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ok so i read alyssa's update and i read billy's blogs and such (yeah i'm an internet diary whore. sue me.) and i've come to a moderate comclusion.
it's not just men that would prevent a female politician from being elected.
women want to be equal yet we still strive to be given special privledges. we cannot be equal with men as long as we are trying to be better than them. and until we realize that equality goes both ways, men will never see us as equal.
nobody wants to elect a politician that acts superior to the rest of their countrymen.
no, it is not likely that a woman president will be elected anytime soon.
whether they admit it or not, men are intimidated by successful women. it's not really their fault, it's a cultural ideal. however, it's one that we need to overcome. the belief that blacks were inferior human beings was also a cultural belief, but that doesn't make it correct. men also don't want to admit that they see most women as being less intellectual than men. and women perpetuate that idea. when we begin to suppress our vocabulary or stop voicing our opinions because we feel that we're more sexually appealling as ditz's that just agree with their man, it becomes our fault that we're seen in a negative light.
overall, our culture needs to evolve before we can accept anything but a white christian male in the whitehouse. extra criticism would be put on anybody with a differing race or gender. the war in iraq would be due to "female problems" or "pms" rather than the logic and beliefs of our president. economic problems would be the fault of "an undereducated darky" rather than past events' effects on our country.
so whatever your personal conclusions on the topic happen to be, just remember that if you try and blame everybody else in the world, somebody is also blaming you. don't perpetuate the problems that we already have to live with.
it's not just men that would prevent a female politician from being elected.
women want to be equal yet we still strive to be given special privledges. we cannot be equal with men as long as we are trying to be better than them. and until we realize that equality goes both ways, men will never see us as equal.
nobody wants to elect a politician that acts superior to the rest of their countrymen.
no, it is not likely that a woman president will be elected anytime soon.
whether they admit it or not, men are intimidated by successful women. it's not really their fault, it's a cultural ideal. however, it's one that we need to overcome. the belief that blacks were inferior human beings was also a cultural belief, but that doesn't make it correct. men also don't want to admit that they see most women as being less intellectual than men. and women perpetuate that idea. when we begin to suppress our vocabulary or stop voicing our opinions because we feel that we're more sexually appealling as ditz's that just agree with their man, it becomes our fault that we're seen in a negative light.
overall, our culture needs to evolve before we can accept anything but a white christian male in the whitehouse. extra criticism would be put on anybody with a differing race or gender. the war in iraq would be due to "female problems" or "pms" rather than the logic and beliefs of our president. economic problems would be the fault of "an undereducated darky" rather than past events' effects on our country.
so whatever your personal conclusions on the topic happen to be, just remember that if you try and blame everybody else in the world, somebody is also blaming you. don't perpetuate the problems that we already have to live with.