Let this serve as notice to the Democratic Party, a party I have belonged to since I was 22.
From this point forward I will politely, yet firmly, recite the following script:
"If you want to let men cheat women out of their Title IX sports, put rapists in women’s prisons, and keep sterilizing gay and lesbian children, then you will not have my vote, my money, or my support."
I will be voting for Ron DeSantis this next Presidential election. I will also be voting straight R down the ticket in my state and local elections and I am more than prepared to accept the political consequences.
I am more than ready to burn the fucking house down.
I will not vote for any candidate who pretends to defend women, let alone any who pretends not to know what a woman even is. When I encounter candidates or their representatives in any setting, I am prepared to make this understood immediately.
No walking on eggshells. The era of hurt feelings is over. This is too urgent. I have to be That Guy and ask: What is a woman?
If the answer is anything other than “adult human female,” I will decline to participate and make it entirely clear what I expect of any candidate or cause.
The same applies to every “progressive” organization out there. If the ACLU wants to continue championing men who cheat women out of their Title IX sports, helping rapists access new victims in women’s prisons, and sterilizing children for liking the “wrong” toys, they can do all that without me, a former card-carrying ACLU member.
Since these insane policies were enacted without my consent and without discussing it with me at all, I utterly refuse to explain why. I want any would-be Democratic candidate I meet to come away with a clear understanding, uncomplicated by further discussion, that Genderism is driving away a potential supporter.
I fully expect the midterms will be a bloodbath for you as I now urge every other Democrat who is fed up as I am to follow my lead.
You will never see us coming.
Oh no, William Ferguson! You just lost me! I fully understand and agree with your assessment of the Democrats, but don't turn to the likes of Ron DeSantis to spite the Dems. Complain from within the party if nothing else, or don't vote at all. Ron DeSantis is not friend to women, he's a right-wing grifter. Remember, after all, how most Republicans view women's reproductive rights... Tell the Democrats off, for sure, but don't support Republicans, unless you can bring back the ghost of Nelson Rockefeller... (oh no, I'm giving away my age!), although today's Republicans would pillory him. Mostly I like and agree with your substack articles, but had to share my two cents on this issue. With Democrats there may be hope for change for the better; with Republicans, there's no or next to no hope. Of course, either way, women and children (and most men for that matter) lose. It's a sad state of affairs. There I think we probably agree.