Women’s rights advocates coopt #repealthe19th
When #repealthe19th began trending on Twitter, women and women’s rights supporters quickly mobilized, using their outrage to take over a hashtag that many deemed “scary” and “dangerous.”
The hashtag, which refers to repealing the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote, appeared after FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver tweeted out two maps of what the election would look like if only men voted or if only women voted.
The men-only map, with its large swaths of red, shows Donald Trump winning the Oval Office by a landslide. The women-only map has Clinton dominating the real estate mogul.
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