All the precautions I already take being a woman, but dial them up to 11 and mentally prepare myself for the wave of hate aimed at people who believe women are human beings worthy of rights and autonomy. E.g., hoard birth control, stop using period tracking apps, continue using Signal or look for something even better for encrypted messaging, maybe stop sleeping with fertile men altogether.
Maintain my current position that isolationism does not serve the US well and that the genocide in Gaza by the Israeli government is bad. Also maintain my feelings of uselessness at being unable to affect any amount of change on the above.
Adjust investment strategy of my 401k. There’s not much in there, I want it to count for as much as possible.
Go through a phase of low/no contact with certain family members. I get that a normal presidency might come with a bit of good-natured gloating from the family members backing the winning candidate. I don’t want to sit through a repeat of my aunt telling her gay nephew to his face the things Trump is going to do to fix his perversions. If I recall, there was some tie to the Michelle Obama healthy school lunches initiatives now correlating to my cousin being gay because of course she would cling to that sort of absurdity. “The school pizza they were already on the normal menu is now counting as a serving of vegetables because of the tomato-based sauce. Poor Billy, that acknowledgment of vegetables turned him gay”.
I’ll be cutting out my tubes asap, if he wins. I’m in a red state but have an IUD, bf is in blue state. I already intend no children but haven’t made it irreversible yet. I will as after November, to put an end to the risk.
Unfortunately, it’s often not easy to do. Women have a notoriously difficult time convincing fertility doctors to sterilize them because “well what if you change your mind some time in the future?” or “well what if you eventually meet a man who wants kids?”. Yeah. Basically, your wants and desires take back-seat to some hypothetical future you, or some hypothetical future man’s wants and desires. Unfortunately, even some of my blue state friends have faced major road blocks in this quest. It’s a disease that’s only going to get worse if the Republicans take over the executive. :(
Once upon a time, reddit had a sub with a sidebar link to a community-sourced document on US doctors friendly towards women having bodily autonomy. I wonder if that has migrated elsewhere. Certainly too dangerous having that posted on a place like reddit anymore. With some states issuing warrants to get phone access to location and period tracking apps to hunt for women who might have had abortions, we have to think about how we’re sharing stuff like this online.
All the precautions I already take being a woman, but dial them up to 11 and mentally prepare myself for the wave of hate aimed at people who believe women are human beings worthy of rights and autonomy. E.g., hoard birth control, stop using period tracking apps, continue using Signal or look for something even better for encrypted messaging, maybe stop sleeping with fertile men altogether.
Maintain my current position that isolationism does not serve the US well and that the genocide in Gaza by the Israeli government is bad. Also maintain my feelings of uselessness at being unable to affect any amount of change on the above.
Adjust investment strategy of my 401k. There’s not much in there, I want it to count for as much as possible.
Go through a phase of low/no contact with certain family members. I get that a normal presidency might come with a bit of good-natured gloating from the family members backing the winning candidate. I don’t want to sit through a repeat of my aunt telling her gay nephew to his face the things Trump is going to do to fix his perversions. If I recall, there was some tie to the Michelle Obama healthy school lunches initiatives now correlating to my cousin being gay because of course she would cling to that sort of absurdity. “The school pizza they were already on the normal menu is now counting as a serving of vegetables because of the tomato-based sauce. Poor Billy, that acknowledgment of vegetables turned him gay”.
I’ll be cutting out my tubes asap, if he wins. I’m in a red state but have an IUD, bf is in blue state. I already intend no children but haven’t made it irreversible yet. I will as after November, to put an end to the risk.
Unfortunately, it’s often not easy to do. Women have a notoriously difficult time convincing fertility doctors to sterilize them because “well what if you change your mind some time in the future?” or “well what if you eventually meet a man who wants kids?”. Yeah. Basically, your wants and desires take back-seat to some hypothetical future you, or some hypothetical future man’s wants and desires. Unfortunately, even some of my blue state friends have faced major road blocks in this quest. It’s a disease that’s only going to get worse if the Republicans take over the executive. :(
Once upon a time, reddit had a sub with a sidebar link to a community-sourced document on US doctors friendly towards women having bodily autonomy. I wonder if that has migrated elsewhere. Certainly too dangerous having that posted on a place like reddit anymore. With some states issuing warrants to get phone access to location and period tracking apps to hunt for women who might have had abortions, we have to think about how we’re sharing stuff like this online.
https://youtu.be/4xgx4k83zzc?si=0TWuyEPQWL_jK_P3