It's being referred to as a privilege that can be taken away. There has been discussion among the ultra right in the last four years of making the male head of household the only one with voting rights.

This law is being pushed to "protect the integrity of votes" by only letting people vote if their name matches their birth certificate, which would put up a barrier to climb over for married women who have changed their last name and trans people whose names don't match their birth certificate and people who don't have access to or the money to get a copy of their birth certificate.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/they-re-coming-after-women-s-suffrage-republicans-reintroduce-save-act-to-create-voting-barriers-for-married-women/ar-AA1yPLkD

The Pentagon says Pete Hegseth supports women's right to vote, even though he reposts videos of church leaders saying they should not vote.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/politics/pentagon-hegseth-womens-right-to-vote

The political right in the US is doing that.

Often that's conflated into meaning just men in general tho

Men like Trump, who want to get credit for all the things that people supporting him consider good, and deflect blame for all the crappy things he's actually responsible for (or that any respectable leader would take responsibility for because they are the leader, regardless of if they actually were behind it).