, and you are articulate. I write here, and I know I’ve had a lot to say — going all the way back to my grandma, just because my mom used to talk to me.

As a young girl I knew why there was a 7 year gap between my mom’s next-oldest sib and herself, and another 7 years before her last brother. It’s because grandma’s doctor told her if she kept having a baby every year it was going to kill her (she had 4 in the first 5 years of marriage ) . Grandma got married in the ‘teens of the last century — don’t you think that’s relevant to now?

Don’t cuss out the media — write to them of your lived experience.

We all have a story, and because we are women we also carry the stories of all the women we have a relationship with. Tell those stories.

[onecaliberal]

21. Good advice. I'm going to take it.

[Hekate]

23. I'm so glad. Everybody needs to do this

[elderdem]

25. The polls opened on the 11th and I voted on the 12th.

I volunteered to work the polls on Election Day. This election is very personal to me.
When I was 19 I had an ectopic pregnancy and had to have my right ovary removed.
at 21 I had endometriosis causing a chocolate cyst in what parts that were left requiring me to have hysterectomy at 21.
The point to this is if I had not been able to have the surgery, I would have been dead at 19 and that looks a long
way from the 70 I am now.

For the sake of all the women in the world VOTE, if you don't, this may be the last chance you will ever get.

[onecaliberal]

34. I voted day before yesterday as soon as I got my ballot. Filled it out, took to the drop box.

As did the other 4 family members in my house. Straight ticket D. We all have stories. Be it rape, loss of a wanted child, abusive situations. Even stories from our grandmothers of death.
If we can't control our own destiny, nothing else matters. republicans do not want women in the workforce, in the government, or anywhere else they can't dictate the terms for. We need to crush them to bits, over and over.
This keeps me up nights, so no, I won't be forgetting about it. This is 100% the top of my list and will remain there until these satanic cons are driven from all levers of power and back under the rocks they emerged from or in prison.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Huh?

I have five great nieces. I care.

[pwb]

27. They took away Freedom.

That is unforgettable. Our Media gets money from every sector of our economy and it is never enough to make them honest. Their new news is SILENCE. It is so obvious. Cable news is in a rut.

[onecaliberal]

36. Imagine their reaction were the shoe on the other foot. It goes to show the extent they have

control over everything. They think we're just going to lay down and "take it".
Cable news has been relegated to the equivalent of nazi propagandists. The 4th estate is dead.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

28. Which, according to this reply, is not at all what they said.

I direct your attention to this post from DU'er onecaliberal:

All of the main stream media. I heard it on all 5 big networks yesterday.

It’s not the top concern.

"The media says we don't care about bodily autonomy" and "It’s not the top concern" are not the same thing, are they?

So what are Americans concerned about? In order:

Thu Oct 20, 2022: New Monmouth University poll...

America’s Issue Priorities

Issue Oct Sept
Inflation 46% 37%
Elections and Voting 38% 37%
Crime 37% 34%
Immigration 34% 30%
Jobs/Unemployment 32% 30%
Abortion 30% 31%
Racial Inequality 25% 27%
Gun Control 25% 27%
Climate Change 23% 24%

Abortion comes in at number 6. Indeed, it is not the top concern. Which is not to say that is not a concern, just not the top concern.

DU is not representative of the electorate as a whole.

[Phoenix61]

30. Neither is the main stream media. They are getting this wrong.

What people are concerned about and what drives their vote are two different things. I’m personally more concerned about the economy. However, my vote will be pro-choice.

[maxsolomon]

37. Conservatives' top concerns get reflected in polling as well.

The "Media" (whatever that is in 2022) is not "saying" that women don't care about bodily autonomy.

They're reporting on polls that survey a random sample of American Idiots. If it were separated by Party preference, then you'd see Reproductive Rights much higher on the list.

I can't stand hyperbolic OPs like this.

[Beartracks]

39. You mean the price of gas -- which fluctuates ALL THE TIME -- isn't more important to you????

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[bluboid]

40. uh, yeah, we care! they'll see just how much we care very soon!

[Vinca]

45. Just wait until election day. We'll show them how we don't care.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

47. I don't know if they're right or not.

I really hope they're not. But when 60% of voters say they're for legal abortion, and only 50% vote Dem-- there's a big slice of people who really don't seem to care that much.

[onecaliberal]

48. What do they base it on? A poll? The polls are so full of shit.

They don’t account for the dead people on the other side that they killed with COVID, they also don’t account for the tens of thousands of new women registrations.