• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    This has fundamentally zero bearing on the actual outcome of sexism; there are many less female candidates seeking office in the first place for starters.

    A majority of registered voters are women A majority of actual voters are consistently women

    There is just as much risk of women getting pissed off and protesting and staying home because they are tired for voting male candidates.

    There is zero evidence a woman cannot win. You just can’t run inauthentic consultancy-crafted non-charismatic candidates, and BOTH Hillary and Kamala were. Mind you, the same holds true for men. Go ahead and just try to run Tim Kaine and see what happens, I dare you.

    This made all the more clear by the fact that the vast vast vast majority of misogynistic sexist bigots are already a firm part of the conservative maga base —And so they were Never. Up. For. Grabs in the first place.

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      In Christianity, the bible forbids women from exercising authority over men in the church - they are forbidden from any leadership role within the church. This begs the question: what makes you think Christians will vote to elect a woman to the highest level of leadership this country has, into a position where she can make decisions affecting not just one church, but every single church across the US?

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      28% of congress is female, 50.5% of the general population and their ratio gets higher in the average age group that corresponds to congress’. The percentage of people enthusiastic about a female president is down since 2015, a third of voters today say they are not ready for a female president.

      We’re not talking about convincing a population of unbiased, nonprejudiced people. We’re talking about convincing a nation full of hateful assholes. A lot of republican voters will mobilize solely to keep women out of power.

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        a third of voters today say they are not ready for a female president.

        Now intersect that with actual reachable swing-voters and Democrats.

        Like I said: that tracks for core dyed-in-the-wool MAGA trash that we will never win nor want beneath our banner.

        Let’s not make Faustian bargains, shall we?

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      There is zero evidence a woman cannot win.

      I’ve got a relatively small sample size, but considering the alternative I dont think its worth grandstanding on your soapbox for another 4-8 years just to trot out another losing horse.

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        Instead of being a gatekeeping sexist, I’m going to continue to reiterate (for lack of evidence and also because it’s the right thing) that sex / gender of the candidate does not matter in the slightest, and the only thing that matters are their policies, their authenticity, and their charisma — male, or female.

        Also because there hasn’t been a lick of evidence to suggest Harris lost because she’s a woman. Also because, as I pointed out and you conveniently ignored: All actual sexists were never reachable votes for Democrats in the first place.

        We don’t need them, and we don’t fucking want them.