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Guilfoyle, far left, on set of The Five. Getty Images

While most of the country is busy trying to get voters — and in particular, young ones — to the polls for the upcoming mid-term elections, Fox News co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle seemed to have a different message this week for young women: Don’t bother going.

During an episode on Tuesday of The Five, Guilfoyle said young women should be “excused” from their civic duties so they can “go back on Tinder and Match.com.” She added that young women don’t have the proper “life experience” such as having kids and paying bills that allows older women to make informed decisions, whether in the voting booth or the courtroom. “They’re like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world,” she said.

After this story was published, Guilfoyle clarified her remarks on Thursday's episode, saying that she did think it was important for young women to exercise their rights to vote, but that they should educate themselves on the issues before they do so.  

"My point is you’ve been given a powerful blessing in life in this country to be able to vote and to be able to sit on the jury so come equipped, come prepared because you don’t want to dilute the votes out there because you are uninformed and you’re spoon-fed something that’s inaccurate or you don’t even bother to equip yourself with the facts – anybody out there, this goes for everyone,” she said.

Her initial statement led to an immediate outcry from politically active and plugged-in women who pointed out that young women are, in fact, involved in the democratic process and worried about issues beyond what their online dating profile picture looks like. Statistics show that young women — and really, women in general — vote in slightly larger numbers than their male counterparts, according to Mindy Romero, the director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change. The issues they’re concerned about range from access to health care to ending pay inequality and gender discrimination. 

Jess McIntosh, a spokesperson for Emily’s List, which helps Democratic women get elected to office, says, “I have a job where I get to see a lot of really awful things said about women and this really shocked me in a way that I haven't been shocked in awhile. Republicans have a hard time with messaging to young women specifically, but to tell them to just stay home is the most insulting thing they could do. Young women are some of the most concerned and engaged segment in the electorate that's out there. The idea that they're hot and running around without a care in the world isn't found in reality.”

Most likely, Guilfoyle’s statement was politically motivated: The young female vote skews Democratic, something many Republican strategists are aware of. “Hers is not a neutral political statement,” Romero says. “Only white, married women skew Republican. Unmarried women, women of color, and single moms skew Democratic. These groups are all more economically vulnerable, and more likely to be supportive of issues that are on the Democratic platform, like education, social services, and a social safety net.” 

In 2012, single women voted for President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a margin of 36 points, and many experts say that single women could be the deciding factor in many of the upcoming midterm elections.

Romero also points out, however, that Guilfoyle might be making a tactical mistake. Voting is habit forming, and telling younger women to stay home is a good way of not ever getting them to polls. This means they won’t go even when, according to Guilfoyle’s logic, they’re old enough to make those informed decisions that come only from paying bills or having babies. 

“If you start voting while you’re young, you’re likely to continue to be a voter for the rest of your life,” Romero says. “If you don’t, it’s harder for voting to become a regular thing. If you choose to ignore younger women, you are setting older women up to have a less of a voice in the electorate someday too.”

Beyond that, experts said it’s unsettling that the older woman’s message to women still finding their way in the world was basically to tell them not to get more involved. “It's just so profoundly sexist to suggest that young women are incapable of understanding the decisions they make in the voting both, and it's extra disappointing to hear a women saying that,” McIntosh says. 

Romero agreed: “I think it terribly discouraging and irresponsible for anyone to make that argument, but particularly a high-profile woman who has a platform that could be utilized to encourage young women to have a greater voice. In fact, she’s discouraging them.”

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It just strikes me as hypocritical that she sits there day after day dressed like she's going clubbing and then belittles an entire female demographic.  She actually has an education.....what's her excuse for being stupid?   :facepalm: 

 

GO RV, and NO BV

 

 

She was in bed with Gavin Newsom for to long.. 

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Ahh..I see.  But if I posted any of 1000 Yahooooos articles calling Obama the worthless anti-christ......It would certainly be true.   :lol:  

 

GO RV, and NO BV

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Yhooooos name says it all. What a bunch of *********** libs.

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There really is a point to NOT voting! Unless you are one of the 1% - whats the point?

 

The laws are going to benefit the rich no matter who votes! The rich & Big Business contribute the bulk of the money to keep their pockets full & get them re-elected!

 

Who would you work for: the general public who does nothing for you OR the rich fat cats who will keep you in office?

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It just strikes me as hypocritical that she sits there day after day dressed like she's going clubbing and then belittles an entire female demographic.  She actually has an education.....what's her excuse for being stupid?   :facepalm: 

 

GO RV, and NO BV

Kimberly Guilfoile is many things... STUPID ain't one of 'em!  

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle

How would you have her dress, Shabs?  She's 45 and gorgeous... What a Woman!

It might not have been her most brilliant utterance but I'll still back her up on this!  In fact, I don't think she went far enough.  I don't think ANYONE under the age of 21 should vote, male or female... maybe 25 now that I think about it.  At least not until they are no longer dependent on their parents, working and paying their own way in life and have the experience to know what personal responsibility is all about.  I would make an exception for those who serve in the military.  But I also think all eligible voters should have to pass a civics test to vote!  ;)

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I think she may have a point. look what a mess all those uninformed young people got us into on 08 & 2012. Voting for someone just because he was black and could talk a good game didn't make any sense. The young people thought they were making a statement. How many of them ever even bothered to find out if O was qualified or what his real life view was.  Now their future is not looking very bright because of his total lack of knowledge

on how to run a country . And his narcissistic personality won't allow him to listen to anyone with more experience and knowledge then him.

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