…and lots of people fought really hard for us to get it.

He’s been a long-time women’s rights advocate and he recently said that trans discrimination is the “civil rights issue of our time.” (Plus, he isn’t afraid to straight-up laugh at the Romney/Ryan platform.)

Ryan says it would “be gone” on “day one.” (I don’t know about you, but he’s getting this IUD outta me over my dead body.) Incidentally, the contraception mandate alone should probably earn Obama a “pro-life prize” for preventing so many abortions.

His first term hasn’t been perfect, but there’s no doubt that President Obama has gotten some important things done. From signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act to passing health reform to standing strong on no-copay birth control, he’s done enough for women that when he says he cares about gender equality, you believe it. Romney, on the other hand, sounds like he’s full of crap.

Bo with a pirate version of himself this Halloween. ‘Nuff said.

Honestly, I feel a little bit like this girl:

I doubt we have to remind any Feministing readers that there’s a lot in stake in this election. But as someone who sorta hates electoral politics, always feels burnt-out at this point in the season, and doesn’t exactly get a boner from having to actually go to my polling place to vote (how old-fashioned does that seem?), I think it never hurts to offer some final reminders of why it is important to actually do the damn thing today. So, throughout the day, we’ll be bringing you some reasons to, as Sugar says, “vote like a motherfucker.”