OPINION

Voter eligibility isn't based on gender, age

OUR VIEW

Here's a bit of savvy advice from some Fox News commentators for young women in this country. Thinking about voting in the mid-term elections?

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Don't even bother. You're too young. Not intellectually developed enough. There are others pursuits to take on – like trolling Tinder or Match.com.

Kimberly Guilfoyle explained young women should excuse themselves because they don't share the same "life experience" as older women, reports the Huffington Post. "They're [young women] like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world."

Yes, this shot was delivered from within the ranks of the female gender. Guilfoyle was tag-teaming male co-host Greg Gutfeld's observation that "with age comes wisdom" and the "older you get, the more conservative you get."

Then Guilfoyle let loose this beauty: "It's the same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea. They don't get it!"

But do you know who gets it? Americans who have not lost their respect for this nation's Constitution and the rights it confers regardless of where your body falls on some TMZ channel Richter scale of sexual attraction.

Whether you are a Republican, Democrat, Green Party member or Independent, it's your duty to vote if you meet the citizenship and age requirements. This obligation is enshrined in the Constitution, as a protection of your right to participate in a democracy designed to show no preference based gender or if you are some "hot momma."

That's one of the coolest honors of being an American citizen.

Editorial correction: Tuesday's editorial incorrectly stated that Newark High School students "actively" prevented police officers from breaking up multiple fights in the school hallways Monday morning. Police confirmed it was the size of the crowd of more than 100 students, not their behavior, that prevented them from getting to students engaged in the brawls.