#repealthe19th

About

#repealthe19th is a hashtag advocating that the United States Government should repeal the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, which grants women the right to vote. It surged in popularity among Donald Trump supporters in October 2016 following an article on FiveThirtyEight.com that suggested that if only men voted, Trump would win the 2016 United States Presidential Election easily.

Origin

The hashtag first appeared on Twitter on May 4th, 2011^[2] when @RUALegend tweeted "PS – End women's suffrage NOW #IfwomencanvoteIwant2votes #repealthe19th #19thamendmentisajoke #getoutofmyvotingboothandmakemeatunasandwich." Over the next five years, it was used predominantly by men to tweet anti-women and anti-feminism remarks.

Spread

On October 11th, 2016, American statistician and writer Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com published two pictures of the United States electoral map, one showing what it would look like if only men voted, the other showing what it would look like if only women voted.^[1] The "only-men" map projected that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would win the 2016 Presidential Election handily, while the "only-women" map projected a landslide win for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

This prompted a spike in Trump supporters tweeting the hashtag #repealthe19th to advocate repealing the 19th amendment to the constitution which grants women the right to vote. This in turn prompted an outpouring of disgust from women and men alike who were outraged at what the hashtag represented, and these sorts of tweets soon dominated the use of the hashtag. The spread of the hashtag was reported on and widely condemned by media outlets, including Bustle,^[3] Buzzfeed,^[4] The New York Daily News,^[5] Uproxx,^[6] The Daily Dot,^[7] and more.

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