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I am unconvinced that that middle third gives a shit about Israel or Palestine. 10 years ago, I had a girlfriend. Her actual given name was Emily, I'll let her generic ass name be her anonymity. She went to an all-girl's college, I was her first boyfriend in her mid-20's, last I saw of her she was joining asexual facebook groups. The only man she had sex with was the one person on earth she wouldn't talk to about her sexuality, typical woman shit. We dated through the 2014 mid-term election. I asked her who she was voting for in the primary. She says to me, "Oh I don't vote. I'm not that interested in politics." I told her I've voted in every election I've been eligible for because of what happened on my 18th birthday. She asks what. I say I went to get my motorcycle endorsement, and while I was at the DMV to get my "limited provisional" *removed* baby license upgraded to an adult's driver license. They weren't turning them sideways yet. I passed the piss easy quiz, the little computer in the back that asks you "should you crash your motorcycle into a daycare: Yes or No?" We really should make citizenship harder. So I pass the piss easy test and the woman wearing the quasi-cop uniform that they wear at the NCDMV for some damn reason starts asking me "Height? Weight? Skin color? Hair color? Eye color? You want to be an organ donor? What background do you want? The lighthouse, the state seal, the state, the Flyer?" and then she says something to me I'll remember until I die: "Okay, we'll just register you for Selective Service...do you want to register to vote?" Do you know what Emily had the gall to ask me next? "What's Selective Service?" Ahh that all-girls college education hard at work. Every time I hear a feminist *removed* about Kamala or even Hilary losing, I think of Emily, the oldest of two daughters raised by a single mother graduate of an all-girls school who wasn't even registered to vote. She never cast a ballot until 2020, I voted for Obama twice. I've voted for exactly one Republican, once. Steve Troxler. NC Secretary of Agriculture, enforced a gun ban at the 2014 state fair. In every other race since 2008 I've voted Democrat, Independent, or in every "only one person is running and they're a Republican" I've left it blank. And yet I get blamed that Trump is in office because I'm a man. I voted for Hilary in an election Emily wasn't registered for, and you wonder why I don't give a shit if women lose their civil rights.

Demented sexism.