Cats and dogs are gendered in contemporary American culture, such that dogs are thought to be the proper pet for men and cats for women (especially lesbians). This, it turns out, is an old stereotype. In fact, cats were a common symbol in suffragette imagery. Cats represented the domestic sphere, and anti-suffrage… Read… 12/06/13 7:15pm Friday 7:15pm

North Carolinian Madison Kimrey is 12 years old and already more articulate and fabulous than 95% of the members of the United States Congress. Case in point: this speech she gave on Monday in protest of the state's idiotic new voting restrictions. And her outfit! If I wasn't so damn impressed by her poise, I'd be… Read… 10/30/13 3:20pm 10/30/13 3:20pm

After the Supreme Court's decision to strike down key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act this year, some states hit the ground running with new laws that would make it much more difficult for women and minorities to cast their ballots. Unfortunately, it now seems like this could bite them in the ass, as one of… Read… 10/25/13 3:40pm 10/25/13 3:40pm

Today is Pakistan's Parliament voting day, and many of the 37 million registered female voters are defying militant groups' death threats and social ostracism to get their say on paper. Recent research as the voting day neared found that 564 out of the 64,000 polling districts hadn't seen a single female vote in the… Read… 5/11/13 4:00pm 5/11/13 4:00pm

Yay for our foremothers (is that a word?) Alice Duer Miller! This baller piece of old-school Americana comes via @iRevolt. My favorite: "Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer look up to them." Zing. Read… 2/23/13 6:00pm 2/23/13 6:00pm

Walton City Council candidate Robert McDonald learned the value of democracy the hard and very literal way: when he tied with another candidate for election because his wife didn't vote. Read… 11/08/12 4:40pm 11/08/12 4:40pm

Full disclosure: I was raised in a very political family. My parents met during Robert Kennedy's campaign. They were with Senator Kennedy the night he was shot. My mother worked for Congressman Berman. My father held elected office in Los Angeles for sixteen years. Read… 11/07/12 4:00pm 11/07/12 4:00pm

Did you look for someone to stuff your ballot on election night? You're not alone. During stressful times, many people relieve the anxiety with intimate relations. It's actually a pretty healthy way to get out all the craziness inside, right? Just bring all that election angst into the bedroom and work those sexxxxy… Read… 11/07/12 12:40pm 11/07/12 12:40pm

There are people — Americans! — who are currently attempting to vote for President. Unfortunately, the lines are DMV long, there aren't enough voting machines in Ohio (thanks, John Husted, ya jagoff!), and it's very cold and boring to stand in line. To remedy this and keep people's spirits up, why not send those on the … Read… 11/06/12 7:15pm 11/06/12 7:15pm

Excited to vote in her first ever election, a very pregnant 21-year-old suburban Chicago woman interrupted her trip to the hospital's birthing center with a stop at her local polling station. Galicia Malone's water had already broken, and by the time she arrived to wait in line to cast her ballot, her contractions were … Read… 11/06/12 5:15pm 11/06/12 5:15pm

That's Mrs. Winifred Banks, the woman who abandons her kids with Mary Poppins so she can flip her husband the bird and get out there and ROCK THE VOTE. Read… 11/06/12 11:00am 11/06/12 11:00am

If you're like me and spent much of your 20s moving every ten days (what? relationships and rent are hard!), you probably visited a different polling place every year. Well, now that I'm aged and settled, I know where to do things like vote and get my dentures adhesed; but back in the day, a site like Find Your… Discuss… 11/06/12 9:30am 11/06/12 9:30am

There are people in Florida who are waiting in football field length lines, some for up to eight hours, to exercise their right to vote as their own Governor fights to silence them. Aint that America? Read… 11/05/12 10:15pm 11/05/12 10:15pm

In case you missed it, here's an important reminder about the importance of democracy, from the Greatest Generation. Read… 11/05/12 2:35pm 11/05/12 2:35pm

Right now, pundits are salivating over Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Colorado, and Nevada — because they are THE BATTLEGROUNDS. Everyone in all of the other states have accepted that during election years, we can all wear sweatpants whenever we leave the house since we almost… Read… 11/05/12 1:10pm 11/05/12 1:10pm

Did you remember to set your clocks back? Neither did I - I've been up since forever. Thanks a lot, Benjamin Franklin. Discuss… 11/04/12 12:30pm 11/04/12 12:30pm

Before women were granted the right to vote in 1918 and 1920 in the UK and US, respectively, there was a very, very long discussion about whether giving women the vote was a good idea in the first place. In fact, people were so adamantly against giving women the vote that the more artistically inclined of the… Read… 11/02/12 7:01pm 11/02/12 7:01pm

Lincoln said a house divided cannot stand; we say a house divided leads to some hilarious election season yard signage. Discuss… 11/02/12 6:14pm 11/02/12 6:14pm

It's a good idea, right? Listen to America's grumpy Santa this voting season and haul at least one of your lazy-ass friends to the polls with you. Especially if you're in a swing state! Their vote could mean the difference between giving Obama another four years and Romney ruling Washington like it's Castle Grayskull. Read… 11/02/12 9:30am 11/02/12 9:30am

Sarah Jessica Parker was on Access Hollywood today and pretty much hit it out of the park like the baller she is. Is that a mixed metaphor? No matter, SJP can be smart enough for the both of us! Read… 10/25/12 9:15pm 10/25/12 9:15pm

With only two weeks to go until Election Day, CNN's taking a serious investigative look into our country's undecided voters: hormonal women. I.e., all women. "New research suggest that hormones may influence female voting choices differently, depending on whether a woman is single or in a committed relationship," CNN … Read… 10/24/12 4:35pm 10/24/12 4:35pm