Reply to HillBuzz: Perhaps the question should be: Should you vote ‘against’ someone because she is a woman?

Active perverse suppression, more so than promotion, of female candidates seems more relevant to the debate of gender and politics.

Hi there to friends at HillBuzz!  I read your recent article about female office seekers with interest and found myself nodding in agreement with what you put forth. We will have to agree to disagree on Ruth Bader Ginsburg though, lol.

In your article, Question: Should you vote for someone just because she’s a woman?, you make some very good points:

Here’s a very important question to us, and one that we’re sure will spark a great deal of spirited debate today: should you vote for someone just because she’s a woman?

No.

See, as example, Claire McCaskill.

See, also, HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy. Kathleen Sebelius. Kay Bailey Hutchinson. Barbara Boxer. Mary Landrieu. Blanche Lincoln. Martha Coakley. Jennifer Brunner. There are a lot of women who’ve either done terrible things in their positions, or are just bad for the jobs they seek.

What’s interesting is that we’re always accused around here of liking both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin because they are women. Yes, they are women, but that’s not why we like them. We like Michelle Bachmann, too, and she’s a woman. Nancy Pelosi’s a woman, but we don’t like her. We like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but can’t stand Sonya Sotomayor, the “wise Latina”. Like Laura Bush, don’t care for Michelle Obama. Don’t like Helen Thomas, would love to be friends with Cokie Roberts. Adore Michelle Malkin, think Katie Couric is a twit. Have grown to appreciate Ann Coulter and we’re huge fans of Liz Cheney, but think Campbell Brown and Joy Behar are fools.

There are good women, and bad women, just as there are good men and there are bad men. Some of the good ones are Democrats, and some are Republicans. There are bad people of the female gender on both sides of the aisle.

This is the point where we break from many of our friends in PUMA-land…

I have blogged on the subject of female candidates and office holders in the past because of a despicable social double standard on the part of many private persons and public figures. I want to see female candidates given a fair and level playing field.

To that end, I respond to your query as to whether to vote for a female candidate on the basis of her status as a female, with this:  I contend the real question is whether to vote against a female candidate on the basis of her status as female.

The attitudes and behaviors I have observed are startling and deeply disturbing with respect to socially permissive sexist abuse and bias heaped on female office holders and candidates running for office.

• Too many opposing a female candidate often use her gender as a sexist club with which to bash, demean, and defeat her.
• Women, more so than men, seem to be biased against female candidates on the basis of their status as female.
• The likelihood of a woman being voted against, on the basis of being a woman candidate for POTUS/VPOTUS, is high. Not so, for male candidates.

No one gets a pass for gender bias and sexism from me, regardless of their political leanings or party or the political leanings or party of a female candidate or office holder.

There is no place in this country for social tolerance of this kind of behavior:

• Example One
• Example Two
  

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